Nicorette quickmist diarrhea

[Tonia16]

Has anyone else had diarrhea after using Nicorette quickmist?
I am currently having diarrhea, I have been using the Quickmist mouth spray for about a year now.
I gave up smoking 10 years ago but still haven't managed to quit the nicotine addiction.
Any ideas welcome.

Oh gosh. I'm the same! Gave up smoking 3 years ago but now Quickmist addiction and vaping. I need to set a date then just stop.
No diarrhoea tho. But I spit it out.
Do you swallow after you've sprayed it into your mouth?

No, I spit it out onto a tissue. I suppose it's better than smoking, but it's so addictive.

I vaped for a few years but gave up as it was making me cough.

Joined Mumsnet to post on here. I'm using 14mg patches and Nicorette inhalators (using 1 cartridge per day) and I get a slight tummy queasiness especially at night. Are you on a giving-up-smoking programme? I'm on a 12-week programme, reducing the patches to 7mg in 4 weeks.

I was kind of hoping that would be it with nicotine!!!! Is the purpose of the NHS programme to get me off fags and onto some other source of nicotine? Because if it is, I won't be that much better off really. I was looking forward to the money savings, but if I have to buy stuff after the prescriptions end, I'll be no better off.

No, I'm not on a giving up smoking programme. I had hoped to be able to quit the nicotine myself but I'm not sure if I can.
You are right about the expense of it all. The nicorette quickmist is costing me nearly as much as the cigarettes used to.

How often are you using it? If you use nicotine replacements too often it can give you the trotts. Isn't the dose every 2 hours?

Tbh and I can relate, using oral nicotine replacements for too long can cause mouth cancer. You need to wean yourself off the mist using something like the gum or the smint things and don't use more often than recommended. I use normal chewing gum in-between but even too much of those can cause the runs as well.

My aim is to be completely free of nicotine addiction. I can see it might be a struggle, but my 'plan' is to gradually reduce my intake until I am able to stop. I saw nicotine lozenges in a pound shop! Are people expected to carry on being addicts?

@gamerchick I would say I use it every couple of hours or so.
@AnnaMasse I'd love to be able to reduce it until I can stop but I can see it will be a real struggle. Maybe not such a struggle as giving up smoking was, but I'm going to try.

@Tonia16

I found giving up cigarettes a doddle, really, the NHS lady who phoned me said I had to pick a date, so I chose 1st October. On went the first patch, no more fags, that was it. After a week or so people were all like 'Well done you!' but I have this feeling that it was down to the patches that it felt easy, and I'm just putting off the real fight. I have a little suck on a Nicorette inhalator thingy when I feel like I would have had a fag, like after a meal or when I finish a work task. Still, I am taking it day by day!

If you've been using the Quickmist for a year and only just getting the diarrhoea (5th attempt at spelling that!) then it's probably not the quickmist and just some bug passing through.

Unless you've been using it a lot more recently. Nicotine can have a laxative effect.