Do people get a nicotine rush/ high with their first cigarette?

Yes, sometimes to the point of getting sick. It’s called a “buzz” and it’s very fleeting.

I think I did, but I’m not sure because it was also one of the first times I ever got drunk. I liked the feeling, anyway, and I loved the wickedness of it.

Later, when smoking had become a habit and no longer a matter of choice, I thought maybe all those cigarettes were an attempt to recapture the feeling of the first time. (Some things are like that.)

After 22 years, I quit. That was a long time ago now. I still wish I could just have a cigarette and enjoy it, but I know I wouldn’t stop at one, and I’d hate to go through all that again.

@ARE_you_kidding_me is right. You get a very fleeting ’‘buzz’’, sort of a pleasant light headed feeling that lasts for most of the cigarette. It also motivates you to talk or really get into what you’re doing. Nausea near the end is also common.

Hardly remember the effect but gee, I was cool!

I don’t know..I have never smoked and don’t intend to do so.

I vaguely remember my first. After all it was about 55 years ago. I think there was a kind of buzz, I first heard that term years later, used to describe a mild marijuana high. It’s probably a combination of nicotine’s effect on the body and the oxygen deprivation to brain cells.

I finally quit in 1981. Several years later, I tried one, just out of curiosity. I felt the buzz, light-headedness, as well as a feeling of nausea. I was reminded of the lengths we were willing to go to for peer pressure.

Yes, I remember quite well that night in summer after my junior year of high school where I must have smoked 6 cigarettes over the course of two hours. It made me a little amped up and light headed. “Wow!”

That effect stopped occurring after a couple days, but like anyone addicted to anything, I kept chasing that feeling until it became my normal state of being for the next fifteen years.

I wouldn’t call it a “rush” or a “high”... more like a putting on of the brakes. mentally. A slight dizziness, a come down from the nicotine fit edginess.

I used to feel exactly like this
Then I quit for good about eight years ago, but sometimes I dream I am smoking again and it looks just like this

@flameboi, I remember you from ages ago. Welcome back.

Thank you @Jeruba :) I do remember you too! I see there are still a few jellies that have withstood the passage of time. It’s been 8 years since my last interaction! I found myself here after googling a question and fond memories came back to me :)
So here I am again!

I got a pretty major head-thing after I smoked a whole cigarette. I had just had a few puffs here and there. But I was waiting for the bus one night and someone gave me a entire one and I smoked it.

I was so out of it I actually just stayed on the bench as my bus passed and I waited a hour for the next one. I felt horrible and the thought of getting quarters into the slot seemed insurmountable.

Seriously… Please do not start smoking. I have been doing it for 22 years and it has really fucked my health. Starting smoking has been my biggest regret in life. And I got cuaght urinating in my sisters fridge when sleepwalking after to much booze. That little mistake cost me 2500 bucks. It was a high end fridge until I soiled it.

I second @johnpowell never even try it. Quitting is very hard and it took me multiple attempts before being successfull. You get nothing good out of smoking.

^^^I “quit” about 10 times before I stopped for good. I was 32 and had been smoking for 20 years.

I got out pretty young. I was around 23 and started at 17. It was a constant quit attempt pretty much right after getting hooked. Cold turkey eventually got me there and it was years before the cravings completely went away. Then in my early thirties I had one and got right back into it for a few months. Quit that time with nicotine gum. It’s an insidious addiction.