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Thank you for responding jillar . Yes, when I talked to the anesthesiologist about nicotine gum, he told me that nicotine constricts blood vessels, so regarding healing it's like not getting all the water from the hose to the plant!

About the pouches, since they are a pretty new product, I don't  feel very comfortable about using them, not knowing much about their safety or dosage.  I do want to quit the gum, but I have not yet found a way that would work for me, so the search goes on. The good news is that as soon as I posted my SOS, I began to feel stronger and more reasonable in my thinking. Gathering together the fearful thoughts and ideas about going back to smoking that were wildly running around in my head, and writing them down and getting it out truly helped me. It enabled me to see how unreasonable they really were, and I was able to get my control back. I thank you for your kind support, for hearing and responding to my SOS!

I quit smoking a year ago, originally because my new apartment complex is non-smoking, so you can only smoke outside. I was using nicotine pouches at first, but since they were so expensive I switched to nicotine gum, which I still use now(and wish I could  stop using). Everything was fine until about a week ago, as my surgery date got closer and closer. I had no idea I was so stressed out about it, but now I'm realizing it because I've been using so much more nicotine gum each day. In fact, I went to the store today and bought nicotine pouches again, thinking that maybe they were stronger. I don't know if they were, and since they're a relatively new product, and from what I understand, there hasn't been much research done on them. So I don't feel entirely safe about using them. Back to the point now! I'm so stressed out about my surgery that I am truly thinking about going back to smoking because I feel like I can't get enough nicotine in my system (like smoking did). This is terrible because I'm actually wondering, "How bad can smoking outside in 20° weather actually be?" (And I was a chain smoker, so basically I would be living outside, smoking, exposed to the elements instead of in my nice warm apartment!) That's addiction for you! Any help would be appreciated!

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