Lack of Nicotine Affect
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I used to be completely immune to any noticeable affect, but in the last few months I've begun feeling it more. Usually just a mildly "relaxed" feeling, but a couple of times I've actually gotten dizzy and mildly nauseous.
I don't really know what's changed. Am I just getting older? Absorbing more as I slow my smoking cadence? Alien parasite? I don't know.
I don't really know what's changed. Am I just getting older? Absorbing more as I slow my smoking cadence? Alien parasite? I don't know.
I think a lot depends on your smoking history. People who are used to inhaling cigarettes will not get the same instantaneous satisfaction they crave, even with the strongest nicotene pipe tobacco unless they inhale, which pretty much defeats the taste, as well as presents similar health risks to cigarette smoking. Part of what people think is nicotene effect from cigarettes and become psychologically dependent upon...the lightheaddedness...is actually the effect of CO which denies oxygen to the brain. Nicotene from puffing a pipe without inhaling is slower and takes more smoking to be felt. You aren't likely to feel it after just a few minutes. In the old days most codger pipesmokers had a pipe lit continually throughout the day, and the nicotene effect was cumulative.
For me, it was when I really, really slowed down. It's usually about an hour into a bowl that I start to feel the effects of Virginias and VaPers, and it might be just half an hour into it that a stronger blend starts to knock on my door. Just puffing smoke into air does nothing, but really letting the smoke simmer and swirl about the tongue and mouth in faint wisps is what affects me. The longer it takes me to finish a bowl, the more the effects, but YMMV.
I love strong cigars too, same thing...
I love strong cigars too, same thing...
I'm the complete opposite of the OP; I can smoke the heavy hitters but just not too much at one time. I have to be very careful not to overdose on the nicotine. I do in fact like the nicotine high as long as I don't go overboard.
So what's a nicotine OD like?
Well I start to break out into a cold sweat, dizziness and nausea overwhelm me, if it goes even further violent vomiting ensues and after about 20 minutes it's as if nothing had ever happened.
Not good, not why I smoke a pipe.
Fortunately it doesn't often happen anymore as I have learned to recognize the signs early enough to just put the pipe down and take a break for a half hour or so.
So what's a nicotine OD like?
Well I start to break out into a cold sweat, dizziness and nausea overwhelm me, if it goes even further violent vomiting ensues and after about 20 minutes it's as if nothing had ever happened.
Not good, not why I smoke a pipe.
Fortunately it doesn't often happen anymore as I have learned to recognize the signs early enough to just put the pipe down and take a break for a half hour or so.
When I was a cigarette smoker, nicotine didn't seem to affect me at all. Now, I can smoke a pipe and get that nice buzz. Once or twice I've smoked something high in nicotine that knocked me on my butt.
Cosmic,
That delay was what got me. I'd get dizzy AFTER smoking, only part of the time, so I wasn't correlating it with the smoke. Once I got so dizzy I threw myself into a panic attack, and ended up in the emergency room, thinking it was a heart attack. My heart checked out fine, so they checked for a brain tumor. Thankfully, my brain was fine, too. Well, as fine as it ever was.
I've spent a lot of time in doctor's offices this past couple of months. Now we think I have an inner-ear problem, not caused, but made worse, by nicotine.
Anyway, being a former cigarette smoker, I was not used to nicotine hitting me that SLOWLY!
Well, that or the alien parasite!
That delay was what got me. I'd get dizzy AFTER smoking, only part of the time, so I wasn't correlating it with the smoke. Once I got so dizzy I threw myself into a panic attack, and ended up in the emergency room, thinking it was a heart attack. My heart checked out fine, so they checked for a brain tumor. Thankfully, my brain was fine, too. Well, as fine as it ever was.
I've spent a lot of time in doctor's offices this past couple of months. Now we think I have an inner-ear problem, not caused, but made worse, by nicotine.
Anyway, being a former cigarette smoker, I was not used to nicotine hitting me that SLOWLY!
Well, that or the alien parasite!
@dottiewarden I had this happen recently (just after my surgery, unfortunately). I smoked some Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture and was very light headed, dizzy and within 45 minutes had violent vomiting. It was such uncomfortable feeling and I didn't smoke my pipe for several days. Now I'm to afraid to some anything Medium or Higher because I don't want a repeat of that awfulness. I've been sticking to mostly mild tobaccos.
Hope I can over come this.
Hope I can over come this.
Just interesting thing, in most cases from any Dunhill blend I'm most likely to get that nicotine buzz, and thats why even they are high grade tobaccos I'm hesitant to buy the more than a tin and occasionally,
Problem here is there are just too many great tasting tobacco blends out there to be that limited. The idea is to smoke for 10 or 20 minutes and let the pipe go out. Take a half hour to an hour break and come back to your pipe.
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