Hi,

A late reply is better than none, I suppose.

To get off the gum, (which I mainly did because of the $$$$ of the gum) I started cutting them in half. Then I would pop the half piece of gum into my mouth along with a very strong flavored sugar free gum. Then chew. I did this for a long while (a year?), then I started cutting the nicotine gum in 1/4s and would take the 1/4 with the strong flavored sugar-free gum.

Finally, over a year ago, I stopped using the nicotine gum & just used the strong flavored sugar-less. I had developed a sort of Pavlovian reaction, so that the flavor of the sugarless gum gave me almost the same rush as the nicotine gum.

Now I hardly chew the sugar free gum any more.