I have trouble with this too. If you smoke it down all the way, how far is enough? Personally I have a hard time not smoking nearly the whole thing. It seems to me that I have a hard time putting down even a cheap 3 dollar cigar. Guess I want to get full value out of it. Well anyway, even if it is unbearable at the moment, say half way through, you never know how it will improve along the way.