Do not use more than 24 pieces of gum per day. Following 6 weeks of use, you can reduce use to 1 piece every 2-4 hours, and then 1 piece every 4-8 hours. If you use fewer than 10 cigarettes per day, or do not smoke every day, talk with your doctor or other healthcare provider about dosing.

Nicotine gum has several advantages over the nicotine patch: The smoker controls the dosage and can pop a piece of nicotine gum to help deal with a particularly bad craving. The nicotine is more quickly absorbed into the body than nicotine in a patch, providing quicker relief.

Nicotine gum should be chewed slowly until you can taste the nicotine (peppery taste) or feel a slight tingling in your mouth (usually after about 15 to 30 chews). Then stop chewing and place (park) the chewing gum between your cheek and gum.

NICORETTE® Freshmint in addition to the active contains chewing gum base, xylitol, peppermint oil, sodium carbonate anhydrous, acesulfame potassium, levomenthol, magnesium oxide light, acacia, titanium dioxide, and carnauba wax. The 2mg Freshmint Chewing Gum also contains sodium bicarbonate.

If you do, the nicotine may not work as well. Dosing: - One piece of 2 mg gum is about equal to one cigarette. The 4 mg is about equal to 2 cigarettes.

In general, if the patient smokes 20 or less cigarettes a day, 2mg nicotine gum is indicated. If more than 20 cigarettes per day are smoked, 4mg nicotine gum will be needed to meet the withdrawal of the high serum nicotine levels from heavy smoking.

Long-Term Effects of Nicotine Gum When used for a prolonged period of time, it can cause the following: Insulin resistance. Metabolic abnormalities connected to the insulin resistance syndrome. A rise in cardiovascular morbidity.

Nicotine Replacement Therapy is safe to use. Quit-smoking medicines containing nicotine (NRTs) do not cause death and diseases like cigarettes do. Most of the dangers of smoking are due to the hundreds of toxic chemicals in the cigarette smoke, not the nicotine.

Gum chewing of any kind can cause havoc on your dental work. With the regularity that nicotine gum users chew on gum, it raises the risk that you can loosen a dental crown, pull out a dental filling, gum up your dental bridge, and pop loose a partial denture.

Isn't the Gum Addicting? If you've ever felt as though you were becoming hooked on nicotine gum, you might not have been imagining it. Even though the nicotine levels in the stop-smoking product is lower than in cigarettes, there could be an addictive component to its use in some individuals.

Administration of nicotine gum leads to transitory elevations in blood pressure accompanied by a decrease in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and effective renal plasma flow in nonsmokers but not in smokers[120].

- A 2 mg lozenge is about equal to 1 ½ cigarettes. The 4 mg lozenge is about equal to 3 cigarettes. - You can use a 2 mg nicotine lozenge or gum if you use tobacco later than 30 minutes after you wake up. You can use a 4 mg dose if you use tobacco within 30 minutes of waking up.