Cigar Helper is for legal-age cigar consumers only (21+ in the United States). This site and the extension do not sell tobacco or process payments; they organize promo pages on retailer sites you already visit.
Browse cigar promos in a sortable, filterable table.
An overlay extension for Chrome that turns crowded promo pages on eight major cigar retailers into one organized view. Sort by cost-per-stick, filter by brand or wrapper, favorite the lines you actually smoke — all inside the page you're already on.
No login. No account. No tracking. Stored locally on your browser.
See it in action
Open a promo page, click the launcher, get a sortable table with every product, every wrapper, every cost-per-stick.
The overlay, filtered to one brand and sorted by cost-per-stick. Add-to-Cart on each row triggers the retailer's own button — checkout stays on their site.
Zero network requests.
The extension does not make any HTTP requests of its own. It doesn't have a server. It doesn't have an API. It can't, because it doesn't ask for the permissions to.
When you save favorite brands, they're written to chrome.storage.local — a per-browser key/value store that stays on your machine. Nothing syncs to Google. Nothing leaves your device.
This is enforced by the extension's permissions, not just our intentions. Open the manifest in Chrome's extension viewer and check.
What the extension can do
Read the promo page you've opened (you trigger it).
Show an overlay on top of that page.
Save preferences in chrome.storage.local.
What it can't do
Make outbound network requests.
Read other tabs.
Sync data across browsers or devices.
Talk to this website.
What it does
Sortable, filterable table
Brand, name, size, wrapper, filler, origin, strength, pack count, price, cost-per-stick. Click a header to sort. Click filters to narrow.
Brand favorites toggle
Pick the brands you actually smoke once. Then flip a toggle to hide everything else on any promo page you visit.
Hover-zoom on images
Tile thumbnails are small. Hover for a 400px preview that follows your cursor and disappears on mouse-out or Escape.
Cross-vendor pack normalization
"2 Boxes of 20", "25 cigars", "40-cigar", "Box of 50" — all resolve to the right pack count so cost-per-stick is consistent across retailers.
Brand & product line resolution
371 canonical cigar brands. Multi-word brands ("Romeo y Julieta"), accents ("Padrón"), punctuation ("E.P. Carrillo"), and the "Series by Brand" pattern all resolve correctly.
Proxied Add-to-Cart
The Add-to-Cart button on each row clicks the retailer's own button. Cart, checkout, and pricing all stay on the host site.
Each retailer's site uses different markup. The extension ships a dedicated strategy per layout, with fallbacks for variants. More retailers are on the roadmap.
Install
Cigar Helper is live on the Chrome Web Store. Free, no signup, works in Chrome on desktop.
Open a promo page on any of the eight supported retailers (see above).
Click the launcher button that appears on the page — you'll see a small cigar icon like this:
On any other tab, click the Cigar Helper icon in your Chrome toolbar instead.
Contact
Questions, bug reports, or a retailer you'd like supported? Email cigarhelper@gmail.com.
What's next
Cross-vendor deal feed
One page showing the current promos across every supported retailer. Browse without subscribing to anyone's email list.
Brand-watch alerts
Track the brands you care about. We watch the feeds; you get a web-push notification when there's a match.
More retailers
If the cigar shop you use isn't supported, it's likely on the way — each new layout is a small, self-contained scraper strategy.
