NICORETTE Reviews (NICOTINE POLACRILEX)Average Rating: 2.6 (834 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare NICORETTE with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR NICORETTE | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Quit smoking | Hard to discern side-effects. Gas and runs problems preceded use and family has a history of bad teeth, but perhaps these have been exacerbated by 24 4mg tabs a day for expensive, addictive lozenges. | Frequency is actually 24 4mg lozenges a day. Lost 28kg 6 years ago and lozenges have helped me keep it off, but it was really an hour walking a day. Gas and runs could be IBT. Bad teeth could be hereditary. All I know is that I've spent 10s of thousands on these, even if I am fitter than I've ever been (cycled 100km yesterday morning with no training) and people say I look 39 instead of 51. Also, mental altertness and energy. I'm doing a 5th degree in Science (have a PhD in humanities) and I think the nicotine helps me focus. Nicotine has been my only addiction. I started smoking when I was 12. | F | 51 | 10 years 4mg 10X day | 10/19/2015 | 4 | stop smoking cigarettes | I took Nicorette quick mist spray ( the spray NOT the inhaler). I stopped smoking almost immediately so I cant complain there! :) Only problem is now...Im addicted to the spray. Well played Nicorette...well played! :p | The spray tastes gross, can cause a hiccup fit which never lasts long. And as nasty as it is Im hooked! Ugh. | F | 35 | 10 weeks 1mg | 10/15/2015 | 4 | So I wouldn't ever inhale another cig | Heartburn | I do not want to become addicted to this gum so to prevent that I chew 1 mg at a time. Just cut one piece of 4mg into four pieces. It took a little time to get use to it but now I can't chew a whole piece to save my life. It's way too much nicotine. I'm now on step 2- go longer periods in between chewing a fourth of a piece. Everyone should try this, it really does work | F | 58 | 1 days 1 | 10/10/2015 | 1 | To quit cigarettes | Testicular pain loss of libido lower and upper abdominal pain frequent urination high blood glucose. | worst than any thing in terms of addiction. | M | 49 | 6 days 2mg | 10/8/2015 | 1 | Addicted to nicotine | Acid reflux,painful teeth,high blood pressure,hair loss, and tingly scalp,hyperness,sore joints,nightmares,blurred vision....etc. | Took nicotine to aid in quitting smoking and I must say that the gum is more addicting than cigarettes. I quit one addiction to start another. I quit the gum over a year ago and have never been the same....Permanent nerve problems,wrist and hand twitches,nasty additude,short temped and memory problems. When I chewed the gum it gave me a sense of calm and security like smoking did. Nicotine is a potent drug and if made in a healthy form can do wonders for the brain and nuero transmitters....I was chewing the gum like regular gum. Will I ever go back to chewing or smoking? Only God knows.I miss the nicotine. I'm 52 years old and have had nicotine since I was 15 years old. | M | 52 | 1 years 20 2mg day | 9/21/2015 | 1 | To take the place of cigarettes but | they need to make one mg original nicotine gum or even omg nicotine gum because it's a horrible habit and regular gum doesn't have the same consistency | ive been on 2mg gum original flavor for 10 years!! Please make a lower dose!! It's the taste and consistency of th nicotine gum that I Love and I know I could quit if they Make it in I mg and 0 mg! Please!! Original flavor | F | 59 | 1 days | 9/15/2015 | 1 | To quit smoking | I dont know where to begin with this stuff. I have been quit smoking for about a yr although i do sneak around from time to time and smoke a cigar. I hide the nicorette gum use. Im with someone who doesnt know i have any more habits. Thats a whole other ballgame in itself, but I did try to quit the gum a few months ago. Oh, a few days went by and I was back chewing. Im hooked on the fruit chill 4mg. I can finally say I am ready to kick this habit for good. I dont know if this is linked to the gum or not but I have gained a lot of weight and I just have this general feeling of being unwell. My jaws hurt. Might i add, i chew one after the other all day and i buy the little 20 count boxes. This is the most horrible addiction. I have been 10 years clean off meth and 16 yrs off cocaine and coming off all that was easier than this it seems. Now if I can just kick this habit and STAY quit and stop taking over the counter energy supplements, Ill be very thankful. I guess im just scared of the withdrawals from it. Hats off to the ones who have already successfully kicked it to the curb. | DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TAKE NICORETTE. IF YOU ARE WANTING TO QUIT SMOKING, DO YOURSELF A HUGE FAVOR AND GO COLD TURKEY. YOU DONT WANT THIS HABIT!!!! | F | 36 | 2 years 4mg | 9/14/2015 | 4 | Stop smoking, at first. | Addiction to the nicotine. Occasional hiccups. No other side effects. | Difficult to rate this product given it has (a) weaned me off a extremely dangerous 20-year smoking habit - so very happy with that! (b) substituted a smoking addiction for an admittedly safer nicorette addiction; (c) left me vulnerable to the temptation of smoking given that my nicotine addiction remains. I take full responsibility for (b) and (c). I knew what the product contained and I knew that it wasn't intended to be a permanent replacement to smoking but a quitting aid. No other side effects after 5 years of constant use but I still wish I could quit. Pro tip to avoid gum damage, headaches - don't chew them constantly, let them rest under your tongue and chew them occasionally | M | 46 | 5 years 3 boxes/wk | 8/30/2015 | 3 | Stop smoking | No side effects | I have been taking nicorettes for 35 years or when it first came out. I had a heart attack 4 weeks ago despite having my blood tested before the attack. My cholesterol glucose ADL HDL were all normal. The nicorette nearly killed me! | M | 74 | 10 days 33 | 8/25/2015 | 1 | Quit smoking | Extremely addictive. Receding gums, fractured tooth, rash. | I quit smoking cigarettes 6 years ago. I started taking the 4 mg Nicorette gum for about 4 years, than two years ago moved to the 2 mg. I was buying 3 boxes a week that had 170 pieces each. This gum is by far more addicting than cigarettes. I chewed gum all day, every day. Finally, two weeks ago, I went through 12 months of bank statements to get an average what I was spending. I knew a lot, but it was averaging over $500.00 a month! So stupid!!!! I quit chewing the gum now over 2 weeks. What I did was: I bought the patch 21 mg for 1 week, then the 14 mg for one week and now I'm on 7 mg for the last week. I also chew extra gum to help. So far so good. I will never allow this to control me again! | F | 47 | 6 years 2 mg 7X H | 8/25/2015 | 3 | to make wife happy | Addictive | Wife did the whole ultimatum thing on giving up cigarettes or her. Found the gum gave me nightmares due to nicotine residue left in mouth. Found Nicorette cool drops and love them. Makes my breath all minty fresh and rewards my addiction whilst keeping wife happy. Happy wife = happy life. Win Win | M | 36 | 5 months 4 mg | 8/21/2015 | 1 | quit smoking | Totally addictive | It h you get my pointelped me quit,smoking, back in the day when it wasn't flavored 1984. 19 years later I started smoking and decided to quit with the gum, as I had done before. I quit smoking again BUT now I am addicted to the flavored Nicorette and now the gum is chewing me, if you get my point. | F | 70 | 5 years 4 mg | 8/15/2015 | 1 | to stop smoking | Severe hair loss, soft and discoloured finger and toe nails, feelings of doom, sleeplessness, anxiety, drying out of my whole body, difficulty concentrating, unhappiness, stomach ulcers, general feeling of not being well. | I have been tring to find out what has caused my massive hairloss for the last 3 and a half years. I finally did some research on the ingredients of Icy Mint 2 mg Nicorette, How could I have been so stupid not to realise sooner what the problem was, I was being poisioned. The symptoms are very insidious until you know that something is not right with your body, but blood tests etc show nothing's wrong! Its only been a week since I have stopped the chewy, but already I have noticed a massive difference in my hair, nails and attitude. I feel like my usual happy bubbly self and can't believe the difference in 1 week. Yippeee! I am so happy!!! I am going to see my doctor and also tricologist next week to let them know what has been going on, they may have other patients with the same symptoms that they can't diagnoise. | F | 57 | 4 years 2mg 10X day | 8/13/2015 | 1 | To stop smoking | Sharp chest pain, feeling sick with no energy constantly, weight gain, lack of sex drive, teeth decay and a general feeling of anxiety | I have done so much research on this and everything says it is safe! I think deep down I knew it wasn't. Am trying to quit after reading all this posts. I don't need strange cancers, heart disease, loss of teeth and everything else people are talking about here... | F | 35 | 10 years 2mg | 8/10/2015 | 3 | To stay off cigarettes | Gums have receded over half a centimetre in the side where I chew | A lot of the comments here are unfair. Nicotine is fiercely addictive. That's why substitutes like Nicorette exist to put nicotine into your system without all the other harmful stuff you get from smoking. Of COURSE they are addictive. It's our responsibility as a user to manage that. I failed to and I am currently addicted but I don't blame the manufacturers, I blame me! Due to the damage to my gums from years of Nicorette abuse I am now going to try to quit Nicorette. Pity because I love chewing it. | M | 44 | 10 years 40 MG 3X H | 7/3/2015 | 3 | substitute cigarettes | Hair thinning hiccups ear popping and air noises this went when my jaw muscles got used to chewing. Odd salty taste with original flavor as they contain sodium in 4mg | Hello to you all, I am a 48 year old smoker, around six years ago I gave up with no aid at all cold turkey, around three months later I discovered blood in my stools and to cut a long story short was diagnosed with Ulcerative-Colitis. The symptons got worse as time went on, these included a rash on my forehead with pimples, Ulcers in my my mouth as well as other parts of my body, poor eye sight and blurred vision, painful joints. What surprises me is that 85% of sufferer’s of UC are ex smokers or smokers and affects 1 in 400 people in the Uk, so it stands to reason that most of these symptoms would be attributed to any stop smoking aids. My new doctor had no knowledge of the link between smoking and bowel disease so therefore would have not have diagnosed my UC and himself blamed any alternative stop smoking aids. After 18 months of not smoking and I was nearly house bound with symptons so I started smoking again within 2 months was symptom free. I have tried all nicotine products and within 3 months my symptoms return. I know smoke 10 cigs a day low tar and consume around 10 4mg plain gum pieces and this is possibly the best combination for me. My gum symptons seem to be, hair loss at fist popping ears wich seem to be my jaw muscles getting used to constant chewing and hiccups. What I am summerising is that some of these symptoms metioned in this and other sites could be caused by bowel problems that smoking has masked, and should be explored as to get the best diagnosis. | M | 48 | 6 months 4mg 10X day | 6/26/2015 | 1 | just started to stop smoking. | ringing in ears,headache,poor sleep,mucsle pain | never start taking it, | M | 69 | 8 years 4mg 10X day | 6/25/2015 | 3 | quit smoking | 2.5 years of chewing Nicorette gum with no problems, the occasional headace or sore jaw, but that is expected when chewing so much gum. Have become addicted to it and the last half a year have been experiencing confronting heart palpitations and chest pain. Cannot be sure it is accociated to the gum but I have a feeling that it is. Naturally worried when experiencing chest pain, and now needing to quit the gum. | They need a quit line for Nicorette products | F | 25 | 3 years 2mg 10X day | 6/17/2015 | 1 | To quit smoking | Mood swings/irritability. Digestive problems. Tiredness/lethargy. Insomnia. | Extremely addictive. Panic if I run out. Prolongs nicotine addiction. | M | 43 | 7 years 4mg 10X day | 6/9/2015 | 1 | To quit smoking | Sore mouth and throat, sore gums, severe hair loss | Hate it and know I should quit but having trouble. Would like a support person, female, my age, to help each other quit. | F | 62 | 15 years 7 mg 10X day | 5/24/2015 |