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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/GooglyMoogly122 on 2025-12-25 21:09:56+00:00.
This happened about 8 years ago.
I was staying at my Uncle's place for a couple of nights and this was during a time when I was trying to quit smoking with Nicorette 4 Milligrams. I had a couple of strips and on my last day at his place, I forgot one there. For those that don't know, these gums are pretty inconspicuous and seem pretty ordinary and if you don't read the back, you wouldn't know what you were dealing with.
Two days later I meet Unc for lunch at his place. He has a cleaning lady that comes by to clean the house and do laundry etc etc every now and then. Whilst she isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, she's generally a nice lady. She approaches me, strip of gum in hand, and asks what it was. I explained it was meant to help me quit smoking. She looks puzzled but also like something has clicked in her head.
Apparently on the day I left, she found my gum just went "ah what the hey, might as well". This woman has never smoked, chewed tobacco or consumed any Nicotine in her life. 4 Milligrams is enough to knock someone on their ass if they've never had nicotine before. She chewed the gum, got dizzy as hell, ended up puking a few times and had to lie down until the Earth stopped spinning. She had to tell my uncle she was sick and needed to go home and sleep it off. All because I left my stupid gum lying around.
TL;DR: I forgot my nicotine gum at my Uncle's home, the lady that comes to clean his place helped herself, proceeded to vomit, almost pass out and had to take the day off because of her first ever experience with nicotine