[Margaret Pilkington]

nicotine is addictive, but is relatively innocuous....and as I said in my previous post...the receptors on the cells in the brain disappear after five days without any nicotine......but the hand to mouth habit(as you have so rightly observed) is a much harder habit to break...and this is where the e-cig has it over the patches and chewing gum....you still have the hand to mouth action....and although I have never tried an e-cig...they tell me they are much more palatable than the chewing gum.
I have been told that this gum is revolting even though it is supposed to be mint flavoured.