{"id":1515,"date":"2021-06-11T11:40:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftofmanhood.com\/\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2021-06-12T18:15:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T18:15:26","slug":"do-cigars-have-calories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftofmanhood.com\/do-cigars-have-calories\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Cigars Have Calories?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
When you are relaxing and looking out over the world from your deck chair, you may wonder about your health with a nice cigar in your mouth. Many people immediately think that their cigars will cause them to gain weight, which is why cigars are seen as unhealthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cigars have no calories and cannot cause you to gain any more weight while actively smoking the cigars. The nicotine in cigars will stop your body from absorbing more calories from anything else you can gain calories from.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There are many things about cigars that are myths and misunderstandings, with the typical images of the cigars causing further confusion. You must understand the intricacies and complexities that cigars have regarding your appetite and how it affects your overall body shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The confusion about cigars and calories comes from how tobacco does react with the calories you are consuming. While the cigars themselves do not add any calories to your body, because you cannot absorb calories through smoking, they change the way your body reacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From our research, we know that there are three ways that nicotine can affect the way your body reacts to calories in any food. The first thing we need to know is that your body can only absorb calories from the food you are eating and almost no other way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An odd thing that happens to many people when they start smoking cigars is that their metabolism speeds up, causing the body to absorb fewer calories. While the food will still have the same number of calories, because the metabolism is working faster, there is not enough time to absorb it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is why you may see people that start smoking cigars initially having to go to the bathroom a lot more often than they are used to. It can also be why people who smoke cigars can eat a lot of food and never seem fully satisfied or gain any weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Working in combination with a metabolism speeding up, the body may lose the ability to absorb as many calories as it should. Nicotine physically stops the gut from absorbing calories, causing you to lose weight as your body no longer receives the same amount of energy from the food you eat.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Your body will still process the food like routine and will absorb many of the vitamins and nutrients from the food that you are eating. Many times, smokers who have not appropriately adjusted will have lower energy overall; this is because their bodies are not absorbing the calories needed for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is usually the most noticeable effect of smoking cigars that people have reported; as the nicotine enters your system, you are less hungry. A loss of appetite when smoking any tobacco is normal and will drastically reduce your caloric intake simply because there is no food.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Many smokers that experience this side-effect find themselves barely eating throughout the day, and when they do eat, it will be in small quantities. Many times, this is why you will see smokers, whether cigar or cigarette, that started young being skinny.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHow Does Tobacco Affect Your Caloric Intake?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Boost Metabolism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Reduce Calorie Absorption<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Reduce Appetite<\/h3>\n\n\n\n