Im' an occassional cigar smoker, so I store them more than I smoke them...this product keeps them as fresh as when I bought them!!!
1) Make sure you have your humidor fully seasoned before putting cigars in it and making sure its stable. This can take 2-4 weeks depending on a variety of things. Mine holds 125-150 and has VERY thick walls so it took almost 4 weeks.
2) Do not think you got ripped off with generics or fakes if you get Boveda packs that a brown color with a big "B" on them and not the white as pictured above. That is their new design.
3) Your cigars can touch the packs with no consequences.
4) Do not base the number of packs needed based on how many cigars in your humidor but rather the quantity of cigars the manufacture says it can hold. I keep 4 75% packs in mine and the temp hovers from 67-70 degrees and 68 to 73 percent. Both of which are just fine as long as you are not specifically aging the cigars. If you have a small travel humidor (I take mine everywhere. Search for Xikar humidor and get the 10 capacity) that I just throw one in the bottom of.
5) Conditions obviously matter but I have found each pack takes about 2 1/2 months to get hard enough to where I think its used up and in my humidor I have about 100 and its full as I like Churchill's or 60+ ring gauge.
6) Lastly and I will get off my soap box, DO NOT keep your humidor near a window or air vent in the house. The temp from the sun and cold in winter will dramatically impact your temp inside (keep around 70 but you don't have to be perfect and get a good digital hydrometer) as will having one by an air vent.
Stop wasting time with the other types of crummy humidification and sorry for quoting a crappy infomercial but these are the equivalent of "set it and forget it." Open, toss in, close. Happy Holidays all and I would be happy to answer any cigar questions just message me.
Cheers!
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