Wow,,,, **big yawn – and hugs to the lovers!!!

It is the nicotine thing that I came to talk about.

This morning I was clearning out kitchen drawers and came across a stray piece of nicotine gum (9 it was sterile).

I popped it in the bin because I didn’t believe that I would ever have use for it. But isn’t it interesting how just the experience of ‘seeing’ a piece of nicotine chewing gum can set off the addiction pathways.

For some reason I had a craving for nicotine, so I took it out of the bin and put it back in my drawer. . . then often during this day I feel like I just want a little nicotine!!

The best way I can think to deal with it is to just replace the craving with something else – a cup of tea for a little caffeine, , , or, , , (I am not sure what else I could replace it with, except for music perhaps and FIN, , , ahhh, FUN.)