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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 2050997" data-attributes="member: 372717">We're talking nicotine here?<a href="https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20110328/nicotine-and-blood-sugar-bad-combination#1" target="_blank">https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20110328/nicotine-and-blood-sugar-bad-combination#1</a>It looks like it's the nicotine is the critical element in traditional smoking that raised blood sugar.  I wonder if you're actually taking in more nicotine by vaping???[mini rant, apologies in advanceSorry, I know it's hard to give up smoking, I watched my T1 mother try and fail for 40 years.  I also watched her live an extra 8 years because she gave up smoking just before she needed a heart bypass (they would have given her a quadruple one but gave her a double because her lungs were so bad), Then I watched her die at 78, killed by the years of smoking and not the T1.   I'll tell you now what I wish someone could have made her believe when she was your age.  Nicotine addiction and diabetes  is a lethal combination.  The conditions exacerbate each other.  ok, rant over]Good luck</blockquote>

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