* BetterOffSold: Nicotine gum is theoretically intended to treat addiction from overuse of cigarettes. However, you usually have better things to do with your cigs than smoke them for a small buff, so almost nobody ever actually ''gets'' addicted, and nicotine gum is essentially only useful to sell. Even after the introduction of cake resulted in the price collapsing[[note]]all your items and req vanish permanently on a drive kill, so players try to spend all their req in preparation, and buying up nicotine gum to inflate the price used to be the usual recommendation -- then cake gave people a much more fun outlet for their doomed req[[/note]] the small amount of req is still more valuable than the item's intended use.