Nicotine Attack?
Londy3
Master
in Tobacco Talk
Something happened to me just now and I need help.
First, I'm not a smoker and never smoked cigarettes in my life so I don't know how nicotine behaves. This morning while having my coffee I also burned a small bowl of L-Q which was a nice relaxing time outside on my porch. Right after, I took my Beagle for a walk but when I came home I felt weird. It feels like an intense caffeine attack. I don't know if someone can get a nicotine attack or not. Am I experiencing a combination of both at the same time? Have not eaten anything yet so both the Tobacco and coffee are in my system. What is wrong with me?
First, I'm not a smoker and never smoked cigarettes in my life so I don't know how nicotine behaves. This morning while having my coffee I also burned a small bowl of L-Q which was a nice relaxing time outside on my porch. Right after, I took my Beagle for a walk but when I came home I felt weird. It feels like an intense caffeine attack. I don't know if someone can get a nicotine attack or not. Am I experiencing a combination of both at the same time? Have not eaten anything yet so both the Tobacco and coffee are in my system. What is wrong with me?
Comments
@Londy3, If it is the nicotine making you queasy, you can eat a piece of hard candy, like a Jolly Rancher, and the quick ingestion of sugar into your system will usually drive up your blood sugar levels, and the feeling will pass. I saw a guy in a cigar shop in Nashville TN. once have to lay down in the floor, after smoking a Liga Privada Flying Pig. It was his first cigar, and one of the most expensive he will probably ever smoke, after he asked the owner to call an ambulance.
Well, not exactly the same: I fell out of a chair
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/tobacco-basics-nicotine-amp-sugar-content-curing-methods
http://www.synjeco.com/pataall/info/home.php?i1
https://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/Labeling/ProductsIngredientsComponents/ucm482580.htm
Factoids:
Cigarette tobacco and fine cut tobacco results cluster around a pH 5 with average nicotine levels between 15 and 20 mg/g. Pipe tobacco presents the lowest observed pHs 4.7-4.9, while nicotine content averaged around 17 mg/g. Cigars present pH levels between 6 and 7 while nicotine contents are low, between 7 and 12 mg/g.
Latakia is sun cured, then finished over a fire to impart the smoky flavor and aroma. Latakia is pretty low in nicotine.
Samuel Gawith Finest Kendal Twist Black XX is the black tar heroin of pipe tobacco. You have been warned.
I have not experienced what everyone else is describing as a nicotine attack whilst smoking mainstream pipe tobacco, again, back in the day, such as Nightcap, Royal Yacht, Balkan Sobranie, Escudo and Plum Cake. These days, I'm smoking what I think is a low to medium/low nic aromatic.)
I hated cigarettes as a kid and only started smoking a pipe in college because the older guys smoked pipes and it looked cool.
Cigarette smoke still bothers me. Sometimes I'll come home from a restaurant or pub and want to burn my clothes. However, I think that cigarette smokers should be able to smoke in restaurants ad bars so long as I can carry and use a squirt gun filled with cat urine.
This is the main reason I get so damn aggravated with people about pipe Tobacco. It's NOT the same thing. I get tired of it being so taboo. Again, I don't consider myself a smoker at all. I only have a few bowls a week and never inhale. But yet, people see my pipe and say, I didn't know you smoked. I DON'T. Sorry for the rant. Stupid people piss me off.
Several times in my cigar days I smoked some very strong cigars that really impacted me to the point of dripping sweat, room spins, and nausea. Several posters above nailed it though, I have read many times that that is the result of a drop in your blood glucose (sugar) levels, and a quick shot of sugar, candy, etc, will usually start to eliminate the symptoms. Having said that I have also gotten minor symptoms of the same issue while smoking pipe tobacco. It is hard for me to pinpoint the set of circumstances to avoid it again, but I would bet it was an uncommon set of circumstances such as the strength of the tobacco, how strong you wear sucking smoke, time since last food, etc. Sometimes just our bodies are off chemically speaking which I think affects even the tastes and aromas we perceive. Don't let it get you down, just take stock of the situation if it ever happens again and perhaps you will be able to pinpoint the cause.
Pipe pH – do you know your pipe’s pH, is it acidic, neutral or alkaline? A pipe has pH like any organic substance. It can vary from 0 – really acidic – to 14 extremely alkaline. The soil the briar grew in and the water in it determine it. It doesn’t change when they boil the blocks. Your tobacco also has pH. If your pipes is a low pH and your tobacco is a high pH that is not likely going to be a happy combination, unless they neutralize each other, a very big maybe. This I am sure is the reason why a tobacco will smoke great in one pipe and badly in another. Assuming similar size and briar origin. You can determine the pH of the tobacco but very difficult to do on the pipe. So, we are still back at the try it and see method.