So, I'm not a stranger to DIY by any means...but I am very new to extracting Flavor/Nicotine from pipe tobacco. Lets just say that I had a VERY bad experience...Now I am not sure if this was because of the Shisha or because it is 85 degrees in my house, (Broken AC) But I just want to document my experience and maybe someone can shed some light on the subject and tell me what I did wrong, or maybe it was just a bad reaction or ....blah, IDK either way here it goes.
I purchased some pipe tobacco and started looking at the other stuff that they have in the store and found some "Fantasia Hookah tobacco" well, thats cool. lets look at the ingredients.
INGREDIENTS; VIRGINIA TOBACCO, HONEY, VEGETABLE GLYCERIN, PRESERVATIVES, FLAVOR, NICOTINE 0.5%, TAR 0%
Now I see that there is really nothing harmful in this mix other than the "Preservatives" IDK if they are harmful or not, but I figure that there shouldn't be a problem since it is smokable and Picked this one up because it had a wonderful smell to it.
Extraction Process:
Filled a glass dropper with 50g of Shisha and covered it with VG. After that I set it on the stove in a pot of Slightly boiling water for 20 minutes. After that, I took it off the pot and let it set for quite a while and cool while I stirred it for a while letting it all get good and happy. After it was significantly cooler, I put it back on the boiler and let it go for 20 minutes again...Same process.
After letting it set for a while, I filtered it through a 400 mesh and Coffee filter (had to press pretty hard for it to come through)
The product was Very dark red and smelled just like it did in the package, sweet and full of goodness.
After it was cool to room temp, I put a few drops in my Atty and took a pull on it. (Sig #20, 6V, IGO-L, 1.4 ohm) After the first pull I got a QUICK tingling sensation in the back of my ears and went to the back of my head..Pretty much both started at the same time.
I sort of realized that this "Wasn't quite right" and got up and started drinking a glass of water very quickly, downed it, drank another. After this I walked outside to get some fresh air and tried to just walk it off (I have a bad habit of having panic attacks and sometimes they are brought on by WAY too much Nicotine as it is a stimulant) I started thinking, maybe it wasn't the nic, maybe it was the heat in the house?
I quickly donned some swimming trunks and got into the pool and cooled off, the tingling had gone away, but I still felt, for lack of a better word, out of it. It eventually went away but I am NOT going to try any more of it as I figure that the NIC is too high or there is some kind of "Preservative" that did NOT agree with me.
Either way, I will not be trying to extract Shisha again because woah, this was not a very good outcome, which sucks, because this stuff smelled like it would have made a great vape.
So, maybe someone has an idea as to what went on....
I purchased some pipe tobacco and started looking at the other stuff that they have in the store and found some "Fantasia Hookah tobacco" well, thats cool. lets look at the ingredients.
INGREDIENTS; VIRGINIA TOBACCO, HONEY, VEGETABLE GLYCERIN, PRESERVATIVES, FLAVOR, NICOTINE 0.5%, TAR 0%
Now I see that there is really nothing harmful in this mix other than the "Preservatives" IDK if they are harmful or not, but I figure that there shouldn't be a problem since it is smokable and Picked this one up because it had a wonderful smell to it.
Extraction Process:
Filled a glass dropper with 50g of Shisha and covered it with VG. After that I set it on the stove in a pot of Slightly boiling water for 20 minutes. After that, I took it off the pot and let it set for quite a while and cool while I stirred it for a while letting it all get good and happy. After it was significantly cooler, I put it back on the boiler and let it go for 20 minutes again...Same process.
After letting it set for a while, I filtered it through a 400 mesh and Coffee filter (had to press pretty hard for it to come through)
The product was Very dark red and smelled just like it did in the package, sweet and full of goodness.
After it was cool to room temp, I put a few drops in my Atty and took a pull on it. (Sig #20, 6V, IGO-L, 1.4 ohm) After the first pull I got a QUICK tingling sensation in the back of my ears and went to the back of my head..Pretty much both started at the same time.
I sort of realized that this "Wasn't quite right" and got up and started drinking a glass of water very quickly, downed it, drank another. After this I walked outside to get some fresh air and tried to just walk it off (I have a bad habit of having panic attacks and sometimes they are brought on by WAY too much Nicotine as it is a stimulant) I started thinking, maybe it wasn't the nic, maybe it was the heat in the house?
I quickly donned some swimming trunks and got into the pool and cooled off, the tingling had gone away, but I still felt, for lack of a better word, out of it. It eventually went away but I am NOT going to try any more of it as I figure that the NIC is too high or there is some kind of "Preservative" that did NOT agree with me.
Either way, I will not be trying to extract Shisha again because woah, this was not a very good outcome, which sucks, because this stuff smelled like it would have made a great vape.
So, maybe someone has an idea as to what went on....
