The characteristics of switching and self-trapping of two Bose-Einstein condensate （BEC） solitons trapped in the cigar-shaped harmonic traps are investigated by the variational approach. The effects of the cigar-shaped traps on the in-phase and the out-of phase solutions of the NLSE in the stationary states are discussed by performing a standard linear stability analysis. It is shown that the cigar-shaped traps affect the evolution of the BEC shift population transferring ratio, and change the characteristics of switching and self-trapping of two BEC solitons