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 |
| 5 | To quit smoking | Acne, Oily skin and hair loss | Off nicorette within 8 months, side effects have waned. (been off nicorette for 1 month. Highly recommended. I never thought I could quit. I was a pack to a pack and a half a day smoker for over 30 years. It did what they said it would do | M | 46 | 8 months | 9/11/2009 | 4 | to stop smoking | After 7 years I have developed precancerous lesions on my tongue. | See above | M | 52 | 7 years | 9/11/2009 | 4 | Stop Smoking | I'm taking the patch. I currently have been using it for 2 days. I experienced for the first time today a rash that looks like tiny blood vessels that have popped from where the patch was. Plus, it's kind of itchy. | Overall, I haven't had a cigarette in the past two days since starting them, however, for me...it's been more mental. I can honestly say that it's not the nicotine that I'm addicted to, it's definitely the "having something to do" situation. I have terrible anxiety so it's hard for me to not do something with my hands or what not. But, it's working out alright for me. I currently have a hair-tie on my wrist that i pop whenever i feel the urge of having something to do with my hands. Seems to work well. | F | 20 | 2 days | 9/6/2009 | 3 | to stop smoking | Gas, bloating, belching, burping, flatulence, headaches, severe ear ache, back pain, irritability, severe anxiety, high blood pressure, shortness of breath, sore stomach, can't eat almost any food without it causing issues with digestion. Lightheadedness, fog brain | I went from working out every day to staying home and packing on weight from not working out. I couldn't breathe or I would get short winded or have these episodes that occured where I would feel like I was punched and lost my breath. I don't know if it was the nicorette or not as I suspected gall bladder or gall stones but I strongly suspect it after reading these posts and my symptoms matching others. I have been in and out of the hospital and today just came home from a ultrasound. Not sure if gallstones or not but I am telling you, I am beginning to think it is the nicorette. I am going to do my best to get off of this stuff..been on it a year and I bet my problems are a result of this gum. I think over time these symptoms progess as I have been on it about 13 months. I notice when I start chewing that I will get a small burp. Unfortunately, I will get stressed and chew, chew, chew and I will start burping more. Sometimes, I feel like my whole belly is going to explode and I will belch, have stomach acid, be gaseous, and I will go into a panic attack from the anxiety. | M | 46 | | 9/5/2009 | 3 | To stop smoking | After 3 years on not smoking, I'm now addicted to Nicorette gum. It's ruining my teeth and my hair is falling out! Didn't realize it was the Nicorette until I started reading the experiences of others. I think my increased blood pressue and overall body aches and pains is also attributed to Nicorette. Big question: how to I now break the gum addiction and remain smoke free? | After 3+ years of chewing this gum, I find myself addicted to it. How do I break this addiction and remain smoke free? Help!! | F | 48 | 3.7 years | 8/21/2009 | 2 | to quit smoking | itchy skin,severe hair loss,dental problems, flushed face, felt very unhealthy..felt like I was ageing rapidly and extremely high blood pressure very very addicted 4mg 10-12 times a day | grateful to be off cigs but not worth the side effects.found this sight because I was curious about side effects of the gum felt very unhealthy I'm hoping to regrow my hair and keep it Haven't chewed the gum for three days..I'm done.. | F | 49 | 18 months | 8/20/2009 | 5 | Smoked over 40 years. | Soreness in mouth | Much easier to breathe heart doesn't strain climbing stairs anymore. Easier to concentrate than when I've quit cold-turkey. | F | 58 | 17 months | 8/19/2009 | 5 | to stop smoking | hiccups if I chew to fast | I love this gum. I am a "chain chewer". When I'm awake it's never out of my mouth. I'd like to quit because of the expense but I haven't been successful. However, my doctor says that it won't harm me. If nicorette caused hair loss I would be bald and I have nice thick hair. Hair loss is usually caused by a very stressful period three months prior to the hair loss. Also, hormonal changes can cause hair loss. The hair does grow back. My teeth are also fine. I've always chewed the unflavored gum. Some of these people who are posting seem to be suffering from anxiety and blame everything-real and imagined-on the gum. It absolutely makes quitting smoking much easier and smokers cough, shortness of breath, and smelling stinky can all be a thing of the past. If you want to be sure you don't get addicted to the gum, then follow the package directions. I didn't. | F | 53 | 10 years | 8/17/2009 | 1 | TO GIVE UP SMOKING | MY HUSBAND IS TOTALLY ADDICTED.HE HAS TRIED EVERYTHING TO GIVE UP AND SPENDS MORE MONEY ON GUM THAN HE EVER DID ON CIGARETTES.IT CAUSES HIM TO LIE AS HE WON'T ADMIT HOW MUCH MONEY HE SPENDS. IT IS DESTROYING OUR ONCE HAPPY MARRAIGE. | M | 51 | 8 years | 8/15/2009 | 1 | To resist social smoking relapse | Addiction, also likely related: tooth sensitivity, soft gums and gingivitis, mouth and tongue sores, gas, bloating, and farting, GERD/Reflux, chronic nasal drip type cough, asthma, sinusitis, sleep disturbances when taken late at night, acne, increased sebum production, irritability, depression. | This drug is addictive and the whole point of flavoring it now is to get new customers, making this market as bad or worse than the cigarette market. Drug dealing is drug dealing, whether you're "protecting us" from carbon monoxide or not. | M | 36 | 4 years | 8/14/2009 | 3 | To quit smoking | None | I was able to quit smoking right away with Nicorette. I was also addicted to it right away. I chew 30 + pieces of 4mg daily. At one point I used Zyban to break the gum chewing habit and it worked for approximately 8 months. Ended up back on the gum and have been cheweing it ever since. Since I have found it for $16 dollars for 105 pieces, I don't have any incentive to quit and have never experienced hair loss or tooth decay. Would love to quit though, don't like the control that it has over me. | F | 43 | 14 years | 8/7/2009 | 1 | to quit smoking | mood swings, intense addiction, panic attacks,unexplained minor strokes | This is not the person taking the gum but his wife writing this to you. The mood swings got worse, He started getting panic attacks more and more, He has now suffered two slight strokes which the doctors can't understand why because he doesn't have the markers to have them. I think the FDA should find people to run it that actually care about people not what drug company is going to throw money their way. I strongly urge people not to ingest this substance it could cost you your life. I am puting his gender, age,and years ingesting this crap. | M | 53 | 12 years | 8/7/2009 | 1 | TO stop my cigarette smoking | Anxiety, sleeplessness, the red acne like things on my face, hig blood pressure, | I have been chewing 2mg for past 7 years- Initally I was happy with the results of no longer being a smoker, ut at this point i am not ableto stop the addiction to the gum. | F | 39 | 7 years | 8/5/2009 | 1 | to stop smoking | Loss of tooth enamel,anxiety,nausea. Highly addictive. | Initially used to stop smoking. Now have been using on and off for 20 years plus. Constantly reassured self it was less harmful than smoking so OK. Consider NRT an unregulated, expensive scam. As hard to quit gum as smoking - have stopped now for 2 days and am determined to keep going - 20 years ingesting this poison has been too long. | F | 52 | 20 years | 8/2/2009 | 5 | To stop smoking | Heartburn if chewed to long before parking gum | Using the 4mg Nicorette Cinnamon Surge. Been using it for 5 days and on day 3 started using Big red gum in between pieces to help cut down the Nicorette. Today I haven't used one piece of the Nicorette, just the Big Red. | F | 49 | 5 days | 7/29/2009 | 4 | to stop smoking | I am hopelessly hooked on it. I am trying to quit the gum and having all the classic signs of drug withdrawal through the day. My teeth which were quite healthy until the last couple of years are starting to crack and break from the chewing. | Nicorette is great in the fact that it does help you quit smoking but it is just as easy to get addicted to the gum as it is the cigarettes. Only difference is that the cigarettes are more destructive to your health. I have been on it since 2003. | F | 56 | | 7/29/2009 | 2 | quit smoking | heart palpitations, rapid heart rate, constipation. | Substituting one substance for another is misleading. Yes, I finally quit smoking - but I whole-heartedly believe I could have successfully done so without the Nicorette... It is merely a mental-crutch. And an expensive one at that! If you choose a nicotine replacement - set up a quit date for the replacement as well. | F | 35 | 13 months | 7/29/2009 | 4 | stopped smoking | It seems to accelerate tooth decay | M | 48 | 366 days | 7/28/2009 | 1 | to quit a smoking habit | hair breaking off; hair thinning; (and don't give me the crap about post-menopause); two bouts of 2.5 months of severe explosive gastritis; weight loss; rapidly receding gumline, sensitive teeth and pulling of one tooth; addiction to the GUM. | The question on this website for Nicorette Gum is "DID IT WORK?" The Answer we have all given is an unequivocable: "NO". What THE GUM did accomplish was the expensive replacement of one addiction (nicotine from smoking) with the same addiction (Nicotine in the Gum). And the FDA approved this scam. The tiny warning print on the pamphlet inside the packaging is not acceptable - I got out a magnifying glass and read the warning after I was well past the 3 months of taking Nicorette and I read it because my normal good health was becoming compromised...this product MUST go back to being prescribed by your Doctor. It is far too dangerous when taken for more than a few months and likely more dangerous than cigarettes if the FDA would bother to look into the known side effects. When you visit your Dr. and have tests taken to try to figure out what is causing rapid onset of hair breakage/loss, severe gastritis, dental issues, etc., NOTHING SHOWS UP IN THE TESTS and blood work. The only item that changed in my life was taking the NICORETTE and NOT SMOKING CIGARETTES, so I know it's the Nicorette poison upsetting many areas of the body. Certainly doesn't make sense to ingest nicotine in gum form in an attempt to cure an addiction to nicotine in cigarette form. Our issues are too similar and consistent with Nicorette use. Quit NOW. The pharma's are making a killing off this product and likely causing more health issues than the damn smoking was causing. | F | 59 | 15 months | 7/24/2009 | 1 | To quit cigarettes | Addicted to nicotine gum | face spasms for last 2 months; am now prediabetic (doesn't run in my family, I eat healthy, weight in normal range, exercise/walk at least 5 hours a week); always tired and achy; suicidal; feel and look like I've aged 10 years in the last 2 years. | F | 56 | 2.6 years | 7/23/2009 |