I'm a nic wuss. Never smoked cigarettes, so I had no professional training when I began smoking a pipe, nearly 50 years ago. (Not continuously. I stopped for 20 years in there).
I smoked 1792 once, and only once, and thought I was taking flight. Sick, I wished to die.
Another time, I smoked a Solani Virginia. Passed out on bathroom floor while hugging commode. Wife figured it was good enough for me if I was, as she said, dumb enough to smoke. She left me on the floor.
Other tobaccos have also done the nic trick on me. So, I have learned over the years to go sloooowwww! I am not a puffer. If the pipe goes out, I'll put it down and do something else for a time. Then relight.
All in all, I have found that some tobaccos are just too much for me to handle and I stay away. If I want to enjoy a stronger smoke, I sip, put the pipe down, and wait a bit before taking another sip.
That way, I don't fall over on my nose.