Feels like I don’t see people chewing gum anymore. Did that get unpopular?

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probably has something to do with vaping becoming more popular. I think people who constantly chewed gum were smokers caught in circumstances where they can’t smoke.

I hitting the gum hard trying to kick my nicotine intake

so far it's working pretty well

My mom used to chew gum to curb her cravings

I think it went out of style because people found ways of making excuses to snack and eat at odd times as a result of gum, which people found out about and realized gum doesn’t actually raise your BMR or trick your brain into thinking gum is a meal

I used to chew a lot of gum before cv19. Too much friction with a mask on