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Nicorette Addiction
I've been chewing Nicorette for about ten years. I chew between nine and eleven pieces of the 2mg a day. What are the harmful effects of the gum (beside, obvious addiction). And, do you have any suggestions as to how to get off the gum?
No weight gain with gum...I have a ridiculously fast metabolism though, definite enormous appetite increases when swithing ro Vape...will eat a horse to pass the time if in withdrawal
my phone skipped on that post if anyone reads this...15 years is impressive though
It is March 2016 and this chain has been foing on for 15 nk...whatever rhe hell that means, on sale for $6 at Walgreens, I When my Wow. I may have everyone beat though because I have been addicted to Nicotine Gum since last century. Today was the first time I have ever googled tgis topic though and it is comforting to know I am not alone I haven't had a piece of gum in two weeks (e-cigarettes due to my situation). Here is my story...please help if you can!
I have only smoked about 40 cigarettes in my life...they absolutely disgust me. The first 20 was during my Sophmore year in HS, to be cool, and other have come during various drunk or nicotine-skin-stretching(you know what I mean) desperate moments. One day after drinking as a 16 year old, I took a lip of a friend's friend's Kodiak chewing robacco (dip). My reasoning was that I wanted to quit the 20 cigarettes I had (I very socially smoked pot whenever I could-no resource or monetary limits, just baseball, until I was 20. I literaly just stopped it one day though) So there I was...I had kicked cigarettes and I was lying on a sidewalk waiting for my ride home with the somewhere between flying through the clouds of Venus and 1,000 feet under water. I was in love.
I mentioned, baseball because this is where my nicotine, and especially Nicorette habit was developed and nurtured like a young child's education. I didn't pitch, but our Varsity pitching coach was nice enough to get me to start sipping because I was very good. I went to an all voys Catholic sports factory so in any classroom od 20 kids, dour would be spitting in a cup, either hiding or not hiding it from teachers. I didn't dip in games (wasn't that addicted yet I guess and illegl). Everywhere else though, including a very crive social life. My parent's knew, my uncle-an orl surgeon had my young couin's sign. mouth cancer poster, but it was actually socially acceptable in my world. By the way, just want to mention that I grew up 5 minutes from New York City...we dipped too.
During my Senior yer of high school, my mom bought me a huge box of Nicorette and it sat in th top drawer at my parents house for almost a year. The unbelievable taste of of pure nicotine, which along with Oxygen/Hydrogen/Nitrogen/Food/Water completes my OKCupid 6, disgusted me. I found that dipping was less socially acceptable in college and it was inconvenient at bars. Suprisingly to me, not all NCAA athletes were addicted to nicotine like I was. One day my gums were sore. I bugged out and decided to quit right there. It was Winter 2000 and on my 84th hour of cold turkey I found myself in an upstairs corner of the school's library at 4AM trying to figure out time travel for our species once and for all. Not sure how long I had been there, had at least 7 3000 page Physics/Calculus/Astronomy textbooks, and of course I hadn't slept or talked to.anyone in three days.. That Fall I had began chewing the.gum during indoor hitting sessions. A friend found me, I then showered and called my mom to find out where to get the gum. They funded it happily because I was quitting dipping. Although I actually had a lip at the beginning of this drought, I don't have mouth cancer, and have never even had a cavity, because I switched to gum. I chewed it every class, every at bat, every three beers, drive, workout, and every other time from the alarm clock to pillow during my five years of college. Having shoulder surgery year two was the worst because I had time to.buy it now. Same as all of the others, panic if I didn't have my allocation until I can get more ( which I still suffer from. I didn't pay for it but I myst have chewed 15-20 pieces of 4mg (I was a finance guy despite the space-time continuum work I did in withdrawal and that's twice the nicotine for the same price). I by no means quit dipping during this time, but it was the ex-girlfriend that was was supplementing my marriage. I eventually started using generic after I graduated and had to pay for myself. That's a lie, I bought whatever was the cheapest/most convenient to my current craving or future withdrawal anxiety. I was the kid who chewed Nicorette, but if someone outside of my inner circle asked it was my last piece of gum.
In my 20's I never once considered quitting nicotine gum and definitely paid rent late once so I wouldn't run out for a week. I have been on 10-12 4 mg pieces a day (when nit conserving) since. When I took all of my professional license testing in a center, monitored and no food/water for 3 hours-gum not allowed, I hid three pieces in my cheek before walking in every time. Same with the GMAT. An addiction to nicotine is not what I had/have...it is like O, H, N, H20, and calories for me. There have been so many times where I had to non-stop focus 100% for work (phone+computer+analysis+math...etc) and when I finally had a chance to breathe I was in a terrible mood. I had had.a chance to chew gum and was unknowingly in withdrawal.
This went on until August 2014 when I went to a wedding in bumbleF Upstate NY and ran out. I bought a starter vaping kit and.returned it after two.hours, so mad in withdrawal, because I thought it was broken. I didn't know it had to be tripme pressed to.turn the.battery on, and tool a.new one. I had my vape to go aling with 20 beers there. I don't ever drink.anymore, yet didn't get a.nicotine buzz. I worked though and as I was starting a new outside sales hob in a new industry that Monday, figured I save the $ and try it out. Training was miserable and a waste because the delivery was different I guess. I had no personality, 15 times my normal ADD, and was so irritated. Since then it has been a combination of Nicotine Gum, Vape, and a concerted effort to be economically efficient in my nicotine consumption. Target is rhe best of retail in my field studies-220 4 mg pieces for ~$40=$.045/mg...I looked at it as lasting my ~3ish weeks. Target is not convenient though, and I am an addict, so this rarely happens. I call my Nictotine habit a $2-3000 post-tax tariff. The Vape fot better once I stopped spilling the juices znd breaking the $50 cartridges I bought. When desperate, I will only Vape. With the equipment, and a 10 24 mg/nl on sale at Walgreens, I have only spent $18 on Nicotine in the past two weeks. My dad had surgery and I have been visiting my parents. In a twist on irony, my mom goes crazy if she see's me chewing nicotine gum and asks me about quitting 5x a day. I love only having a $2/day nicotine habit but, have.been sleeping terriblu, can't focus, and have no personality. The thing is I have.never once.tried to.quit nicotine gum.before because I only believe the financial side effects for a healthy 35 year old. Yes, I am just as.addicted as crackheads and other addicts. If it has to be.a.drug, Nicotine is not so bad though in my rationality. I can't see myself at 50 chomping on gum because I am a hypochondriac and will get never of heart problems, but I have to do the the fear I can't even acknowledge, let alone face, before then. I would love to never chew another piece...that's actually a lie through my teeth. I'd love to be myself now, but fully recovered from nicotine addiction and withdrawal. To be honest though, I think I was a different person before that dip because I had awful social anxiety as a kid. I told you I had a story and would appreciate any advice.
I have only smoked about 40 cigarettes in my life...they absolutely disgust me. The first 20 was during my Sophmore year in HS, to be cool, and other have come during various drunk or nicotine-skin-stretching(you know what I mean) desperate moments. One day after drinking as a 16 year old, I took a lip of a friend's friend's Kodiak chewing robacco (dip). My reasoning was that I wanted to quit the 20 cigarettes I had (I very socially smoked pot whenever I could-no resource or monetary limits, just baseball, until I was 20. I literaly just stopped it one day though) So there I was...I had kicked cigarettes and I was lying on a sidewalk waiting for my ride home with the somewhere between flying through the clouds of Venus and 1,000 feet under water. I was in love.
I mentioned, baseball because this is where my nicotine, and especially Nicorette habit was developed and nurtured like a young child's education. I didn't pitch, but our Varsity pitching coach was nice enough to get me to start sipping because I was very good. I went to an all voys Catholic sports factory so in any classroom od 20 kids, dour would be spitting in a cup, either hiding or not hiding it from teachers. I didn't dip in games (wasn't that addicted yet I guess and illegl). Everywhere else though, including a very crive social life. My parent's knew, my uncle-an orl surgeon had my young couin's sign. mouth cancer poster, but it was actually socially acceptable in my world. By the way, just want to mention that I grew up 5 minutes from New York City...we dipped too.
During my Senior yer of high school, my mom bought me a huge box of Nicorette and it sat in th top drawer at my parents house for almost a year. The unbelievable taste of of pure nicotine, which along with Oxygen/Hydrogen/Nitrogen/Food/Water completes my OKCupid 6, disgusted me. I found that dipping was less socially acceptable in college and it was inconvenient at bars. Suprisingly to me, not all NCAA athletes were addicted to nicotine like I was. One day my gums were sore. I bugged out and decided to quit right there. It was Winter 2000 and on my 84th hour of cold turkey I found myself in an upstairs corner of the school's library at 4AM trying to figure out time travel for our species once and for all. Not sure how long I had been there, had at least 7 3000 page Physics/Calculus/Astronomy textbooks, and of course I hadn't slept or talked to.anyone in three days.. That Fall I had began chewing the.gum during indoor hitting sessions. A friend found me, I then showered and called my mom to find out where to get the gum. They funded it happily because I was quitting dipping. Although I actually had a lip at the beginning of this drought, I don't have mouth cancer, and have never even had a cavity, because I switched to gum. I chewed it every class, every at bat, every three beers, drive, workout, and every other time from the alarm clock to pillow during my five years of college. Having shoulder surgery year two was the worst because I had time to.buy it now. Same as all of the others, panic if I didn't have my allocation until I can get more ( which I still suffer from. I didn't pay for it but I myst have chewed 15-20 pieces of 4mg (I was a finance guy despite the space-time continuum work I did in withdrawal and that's twice the nicotine for the same price). I by no means quit dipping during this time, but it was the ex-girlfriend that was was supplementing my marriage. I eventually started using generic after I graduated and had to pay for myself. That's a lie, I bought whatever was the cheapest/most convenient to my current craving or future withdrawal anxiety. I was the kid who chewed Nicorette, but if someone outside of my inner circle asked it was my last piece of gum.
In my 20's I never once considered quitting nicotine gum and definitely paid rent late once so I wouldn't run out for a week. I have been on 10-12 4 mg pieces a day (when nit conserving) since. When I took all of my professional license testing in a center, monitored and no food/water for 3 hours-gum not allowed, I hid three pieces in my cheek before walking in every time. Same with the GMAT. An addiction to nicotine is not what I had/have...it is like O, H, N, H20, and calories for me. There have been so many times where I had to non-stop focus 100% for work (phone+computer+analysis+math...etc) and when I finally had a chance to breathe I was in a terrible mood. I had had.a chance to chew gum and was unknowingly in withdrawal.
This went on until August 2014 when I went to a wedding in bumbleF Upstate NY and ran out. I bought a starter vaping kit and.returned it after two.hours, so mad in withdrawal, because I thought it was broken. I didn't know it had to be tripme pressed to.turn the.battery on, and tool a.new one. I had my vape to go aling with 20 beers there. I don't ever drink.anymore, yet didn't get a.nicotine buzz. I worked though and as I was starting a new outside sales hob in a new industry that Monday, figured I save the $ and try it out. Training was miserable and a waste because the delivery was different I guess. I had no personality, 15 times my normal ADD, and was so irritated. Since then it has been a combination of Nicotine Gum, Vape, and a concerted effort to be economically efficient in my nicotine consumption. Target is rhe best of retail in my field studies-220 4 mg pieces for ~$40=$.045/mg...I looked at it as lasting my ~3ish weeks. Target is not convenient though, and I am an addict, so this rarely happens. I call my Nictotine habit a $2-3000 post-tax tariff. The Vape fot better once I stopped spilling the juices znd breaking the $50 cartridges I bought. When desperate, I will only Vape. With the equipment, and a 10 24 mg/nl on sale at Walgreens, I have only spent $18 on Nicotine in the past two weeks. My dad had surgery and I have been visiting my parents. In a twist on irony, my mom goes crazy if she see's me chewing nicotine gum and asks me about quitting 5x a day. I love only having a $2/day nicotine habit but, have.been sleeping terriblu, can't focus, and have no personality. The thing is I have.never once.tried to.quit nicotine gum.before because I only believe the financial side effects for a healthy 35 year old. Yes, I am just as.addicted as crackheads and other addicts. If it has to be.a.drug, Nicotine is not so bad though in my rationality. I can't see myself at 50 chomping on gum because I am a hypochondriac and will get never of heart problems, but I have to do the the fear I can't even acknowledge, let alone face, before then. I would love to never chew another piece...that's actually a lie through my teeth. I'd love to be myself now, but fully recovered from nicotine addiction and withdrawal. To be honest though, I think I was a different person before that dip because I had awful social anxiety as a kid. I told you I had a story and would appreciate any advice.
I can't believe this thread's been going since 2001. It's 2016 now. This is probably one of the longest lasting threads on the internet.
Anyway, I stopped smoking in 2005, but only quit the gum about three or four weeks ago. For me, only cold turkey works. I'm still getting cravings, but my 'trick' is to reaise that it will pass, no matter how intense, and sure enough, give it 20minutes or so, the cravings gone. I can keep the craving around longer by focussing on it, but why would I do that? Instead, I just think "here we go again" then sit it out and carry on with what I'm doing, and it just goes away and I don't realise it's gone until it pops up again a few hours or days later. Hope that makes sense?
I'm not sure if the gum caused health problems, but I do have a neurological condition called IIH and I wonder if it's linked. That's why
I finally quit cold turkey, to see if it improves. No improvement yet, but maybe. Also, I had a fit of giggles yesterday, which hasn't happened in years because of low mood and anxiety, so I'm wondering if that was caused by the nicotine. We all need to be careful when they say there are no long term effects, because the cigartte companies hid it for years as smoking was so lucrative. The gum is lucrative, so they could well hide evidence too.
Anyway, good luck.You CAN do it. I know it feels like you can't, but you really can...ignore the cravings, they go away.
Anyway, I stopped smoking in 2005, but only quit the gum about three or four weeks ago. For me, only cold turkey works. I'm still getting cravings, but my 'trick' is to reaise that it will pass, no matter how intense, and sure enough, give it 20minutes or so, the cravings gone. I can keep the craving around longer by focussing on it, but why would I do that? Instead, I just think "here we go again" then sit it out and carry on with what I'm doing, and it just goes away and I don't realise it's gone until it pops up again a few hours or days later. Hope that makes sense?
I'm not sure if the gum caused health problems, but I do have a neurological condition called IIH and I wonder if it's linked. That's why
I finally quit cold turkey, to see if it improves. No improvement yet, but maybe. Also, I had a fit of giggles yesterday, which hasn't happened in years because of low mood and anxiety, so I'm wondering if that was caused by the nicotine. We all need to be careful when they say there are no long term effects, because the cigartte companies hid it for years as smoking was so lucrative. The gum is lucrative, so they could well hide evidence too.
Anyway, good luck.You CAN do it. I know it feels like you can't, but you really can...ignore the cravings, they go away.
Just quit myself. 15 years of Red Man followed by 10 years of Nicorette. Started following the Nicorette wind-down plan and got to 3-5/day, where it stayed for a few years, then started marching higher. Recently hit 20/day of the 2mg fruit chill and knew it was time to stop or I was headed for 40/day. Began reading about how to quit and successfully pared it back to 2/day, before quitting yesterday. I know from experience that you cannot stay at 2/day because it is still a struggle, and eventually you cave and are back to full usage within a few weeks.
I agree with many of the things people have said here. NRT is not healthy regardless what the experts say. Anything this addictive cannot be good for you, particularly in the quantities we have all consumed. I read a lot of literature on successfully quitting and here is the sum of it: get committed, go cold turkey, find a lot of distractions and food/gum replacements, eat as healthy as you can for most of the day. Don't start out with a stack of pancakes that gives you cravings, or you are in for a very long day. Write online and in your own journal.
So here I am: end of day two, struggling but committed. I will keep posting and hope you do the same. Quit smoking/chewing websites have a solid system of accountability whereby you post in "roll call" every day. Does anyone know of one for Nicorette?
I agree with many of the things people have said here. NRT is not healthy regardless what the experts say. Anything this addictive cannot be good for you, particularly in the quantities we have all consumed. I read a lot of literature on successfully quitting and here is the sum of it: get committed, go cold turkey, find a lot of distractions and food/gum replacements, eat as healthy as you can for most of the day. Don't start out with a stack of pancakes that gives you cravings, or you are in for a very long day. Write online and in your own journal.
So here I am: end of day two, struggling but committed. I will keep posting and hope you do the same. Quit smoking/chewing websites have a solid system of accountability whereby you post in "roll call" every day. Does anyone know of one for Nicorette?
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