October 26th, 2009 
Trish 
My uncle has stopped smoking and he’s been chewing nicotine gum off and on again for a couple of years and what not. He heard that you can get throat cancer from chewing nicotine gum and he wants to know how long a person should chew nicotine gum for..
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Chewing nicotine gum might stop you smoking, but it doesn’t cure the addiction to nicotine. Yes, nicotine gum can cause throat cancer, stomach cancer, esophageal cancer and mouth cancer. Your uncle (and anyone else) would be better off to bite the bullet and break the nicotine addiction, rather than transferring it to a different medium – that is, from cigarettes to gum. That’s like quiting cigarette smoking by taking up pipe smoking.
Nicotine is not a carcinogen. He can chew it forever and not get cancer from it. In fact, far better to chew the gum than to use tobacco products in any form.