Swisher Sweet Madness...

[GTCharged]

I decided to try some swisher sweets, so I got in my car, headed up to the smoke shop, bought a buy 1 get 1 free pack. I got outside, lit one up and started driving home. About 1/2 way there, I accidentally inhaled it, and within 2 seconds, my vision went wack, everything went blurry, and I freaked out. Driving in a car going ten miles per hour is horrifying with the above happening. I slowed down the car and tried to align it with the curb, slammed the brake, and turn the car off. My heart was racing like a formula 1 driver. I got out of the car and puked my brains out. Dropped the "cigar", layed on the hood and waited for it to pass. Took about 8 minutes.

Lesson taken, don't smoke cheap cigars.

[JCK]

Don't think it was the cheap cigar so much as the nicotine rush you got. I had similar experiences but before I could drive. Dip was the culprit there.

I smoked swisher sweets in high school around bon fires, but long since have given them up.

If the nicotine hits you that hard, try and smoke milder cigars for awhile.

[Emjaysmash]

Originally Posted by khubli

Don't think it was the cheap cigar so much as the nicotine rush you got. I had similar experiences but before I could drive. Dip was the culprit there.

I smoked swisher sweets in high school around bon fires, but long since have given them up.

If the nicotine hits you that hard, try and smoke milder cigars for awhile.

Im glad you didn't get into an accident... Be careful!

[Cigary]

A Swisher Sweet nicotine rush? How did I survive these when I was a teenager?

[JCK]

Originally Posted by Cigary

A Swisher Sweet nicotine rush? How did I survive these when I was a teenager?

with MD 20/20 chasers

[kzm007]

They still make Mad Dog? I've heard stories, but I've never had it lol jeez.

Anyway, just how much nicotine is there in a Swisher? I thought they were 95% paper filler with 5% tobacco added for realism

[JCK]

Dunno about the nicotine content in swishers. I would inhale them from time to time, but i'd been smoking cigarettes for quite awhile by then. My tolerance for nicotine is pretty high.

And yes.. Google says MD 20/20 is still on the shelves.

http://www.google.com/products?hl=en...-8&sa=N&tab=wf

[GTCharged]

I don't know, but it hit me like a rock in the face...
I just tried another one (I've got 10 of the little bastards), and I discovered how you actually get the flavor out of them. You have to let it stay in your mouth for like 5 seconds or so after you inhale.

[JCK]

only flavor i remember from swishers is sugar on the lips.

are you taking the smoke into your lungs? or are you talking about just inhaling into your mouth?

[GTCharged]

Originally Posted by khubli

only flavor i remember from swishers is sugar on the lips.

are you taking the smoke into your lungs? or are you talking about just inhaling into your mouth?

Into mouth, learned my lesson the first time! (Original post)

[narcolept]

So uhm... 2 swisher sweets means no more cigars until next week, right?

Of course, it's entirely possible swishers have a special formulation, where 3 swishers = 1 cigar?

If that's the case, I guess you're good for another cigar and a swisher chaser.

[GTCharged]

I don't know what a chaser is, but it sounds illegal. The swishers dont count as anything. My mother has backed off me about that.

[rayray812]

Hey, holmes sounds like u been smokin that wet, ese....

[macjoe53]

Originally Posted by GTCharged

I don't know what a chaser is, but it sounds illegal. The swishers dont count as anything. My mother has backed off me about that.

A chaser is a drink thing. As it drink a shot of cheap whiskey and chase it down with a glass of beer. It's not illegal for the rest of us but you would get in trouble if you got caught. (It's that damn age thing again.)

[macjoe53]

Originally Posted by kzm007

They still make Mad Dog? I've heard stories, but I've never had it lol jeez.

Anyway, just how much nicotine is there in a Swisher? I thought they were 95% paper filler with 5% tobacco added for realism

Yep. I saw some MD 20/20 on sale at the local convenience store the other day. Never tried it myself.

I do remember partying in Seattle with Boonesfarm Strawberry Hill back in my wasted youth.