Pipe Smoking and Spitting

mfresa

Tobacco tends to make me spit.  Clint Eastwood would concur.  How do you handle that?  Outside I can use the ground.  Inside?  A spitoon?

vtgrad2003

I always smoke outside where the only thing I have to worry about is spitting on one of my cats. 

Londy3

I find I only need to spit with a cigar.  Pipes never make me need to do that.  Tobacco is different somehow with pipes.  Same is true with residue. I never stink when I smoke a pipe but I do with cigars.  I don't know why.

opipeman

@mfresa;
I don't spit when I smoke me pipe. My son spits like he chewing snuff. I tell him to just swallow it, it ain't going to kill ya. I can't smoke with him, it grosses me out and frankly it is a little embarrassing. Sorry, Brother, not the answer you were looking for.

KA9FFJ

@mfresa
@Londy3 is a prime example of what to do while smoking a pipe. IMHO, I think you'll find the tendency to spit will all but leave if you sip on a beverage while doing a bowl...
Of course, what's true for some doesn't necessarily equate to being true for all...

KA9FFJ

Sidenote:
Although @Londy3 will probably say it HAS to be alcohol,  it doesn't...😏
Although seriously I have found that carbonated drinks, for some reason, don't do well while while doing a bowl. I'm sure there's some reason, but for the life of me, I don't know what it could be.🤔

Londy3

Tea hot or cold works for me too. It doesn't always have to be alcohol but I do enjoy happy hour 😂

RockyMountainBriar

I used to have to spit occasionally when smoking pipe or cigar.  I kept a small stainless steel camping mug to hock loogies in while smoking my pipe indoors.  I don’t smoke cigars in the house.  When outside, I just hocked them anywhere I pleased🤢
Damn, I can’t stop laughing😂😂, why does that make me giddy, just thinking about how that might make some of you out there uurpy.  I really don’t just “hock them anywhere”😬. I try to keep things safe, I don’t want anyone slipping on one😂😂
Anyway, I don’t need to spit anymore.  Someone mentioned that “softie bits” made them drool…yep, that was part of it for me…I don’t use them anymore (Good thing I bought a hundred plus….NOT!).  Also, since my pipe smoking understanding has advanced (I guess), I notice I get tongue bite rarely if ever, and if I do, it’s very minor.  Since whatever? has changed, I have not had a problem with “loogie build-up”….win-win🙂

mapletop

I generally don't (need) to spit when smoking a pipe or a cigar though I will note when smoking a very high vitamin N cigar like the off-brand Cubens (which I hate), they tend to drive my salivary glands into overdrive.

For those who would ask why would you smoke a cigar like that, well, if you are offered a (mystery) cigar you just don't know till its too late.

Londy3

mfresa

Thanks for the feedback guys.  I must have over-active salivary glands.  

vtgrad2003

@mfresa
I can sympathize...I slobber like a stuck pig. 

ghostsofpompeii

I think the only time I've spit when pipe smoking is when I got down to the bottom of the bowl, relight the remaining dottle, then drew in a mouthful of hot embers.  

KA9FFJ

@ghostsofpompeii
Agreed...