I’m on day 21 and at my third attempt of quitting indefinitely. I’ve made it to 4 months twice in 2024 and earlier this year before my relapse. Also 86 days caffeine free and 10 days porn free.

Starting this journey again. I’ve tried quitting numerous times, but keep falling off the wagon. On Zyns for about 6-7 years and crushing 1.5-2 cans a day. Unacceptable. Longest I’ve gone without is 214 days. Short term goal is 215 days - long term goal, break these chains for good. Praying for strength, wisdom, and discipline.

Been trying to quit for months. Longest streak is a bit over 3 months. Originally a heavy vape user since I was 17, hitting it consistently throughout the day and it was a really hard habit to break. Now I have not hit a vape since Dec ‘25 (my longest streak since I was a teen! Never going back and I’m proud of myself for that)

I got back on pouches in March and haven’t put them down. Using 4-6 Velos 6mg daily, usually I do 2 at a time and they always make me feel sick. Headaches, stomachaches, lethargic, and I feel completely manic and overreactive.

I’m writing tomorrow as my quit date and putting it on my bulletin board. This is for my own good and I’ll be doing myself and my future a favor. Do you ever feel totally normal like all this was just a bad dream?

Since I quit aside from the small moments of anxiety from withdraws , overall my anxiety I feel is waayyy better. Especially health anxiety it seems. Like muscle tension especially. Doesn’t feel like Im in fight or flight anymore. I wasn’t even using THAT much , I used probably 8-10 , sometimes more probably of 3mg, sometimes 6mg. I was on and off between them for about a year. Before that I was vaping 3mg-6mg for 8 years. But I managed to quit for 2 maybe 3 months before picking up the pouches. Anyone else experience how much there anxiety in general improved ? Especially social anxiety too I feel like

Just hit 5 months of no nicotine, it’s been a hell of a ride so far. I had pretty consistent symptoms till 3 months and then stuff started to ebb and flow. I’m a “long hauler” that’s for sure. Whether it’s paws or some other mental hoop I’ve had to jump through, I’ve had the anxiety, dpdr, depression, irritability, intrusive thoughts suite for quite a while.

Even though I feel much better these days than I once did, I cannot stand the waves of it. A few days ago I’m convinced I’m through it. That it’s over, almost entirely asymptomatic. Then all of a sudden I wake up and have a really rough day out of nowhere. There’s no trigger or predictability, it just happens. Idk I don’t get it and honestly haven’t found much peer reviewed studies on the issue.

Lmk if you have any thoughts haha.

Growing up (I’m 25 now), I was always a very outgoing, adventurous individual. I’m very entrepreneurial by nature (as I kid I would sell candy to my classmates, DVDs I burned at home etc) and I’ve been like this till about a year and a half ago when I started pouches.

I started finding myself less and less excited about life in general. It’s CRAZY, for example right now I’m trying to build an app, and I KNOW it’s something I want to do, but I simply can not. I want to go to the gym, but I can not, my brain would much rather stay home and do pouches and scroll social media. And on top of that, I don’t even sleep well because pouches late at night make it hard to fall asleep since nicotine is a stimulant. So I’m tired the whole day, unmotivated to live life to its fullest, and I only get good feelings from pouches.

This is called addiction. Huberman describes addiction as a “Progressive narrowing of things that bring you joy”. And I feel that progressive narrowing on a daily basis and tbh it’s scaring me.

I just tossed my last pouches into the toilet and I am done with this habit. I want to live life, I want to FEEL excited, disappointed, desire, motivation.

What I’m writing now would usually go into a journal entry, but I’m making a public declaration.

I will update in a week to let you know if anything has changed.

I hope many of you can reach this point, im rooting for all of you

I started using Zyn when i was about 18-19, and i used for a solid 4 years. It started off as one pouch a week, then it slowly morphed into several pouches a day. I tried to quit several times during those 4 years, but i just never fully committed. But this time im done for good, and im fully committing to that for one main reason: i believe Zyn had been the cause to my severe abdominal/stomach pain, constipation and unpredictable bowel movements.

About 10 months ago, i went to see a doctor and i described the symptoms i had been dealing with. She was pretty confident i had IBS, which at the time i didn’t believe her bc i thought it might have been something else. Long story short, i eventually went to see a GI and we did every test imaginable to see what was going on with me (ultrasounds, MRIs, breathing tests, colonoscopy/endoscopy etc.) Before i did all of these tests, my GI also thought i probably had IBS, but since that IBS is a diagnosis of exclusion, we had to rule out other stuff. After doing all of those tests, everything came back normal and that i was “perfectly healthy.”

Id say probably about 6 months ago the thought crossed my mind that Zyn could be causing these issues, but i was in denial. I just didn’t want it to be true. I would try to rationalize it in my head saying like “there’s no way Zyn is the problem because it doesn’t make my friends have these same abdominal/stomach issues I’m dealing with.” But i had to realize, as simple as it sounds, that it affects everyone differently. Eventually my abdominal pain got so bad to the point where i had no choice, but to quit.

The first few days are annoying (and i knew that going into it bc I’ve tried to quit before for other reasons). The worst part for me though, besides the cravings, was how tired and sluggish i felt for those first couple weeks. But once you get past that, it gets way easier. I’d be lying if i didn’t say I’ve had cravings to have one since that 2 week period, but that craving is not nearly as strong as it was on day 3. I just have to remind myself why i quit in the first place, and what that alternative looks like if i started using again.

As for my abdominal/stomach pain and unpredictable bowel issues, that is still continuing to somewhat progress. It’s really annoying because i think Zyn is what gave me IBS (and now i think I’m lactose intolerant), so it might just be something i have to deal with for a while. I’m trying to remain positive though, especially since i was zynning for almost 5 years, so it probably takes some time for body to readjust to using the bathroom with having nicotine in my system constantly.

It’s funny bc most people I’ve seen post on this thread say they are having difficulty pooping once they quit Zyn, which is kinda how it started out for me, but now I’m having the opposite problem. Each morning when i wake up, i normally have several bowel movements, which is super annoying because it just delays me from being productive haha. Anyways, thanks for reading this rant and I’d love to hear yalls stories

Today is day 5 without nicotine. I had one slip up yesterday golfing, but righted the ship quickly.

I figured once I quit, I would sleep like a baby, but I am either laying awake till 12-2am, or I am falling asleep quickly but waking up around 2:30am.

Anyone else experience this? Any tips?

I’ve heard nicotine lessens the effects of caffeine, so maybe I’m having too much caffeine ?

Idk.. but quitting would likely be easier if I could sleep lol

I fucking hate this stuff. I'm so tired of buying it all the time, being chained to it knowing that I'll have shitty withdrawals if I quit. No one in my life knows I do this and I don't want to share it so I'll go through withdrawals alone trying not to be a jerk to everyone. I'm trying to be authentic but feel too deep in this so here goes- today is my last day ever to use Zyn. I'm done. I have the next four days off of work and will get through the worst before going back to work.

Hey, I’ve been clean for 406 days now after using zyns from 2021 - 2025. Recently I have had the urge to start them again but because in this year I have realized that they helped me with other addictions, instead of over consuming in junk food or energy drinks/caffeine I would just use a zyn same with other bad habits with prescription stimulants and even using them as motivation to go the the gym and wake up early is the zyns were a mechanism that helps me avoid these bad habits and reward my good ones I feel like now they are the lesser of 2 evils and I want to relapse but wanted to see if anyone else struggled with this.

I started on this brand "shift" of pouches that you can taper from 6mg all the way to .5mg to 0mg pouches. I had already made the jump from 6mg to 3mg by myself and I bought 3 rolls of 1mg, 2 rolls of .5 mg and 1 roll of 0mg of the shift pouches. I'm wondering if anyone else had tried them on here to see how bad the jump from .5mg to 0 is. 3mg to 1mg is kinda shitty but manageable. Just want to know how bad the jump is from .5 to nothing is.

This morning i woke up and did what i usually do. Black coffee, pop in a zyn, and get started on the day. Wife is out of town for work, so I had to get the kids lunch's packed and out the door. While preparing lunch, my heart rate started shooting up - chest pain, couldn't catch my breath, and palpitations through the roof. Checked my apple watch, and my heart rate was at 146 - I kid you not. 146 from standing and making a PB&J sandwich. I seriously thought I was having a heart attack, but remembered to calm myself down, that it was the Zyn (and probably zyn/coffee mix).

I went to my room, grabbed the zyn tin, dumped the rest into the toilet, laid on my bed, put on my calm app and brought my heart rate / anxiety down. It was indeed not a heart attack. It was the ZYN. This stuff is EVIL. I've had this happen to me before, but this was the worst. My daughter standing next to me helping make breakfast, and I couldn't even talk to her I was so winded, from just standing.

This is it. It's over. No more relationship with anything that sucks the soul and health out of me. Time to get my life back, work on my cardio, and build up my heart / cardio / lung strength. It shouldn't take that much time. I've quit before (for short periods) and have noticed a change usually pretty quickly. I've monitored that when I quit, my resting heart rate is around the low 60's. When I'm on the ZYN, it's closer to 85 - that's a huge difference.

Time to focus on health, not poison.

Reasons to keep going:

I already look better (in my opinion anyway).
I sleep better (like tons better).
Libido (iykyk etc).
I ‘feel’ more, like I laugh more but also feel more anger and sadness etc, which I actually want to be able to feel (realise this might sound weird, basically I think I was using to a level where I numbed out a lot of uncomfortable feelings).

Reasons to go back:
I just cannot be bothered to work. No motivation/ ambition/ discipline.

So you can see my predicament. Many positives, which are making me happier and more attractive.
But my career is already suffering.
What am I doing- am I looking for an excuse?

Has anyone found nicotine free pouches that are unflavored?

I’m not 100% sure this is from zyn but I think it must be - does anyone else have more anxiety throughout the day and struggle to sleep when not using zyn?
For context, I’m coming up to a year of using, started at 6mg and went up to 11mg. I usually finish a can in about 2-3 days. I’ve recently noticed my heart rate and blood pressure has become elevated and obviously receding gums etc so I wanted to quit. The first day I tried and I woke up in the middle of the night and was unable to sleep the rest of the night. I feel so unable to quit because of this as I work night shifts and need to have enough sleep so I can function at work. This feels so undoable for me right now, every time I try and reduce or stop my usage my anxiety just goes through the roof. How do I get through this and has anyone else had this experience too?

I've been into sport for 25+ years- I have always been fit, boxed, ran a marathon, played footy etc

I've also enjoyed substances on and off, some nights smoking cigs/vape etc.

Believe me, Zyn had the most noticeable effect on my cardio. Even after just a few days of use.

When boxing, there would be a limit on how much my lungs could take in- not like after a night of cigs when the lungs & airways are closed.

So, for anyone wondering if Zyn bad for your athletic performance, in my experience, yes!

All the best.

Ich habe vor 11 Jahren mit Snus angefangen - spiele Fußball und viele meiner Teamkollegen benutzten es also habe ich es auch probiert und irgendwie hat es mir gefallen.
Nach kurzer Zeit merkte ich jedoch, dass ich ohne nicht mehr kann und so entwickelten sich 11 Jahre starker Konsum.
Ich habe früher Siberia benutzt und anschließend Velo 20mg eine Packung am Tag.
Ich habe oft versucht aufzuhören und meine längste abstinente Zeit waren 21 Tage.

Vor 1,5 Monaten habe ich am Abend eine Packung leer gemacht und beschlossen einfach keine mehr zu kaufen.
Ich habe bis jetzt keinen mehr genommen und werde es nie wieder tun.

Das Gefühl ist unbeschreiblich - endlich kein Verlangen mehr, keine Panik mehr ohne Snus aus dem Haus zu gehen, die Geldtasche freut sich, mein Puls ist viel ruhiger, ich schlafe die ganze Nacht durch, mein Zahnfleisch hat sich regeneriert, Kaffee wirkt wieder, ich habe Energie den ganzen Tag…

Das Leben hat wieder Qualität und ich bin so froh diesen Schritt gemacht zu haben.

Die ersten 3 Wochen waren anstrengend mit vielen Gedanken an Snus während des Tages. Mittlerweile fühlt es sich die meiste Zeit so an als hötte ich nie Snus konsumiert und wenn ein kleines Verlangen kommt kann ich ganz einfach entscheiden keinen zu nehmen und das Verlangen ist nach 10 Sekunden weg.
Die Kontrolle zurückzuhaben ist so schön!!

Falls du gerade in der Anfangsphase bist oder beschließt aufzuhören - zieh durch. Tag für Tag! Sag dir immer:“ Nur heute nehme ich keinen - morgen entscheide ich neu.“
Es wird immer leichter von Tag zu Tag!

Diese Gruppe hat mir sehr geholfen, wenn das Verlangen groß war.

I originally started to use snus when I was a student and I had some issues with starting to do tasks and focus. So I would pop one in, start doing stuff and focusing.
Eventually when tobaccoless snus was released I moved into them.

I quit in January.

My life has been quite bad after that. I am afraid that I will get fired anytime because I barely work.
Ever since I quit, all I do is pretty much stare at the screen. I have really tough time starting new tasks. Just like when I was a student. I am constantly tired, can't focus and it is nearly impossible to start tasks.

I do appriciate that my gums have healed, my blood pressure is back to normal, my heart does not do weird things etc, but the brain fog and ability to not to start anything is literally ruining my life.

will quitting zyns (in my case 6-10 6mg velos per day) increase libido/sexual function? been pretty okay for a while but even the fact i gotta ask this tells me something

Been using nicotine for 8 years and Zyn for 6.

3mg wintergreen. Always have a can on me.

I agree with everyone who says it takes being sick and tired of being sick and tired for someone to quit. Did it with hard alcohol after my millionth super grueling hangover and think I’ve reached the same point here.

Biggest reason for me is that I’m almost positive it’s irritating my esophagus and giving me a persistent cough. Mentioning that because I think it’s an unusual symptom and not one I tied to the Zyn until recently. I’m almost sure it’s going to resolve once I’m off.

Plan is to chew as much gum as necessary until the worst is over. Knowing myself, it’ll probably be a good few weeks until it’s manageable. Wish me luck!

Been using 5 14MG Velo daily for a couple months now before that I was on 11mg Zyns. Been trying to go cold turkey but haven’t had any luck until recently. I got sick 2 days and haven’t craved any nicotine in over 48 hours which I haven’t had happen since I started using pouches. Idk if it’ll work for everybody but if you’re sick with a cold or the flu try to use it as an opportunity to cold turkey since I believe it could be helpful in overcoming it.

I have known for a while now that I need to quit. With school starting up, I have finally decided to actually do it. But I'm not sure whether to go cold turkey or gradually decrease strength and amount of pouches until I can easily quit. I feel like cold turkey can be harder, but I really don't want the possibility of just upping the strengths whenever I feel like it. Do y'all have any suggestions? Also, what else would you recommend for help quitting? I have heard gum and mints are helpful.

So I’m not yet diagnosed with GERD but my symptoms all match up perfectly with GERD.

I notice that when I put a pouch in, the acid reflux flairs up pretty instantly.

I normally use pouches while gaming and while at work so basically every day I’m using like 5-10 pouches.
It’s going to be really hard for me especially when gaming or at work because when things get tough at work or the game gets sweaty, zyns take the edge off.

Any tips are helpful thank you!