Chantix and nicorette gum

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Avatar n tn I have never heard or seen a discussion regarding your question but I do know someone personally who is trying to break the nicorette habit and has replaced every other piece with regular gum and hopes to gradually reduce the amount of nicorette by substituting it. It's worth a try! Good luck!
Avatar n tn I was reading through all of your posts and how you guys are saying you are addicted. Well, my husband has got you beat as to the amounts of gum you are chewing. He has been on Nicorette 2 mg gum for 20 years after chewing tobacco for 15 years or so. He has never tapered off--fortunately, not gone to 4 mg either. The easiest way to tell you how much he chews is that in a week, he goes through 1 1/2 to 2 boxes. Each box contains 110 pcs.
Avatar f tn I know a few people who still chew gum years later after quitting smoking. I used chantix and still take a few pills a week as dirested by my doc and am doing well.
768479 tn?1234907306 s supply of a mint flavored Nicorette gum knock-off. I started up with that and thought I was doing o.k., but now - 5 months later, I am now addicted to the Nicorette fruit gum...! I'm starting to feel a tightness in my throat, and really feel a sort of a "numbness" in it when I awake in the morning, and am getting paranoid that I'm giving myself either throat cancer or some esophagal problem... I have GOT to stop this gum addiction NOW.
Avatar m tn I do go to a dentist for a cleaning and check up twice a year however I have recently become a first time daddy and want to quit, and I mean I really want to quit. Are there any ways or methods that are out there that can help me overcome this difficult addiction. I chew approx. 1 1/2 cans per day of Grizzly Long Cut Wintergreen. Thank you!
Avatar n tn Trouble was I had a really bad Nicorette habit. Low and behold I have chronic pancreatitis and if I chew the gum--the pancreatic pain skyrockets. I would say "YES" Nicorette either causes, triggers, or aggrevates pancreatitis.
Avatar n tn You are not the first to claim that Nicorette is an addiction and I can imagine, like any other addiction, that over time it will show some effects. I'm glad to hear that you have given it up and if it becomes to much to handle, post here and we can try to help you through it. There was someone else that posted on this forum regarding Nicorette. Read the post and leave a message. Hang in there!
7163794 tn?1457366813 I can tell you,, since I'm literally doing the same thing your doing right now, dizziness is normal! I am a pack and a half a day smoker for 40 years and I had to whopper nose bleeds about a month ago, literally one on a Sat and one on a Sun. Went to the dr the next day and my blood pressure was 157/130. I'm taking the Chantix and chewing the S&&T our of Nicorette!!! But I'm getting there. I do feel a bit insane as well but that could be the Chantix!
Avatar m tn I am a BIG proponent of Chantix as a cessation aid. I took them and had absolutely ZERO problem leaving them alone once I put them down. I quit for a year and then due to family tragedy, slipped and that''s all she wrote. It's like you never quit after that first cigarette. At least for me. So if your friend is looking for something to make her actually quit, Chantix is the way to go.
Avatar f tn I was addicted to the Nicorette gum for years and years. I think I would have been better off quitting from the patch. To get off the gum, I substituted cinnamon gum, one piece at a time for the nicorette. Sorry to say, I am still addicted to the cinnamon gum just not the nicroette gum. If I were you, I'd transfer over to the patch (you will still be addicted to the nicotine, but the mouth thing will leave). Gradually leave the patch on longer and longer.
Avatar n tn When i found out I had emphysema I quit smoking. I used nicorette gum and it worked. I kept looking at pictures of my children, they are small and it helped. I just kept telling myself to get through the next five minutes and it got easier and easier. There really is no easy way, but if you have respitory issues not quitting is a lot scarier than quitting. Good Luck. Go get gum.
Avatar m tn Hey.I heard to ease cravings take a bath with Epsom salt and it pulls some of the nicotine and toxins out of your bloodstream. Hope this helps!
Avatar f tn As for the nicorette gum, it may cause tightness of the chest and it is recommended that you stop if you feel this tightness. As for the hiccups the nicorette itself would not cause it, but it could be the way you are chewing or swallowing.
1013194 tn?1296459481 What is the cost of nicorette gum where you are..i pay around $20 a week here..My smokes where $70 a week? Dawn..
Avatar f tn No why don't you try nicotine gum and see if that helps i think it's called nicorette gum
Avatar m tn The best thing for me woes the Nicorette spray like a mouth spray I hade the patches and gum but never worked for me I woes like you 15 to 20 a day for 5 to 6 years and I had a hell of a time trying to quite but the spray helped me allot
642313 tn?1244071722 I am on my first 14 hrs after quitting nicorette gum. Ive been chewing nicorette for more than 8 years. And I have tried to quite several times with no real lasting success. This time I believe I can do this. I thinks so because today is also day 193 of me quitting Subutex and and Lortabs. About six months ago I jumped off my last pill and I've made it this far. Now I am ready to quit this Nicorette Gum thing. I chewed incessantly.
Avatar n tn I am 54 and started smoking about 10 years ago. I would stop for a few months and then start again. I found I smoked from bordom and running out of my Klonpin and Xanax too soon. I really don't like the feeling of hot smoke going through my throat and into my lungs. Then I get this caugh the next morning. When I get a cold or have to stay in bed a few days, I don't smoke. I take advantage of that time to start the no smoking cycle.
Avatar f tn Anyway, eventually stopped cold turkey and hung on to god and kathyjo and jade. Praise God, one day at a time. Never take another puff.
1831849 tn?1383228392 The first things I did were quit smoking and clean up my diet. My PCP gave me Chantix, which helped immensely. I am still chewing Nicorette gum. She said that the nicotine did not pose nearly the health risk that the smoking did. As long as I was "given permission" to chew Nicorette forever I could wrap my head around not smoking. The diet thing was easier. Even though I'm a carb junkie (I have way too many kinds of flour in my kitchen :-) http://www.kyleskitchen.
Avatar n tn m doing just the gum because I have PTSD (so they say) and my doctor was concerned about flashbacks and other issues that arise from Chantix use. Hope this helps, and best of luck! Been smoking for 45 years, quit the 15th, and I'm doing well!
1162347 tn?1293503170 I have smoked for over 40 years, I have my days when I smoke a pack and others just a few cigarettes, I want to stop smoking I know how bad it is but I have tried so many times and failed. Does anyone know if Nicorette gum will help or is there something else? What is addictive in cigarettes the nicotine or the other things inside the cigarettes? Can anyone give me a tip to help me stop smoking? I will tell you why I smoke. I am a very lonely person, no friends or family around.
424247 tn?1203558853 And yes if someone is going to tell me to chew regular gum,,,yes I have tried that as well. Its not the same as the gum, Oh and the gum just like cigerettes there is only one certain gum I chew, I do have an addicted personality,,, Im a recovered Alcholic as well. I just wonder if the gum is real bad for me.
Avatar m tn Hello everyone,I have a progressive case of hepatitis C and want to use the drug Chantix to quit smoking and worried about the side affects.Does anyone have any knowledge of this drug interaction.
407029 tn?1253992623 If I could, I we be a walking advertisement for Chantix. I had tried the patch, the gum, zyban and hypnosis in the past and got absolutely no where. Chantix is a wonder drug as far as I'm concerned. To me the benefits of Chantix far out way any of the risks.