as i said before, the real active ingredient in cigarettes is not nicotine, nicotine is the flavoursome bit, the real active ingredient is carbon monoxide, the thing that spins your head a little on the first cigarette of the day.
oh god my nicotine hangovers are worse than my alcohol hangovers, i get this cough when waking that makes schnitzel from my lungs on the cough up (you'd think it was tuberculosis), but recedes once enough active ingregient in my addiction is inhaled... but the odd thing is... when by odd chance i do get the classical hangover with a headache... my nicotine hangover is not apparent, i don't cough... and i cure this hangover by not trying to think, thinking and brain pain don't work together... so i lie in bed, sing some *rammstein and later drink enough coffee for the caffeine cure of increasing blood pressure / blood flow; or the classical hangover could be due to the fact that i was headbanging to sepultura's ratamahatta... any coin flip is just as good to explain this scenario.