I am addicted to swallowing gum! help?!


Question: I am addicted to swallowing gum! help!?
when i buy a pack of gum, like with 15 pieces, its gone in like a day and a half, and i always swallow like every piece! i cant help it! i know its bad but what should i do!!? i am only 12!. almost 13!.Www@Answer-Health@Com


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Swallowing gum is not bad, but if you wish to stop, as soon as you notice that the gum is getting tiring, remember that you're about to swallow rubber!. It helps quite a lot of the people I know!. Whatever people tell you, gum will not stick to your insides, nor will it digest in a few months or years!. It digests within 1 to 3 days!. Saying that swallowing gum is bad for is like saying that chewing ice is bad for you (Just look at nuts!. They're crunchy, too)!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Oh my, thats a pretty frustrating habit!. Well if i were you i would limit usage or simply resist swallowing it!. You cant get over the habit unless you quit cold turkey!. Chew the gum and when your done with it spit it out and start getting used to spiting it out!.
If that doesnt help, buy a pack of gum and sit quietly and chew, spit!. take another piece, chew and spit!. until the idea is burned in your mind!. Then that way you automatically do it!. Sure its a waste of a pack of gum, but if its the only way to get rid of the habit it may just be worth the dollar!.

Swallowing the gum is not good for your stomach, sometimes it doesn't even digest!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

This is funny - I had the EXACT same problem as you when I was your age, a little bit older!. Scary story - I had a teacher in 6th grade who made us do an experiment where we had to chew gum and stretch it out as far as we could!. She threatened to give us an F if we swallowed it! I was too embarrassed by my problem to tell her, so I ended up getting an F!

Anyway, I got over my problem eventually - and the way I got over it is going to sound REALLY weird and just happened to work for me, but I'm not sure if it will help you!. I guess it won't hurt to try it --I tried to SCARE myself out of swallowing gum by doing this - every time I felt like I was going to swallow gum, I would hold onto one end of the piece and swallow the rest, and then I would pull on the end and bring the gum back up (before it went all the way down)!. Sounds weird and complicated, but it worked after a week or so!. It felt so weird that it made me stop wanting to swallow gum!.

Hope that helps!Www@Answer-Health@Com

Uhm!.!.!.little child, you should stop before you get infections !

If you swallow to much gum, this can happen to you later in the future!

1) Lower matabolism
2) Easting disorders
3) Clogged Instestines
4) Stomache ache



Please stop now, or you'll regret :]Www@Answer-Health@Com

This is a bad habit!. You started to do this because you were lazy and it was easier to swallow than take out of your mouth!. Retrain yourself!. Make a conscious effort to take the gum out of you mouth!. Chewing 15 pieces of gum is too many and too much sugar!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

well, the only thing i can tell you is that you should just CHEW the gum, and when you feel like you are going to swallow the gum, spit it out!. or, just not buy gum for a while if your gunna swallow it!. (:Www@Answer-Health@Com

If you seriously can't stop swallowing, then don't chew gum anymore!. Get mints or something instead!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

GUM IS DIGESTED WITHIN A FEW DAYS
oops caps sorryWww@Answer-Health@Com

dont worry, its no biggy!. just dont swallow to much at one time cuz it giv u appendicidus, which is bad, so try to take it easy

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lolWww@Answer-Health@Com

just eat mentos like gum put u chew like gum and u can swallow buy alotWww@Answer-Health@Com

just make a jar every time you swallow gum just put money in the jar!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

buy mentosWww@Answer-Health@Com

If it bothers you STOP IT!!!!!!!!! A very silly habit!.!.Just stop it!.!.!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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