It's always best to know why you are doing what you do, and not simply what to do. If that method gets the tick out quickly it could be fine, but not if you end up messing with it for a while. It can't be repeated enough times that the tick is not your problem. What's living in its gut is. That is why doing anything that causes it distress and possibly results in it regurgitating what's in it into you, is a BAD THING. This applies to flame, hairspray, vaseline and all the other things granny told you you to do, as well as subjecting it to some kind of tick yoga. That is also why pulling it by its abdomen is essentially treating it like a hypodermic needle, squeezing the contents of its gut into you. Grasping it at the point where it enters your skin, pulling backwards along the same angle its body is entering you, using one of the tools discussed, tweezers or long-enough fingernails, is the safest method.
