I fucked up, /sci/. I fucked up real bad.

>decide to extract nicotine (a base) from tobacco leaves, purify it using some method and then perform thin-layer chromatrography with a standard to prove I got the nicotine
>not allowed to use distillation
>forgot tobacco is a liquid in room temperature, thought it was a solid
>extract nicotine through soxhlet using petroleum ether as solvent
>so far so good
>only things I can perform now is simple acid-base extraction (form two phases, take out the aqueous one with the protonated nicotine and then add base to recover it)
>suddenly realize nicotine is a liquid
>suddenly realize nicotine is immiscible with water in room temperature
>have no idea if extraction will still work

Tell me, am I retard for worrying? Will I still be able to find nicotine through TLC when it is all said and done?

Also, /Organic Chemistry General/.