I have had spells of not smoking a pipe, both short and long, since I first started. For instance, the last dry spell was from 2010 to 2014. I got into cigars there for a couple of years, then lost interest in both of them for a couple of years. The thing that got me back into it this time was a Groupon that came out for BnB Tobacco Co. (online) last summer (2014). I was well stocked on cigars but the Dunhill tins looked really good. So I bought one of the Groupons and got a bunch of tins with it (it turned out to be a great deal). That's when I got back into pipe smoking and refurbishing old pipes (still like my cigars).