Lip Sore After Smoking
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Try drawing more softly - sipping. If the pipe bowl gets hot, set it down and allow to cool. Relighting a pipe bowl that has gone out is not a bad thing with pipes and actually can give a good taste to the bowl.
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Me neither. The pipe's orifice/button is not near my lips at anytime.
Could it have been in contact with your lips for a period?
Could it have been in contact with your lips for a period?
Herpes is often aggravated by irritations like pipe smoking. Or so I’ve been told.
No I don't think so I don't even clench that much. I usually just sip.
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I do try to let my pipe cool down if it gets to hot. Maybe I was not paying attention. I relight often and try to take it slow.
Hmmm - maybe try drying your pipe tobacco a bit to cut down on the relights. Relighting can be hot on the mouth and tongue. Another thought...try tobaccos that are known to need fewer relights.
Go to SmokingPipes.com, the first "dot" number is nicotene strength. The more dots, the stronger. In my experience, if it is worse with the "stronger" tobaccos and less bad with the "weaker" tobaccos then you're the same as me.
And if that's it, it will happen every time with a cigar: use a cigar holder.
And if that's it, it will happen every time with a cigar: use a cigar holder.
This is why we can't have nice things
That’s what he told you?
Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a logical fallacy. I've had pipes bite my lip or tongue (it feels very much like a razor cut), but no resulting sore. It's rare and kind of weird--not really sure what causes it. Maybe a filthy stem?
If it's the same thing as I get, it's not a sore. The top and inside of my lip become swollen and rough and tender. Chapstik (or equivalent) helps. Eating butter or icecream or anything fatty (to dissolve the offending compound) helps. It doesn't honestly last all that long unless you insist to keep smoking, in which case it can turn into a cold-sore like thing except it heals MUCH faster and easier and doesn't spread at all.
If you are like me...
If you take a pipe of something REALLY mild, it won't happen at all.
If you take a pipe of something REALLY strong (e.g. 1792 flake), it gets MUCH worse and happens sooner.
Smoking slower only helps until you're about 2/3 through the bowl, and then it hits anyway.
Smoking faster will burn your tongue instead, which feels different, but your lips will be fine.
If condensation from the pipes comes out to your lips, not only does it taste really bad but the effect happens instantly and severely.
Smoking a cigar without a holder is a guarantee.
Smoking a cigar with a holder is good until the last two inches or so, and then it happens even if you use pipe cleaners and paper towels to dry up the condensation.
If that sounds like you, I feel you.
If you are like me...
If you take a pipe of something REALLY mild, it won't happen at all.
If you take a pipe of something REALLY strong (e.g. 1792 flake), it gets MUCH worse and happens sooner.
Smoking slower only helps until you're about 2/3 through the bowl, and then it hits anyway.
Smoking faster will burn your tongue instead, which feels different, but your lips will be fine.
If condensation from the pipes comes out to your lips, not only does it taste really bad but the effect happens instantly and severely.
Smoking a cigar without a holder is a guarantee.
Smoking a cigar with a holder is good until the last two inches or so, and then it happens even if you use pipe cleaners and paper towels to dry up the condensation.
If that sounds like you, I feel you.
Yep, that virus lays dormant in the system damn near permanently and I find smoking can initiate its reappearance.