Your Response when the Nicotine Hits

[Akoni808]

I keep those little bites of Halloween size chocolates by my smoking chair for my evening heavy hitter smoke. When I feel the spins coming on, I just chomp one, and voila, it's gone.

Despite what many say, nicotine is not a traditional stimulant. In the way we ingest it via the pipe, it is more of a sedative, but it doesn't neatly fit into either category. What it does is release stored sugars into the blood stream, and once the sugars are depleted, nausea sets in. So, a bite of sugar quells that feeling fast.

Candy or having a sugar packet handy is never a bad idea if you’re expecting it. It will usually reverse the symptoms very quickly.

 

[workman]

A little nausea is no excuse to stop smoking. It's not like it's meant to be pleasant or anything like that. The point is to smoke as much as you can as fast as you can for as long as you can. The one with the longest and yellowest teeth wins.

 

[kcghost]

The only blend I get a nic hit from is HH Rustica. I have to stop smoking immediately and eat a little something,

 

[Akoni808]

This happens more often when I have a cigar than a pipe.

Interesting. I came from smoking 3-5 full body cigars a day and would hardly feel nicotine, but when I switched to pipes the nicotine was very noticeable.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I had to smoke four flakes of HH Rustica at once in a magnum to get a nicotine hit from a pipe. Pipe tobacco is fairly nic mild when compared to other tobacco products.

 

[Akoni808]

I had to smoke four flakes of HH Rustica at once in a magnum to get a nicotine hit from a pipe. Pipe tobacco is fairly nic mild when compared to other tobacco products.

I found rustica to be pretty mild in nicotine. To be fair that may partly be due to the fact that I have to relight it so many times.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I found rustica to be pretty mild in nicotine. To be fair that may partly be due to the fact that I have to relight it so many times.

I chew Gawith ropes and get more nicotine from them that way than smoking them.

 

[bullet08]

Usually just pass out and wait for my wife or kids to bring me around. Why stop a good thing?

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I get a stiffie but it doesn’t last long.

 

[TheWhale13]

I get a stiffie but it doesn’t last long.

Happens to the best of us

 

[lightxmyfire]

Interesting. I came from smoking 3-5 full body cigars a day and would hardly feel nicotine, but when I switched to pipes the nicotine was very noticeable.

Interesting indeed. It's been my understanding that cigars are generally stronger in nicotine. I'm not sure however how much the body of the cigar is related to its nicotine content, maybe those cigars had lots of body and little nicotine and the pipe blends are actually stronger, and maybe for me I've gone the opposite direction smoking nicotine strong cigars and lower nicotine pipe blends? ?‍

 

[hairvise]

I get a stiffie but it doesn’t last long.

My wife would like to know what tobacco you are smoking when that happens!

 

[rorrer]

Doesn't happen to me very often smoking a pipe, but MAN some of those big Maduro cigars really get me. I generally just have to put it down and let it pass.

C.Rorrer

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

My wife would like to know what tobacco you are smoking when that happens!

That's kewl but I don't fool around with other men's wife's.

 

[Epip Oc'Cabot]

Hmm. I must have either high “tolerance”, be good at regulating things, or have one helluva good physique (Hah… sarcasm) I guess. The “worst” I have ever experienced is the very mildest of “spins” and even that is very rare. If that does happen, I just tend to close my eyes a bit… and enjoy the ride. ?

 

[FishNChips]

The most a pipe has given me is a bit of a light head and euphoric feeling, but I go light and usually prefer small bowls.

I tried a friend Copenhagen one time though and couldn’t drive home for half and hour. That was terrible!

 

[Servant King]

 

[Streeper541]

It doesn't happen to me often. When it does I either keep smoking or stop. Pretty simple. ?

 

[username]

Try not to puke then go eat something.

 

[North of the Border Piper]

A younger me would have kept going till hell or highwater, but not so anymore...