I am a smoker (I know it is a terrible habit)
Sometimes, when I smoke outside and it’s cold out, I will hiccup after each drag.
I don’t hiccup before or smoke or after, just after I inhale smoke.
Any idea why this happens or how I can get it to stop (other than stop smoking)?
Jason
I’ll be damned. I thought I was the only one who did that.
Don’t know why, though.
I’m a smoker myself so don’t think i’m getting preachy or anything (though i’m trying to quit too) but maybe its your respiratory system’s last line of defense to keep that dratted smoke out? I don’t know, personally itisn’t somehting I’ve ever experienced…where’s those doctors when you need them for the truly IMPORTANT questions? 
Just a WAG, but I’ve noticed that when I have a hiccuping fit, I hiccup after each drawn breath. Maybe you are just having the hiccups and it is a coincidence that you are smoking?
How odd! I usually find that if I’m hiccuping before I have a smoke, they’ll go away during the cig. Sometimes they even come back when I’m done.
The only advice I can offer is the method I use for getting rid of hiccups, regardless of whether or not they’re brought on by the smoking. I realize there are a jillion people out there who swear by methods like eating a spoonful of sugar. All I can say is this actually works for me. Once in awhile I’ll have to do it twice, but it always works in the end. The method: drink from the wrong side of the glass. (usually works best with water, worst with carbonated stuff like soda). To do this, you’ll have to put your chin in the cup and bend over upside down. So it works just as good if you just take a sip and tip your head back really far before swalling. If you’ve ever tried to swallow by letting the water just pour down your throat, you’ve realized it isn’t possible. So in this method, the water goes as far as it can, then you gulp it down the rest of the way. I guess the unfamiliar way your throat muscles are used if you do this is what makes it work. ‘Twang’ and it just kind of knocks the hiccups out.
I dip Copenhagen, and I sometimes get the hiccups after I spit a dip out…I don’t know why, either, but I have tried to keep track of the circumstances surrounding each occurence…I hate hiccups. Seems like I do it most when I haven’t eaten lately, 'though I’d weigh 300# if I ate before every dip.
All great suggestions, but the kicker is … it only happens once in a while. I think cold temps have something to do with it.
Hey, I had the exact same problem when I was a smoker, as did a good friend of mine. And it also only happened to us when we smoked outside in cold weather.
Any ideas?
Nicotine can cause hiccups. Read the instructions on a box of Nicorettes nicotine gum. They say “Don’t chew too much, or you could release extra nicotine and get hiccups” (or words to that effect).
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Nicotine definitely causes hiccups. In South Africa you can buy Nicotine sprays (to help give up smoking). They usually come in packs of three and are similar to breath freshners with a mint flavour. One spray of the first bottle is about equivalent to a Marlboro Light. The second bottle, a Marlboro Ultra Light and the third bottle a placebo. When I first started to give up smoking, I would spray several of the Marlboro Light equivalent at once. If I did too many, it would immediately make me start to hiccup. Being the mean person that I am, I used to do this to my friends and pretend that it was just regular breath freshner. It would almost always start the hiccups (some people just felt sick for a bit).
This got me thinking though. Many people (including Kezermezer) believe that smoking a cigarette stops hiccups but I would contend that it is usually the other way round. People often associate alcohol with hiccups but I am more inclined to believe that it is the increased level of nicotine that causes it (people smoke more when drinking) and that going outside to have a cigarette when you have hiccups just makes it worse. Not sure about the temperature thing though.
The nicotine acts as a stimulant and messes with the nerves of your throat, causing them to relax, and then voila - hiccup, just like alcohol has a tendency to do.
If you take a drag (don’t inhale, just leave the smoke in your mouth) then breathe in thru your nose, then exhale everything. This usually does the trick for me!
It’s definitely the nicotine. I quit smoking 15 years ago, but still enjoy a non tobacco nicotine pouch. Occasionally I’ll start to hiccup if I use one with to strong of a nicotine level.
I have the same problem it is because when it’s cold/crisp or after it has rained there is more oxygen in the air which causes you to hiccup