Is anyone else addicted to their nicotine replacement therapy of choice? [View All]

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I'm very addicted to Commit lozenges and have been for about 12 months. It's not the danger that I'm worried about (there is none because they don't cause mouth/throat cancer), it's the cost. I spend much more on lozenges than I did for cigarettes. I look forward to my lozenge fix as much or more than I did with cigarettes. They're very addictive.

Here's my beef. GlaxoSmithKline makes an addictive product that is criminally overpriced and a monopoly. As far as I know there are no generic versions of nicotine lozenges. Even if there were, they would be priced only a few dollars cheaper than the name brand, and still grossly overpriced. How can this be legal?

Anyone can make a product with caffeine in it, but only a big-pharm corporation like GSK can make nicotine lozenges? I'd really like to see the profit margin on these things. My guess is that it costs pennies to make each lozenge, but they sell for about 75 cents each. Criminal IMO.