I recently took up pipe smoking. I never smoked cigarettes and in pipe smoking you don’t inhale into your lungs, you taste the tobacco smoke (aromatics has natural and artificial flavoring). You don’t get the kind of nicotine high as cigarettes (speed of absorption is slow) so it’s not as addicting.
You usually need 45min to smoke a bowl, and you have to smoke slowly. It’s a time to relax and contemplate. I find that I am more focused and driven after smoking.