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Misc Cigarettes - why do they seem to effect me differently sometimes?

JasperTheReckless

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This sounds dumb as all hell.

Just saying.

This is all compared on a sober timeline, intoxicated, I hardly ever care.

But why do cigarettes sometimes taste fine, but then the other half of the same cigarette is nasty. Or sometimes I'll get a wicked buzz, and sometimes, nothing. Sometimes they make me sleepy, and sometimes they wake me up.

I know smoking weed different ways, small hits, holding it in, changes the buzz/rush a little, but i'm not about to take lungfuls of Kools and hold em in.

Anyone smoke a certain way, or have any insight on why my cigarettes are so variable?

Lol fuck this question by the way.
 
The more you smoke the grosser they start to taste imo
Also when you smoke one outside in the wind they taste a lot different than inside without a draft.
IDK why, must be the way it makes them burn.
 
Do you smoke regularly? How much do you smoke?

In my experience, if you're not a serious smoker and you do it more socially or just not in consistent amounts, you get variable effects like that.
 
The more you smoke the grosser they start to taste imo
Also when you smoke one outside in the wind they taste a lot different than inside without a draft.
IDK why, must be the way it makes them burn.

Wind makes all the difference, oh lord. It'll make a hit harsh and nasty if you face the wrong way. I recently started using matches, as it doesn't leave a nasty taste in the cig compared to a lighter.
 
Do you smoke regularly? How much do you smoke?

In my experience, if you're not a serious smoker and you do it more socially or just not in consistent amounts, you get variable effects like that.
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5-8 a day, and I also have trouble trying to get just a nicotine buzz, and not a monstrous oxygen dep buzz. It's awful I have to stagger inside and I just crawl into bed and lay there for like five minutes. I learned to smoke blunts first....and I sometimes catch myself crack hitting my cigarettes, just ripping on them and then I inhale and then ssvojdfsjvbfjb marlboro mouth.
 
^^

Sounds like you're having more negative effects and are kind of forcing yourself to smoke. Hah.

If you're only smoking that few a day, maybe you should just quit.


I smoke just enough to want them if I forget to smoke for a day. It is a mental thing, I tell myself I need THEM, so I feel like a champ when I talk shit to a bottle of delsym.

I'm forcing myself to do something I hate....That's mind boggling...but then again, I have how many DXM reports here? lol at least DXM is cancer free :P

I have three packs left. I may see how it goes when I run out.
 
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From wikipedia : "Nicotine seems to provide both a stimulant and a depressant effect, and it is likely that the effect it has at any time is determined by the mood of the user, the environment and the circumstances of use. Studies have suggested that low doses have a depressant effect, while higher doses have stimulant effect."
 
From wikipedia : "Nicotine seems to provide both a stimulant and a depressant effect, and it is likely that the effect it has at any time is determined by the mood of the user, the environment and the circumstances of use. Studies have suggested that low doses have a depressant effect, while higher doses have stimulant effect."

Any way to gauge the disconnect between upper and lower doses other than trial and error; think the margin is within a single cigarette, for a light smoker?

I realize the host of variables, so just bullshit me here lol

I can completely agree with the mood statement.
 
Nicotine gets into your blood via your lungs very quickly. Assuming the same strength tobacco, how much smoke you draw in and how long you hold it in for are the determining factors.
Try having a tobacco bong, that shit will give you HEADSPINS
 
I recently started using matches, as it doesn't leave a nasty taste in the cig compared to a lighter.

I fail to see the logic in this, given the chemicals produced by a burning match are so much more insidious than the CO2, H2o, and possibly CO, that id derived from burning butane.
 
It doesn't make much sense to me either. Burning wood and sulfur seem to pale to butane but the effect is consistent.
 
^^

You said you smoke Kools? I hate menthol, personally. I started on Newports when I was a kid.. that's what everyone was smoking. But, I ditched that crap quick.

I'm all about Marlboro 27's. Used to smoke Reds.
 
This sounds dumb as all hell.

Just saying.

This is all compared on a sober timeline, intoxicated, I hardly ever care.

But why do cigarettes sometimes taste fine, but then the other half of the same cigarette is nasty. Or sometimes I'll get a wicked buzz, and sometimes, nothing. Sometimes they make me sleepy, and sometimes they wake me up.

I know smoking weed different ways, small hits, holding it in, changes the buzz/rush a little, but i'm not about to take lungfuls of Kools and hold em in.

Anyone smoke a certain way, or have any insight on why my cigarettes are so variable?

Lol fuck this question by the way.

My own little theory as to why that happens has been that our bodies hate cigarettes and understand that cigarette smoke is physically damaging to us, so the perceived effects change depending on whether our body and lungs are in the mood for inhaling combusted plant matter or not.

On opiates/opioids, cigarettes are amazing and I could smoke a pack in a sitting or a few packs a day. I think a big reason for that is you can't feel all the negative physical effects while on opiates/opioids..
And there are negative physical effects, aren't there? Like the ever-present headache feeling, or feeling like your whole circulatory system is crawling in dismay.
 
Good. fucking. question.
Occasionally I get different tastes and I always associate it with memories of certain periods of my life (it's not the cigarettes, I've just been smoking Marlboro Reds since I started)
Who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
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