Tongue Coated With Nicotine?

[newbroom]

OMG! I just looked at my tongue in the mirror for s&g and also because I've been experiencing some tongue burn that I wasn't sure if it was from hot food or drink or pipe smoking.

It was pretty covered in brown stain! I've taken a tooth brush and stuff to it and it's much cleaner, but that seems to have been the source of my hot tongue, or at least contributed to it.

I've checked my tongue lots of times and never found it to be coated?

Anyone else got 2 cents? Sarcasm and tomfoolery are acceptable replies.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

ok, sarcasm and tomfoolery

 

[brass]

Jokes about whose what you been kissing come under tom foolery?
And more seriously, are you per chance drinking coffee when you're smoking?

 

[seadogontheland]

Do you follow a regular oral hygiene practice. I don't think your stain is nicotine but rather the tars from the process of combusting tobacco.
I know a fellow who swears he brushes his teeth and gums yet his teeth are terribly stained and his gums are dark brown, not a bit of pink can be seen. His dentist told him it would cost 500.00 to clean his entire mouth and last well over 3 sessions in the chair.
To get to this state there is obvious variability such as other foods/drinks consumed. The chemical circumstances of his mouth when he smokes and tissue resilience determined by genetics as well as the type of tobacco smoked and temperature of the smoke when it comes in contact with either hard or soft matter.

 

[tuold]

Do the same check after a bowl of Molto Dolce. Scary.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

I just use a Sonicare electric tooth brush and floss a mouthwash twice a day. No problems.

 

[newbroom]

cosmicfolklore, it was just that after reading brown stain and hot tongue int he same paragraph, I figured I'd opened some awfully wide doors and might as well admit it.
I haven't had another bowl since brushing the crud off my tongue. I do use a water pik about 6x a day...and I take my plate out at night. I dunno. This must have been some sort of perfect storm. I only drink about 3 cups of coffee in the morning and switch to herbal tea. Nothing I ate seems likely, except maybe the chocolate gelato?

I only had 1/2 cup, I swear!
I'm still resting my tongue from smoking after cleaning it off with baking soda and peroxide and toothpsste.

it's starting to feel better. This is a first and it snuck up on me.

 

[okiescout]

Tuold, I think you hit the jackpot! I like the stuff a lot but it really has a stain. I leaves a heavier residue on carbon filters, which I use on aromatics. It stains them worse than anything I have smoked. Coffee stains my teeth worse than tobacco ever has.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

+1 tuold, I used to smoke Molto Dolce and eat Werthers caramels with a cup of coffee on our family movie nights. Then, I looked at my tongue in the mirror and freaked. I googled brown tongue and thought that I had some weird disease. My tongue looked horrible. I stopped smoking Molto Dolce, problem solved, ha ha.
Now I just have a cat tongue from smoking so much, but my girlfriend doesn't complain about that :wink:
Newbroom, you may just be hotter than you thought. Have you considered that you may have scorched it? ha ha!

 

[settersbrace]

You mean my tongue is not supposed to be brown? I gotta quit looking at it. There, problem solved.

 

[newbroom]

I've improved enough to finish a bowl I'd started earlier...but, this may be a lesson (not sure which) learned.

If I were having some sort of gawdanged allergic reaction to smoking a pipe, I'd ....get a dog?

 

[warren]

Well, duh!

 

[lordofthepiperings]

That's odd, I've had a tin of Molto Dolce before and it never stained my teeth or tongue. I'm working through my second tin now and it's still not doing it. Maybe it's one of those body chemistry things that I've been fortunate enough to elude.

 

[newbroom]

Well said, Warren. I miss having a dog more than ....well...I miss having a dog.

I live in a condo and the weight limit in the Association's bylaws would keep me in the yapper catagory.

But, now that I think of it...I do like a Jack Russel. I could get away with that, and still have a dog.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

My tongue has been turning up a yellow-green.
But I recently switched to a light green toothpaste, don't know what they were thinking.

Funny thing is I first looked after a bowl of Sutliff Mountain Pass and it scared the pants off me.

 

[phil67]

Do the same check after a bowl of Molto Dolce. Scary.

Anyone who can smoke, much less tolerate that gunky syrupy concoction which smells like Play-Doh deserves to have a brown tongue! :lol:

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Ha ha Phil! I only smoke it for the ladies.

But, my teeth do get stained. My dentist is always blaming the pipe. Not, in a terrible way, just enough to make me defensive. I'm sure the acidity of the constant Virginias and VaPers doesn't help, but I mostly blame the coffee. The older I get the harder it is to get them completely white. At least I still have them, most of them, ha ha!!

 

[okiescout]

When I gave up smoking for a number of years, coffee and tea stained my teeth anyway, and I do not see giving up either of them or smoking my pipe.

 

[cigrmaster]

Maybe you should think about not sticking your tongue up your dogs ass for a while. :nana:
I brush my teeth a few times a day and use a waterpik as well as flossing. I also use Biotene at least 3 times a day to keep dry mouth at bay and too soothe my tongue after smoking all day long.

 

[newbroom]

Yes, I also brush and water pik several times a day. Never heard of Biotene. I'll check that out. I wonder if one of the tobaccos I've been smoking recently might have contributed to this negative phenomenon.

Does Perique maybe do that if there's lots of it in a blend, perhaps?
cigrmaster, I knew that I'd get some sort of blowback, and asked for it, but jeeze. :|