What Are Your Favorite Nicotine Bombs?

[cosmicfolklore]

The trick to absorbing more nicotine is to smoke slower. Keep the bowl smoldering on the verge of going out. Do NOT puff, just allow the smoke to drift in and out of your mouth, allow the smoke to swirl around your tongue, and don't blow it out, just sort of let it leave on its own. The slower you smoke, the more you'll absorb from any blend.

But, if you puff, puff like a cigar, you're just playing, wasting the glorious nicotine. You're not going to really get anything out of the process except looking stylish with your smokey looking pipe and wasting your money.

Watch old movies, go to smoking lounges, guys who smoke pipes hardly give off any smoke at all. Its about savoring the smoke as slow as possible, for as long as possible.
Maybe that will help.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"I dipped & chewed for pretty much 25 years."
Please excuse my ignorance Jmagen but what is the difference twixt dipping and chewing?
A relatively newcomer to pipe smoking (15 months) from the UK needs to know ::
Regards,
Jay.

 

[deathmetal]

wasting the glorious nicotine

An error and sin, if you ask me. Yes: let suction draw in the smoke, do not bother to puff. Let it hang out for a while. And keep it coming, like beers at a bar when the local team is losing. Soon you will find yourself in the clarity of mind bestowed by Nicotine.

 

[phxrock]

Dip = Skoal, Copenhagen or some of the snus products.

Chew = Redman, Beachnut, DaysWork(plug) or any plug you desire to cut a chunk and chew on it and spit.

 

[deathmetal]

This is the best thread ever.
Did someone mention Royal Yacht? The high-Nic, high-flavor tobacco you can smoke every day, all day, and still rediscover with joy.

 

[cobguy]

Reading this list of smokes considered "strong" put this little tune into my head:
"These are a few of my favorite things ... " ::

 

[ophiuchus]

Just reading through this thread makes me want to smoke. A lot. ::

 

[jmagen]

Mawnansmiff: phxrock is right on... dip/snuff is finer cut, chew is more like shredded leaves. dip=much more nicotine, chew= much more flavor/spitting.

 

[shutterbugg]

I'm thinking I must have a very high tolerance for nic beccause I smoked strong cigars for years and with a pipe have smoked plenty of Royal Yacht and Nightcap, both reputed to be nic bombs, and never felt anything. Been considering trying some Brown #4 and 5 Brothers just to see if I get a kick, but so far reports of the taste of those have kept me away.

 

[mawnansmiff]

I certainly wouldn't regard Royal Yacht as a 'nicotine bomb', just a lovely smoke.
Regards,
Jay.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I think that there are a few listed, Royal Yacht, Nightcap, ODF, Jackknife, that I wouldn't call NicBombs at all. But, they are higher in nicotine that your run of the mill pipeweed.

 

[hawky454]

Any of the GH&Co ropes, Dark Flake scented, Dark Bird's Eye, Coniston Cut Plug, Kendal Kentucky, Warrior Plug, Old Joe Krantz, Condor Plug Royal Yacht and sometimes Cotton Boll.... I'm sure there are a lot of others that just aren't coming to mind at the moment.

 

[hawky454]

The biggest nic hit I've ever gotten was from a large bowl of Irish Oak. Ropes for some reason don't come close.

Hmmmm... I've never thought this one to be a heavy nic blend. I love it for sure but don't get the nicotine like I would from a brown rope.

 

[deathmetal]

a lovely smoke

Emphatically agreed.
It seems higher than average to me in Nicotine. TobaccoReviews uses a scale of Mild, Mild-to-Medium, Medium, Medium-to-Strong, Strong, Very Strong, Extremely Strong, and Overwhelming. I would rank RY as Strong, your average GH rope as Very Strong or Extremely Strong, and the power Burleys as Overwhelming, but I am sure it is not that simple.

 

[shutterbugg]

TobaccoReviews doesn't have a search-by-strength field that I could find. They rate GH Brown #4 and 5 Brothers as merely Strong. What are names of some power Burleys you would call Overwhelming (and are any of them halfway tolerable in the taste department?) I'm really curious to see if I can feel the nic from any pipe tobacco, as I never have thus far.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Hmmmm... I've never thought this one to be a heavy nic blend. I love it for sure but don't get the nicotine like I would from a brown rope.

Now ropes have little to no effect on me. :|

 

[pilotage16]

I don't smoke nic bombs all that often. Have a jar of S.G. 1792 on the shelf when I want it.

 

[drpipe]

Holland house has more nic than other aromatic blends which I smoked.

 

[yaddy306]

Shutterbug, just go to "show more search fields", then click on "Avg. Strength" and select from the pick list.

 

[deathmetal]

What are names of some power Burleys you would call Overwhelming (and are any of them halfway tolerable in the taste department?)

I suppose Cotton Boll Twist, Dark Burley, and Five Brothers ought to be mentioned first.
Then Burley Flake #1, Brown Irish X, Dark Kentucky and Tambolaka.
Also, here is a quick link for finding all Strong, Very Strong, Extremely Strong and Overwhelming blends on TR.