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I probably know more about tobacco and cigars than most on this forum.
You MUST bring the cigars back up to 65% or so slowly! If you humidify them quick they will split like a piece of firewood.
Also, aged tobacco only gets better. Even if you dried them to sticks if you bring them back slow they will be sweeter and more valuable than any cigar you can buy new. Most avid smokers give cigars a long time age in a higher humidity environment. Storage at 75% will make an unsmokeable cigar but will age them well and then you can put them in a "dry box" to bring them to an ideal smoke of 65-70%.
So now you need to get a calibrated digital hygrometer (could go to famous-smoke.com) and then go to 40% for a week, then 50% for a week, then 60% for a couple weeks, then 70% for a couple more weeks. In the end it will be worth it. If you feel like you're humidifying too quick because the ends of the cigar are cracking or the wrapper is cracking then take up humidity even slower and let them bask in the humidor longer between increases.
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