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Everyone point and laugh at the newbie...but help a brother out
Just got nasty sick after smoking my pipe. It's not the first time I smoked but this is still my first month of frequent smoking. Anything to help that?
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It could be high Nicotine, when you checkout a tobacco at an online store or a catalog it usually mentions the strength of it, the higher the strength, the higher the Nic.
It also could be that you're swallowing too much of the tobacco juices. When I'm smoking strong stuff I often rinse my mouth out. Cut back on smoking too often or too close between smokes. Try to cool the pipe completely before smoking again. Tars can built up in the stem, run a dry pipe cleaner through it to dry it.
Basically slow down a little and see if you get dizzy or feel the effects before relighting. It's kind of like drinking, bang down 3 or 4 shots it can catch up to you really fast.
I want to smoke it again but now I have that mental fear of it like some nasty hard liquor that you can't touch. Maybe I just need to go at it.
a lot of tobaccos have a high amount of Humectant in them, if you eave the tobacco out to dry and it hasn't shown any sign of drying, that's a sign of it. Some people are very sensitive to it. That stuff can work it's way down to the Dottle making it a double hit.
Oh, by the way, none of us laughed at the Newbie, we've all been there.
You can run a cleaner into a pipe *while you are smoking* if it is gurgling or you are drawing juices (full of nicotine and you probably swallow it). That may be what the poster above meant, but I figured I would make it clear.
Don't take the stem off while smoking it, but you can put a cleaner through the whole thing while smoking to dry it.
FWIW, this tip shows up on "things I wish someone told me earlier" lists frequently.