If I use a cig it works really well. I twist the end of the cig so all the tobacco starts to fall out. I would leave a little at the base as a buffer zone. Take a wooden pencil and stuff it down the gutted cig and re pack the tobacco down. Then I would grind up my pot and carefully drop it down the cig packing it down with the pencil every so often. Once it gets full twist of the end. Then to deal with the filter I would bite the center of the foam and pull on it pretty hard and it should slide out. Then I roll up a peice of thick paper (a cut up playing card works nice) into a cylinder about the same size as the filter you pulled out. Then stuff the cylinder in the filters place, light, and enjoy. You can fit alot of pot in there because of the stuffing so I find it burns for a good amount of time. Hope that helps.