"Nicotine Poisoning" - worst night ever

[Jetson]

I just tried submitting this to erowid - my nicotine THC experience. Not exactly a trip report, but it's worth reading if it helps prevent it from happening to others.

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It was late.

I was all ready for bed.

I thought maybe I’d smoke a little weed to help me sleep. I’d had a good experience with a spliff a couple weekends before, shared with some friends. …So I made one for myself.

(I also mixed in some Calea – a little.)

I planted myself, spliff in hand, by the window and quickly inhaled and held and smoked it in an alarmingly fast speed, trying to prevent the room from smelling like tobacco.

I finished, feeling the familiar squinty eyes. I got up and took two steps and then ran to the bathroom and proceeded to throw up violently.

The next hour or two were agonizing – incessant dry heaving and intense spinning, whirling sensations like being really drunk. I tried taking a shower but couldn’t stand and kept needing to run to the toilet.

I cried a lot that night, which is unusual. I thought several times I was dying.

This was the worst experience of my life so far, physically, at least. For several weeks after, cigarettes made me nauseous.

Disclaimer:
Although my research never really confirmed it: people have claimed my experience was “nicotine poisoning.” The only formal definitions I found for nicotine poisoning had to do with constant skin exposure for farmers. But – everyone I mentioned my experience to called it nicotine poisoning with a side of a THC high, so it seems to be an accepted term.

[ANON]

that sucks

[dizzydank]

yeah it do. least it didnt last too long, dry heaves really hurt after a while.

[aumbrellaforainydays]

yea i dont hold by cigarette drags in, that kills. i personally think nicotine is one of the least beneficial substances when done too much. addiction and withdrawls, which i deny i will have when i quit for good. but till then smoke on!

[alden i]

If your not used to the effects of nicotine, smoking it really fast will totally make you barf!!! I'm sure it has a bit to do with circumstance, but I know that if i haven't smoked a cigarette for a few days and I light one up I totally get a head rush. Especially if I smoke sitting down and then jump up when I'm done! Head rushes are not fun if your not expecting em to slide up your throat right into your brain and make you feel all dizzy and light headed.
Nicotine and bud is a very nice, relaxing combo, if you puff slow.
Easy does it. Good luck next time.

[LUCIDementia]

Thank you for this post. I had no idea that something like this could happen, so I could very well have stumbled blindly into that same situation. Instead, now I am armed with knowledge.

I'm sorry that you had to go through it, but thank you for helping others to avoid doing the same.

[TVCasualty]

For several weeks after, cigarettes made me nauseous.

That sounded like a great opportunity to quit! You'd created an association between cigs and feeling ill... why not keep that momentum going? I haven't smoked in weeks after being sick for half of New Years Day. I hadn't planned on quitting, and didn't make any 'resolutions' but for some reason this time it's been working.

[infinity]

I remmeber about 10 years ago a friend and I were trying to smoke pot out of a coke can. His uncle came outside and I accidentally blew into it and all that (nasty regs) weed was all over the ground and we couldnt pick up any of it because it was broken up too fine. Well, I tried to get a buzz off of a cigarette, and didnt work. I smoked another one right after that and it worked! I got sick. I was puking all over the place.

Just a few weeks ago, I was at a friends house and I had too many american spirits in a row. I got tobacco poisoning again. Except this time, I didnt puke. so for about 2 hours, I was blue in the face, feeling like death and incoherent and unable to drive.


Treat tobacco with care, its medicine used in small doses and poison in large sometimes recreational doses.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapacho

[Leary's Ghost]

1.
ok, i confess i had to look it up. i am an old fucker and i dont know all the lingo anymore.


spliff
also splif

(From split <divided> + spiff <well-dresssed or good>)

a quality cigarette rolled with both tobacco and marajuana, initially popular on Europe's Iberian Peninsula

additionally, the term has been adopted to mean any high quality or well-rolled marajuana joint
"I don't have much weed left, but I can roll us both a spliff."
OR
"The party was wack 'til mah nigga busted out a FATTY spliff!"




so i am assuming that your "spliff" had some quantity of tobacco in it rather than being a "high quality or well-rolled marajuana joint" cuz if it were that and you smoked it in a hurry, you would just be in a pleasent baked haze.

i take it that you are not a regular smoker of tobacco? your experience reminds me of when i was a little boy and i had stolen a pack of smokes from my old man's dresser drawer. pall mall red, non filter. so me & my homeys lit up just lke w had seen our dads doing. this was along time ago. way before cell phones, video games, internet and shit like that. anyway, we hacked, gaged and puked just like you did. only we wanted to be cool like our dads so we kept sucken on the things untill we could do so without even so much as a cough. ya man, we were cool--just like the marburo man. we all grew up to be regular smokers. eventually i quit, but you never forget the pleasure of that first puff. had the same reaction to copenhagen, but kept that up untill i could do that without pukeing too.

kids today are all a bunch of pussys. give them a little poison, they puke, then they dont want anymore. well, of course you are gonna puke--at first. its poison! but you gotta be tough and power through that shit. dont just give up cuz it makes you sick. all the magazines and football games are showing you how real men do it. so come on and quit your bitchen. crybabies.

just kidding. stick w/ pure MJ. you will be way better off.

i know, the govt tells you cigs good--MJ bad. they lyin to ya son!

[Jetson]

I was a light smoker. I still buy a pack occasionally, although I don't think I ever got really addicted, because more and more I just don't feel like smoking them or don't enjoy them. I only smoke them if I'm hanging with friends, drunk or high, or definitely when I'm on kratom.
Yeah, I realize it probably had a lot to do with how fast I smoked it and how I held it in.

[dizzydank]

i quit 2 years ago. smoked a kamel red one night and made me nauses. never smoke another cig agin. tobacco is worthles imo.

[Leary's Ghost]

Originally Posted by Jetson

I was a light smoker. I still buy a pack occasionally, although I don't think I ever got really addicted, because more and more I just don't feel like smoking them or don't enjoy them. I only smoke them if I'm hanging with friends, drunk or high, or definitely when I'm on kratom.
Yeah, I realize it probably had a lot to do with how fast I smoked it and how I held it in.

yeah. my advice, quit while you are ahead. if you can take it or leave it, then just leave it. trust me. if ya dont it will eventually hook ya. they are sneeky little fuckers. patient too. they'll let ya think its no big deal, then they set the hook, then your fucked. once you are hooked its really hard to quit.

there is no surgen general's warning on shrooms or MJ. but there is on booze & smokes--both of which prolly kill more people every year than any other cause of death. coincidence? i think not. govt taxes one & not the other.

[mindovermycelia]

I only smoke after I get stoned usually and I don't think I have ever experienced a nic fit or any noticeable withdrawal symptoms after quitting cold turkey even back when I did smoke about 3/4 pack per day (camel wides back then). But if I chainsmoke say two cigarettes at the wrong time (in the morning for instance or after not smoking awhile) I may get very nautious and have to lie down and breath deeply to get oxygen to my brain, sometimes I puke. The last time I took acid I smoked two and it had been several hours since I had smoked and I had a very bad 5 minutes of dry heaving afterwards. While I was tripping . . . uggh!

[SquallRealm]

Ive had this happen to me once. After smoking weed, a cigarette makes the high more intence.

One night, after a friend and I finished smoking weed, I wipped out a cig and smoked it... rather too quickly. As soon as we steped inside, I felt like shit. Very nausious and dizzy, I kept telling my friend "I'm in fucking hell."

When I stood I felt like I was going to fall over. When I sat, it felt like I was being pushed down.

I will never pick up a cigarette again after that night.

[Leary's Ghost]

man, some things are good, and somethings are bad. cigs are just bad. they hook ya then they kill ya.

out little fungal friends would never do that.

[Psily o' Cybin]

My advice to you my friend is quit smoking cigarettes I mean unless you've picked it up as a habit and can't knock, I don't see any reason why you couldn't quit. I was smoking a pack to two packs a day of new ports, reds, camels, even those pussy cloves cigarettes either way I smoke canibus at least 10 times a day it alone if you just smoke that you won't really notice it effecting your health but with tobacco or cigarettes you will definitely notice your lungs not feeling good at all and sometimes hurts to smoke weed or cigarettes at least for me and I've been smoking cigarettes heavily for 3 or 4 years, thankfully I am now only smoking like one every now and then. If I were you I would just stay away from cigarettes or tobacco they'll just fuck up your lungs and make you feel like shit. It's hard as shit to stop especially if everyone around you smokes. And honestly if you are a heavy ciggarette smoker you won't even get a buzz off of cigarettes it feels more like a dependency on them more than anything