Nope. Never happened to me... but then, I never did the whole "slam the beer" thing. My technique was always to get there early and have a sippin' beer on hand. Wait for other people to show up and get a little bit liquored up, then keep drinking, just a little slower than them... and 4 hours later, when they're falling off the floor and crashing through windows, I'm still sipping away with a nice steady buzz.
Anyway, there's one ******* thing that I do. In fact, I did it again last night.
I went to Three Floyds. I'd heard so much about that place that I wanted to check it out and it's pretty local to me. So I go in, have a few beers, meet some very cool people, and then they close down on me and I go home feeling fine.
I get home, I'm talking to my girlfriend... and then I get the urge for a cigarette. But I'm trying to quit and I'm doing really well... I haven't had a smoke now for a little over a month. I'm using Commit Lozenges, so I pop one in my mouth. I'm at a point where intoxication is the best time for me to have a lozenge. If I have one sober, I really don't feel it or notice it- it doesn't do much for me, but after a few beers it gives me a nice mellow little buzz. It also gives me hiccups and sort of upsets your stomach. But hey, I'm trying to quit smoking, it ain't supposed to be like candy! And the lozenges really only get to me when I've had a bit to drink.
So I'm sitting on the phone, talking to my gf, sucking on a lozenge, feeling good. And then the lozenge "kicks in". I start hiccupping, and the next thing you know, I'm running to the bathroom and projectile vomitting.
I hadn't puked in 3 years. Not since the last time I quit smoking. And the same thing happened only that time, I was in my friends van. I'd had one beer and was just starting on the lozenges. Same thing. I opened the side door of the van and projectile vommited at a stoplight. Let me tell you, I felt REAL sorry for the car sitting at the stoplight on our right! I bet most have people have never survived a driveby puking before.
And it happened one other time last time I quit- my favorite bar, two beers, straight to the bathroom. I learned quickly that you do NOT drink simultaenously with the lozenge, but 9 times out of 10 the lozenges are fine after drinking, but every once in awhile, it just gets to me...
Pretty embarassing, really, for a guy in his later 20's to have 2 or 3 beers and then start puking all over himself. :cross: But the good thing is, I'm not so drunk that I can't control myself... so I've never missed or caused a mess during the Commit-induced puking. But it's still awfully gross. I can't wait till I've completely quit smoking again!