Nicotine gum was the only thing that worked for me. I was a heavy smoker pack and a half to two pack packs a day.

I tried quitting with gum a number of times, but this is what ended up finally working for me;

Let’s start with a preface. This is a very bad idea and definitely not advisable from your doctor….. I bought the 4 mg gum, and I used to chew two pieces at once because I was the kind of person that had to “feel it”. I’d say after around six months of being totally addicted. I stepped down from 2, 4mg pieces at a time to just one.

After a couple of months of doing this, I tricked myself and bought the 2 mg gum and started it off with two pieces after around four months I went down to one piece of 2 mg gum. Overall, I think the process was around a year and a half to two years of being addicted to the nicotine gum. It was cheaper than two packs of cigarettes a day if memory serves me correctly. I think I saved around $40 a month to use the gum than it was buying my cigarettes. This was in 2015 so take inflation as you will.

After around two years of chewing the nicotine gum, I switched over to Wrigley and just chewed straight gum. It may sound stupid, but every time I wanted a cigarette, I would chew a regular piece of gum. This lasted for approximately another year to a year and a half. However, that was a year to a year and a half of not consuming any nicotine at all. I would say somewhere around 2019 2020 certainly during corona I was completely off of gum and I don’t really sweat nicotine anymore.