Why are my cigarettes making me sick

[atomic811]

I would like to know why my cigarettes (marlboro ultra lights) are suddenly over the past few months making me sick. Yes smoking is bad for you and yes I know I should quit and I am, but here is my issue.

When I smoke now my heart rate goes from 75 to 108 (140 if I stand) I feel sick to my stomach and sometimes vomit. After 20 mintes my heart rate does not come down like normal it stays up for 2 to 3 hours and hangs around 99 sitting and 120 standing.

I have had a 24 hour heart monitor and a heart echo. These came back normal except for the fast heart rate that the heart doctor said was "just anxiety" which it isn't at all. I am not nervous.

Is anyone else getting sick from their cigarettes over the past few months? What would cause this to happen? Like I said I am quitting, but why is this happening to me?

I am a 33 year old male and been smoking for 11 years. Not over weight.

[mammo]

Your body is telling you something.  When I was young, the dangers of smoking were not known, but I never smoked.  My husband was a smoker unti 20 years ago.  Now that he is older, the results of his smoking have come to haunt him.  Once you quit smoking, your lungs immediately start repairing themselves, but the damage done to your cardio-vascular system is forever!  As a result of my husband's smoking, he has peripheral artery disease, which is decresed blood flow to all parts of his body, leading to many sugeries and angioplasty, aortic aneurisym, tongue cancer, and of yesterday throat cancer, all due to smoking.  It amazes me with all the specialists he sees, the very first question they ask is if he does or has ever smoked.  My husband was always a picture of health, an avid runner, now he's lucky to walk from the house to the car without sever pain in his legs.  He still works, and when going into see a customer will have to fake a phone call in the parking lot, as an excuse to stop walking so the pain can subside for him to walk a little farther.  It's heart wrenching to see him deteriorating like this all because of cigarettes.  This not a lecture, just my story.  As Johnny Carson said while dying..."damn cigarettes".

[mexbungalows]

Before I quit in 1984 cigarettes especially first thing in the morning would make me nauseous. That and a feeling of "unable to quit" caused me to throw a fit and I decided to stop with the use of nicoret gum. It wasn't easy but I now shake my head thinking about how entrapped I was with not only the chemical nastiness but the time wasting rituals and ceremonies associated with smoking.

It is only a guess but in my case I feel my body was getting a toxic shock reaction.