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Smoking and toilet

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Cristatus

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well, i know it's true, because so many people that i know that smoke (including myself) need to go to the toilet to excrete after having a cigarette after eating, but i was wondering if there was any scientific explanation to it.

any ideas?
 
well, no i don't watch mythbusters, because i am not living at home and don't have a TV 😉

but do you remember their explanation for it?
 
I was really wondering what this topic was about, until I found out that "amd" was a typo

btw, there's a reason. I think that nicotine stimulates the muscle that drive peristaltic movements. Just like coffein.
 
Doh.. Didn't read full OP, I thought he was talking about the exploding toilet... Lol, I don't think Mythbusters did one about if you have to poop after cig.
 
Dunno about all that, but I do know this:

My chronic heartburn went away completely when I quit smoking. So at least one sphincter muscle in my body was being loosened by the habit.
 
Originally posted by: Amused
Dunno about all that, but I do know this:

My chronic heartburn went away completely when I quit smoking. So at least one sphincter muscle in my body was being loosened by the habit.
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Nicotine causes heartburn.
 
Originally posted by: Wag
Originally posted by: Amused
Dunno about all that, but I do know this:

My chronic heartburn went away completely when I quit smoking. So at least one sphincter muscle in my body was being loosened by the habit.
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Nicotine causes heartburn.
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Um, no. When I quit I used nicotine gum. My heartburn promptly ended when I quit smoking and never bothered me all the time I chewed the gum.

So nicotine in and of itself was obviously not the culpret. It was something else in the tobacco that was causing the muscle at the opening of my stomach to loosen.
 
it could have been the brand that you were smoking.

did you try different brands?


also, if you smoke, how does that affect the persitalsis, is whcih i don't understnad

i know that when you smoke, that your hear, brain, and lungs are affected, but i didn't know of anything else, and couldn't imagine how any things else would be affected
 
Originally posted by: Amused
Um, no. When I quit I used nicotine gum. My heartburn promptly ended when I quit smoking and never bothered me all the time I chewed the gum.

So nicotine in and of itself was obviously not the culpret. It was something else in the tobacco that was causing the muscle at the opening of my stomach to loosen.
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Did I say anything about gum? All you said was that your heartburn went away when you quit. Nicotine, or any tobacco product are known offenders when it comes to hearburn.

Link
 
Originally posted by: Wag
Originally posted by: Amused
Um, no. When I quit I used nicotine gum. My heartburn promptly ended when I quit smoking and never bothered me all the time I chewed the gum.

So nicotine in and of itself was obviously not the culpret. It was something else in the tobacco that was causing the muscle at the opening of my stomach to loosen.
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Did I say anything about gum? All you said was that your heartburn went away when you quit. Nicotine, or any tobacco product are known offenders when it comes to hearburn.

Link
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I chewed NICOTINE GUM.

If nicotine were the culpret, my heartburn would have continued with use of the NICOTINE gum.

It did not. The heartburn promptly stopped when I quit smoking. Therefore something OTHER THAN THE NICOTINE in the tobacco was causing the problem.

Read this:

http://heartburn.about.com/cs/.../a/hrtburn_smoking.htm
 
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Wag
Originally posted by: Amused
Um, no. When I quit I used nicotine gum. My heartburn promptly ended when I quit smoking and never bothered me all the time I chewed the gum.

So nicotine in and of itself was obviously not the culpret. It was something else in the tobacco that was causing the muscle at the opening of my stomach to loosen.
Click to expand...
Did I say anything about gum? All you said was that your heartburn went away when you quit. Nicotine, or any tobacco product are known offenders when it comes to hearburn.

Link
Click to expand...

I chewed NICOTINE GUM.

If nicotine were the culpret, my heartburn would have continued with use of the NICOTINE gum.

It did not. The heartburn promptly stopped when I quit smoking. Therefore something OTHER THAN THE NICOTINE in the tobacco was causing the problem.

Read this:

http://heartburn.about.com/cs/.../a/hrtburn_smoking.htm
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Then again, it might have been completely psychosomatic. I wonder how much of anything is REALLY attributable to the mind?
 
Originally posted by: Howard
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Wag
Originally posted by: Amused
Um, no. When I quit I used nicotine gum. My heartburn promptly ended when I quit smoking and never bothered me all the time I chewed the gum.

So nicotine in and of itself was obviously not the culpret. It was something else in the tobacco that was causing the muscle at the opening of my stomach to loosen.
Click to expand...
Did I say anything about gum? All you said was that your heartburn went away when you quit. Nicotine, or any tobacco product are known offenders when it comes to hearburn.

Link
Click to expand...

I chewed NICOTINE GUM.

If nicotine were the culpret, my heartburn would have continued with use of the NICOTINE gum.

It did not. The heartburn promptly stopped when I quit smoking. Therefore something OTHER THAN THE NICOTINE in the tobacco was causing the problem.

Read this:

http://heartburn.about.com/cs/.../a/hrtburn_smoking.htm
Click to expand...
Then again, it might have been completely psychosomatic. I wonder how much of anything is REALLY attributable to the mind?
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Actually, not. This has been proven in clinical studies. Smoking (not nicotine in and of itself) causes the spinchter muscle at the opening of the stomach to loosen and not seal properly. If not too badly damaged by acid, it will promptly go away when smoking is stopped.

http://www.heartburnalliance.org/section3/smoking.jsp
 
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Wag
Originally posted by: Amused
Um, no. When I quit I used nicotine gum. My heartburn promptly ended when I quit smoking and never bothered me all the time I chewed the gum.

So nicotine in and of itself was obviously not the culpret. It was something else in the tobacco that was causing the muscle at the opening of my stomach to loosen.
Click to expand...
Did I say anything about gum? All you said was that your heartburn went away when you quit. Nicotine, or any tobacco product are known offenders when it comes to hearburn.

Link
Click to expand...

I chewed NICOTINE GUM.

If nicotine were the culpret, my heartburn would have continued with use of the NICOTINE gum.

It did not. The heartburn promptly stopped when I quit smoking. Therefore something OTHER THAN THE NICOTINE in the tobacco was causing the problem.

Read this:

http://heartburn.about.com/cs/.../a/hrtburn_smoking.htm
Click to expand...

maybe the tar in the cigs?

or the urea?

😕
 
Originally posted by: logic1485
well, i know it's true, because so many people that i know that smoke (including myself) need to go to the toilet to excrete after having a cigarette after eating, but i was wondering if there was any scientific explanation to it.

any ideas?
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the eating is what pushes the poo-poo

 
i dont smoke... never have (other than cigars like 3 times a year)

I still have to poo after I eat, In with the new then out with the old
 
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