"If I say something to the lads in training, I'll always get told 'Yes skipper, of course skipper', or 'You've changed, Kev - you never used to shout at us!'
"And they all ask me what my long years in the game have taught me to do in any given situation.
"It's all good banter but I'm starting to feel like Captain Birds Eye in the TV adverts. All I need is the uniform and the white beard.
"All my mates are doing the same thing. Whenever they phone me they call me 'skip'.
"The odd thing is that after Speedo I've probably got more Premiership experience than anyone else in the team and there's hardly anyone in the game with more experience than him.
"I've been a regular in the Bolton team since we won promotion and that makes getting the captaincy even more of an honour.
"Jay-Jay was brilliant. He was one of the first to congratulate me and he said he hoped I would do a great job.
"He did a fantastic job as skipper - Jay-Jay and Speedo are two of the guys I will look to put an arm around me and tell me how to handle things if the going gets tough as it is bound to do at some stage."
Nolan knows Bolton need to keep that run going in the UEFA Cup tonight against Guimaraes.
He said: "It's an exciting time to be taking over but I also need to bear in mind that this time last year we were flying high as well and then crashed to six successive defeats.
"These next few weeks will be a very challenging time for us.
"And if we can maintain our momentum we could find ourselves in the last 32 of the UEFA Cup, the Carling Cup semis and still in the top five or six of the Premiership."
Nolan also says he has no plans of moving to a bigger club to enhance his England prospects.
He said: "You could say I might have a better chance of playing for England if I was at a bigger club but I feel I can make the right sort of impact with Wanderers.
"There is always the chance that if I played for a more glamorous club I would not be in the team on a regular basis.
"I might be playing only every other week if I was still at Liverpool and it would drive me nuts sitting on the bench.
"I understand why I haven't been called up by England so far - I play in a position where there are a lot of outstanding players both here and abroad."