Why are cigarettes used to get a nicotine fix? Why aren’t other alternatives normally used like nicotine gum?

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Why are cigarettes used to get a nicotine fix? Why aren’t other alternatives normally used like nicotine gum?

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Because there’s more to the cigarette rush than nicotine, chemically speaking. And there’s also oral fixation, smokers are addicted not just to the nicotine, but also the habit and the ritual. Not saying nicotine patches/gums/snus/vapes don’t work, hell yes they do, but it’s not the same.

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