Why do cigarettes and cigars suddenly make me sick?

[Anonymous]

I'm fine with it, neither are good for you. But it's curious to me. I always liked the smell as a kid and had started smoking a lot for a few months, then only a couple times a month. (Cigars were over the years a treat id spread over a month or two)

One day I was smoking a cigarette and the smell, it made me so sick. I felt like I'd vomit. I stopped, but when I tried again it happened again later. If I walked by someone smoking it was all I could do not to vomit. What would suddenly cause this?

[madhatters4]

perhaps a psychosomatic response. in your brain you told yourself, despite consuming them, that tobacco smoking was gross. then your brain sort of conditioned itself to produce an adverse physical response to smoking

just a guess

[Asker]

I don't know. I understand that cigarettes are gross to most people, but I've always thought of my grandpa with them.
Cigars though, I don't even view them as a particularly bad health risk and they smelled sweet and soothed my stomach previously (I have irritatable bowl syndrome) tobacco is proven to help with intestinal flairs. So I don't think it's psychological.

[Emanon25]

Your body is not accepting it anymore.

[kareka]

Passive smoking is different from active smoking