ah, great answer thanks!
Funny though, I did have a good lunch, smoked my cigar (an Excalibur 1066 Dark Knight III) soon after that I took a long nap. When I woke up, I felt a bit shaky, I then ate something, drank a bottle of water, felt fine shortly after. I guess my blood sugar was still low despite my lunch.
I'm still a newbie at this, been at this for a week or so, probably on my 9th cigar, this is really the first time I felt I had a minor problem with it.
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Originally Posted by NCRadioMan
When we first start a cigar, the blood-sugar level rises but since it takes a while to smoke a cigar that supply slowly diminishes. Then nicotine circulating in the bloodstream prior to metabolism tends to collect in the pancreas, causing the pancreas to produce more insulin than normal. The excess amount of insulin causes blood-sugar to drop, resulting in nausea, high blood pressure, and other undesireable effects that we sometimes experience with cigars. Consumption of sugar gives the insulin something to break down, causing blood sugar to rise and mitigating the short-term effects of nicotine on the pancreas. So, the fastest & best antidote to nicotine toxicity is sugar.
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