Worst feeling : tongue bite or nicotine poisoning?

I would agree. I hate the feeling of nausia, so I would take tongue bite over nicotine sickness.

However, given the third option of neither, I'd go for that.

Never been sick from nicotine.
As a young teenager a mate & I would visit the cities tobacconists to buy Winston, Camel non-filters, Temple Bars, Gitanes & Indonesian kretek (clove) cigs. Stronger the better we thought.

Since giving up the cigs nearly 9 years ago however, I have not had a single cigarette & I intentionally choose mild to very low nicotine content in blends. To the point where I miss out on trying certain popular blends.
Nicotine addiction is something that I don't miss.

I'm prone to tongue bite however. Rather than tongue bite itself, some blends heat my entire mouth.

As I avoid nicotine, tongue bite is definitely worse.

Possibly something you ate rather than nicotine poisoning?? It was only your third bowl of the day. Any consumption of nicotine other than pipe tobacco enter your body? I smoke anywhere from 12 to 17 various blends a day, I don’t inhale and never experienced a severe nicotine buzz. Do you inhale??

An article concerning nicotine poisoning............


www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/nicotine-poisoning-can-you-overdose

I'm not sure if it was nicotine poisoning g that you experienced. 3 bowls in 1 day, even inhaling, is not that much nicotine. I guess if you have a very very low tolerance it could be.

I'd take tongue bite over nausea any day.

I've never gotten a nic hit from smoking a pipe, though I did get tobacco poisoning from working in the fields as a teenager. Much worse than any time I've had the flu.

You make a good point. The effects of one lasts much longer than the other.

Is that a pun??  

Same. And haven't had tongue bite since I started paying attention to how wet/dry my tobacco was. 

It wasn't intended to be, but lets call it a happy accident

I've gotten light-headed from smoking a pipe too fast, but just recently I thought I was getting a heart attack, or stroke.....the nausea dizziness, sweating and retching was very unsettling, and I was minutes away from dialing 911. Vomiting cleared my head and I felt a lot better after drinking some Ginger Ale. I was convinced I just had a silent heart attack and made an appointment with my doctor.

After thinking about it, I realized I had been fasting for Lent and was smoking some stronger, new blend of tobaccos (that a friend mixed) in my pipe, and, I did it all on an empty stomach. A classic, amateur mistake. But wait!... I have been smoking a pipe for many years and never had this horrible experience before. This time I got knocked on my fat arse.

As a much younger man, in my salad days, my friends and I polished off obscene amounts of beer and hard liquor, and on some occasions I did get sick to my stomach from too much drinking...but never did I get so violently sick and dizzy. Moral of this story:....Strong tobacco and an empty stomach nearly sent me to the emergency room. Nic hit ain't good.

Nicotine poisoning is something I would def try to avoid. BTW the follow-up EKG showed nothing wrong, thank God.


The pipe, was the cause of it all!

I like a nice nicotine buzz. It doesn't last long.

I will take tongue bite any day over nic sick. Tongue bite gives you many more cues that it is coming on and you have ample time to adjust or simply put it down to avoid it. Nic sickness tends to ramp up out of nowhere and before you can catch it it is too late.

I can remember early on when I started with cigars. I was working from home and my neighbor invited me over for a cigar after lunch. I felt like I ate a decent lunch. Throughout the smoke I was also having to relight a bit which is bad form for cigars and also causes a lot more nicotine in your system. I made it through the smoke but wasn't much of a conversationalist for the last 20 minutes.

Went back to my home office and sat motionless gripping the edges of the desk for stability. Googled remedies and found that if you eat some sugar it can offset. Downed about 4 tablespoons of sugar and held on for another hour or so. It was aweful.

+1 ... heck, I go looking for it. 

+1 for a slight nicotine buzz, which I rarely get because I don’t inhale. When I smoke a strong cigar and have to do a number of re-lights can effect me sometimes, many cigar smokers as sperrytops stated, a tight draw can definitely effect your ability to stand and can cause severe nausea. I’ve seen BIG guys fall to their knees after smoking an “ air bender “ cigar.

This is a little much, man.  You would have felt a frog in your throat or gotten a little light-headed wayyyyy before being sick like that. haha Wow.  And on Borkum Riff..?  I think that may have been something other than the nicotine.