Pipe Smoking & Nicotine Addiction

[Pkolb]

Hello Friends,

I am fairly new to smoking and have just bought my first pipe.

I think I am getting into it because I enjoy the reflective/spiritual element of smoking..

But am also wondering if I have not already developed a slight nicotine dependance and am just covering that up.. until now I have only smoked cigars occasionally but was convinced by a cigar store owner that pipe smoking is a similar thing and is overall more affordable and is natural/mostly orally inhaled etc..

I have no illusions about smoking being generally bad for your physical health but..

I guess what I am wondering is this:

How much is too much?

Would you recommend even starting smoking to your younger self? Is it possible to make this purely a casual thing? Once a day? A few times a week or month maybe? I am currently 30 years old.

I know addiction is person dependant, and I’ve seen many similar questions online on this topic, but I wanted to get some more support on this before I smoke more.. as well as more thoughts and insights..

I seriously do like it as a “me thing” and how it gets me outside and reflecting, slowing day amidst this busy world etc.. it also makes me feel connected to god or spirit, and our ancestors who have smoked for thousands of years and would hope to almost make this a form of spiritual practice/quiet reflection/me time.

I would warmly welcome your thoughts, and honest opinions, thank you all and happy smoking,

Paul.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Nicotine is good. It's available all over the place. It makes you look cool too.

Why not be addicted?

I might avoid other addictions like crack or meth... But tobacco won't have you stealing washing machines and using a bicycle as the getaway car, like those others could.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Hello Paul , and welcome to forums, depending on your smoking background , (whether or not You have been smoking cigarettes )I think You may be able to keep quantities on the moderate leve, so to say one bowl per day but do not think pipe smoking is safer option than cigars , it ain't so

 

[BingBong]

Try a pack of 5 Brothers, smoke at least three bowls a day and then see how you feel?

 

[krizzose]

Long ago I was a cigarette smoker, and very much addicted, so I know exactly what that feels like. My pipe-smoking rate is very light, about 3-5 bowls a week, and it’s been like that for years. For various reasons I will regularly go a few days or a week without smoking at all. I suppose that any regular nicotine use is habit-forming, but at this level it’s below my threshold of noticing it at all. Obviously, increased smoking rates could significantly alter that equation.

 

[The Libertine]

We all are addicted to nicotine here whether or not we admit it. I smoke 10-15 bowls a day.

 

[The Libertine]

Try a pack of 5 Brothers, smoke at least three bowls a day and then see how you feel?

Trying to kill the man?

 

[brian64]

But tobacco won't have you stealing washing machines and using a bicycle as the getaway car

 

[FLDRD]

Some people can start and stop the daily and regular consumption of coffee with no adverse effects. Others get symptoms such as headaches.
One is not addicted, the other is, in the physical / physiological sense, addicted.
Caffeine is likely the most consumed drug in America...
If you can start and stop the consumption of pipe tobacco without any physical or physiological alterations - you're not addicted.

 

[Pkolb]

Thanks for all the tips guys really appreciate it

 

[Chasing Embers]

Would you recommend even starting smoking to your younger self?

My younger self was what got me into it. He loved nicotine and I still do.

 

[fireground_piper]

Completely an individual issue. Nicotine never did much to me as far as need, withdrawal, etc. and it rarely even impacted me in the moment with rare exceptions.

Something like caffeine on the other hand is a total physical addiction to for me.

The only way to find out is to find out.

 

[VDL_Piper]

Smoke this daily and you will find out what nicotine feels like in a nice kinda way

 

[Chasing Embers]

Smoke this daily and you will find out what nicotine feels like in a nice kinda way
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I never got a nic hit from then smoking. I had to chew it.

 

[PaulRVA]

A pipe beats cigarettes and cigars and for me it’s probably the only way I was able to stop cigarettes.

It is an addiction but it’s not like a cigarette addiction for me as I don’t have the same level of an urge with pipes. I find it enjoyable instead of a burden or compulsion

 

[Brad H]

Congrats. Your coolness level just went up when you picked up a pipe.
Damn glad you’re here!

 

[VDL_Piper]

I never got a nic hit from then smoking. I had to chew it.

But you're not mortal CE

 

[elvishrunes]

i can smoke everyday then not for weeks, I’ve never been addicted to pipes and cigars even the high nic stuff, when these threads come up, many will say the same. I heard a running theory that there are addictive additives in cigarettes, wouldn’t surprise me over 500 chemicals are legally allowed to be added, they probably slip something in…. Or something that makes the nicotine more addictive, a booster.

List of additives in cigarettes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[elvishrunes]

And yes it’s possible to make it casual, do whatever you want.

 

[Lumbridge]

We all are addicted to nicotine here whether or not we admit it. I smoke 10-15 bowls a day.

It drives me nuts when people say this. I smoke a 2-4 bowls a week usually and will drop it for weeks/months at a time when I'm not feeling like smoking for whatever reason. I've never been addicted to nicotine.