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Thanks very much jmr27,Annesquith and canasta, it's been two weeks today and I'm still going strong. Don't get me wrong I still have that void at certain times especially after having food and after drinking tea or coffee as I've spent many years having a ciggie straight afterwards, my ciggies was my "pudding" in a way so it's going to take a while for me to break that mental chain of thought. Something funny happened last week when I was bought nicotinel 2mg chewing gum as the shops had ran out of my niquitin minis 1.5mg, so I had to use the gum which had a higher dose knowing that this could reset my tolerance level but had no choice, the gum's are not too bad and are the better choice especially after a few drinks, let me explain. The original mints i used (niquitin minis) releases the nicotine rapidly into your system to which is good normally but when you're drinking having all the nicotine injected into your system does not help you 10 mins later,, with the gum it's more sustained over a longer period which is perfect for alcohol. The more you chew the more nicotine is released and the less you chew the less nicotine is released so you can have a drink and have a few chews and then push the gum at the side of your mouth and carry on the conversation/drinking and have a couple of chews every now and again. I have found this to work. For those that maybe put of by the idea of a minty beer or other alcoholic beverage, Initially the gum is minty and then this disperses and you are left with the slightly bitter taste of the gum which is more agreeable with your drink then mint, unless you're drinking a minty based drink obviously. So my advice to everyone is number one, maybe give up drinking for a while before you give up smoking as when you're drinking you will have very heavy hard to control urges to smoke when drinking so make sure if you're using another method other than gum, make sure you buy the gum for this very purpose which should help you a