I have been smoking marijuana for a couple years now, cigars for about a year, but never cigarettes. About a month ago at a party, while quite drunk and high, I decided a cigarette would be a good idea, for fun. It was fun. It was a good immediate feeling, almost jittery and more focused than normal.
Nicotine
Well-documented
Well-documented
Multiple authoritative sources agree on dosing and effects.
- 4 corroborating sources
- 4 ROAs with full dose ladders
- duration data present
- 18 combo interactions documented
- PubChem toxicity data
Well-documented
Multiple authoritative sources agree on dosing and effects.
- 4 corroborating sources
- 4 ROAs with full dose ladders
- duration data present
- 18 combo interactions documented
- PubChem toxicity data
Aliases: Nic
Summary
Nicotine is a potent, highly addictive stimulant alkaloid found naturally in tobacco plants. While nicotine itself is not carcinogenic, tobacco smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals, including at least 250 known harmful substances. Overdose can cause severe nausea, vomiting, increased heart rate, convulsions, and in extreme cases death.
Dose Information
| ROA | Light | Common | Strong | Heavy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | 1-3mg | 3-5mg | 5-7mg | 7mg+ |
| Smoked | 0.3-0.8mg | 0.8-1.5mg | 1.5-3.5mg | 3.5mg+ |
| Sublingual | 1-3mg | 3-5mg | 5-7mg | 7mg+ |
| Buccal | 0.5-2mg | 2-4mg | 4-6mg | 6mg+ |
Light
Common
Strong
Heavy
Onset, Duration & After-effects
| ROA | Onset | Comeup | Peak | Offset | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | 20-40 min | 60-90 min | 60-90 min | 2.5-3.5 hrs | - |
| Smoked | 0-1 min | - | 2-5 min | 1-2 hrs | 10-30 min |
| Sublingual | 3-15 min | 3-15 min | 5-20 min | 1-2 hrs | - |
| Buccal | 6-12 min | 6-12 min | 6-18 min | 1-2 hrs | - |
Effect Profile
41 reportsScores (1–10) curated from multiple sources:
- Effect keyword matching from PsychonautWiki catalog
- Validated against 41 Erowid trip reports
- Weighted by importance: core (×3), major (×2), minor (×1)
Stimulant
8.4
Intense
8/10
Strong euphoria, focus, anxiety/jitters, and stimulation
Stimulation / Energy
×3
9
stimulation
wakefulness
Euphoria / Mood Lift
×2
10
physical euphoria
cognitive euphoria
motivation enhancement
Focus / Productivity
×2
10
focus enhancement
memory enhancement
motivation enhancement
thought acceleration
Anxiety / Jitters
×1
10
anxiety
increased heart rate
teeth grinding
vasoconstriction
Based on reports from:
Tolerance
Build-up
develops rapidly within days of regular use
Reset
2–4 weeks for acute tolerance; receptor upregulation persists longer
Tolerance Decay
Full tolerance
3d
Half tolerance
14d
Baseline
~30d
Acute tolerance: develops within a single session — the reset numbers above apply after sustained heavy use, not after one binge. Within-session tachyphylaxis usually resets largely overnight.
Tolerance to stimulant and autonomic effects rises quickly with daily use and decays over weeks; values are approximate and inferred from dependence literature and user reports rather than controlled dosing studies.
Cross-Tolerances
Effects
Aggregated from 41 Erowid experience reports
Positive Effects 9
Euphoria
51.2%
70%
Stimulation
51.2%
70%
Focus Enhancement
34.1%
70%
Music Enhancement
31.7%
70%
Empathy
29.3%
70%
Color Enhancement
26.8%
70%
Tactile Enhancement
12.2%
70%
Introspection
9.8%
70%
Body High
7.3%
70%
Adverse Effects 4
Anxiety
46.3%
70%
Nausea
39.0%
70%
Confusion
19.5%
70%
Increased Heart Rate
7.3%
70%
Combinations
Cross-Check Nicotine with another substanceCommunity Trip Reports
Anecdotal first-person accounts from Reddit, Erowid, and Bluelight. Click a source to expand. Reports are harm-reduction context, not medical guidance.
Erowid 8 reports 2 positive 5 neutral 1 cautionary visit
Time 3pm railed 2mg of nicotine onset 45 seconds feeling slightly euphoric time 4:10 railed 2mg more of nicotine same onset felt great time 5:00 railed 2 mg more 60 second onset nose slightly blocked felt power and tons of energy Last time 9:20 2 mg railed onset 90 seconds feeling upped happy great very euphoric Please...
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A Glowing Experience that I Cannot Describe I was a teenage smoker. I started at 15, by accident, and quit at 23, with tremendous difficulty and apparently divine intervention.
48 hours ago I quit smoking.... kind of. After careful research and a feeling of the product finally being mature enough, I changed over to an Electronic Cigarette, specifically the Ego-T.
All my life I've been told how addictive cigarettes are, and how they'll cause this or that disease. Consequently, I always avoided them during my teenage years. Around age 20 I experienced a severe heartbreak, and I made my first attempt at smoking. Immediately I felt calm and good, like everything was okay.
It was late winter and I was working on making my own cigarettes when I talked to a guy about electronic cigarettes. At school, I was telling him how I liked my own cigarettes a lot more than FSC cigarettes and how they tasted really good, but I wasn't making much progess.
(((Short info: * 22 year old male, 83kg, 5'7(8), so far had experience with Alcohol (highest .14), HHC, 10-OH-HHC, Caffeine, CBD, L-Tyrosine, Melatonin, Valerian, Vitamin B-6, TRC5 and made contact with fake THCP, HHCP.
Bluelight 4 threads 1 positive 3 neutral visit
well last night was the most AMAZING night of my life. I was hanging out with my friends after drivers ed, and we wanted to go to the garage store to buy tic tacs (not to digress, but any of you that have never had tic tacs really should try them).
Back in 2016 my girlfriend quit cigarettes and switched to a vape. I had already quit buying tobacco for myself (I only ever hand-rolled) and just smoked hers sometimes, so when she got the e-cigarette we both smoked it (I pay for other things don't come at me bro).
I have been diagnosed with ADHD, and I've been looking at alternatives to the usual stimulants. I have not used cigarettes in about 4 years, before which I smoked regularly for 2 years. With a 7mg patch: "I applied it to my waist.
Age - 28 Weight - 125lbs Experienced with all types of chemicals, mainly opiates and psychedelics. I stopped a heavy opiate habit a bit over a year ago. The addict in me needed something as a pacifier and decided to take up smoking for the first time in my life.
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