We've all read (or learned from first hand experience) that it is always best to smoke a cigar, especially a fuller bodied cigar after some sort of meal to avoid any sickness from the overpowering smoke. I have also noticed that even on a full stomach I feel hungry after a good cigar. I have literally been uncomfortably full to the point I wanted to just lay down (usually after Mexican or a Chinese buffet) but instead went out for a smoke and an hour later felt as if my stomach was empty again. I have also thought I was full enough for a good smoke but then felt a little queezy afterwords.

What is it about tobacco that has a direct relation to our stomachs?

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We've all read (or learned from first hand experience) that it is always best to smoke a cigar, especially a fuller bodied cigar after some sort of meal to avoid any sickness from the overpowering smoke. I have also noticed that even on a full stomach I feel hungry after a good cigar. I have literally been uncomfortably full to the point I wanted to just lay down (usually after Mexican or a Chinese buffet) but instead went out for a smoke and an hour later felt as if my stomach was empty again. I have also thought I was full enough for a good smoke but then felt a little queezy afterwords.



What is it about tobacco that has a direct relation to our stomachs?

I don't know. Nicotine is generally thought to curb appetite, not increase it. It may have something to do with the adrenaline release when using tobacco though. Nicotine triggers adrenaline release, and also raises your metabolism, thereby actually burning calories. Not that I'm endorsing smoking as a diet craze! haha.

I do agree with you though. I always feel better after a smoke.

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No idea, but eating after a cigar cuts down on cigar mouth dramatically.

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brsmith21:

I've heard the first step is admitting that you have a problem. Thankfully, I don't have a problem. I'll just smoke more.

Maybe it's the Chinese buffet. Why would you do that to yourself???

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I swear my wife could alternate between Japenese and Chinese food daily and be as happy as heck the rest of her life. Its always her first choice ...no she's not oriental either ...but dang too much of a good thing ...

I think alot of why you feel better after smoking has more to do with the fact that you are relaxing for an hour or more after eating than it does with the actual smoke. Think about when you eat too much and are uncomfortable. If you go veg out on the couch for a while, let some of the food digest and process, you tend to feel better.

As far as the queaziness, I don't think that is entirely the nicotine either. It has to be a combination of different factors. The worst a cigar has ever affected me was a RP Rosado robusto I smoked a while back. After I finished it, I got up and went to my computer. All of a sudden, I broke out in a cold sweat and came close to vomitting. I have smoked a few since then, even the toros (which are monsters) and never came close to feeling like that since. It was just a combination of different things that night I believe.

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skweekz:

It's like the world's most amazing game of Tetris in my humidor.

I was just thinking....if you ate slow enough at a Chinese buffet, theoretically, you'd never get full...


Just food for thought.

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jlmarta:

I stick a raisin in my belly button and pretend I'm a cookie.

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handypantz

Drink lots of water during and after smoking. Most hunger pains come from dehydration, not being hungry.

handypantz:

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nice


tobacco speeds up the metabolism. way back in the day in old folks homes if people were "stopped up" they would tell them to eat a light breakfast drink some coffee and smoke a cigarette or two as a very mild laxative.

im gunna see if i can link that reference for you. i know i read it somewhere.

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Meh, I regularly have a smoke on an empty stomach and don't have a problem. As long as I'm not eating or drinking anything to alter the taste of the cigar too much I'm happy.

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jlzimmerman:

Meh, I regularly have a smoke on an empty stomach and don't have a problem. As long as I'm not eating or drinking anything to alter the taste of the cigar too much I'm happy.

Me too. I smoke what I feel like smoking without consideration to what time of day or what I have eaten. I have got the Hic-ups for a few minutes a couple of times, ... but that's it.

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I usually enjoy a cigar late at night after my wife and kids have gone to bed and I've only once had a bad experience, mine also was with an RP stick. I got about half way through and I was really dizzy and nauseated. Otherwise from teeing off at 6:30am to mid afternoon or late at night I usually don't have any ill effects....that is unless you count all the dirty looks from other parents at the park where I take my kids to play. Kinda like Marla Singer's smoking at the TB support group in "Fight Club"....it just doesn't go over well there.

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Sometimes I get really bad acid reflux and belching fits..sometimes...anyone know what that's all about?

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