Hiccups?

[LittlePixie]

Ok so this girl has noticed that when she smokes anything that has a kick too it she has a tendency to get hiccups. Anyone else ever get hiccups when the smoke?

[dc2k08]

oh that's a massive YES from this one, but only sometimes. you're the only other person that has mentioned it. plus i get it using different strengths randomly. once i get it then every time i take a drag, - "hic". it could last hours, it might last half. but it sure is fun (not actually so much fun).

so welcome to the spasmodic contraction club, we'll call it the SCC. population:2.

[SuziQ]

make that three.
I had a really bad dose of hiccoughs yesterday for the first time since starting to vape. It seemed to last for ages.

[notsmellyanymore]

oh that's a massive YES from this one, but only sometimes. you're the only other person that has mentioned it. plus i get it using different strengths randomly. once i get it then every time i take a drag, - "hic". it could last hours, it might last half. but it sure is fun (not actually so much fun).

so welcome to the spasmodic contraction club, we'll call it the SCC. population:2.

Rinse your mouth with water, then take a good drink of water - that usually clears the hiccups.
I used to get unbelieveble hiccups using the Nic replacement chewing gum & lozenges, so is probably the body getting too much nicotine - too quickly.

[MarcE]

hello everyone, new here. . . I've had the hiccups to, i had this when i was smoking tobacco as well but I've also found i get this vaping with e-cigs. I remember reading some ware a long time ago its a common effect of having to much nicotine. I'm not sure how true this is. i found it to be the most annoying thing when i lite up a rolley and started to smoke it, only be to confronted with hiccups that made finishing my cigarette almost impossible, i suppose it could be my body saying NO.

[TropicalBob]

Blame nicotine.

Hiccups are actually fairly common among smokers and tobacco users. They're a result of swallowing nicotine.

Hiccups are most common among those who use chewing tobacco, snus, dissolvable tobacco tablets. They swallow tobacco juice and hiccups can result. They are not common among pipe and cigar smokers, who neither swallow nor inhale smoke, or users of nasal snuff.

If you tend to "gulp" your vapor (or used to do the same with tobacco smoke you inhaled), then you're sending part of the inhalation to your stomach, part to your lungs. The stomach part produces hiccups from the nicotine you put there.

No big deal. Stop the gulping of vapor and see if the hiccups don't stop.

That "gulping" of inhaled vapor/smoke/whatever can also cause burping, as you've forced air to your stomach. That air has got to go somewhere. Up, down ...

[dc2k08]

thanks bob and thanks notsmelly, i will try those out. bob, by gulping do you mean letting the vapor sit in your mouth a little and then inhaling sharply? i think that's what i have always done with smoking. i will try an inhale more smoothly. never burp though.

[TropicalBob]

That's pretty much the routine, yes. It is easy to just suck on the mouthpiece, never open the mouth, and inhale the vapor. But ... if you hold the vapor in the mouth and then open the mouth to gulp down the vapor, some of it tracks to the stomach.

My best friend had what I considered a remarkable talent (I was very young): He could gulp air and then emit an enormous burp on demand. Way cool. I never learned to do that. For him it was, take in air, blast out air.

[BadSeed]

A guy I knew at University could do the same thing· Serious volume and resonance on his burps. You could hear them for miles.

[LittlePixie]

That is very good to know and Lilly is glad she is not alone in having hiccups. Will make sure to pay attention and not accidentally gulp any of the vape.