If you chew the nicotine gum and get addicted to the gum, haven't you increased your addiction to nicotine overall?
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No, because the addiction to the gum, because of the way the nicotine is absobed, is weaker than the addiction to cigarettes.
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The nicotine in gum allows people to break their habit of breathing in smoke. The psychological habits are far stronger than the addiction to nicotine itself. It's said that smoking is not one habit, it is a thousand habits, as every situation that triggers the smoking reflex is its own separate habit. If you can break the habits associated with smoking, getting rid of the nicotine addiction itself is not nearly as hard. Nicotine itself is totally out of the human body after 3 days. Beyond 3 days any addiction is purely psychological.
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