Hiccups

[AustinT]

Dumb question but...How do you know when there is no tobacco left in the bottom of the bowl and you're just lighting ashes? Quite often when I get to the bottom I develop a case of the hiccups. Could that be the cause?

 

[olkofri]

Look into the bowl? Use the pipe tool's pick?

 

[alaskanpiper]

You should not only taste it, but it will begin to go out rather quickly. You know, no fuel and such.

 

[craig61a]

There will be less smoke in the draw as you get to the bottom. And real strong tobacco will sometimes give me hiccups. I set the pipe down for several minutes and give it rest.

 

[Chasing Embers]

When the pipe calls you a sadist.

 

[workman]

The hiccups are nicotine overload. IME the tobacco gets stronger towards the end of the bowl.

 

[writingraav]

I only get hiccups from strong burley blends.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

You really sh... I wouldn't... if you keep torching the bottom of your pipe, you are going to f%$# up that pipe. No where in the annals of pipe history, pipe lore, or pipe anything does it say that one should try to smoke a pipe down to the last little tiny bit of tobacco... Except maybe I saw it on a Cheech and Chong movie or something. You are talking about a tobacco pipe, right?

 

[briarbuck]

Hiccups can come from a wee too much nicotine. I get them when I dip Cope and don't spit.


Fun fact: Couple drops of Hot sauce on the tongue cures hiccups every time.

 

[sandollars]

Hiccups can come from a wee too much nicotine. I get them when I dip Cope and don't spit.


Fun fact: Couple drops of Hot sauce on the tongue cures hiccups every time.

Or better still is a drop or 2 on the actual tobacco in the pipe works better...

 

[briarbuck]

Or better still is a drop or 2 on the actual tobacco in the pipe works better...

Do Ghost peppers ghost ? Inquiring minds want to know...

 

[craig61a]

 

[bullet08]

when it goes out, take a look in the chamber. clear the ash out and see if there's enough left to put light to it. depends on how lazy i feel that day, i might even out the top of tobacco and smoke it.

 

[mso489]

When you relight and get little or no smoke, you are relighting ash. Usually a bowl will taste a little off first, but sometimes it's good to the bottom. Sometimes you can feel with the tamper that there is no bouncy tobacco but only hard ash. As for hiccups, mostly I don't get them, but my ready cure as a kid was to take ten gulps of water without inhaling. It seemed to break the rhythm.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

With experience, you'll know from looking, the feel of the tamp and the draw. When in doubt, empty the bowl and finish.

 

[derhammer]

I agree it's Lady Nicotine who's causing it.
I smoked a Javanese cigar once and had a hiccup for more than an hour.

 

[cosgringo]

Nicotine...
I get that if I try chew and such. Funny- I could smoke a strong maduro or my too many bowls in a row. If I take a pinch of tobacco (tired with some aromatic PT's)- boom. At least for me.