Can nicotine gum be used in reverse?

[JVS]

I've always wondered if non-smokers could use nicotine gum to build up a raging nicotine addiction and then become heavy smokers. Any willing participants for such an experiment?

[Taxloss]

1. I tried to beat my tobacco addiction with gum.

It doesn't work. The Carr method does.

[merwin]

2. Taking your cigarettes and running them over with a carr?

[Taxloss]

3. Pretty much, yes.

It's a therapy.

[pnorman]

6. It worked for me about 10 years ago.

It was a strong addiction which went back for many years. I had shifted to dipping Copenhagen, which was probably a stronger addiction than cigarettes. (I was 'mainlining" the nicotine directly through my gums). My dentist got concerned at the spots of irritation on my gums, and wrote me out a prescription for Nicorex. (She may have been the ONLY dentist in Seattle who had copies of Z in her waiting room).

It required close adherence to the directions, which involved slow and deliberate chewing of the gum, at specified intervals. I was just starting on the third box when I figured that I was "cured". At that same time, I also started chewing regular gum pretty heavily. (There were tines when my jaws really ACHED).

That was over 10 years ago, and I may have grown a lot more cranky & irritable over that, but it WORKED. Since then, it became OTC, but I've been assured that the nicotine strength was unchanaged. Give it a try.

pnorman

[RPM]

4. i am sure it works....

but Timmy wouldn't have loooked as cool continually chewing as he did continously blowing smoke.

think about it

[seg4527]

5. it should

nicotine is addictive. i'm pretty sure it would be addictive in any form.

[msgadget]

7. I don't see why not.

You go first.

[njdemocrat106]

8. I think it might

I've heard that if you've never smoked and started chewing nicotine gum, you'd become addicted to the gum.

[billyskank]

9. That's almost certainly correct

because in your mind, the feeling from the nicotine hit would be associated with chewing the gum. Therefore you would crave the gum, not a cigarette.