A few days, on the assumption that my body was taking too long to fight off the infection in which case the hypothesized property of inhibiting virus replicatio

A few days, on the assumption that my body was taking too long to fight off the infection in which case the hypothesized property of inhibiting virus replication via ACE2 pathways might actually have been useful. Came to the conclusion that lingering symptoms were more post-viral stuff (as I said, only just starting to be recorded with respect to COVID at the time) so the nicotine was utterly pointless. A slight nicotine buzz is hardly a huge acclimatisation (which was sort of the point of thinking it was low-risk to try) and I didn't exactly want to get used to it enough develop a dependency on it!