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Hah, yeah, in the US I feel like a marijuana smoker is likely to find a tobacco habit disgusting and unhealthy.



I tried doing high grade pipe tobacco twice. I did not like the "brain pops" that occurred. They felt very jarring and really uncomfortable.


You are supposed to puff a tobacco pipe, as in you don't inhale just hold it in your mouth. Same with cigars. Treating either like cigarettes or marijuana is a sickening experience even for many nicotine addicts.


Ah, yeah I know that cigs you inhale, and pipes you let be in just the mouth.

Either way, there were brain pops that were happening around inside my head that I did absolutely not like. Not sure how others describe the nicotine phenomenon. I just know I didn't like that one bit.


Brain pops? Never heard of that term.

Do you mean head change? Basically a dizzy/foggy/rolling feeling mainly in the head.

It gets less extreme with tolerance, similar to cannabis highs.


> Do you mean head change? Basically a dizzy/foggy/rolling feeling mainly in the head.

Yah I never got a gentle dizzy rolling feeling.

Instead it felt like my brain was guitar strings and they were being plucked and vibrating. Then another. And another. They were very sudden, pluck/vibrate, and sped up the longer I smoked tobacco.

I did that pipe for about 20m. They sped up to about 3/second around the 10m mark. They finally quit at the 30m mark (10m after stopping).

I'm sure they slow down with tolerance. I just know I didn't like the feeling even starting.




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