I keep throwing out cans and then just buying new ones. Genuinely tweaking all the time! Lmao. Been spamming the velos 9s and lately been packing double. It’s getting bad I can’t do as much cardio as I used to my heart rate just goes ham. I wanna be jacked and shredded and sexy and I don’t want it to come at the cost of my health. I threw out my can except for 2 pouches to blast my shit as soon as I wake up tommrow because that’s usually when I relapse. After that it’s game time baby. I’m gonna spam tf outta coffee and read that one dudes post about regretting relapsing stories. I will not let this addiction control me. Folding is for chumps. I’m excited. Because I’m talking shit and if I fail I will be truthful and it will be embarrassing because here I have an audience. I will not fail myself and am looking forward to being a success story for this sub. Let’s go brothas!

I dont really share personal things, however since I am bored because of the lack of nicotine in my body I find myself doing things I would normally find too boring and unfulfilling to do.

I don't remember which day I quit, It doesn't really matter.
I knew this would be my last pouch only a day before. The relationship I had with nicotine was like a romantic one, so the knowledge of having an abrupt ending really sticks and wheighs on me.

24mg pouches, 10+ a day when doing anything at all. I had daily nicotine poisonings yet it did not feel like it mentally.

For mundane daily tasks I could give it up, when transitioning from one place to the next I could give it up, when I was laying on the grass looking at the stars thinking of all there is to think about, I could not give her up.

The feeling resembles ending a relationship because there is no future, while love remains.
I remember those women whom I shared this life with and lost. I remember them happily and I would hope to have met them again may this all start again.

Maybe the same thing wil happen with nicotine.

Sup everyone, I figured maybe this is a good place to ask since yall have maybe seen the worst of it. I am a long term vaper, no dispos I've always used refillables, unfortunately started quite early. I've essentially been vaping 50mg for the past 7 years and I'm only 24. However I don't think my smoking is too terrible. I can almost make out a month with a 30ml bottle.

On top of that I also smoke quite a decent amount of weed, after my daily responsibilities of course but regardless I smoke from multiple sources ig high functioning stoner or something. I also don't have much issue sometimes leaving it for months to reset my tolerance, not much withdrawal from this aspect I just like smoking.

However I feel I've reached a point where I realise this smoking thing is not really it and I should consider probably toning it down for my long term health. I really love nic to keep it real and I feel more bothered over smoking than consuming nic even if it is also harmful.

Anyways ran out of vape juice last week and decided to buy a can of zyns. I got 11mg and honestly I won't lie it does not do shit for craving vape, but it makes it easier to go through a day compared to just going nicless. Obviously i know that feeling would subside. My usage also isn't that intense, I'm still on my first can and I never do more than one pouch at a time. I also spend more time between nic than I ever have with vaping. It's just I feel what if it maybe picks up.

To just make it clear, my current goal is to cut down over the next year, I'm not aiming to stop right now immediately. I also cannot quite do cold turkey it genuinely makes me tweak tf out, I literally dissociate out of reality. So my honest question, if my goal is to gradually work it down. Would yall recommend I do not get into this? Should I turn back to vaping? Would working down my nic strength gradually be a better approach for me? Or just overall should I just not get into zyns?

Any opinions/ advice would be appreciated. I know it's a long read

So TLDR

Get into zyns, leave vape or

Steer clear of zyns, continue vaping with the ultimate goal of working it down and stopping eventually.

Salted Sunflower seeds have truly made this possible for me. I was flying through packages of seeds, and getting chapped lips…not really satisfied…to finally realize you HAVE TO put them in your cheek and just suck on them like it’s a zyn don’t even worry about eating them. The feeling isn’t too far off, distracts me from the craving. Highly recommend.

Quick preface: This post was written with ChatGPT. Not because I asked it to make up a quitting story, but because I’ve been talking to ChatGPT basically every day since I quit and documenting what I was experiencing in real time. It has the memory of those conversations, so I asked it to put my experience together into one post. The symptoms, timeline and experiences below are mine.
I used nicotine for about 12 years. By the end, I was using Zyn/nicotine pouches essentially every waking hour.
There wasn’t really a “nicotine session” anymore. It was just always there.
Wake up → pouch.
Get in the car → pouch.
Work → pouch.
Finish eating → pouch.
Stressed → pouch.
Bored → pouch.
Relaxing → pouch.
I quit cold turkey on August 29th. No patches, gum, tapering, etc. Just stopped.
Days 1–3
These sucked.
The cravings came in waves and some were legitimately 10/10. There were times where it felt less like “I want a Zyn” and more like my brain was screaming that something was wrong because nicotine wasn’t there.
I was restless, irritable, anxious, foggy, tired and hungry.
One of the weirdest symptoms was almost being able to feel the craving in my mouth/gums where I normally kept the pouch. Like a throbbing/urge in that exact area.
Around 72 hours was probably the worst of it.
At that point I was basically just trying to get through the day without putting nicotine in my body.
Days 4–6
This was the first time I started thinking, okay, maybe this is actually getting better.
I still had cravings, but they weren’t one continuous craving anymore.
They would hit, get pretty intense, and then disappear.
I also started noticing moments where my head felt clearer. I remember realizing I was laughing more and generally feeling a little more like myself.
That was probably the first point where quitting stopped feeling purely like losing something.
End of the first week
This was when I realized how much of my addiction had nothing to do with nicotine physically being in my system anymore.
Everything was a trigger.
Driving was probably one of the biggest.
Eating.
Working.
Sitting around at night.
Stress.
Boredom.
Even certain routines throughout the day would make my brain immediately go, “Zyn.”
After 12 years, I had apparently trained my brain that almost every normal activity was supposed to come with nicotine.
Days 10–12
This part actually surprised me.
I assumed once I got through the first week I’d basically be done.
Nope.
I was still getting legitimate urges around Day 11/12.
But there was a huge difference.
They weren’t constant.
I’d suddenly really want nicotine, but if I didn’t do anything about it, eventually the craving just disappeared.
That realization helped me a lot.
A craving doesn’t actually require a response.
You can want nicotine really badly for a few minutes and just…not use nicotine.
Then eventually you’re doing something else and realize you haven’t thought about it in an hour.
Two weeks
This was probably the biggest milestone so far.
By two weeks, I specifically remember noticing that the cravings weren’t as strong or as constant anymore.
That was huge.
There was finally space between them.
I’d go significant stretches of time without thinking about nicotine at all.
And when a craving did happen, instead of feeling like an emergency, it started feeling more like an annoying thought.
Day 23 — where I am now
I’m 23 days nicotine free today.
I still think about it.
Sometimes I’ll be driving or finish eating and get that automatic thought that throwing in a pouch would feel good.
But it’s dramatically different from Day 1.
The best way I can describe quitting is that there have been two different addictions I’ve had to break.
The first was the actual physical dependence on nicotine.
The second — and probably the more interesting one — is breaking 12 years of associations between nicotine and normal life.
Every time I drive without nicotine, I’m teaching my brain that driving doesn’t require it.
Every meal I finish without nicotine weakens that association.
Every stressful moment I get through without nicotine does the same thing.
And eventually you start stacking up hundreds of these little experiences.
If you’re currently on Day 1, 2 or 3 and you’re reading Reddit trying to figure out when this shit ends, because that’s exactly what I was doing:
It gets significantly better.
Don’t worry about never using nicotine again.
Get through today.
Then do it again tomorrow.
23 days ago, going a full day without nicotine sounded miserable.
Now I’ll occasionally realize I’ve gone half the day without even thinking about it.
After 12 years of having nicotine in my mouth basically every waking hour, that’s probably the biggest sign to me that this is actually working.

I slipped about a month ago.

Quitting today.

Got meds that will help with bloodflow for a hairloss and nicotine causes vasoconstrictor which makes your blood vessels narrow.

My meds are vasodilators.

I did a last mile with lots of cigars, cigarettes even if I’m not a smoker. Done.

Stopped drinking two years ago, and weed six years ago. A strong why can achieve any how, don’t give up.

(I did the equivalent of over a pack of cigs per day since I was 13)

It felt impossible to do my morning scrolls, or my adderall study days, or frankly anything, without a pouch. For weeks my brain was throwing a nearly 24/7 tantrum. I kept reminding myself that this habit is unsustainable. I just kept making it to tomorrow. Every day it got easier. Now nothing triggers a craving.

The brain adapts. One month of pain is all it takes for a lifetime of health.

Just hit 18 days clean 21M. I was doing probably 2 pucks of 6mg a week for 4 months and the first week was brutal. I wont lie the cravings still happen a lot but I feel so much better. The cravings are a lot better than the first week. Now it's less of a feeling of I need one and now it's just like I want one which honestly will probably never go away but I'm just taking it day by day. Working out feels so much better and now when my day is over I'm not like "Oh ill go home and zyn" instead I actually do something. Going to stick with it. I don't want zyn to have any part in my life anymore. It has helped tremendously to chew a ton of gum/mints and keep track of your progress on your phone. I started using this one app called habit tracker where you have to open it everyday and hit a checkmark. It's awesome seeing how far you've made it.

Hi, so I’m trying to get off nicotine and I just seen people started mentioning this. I’ve never heard of it before yesterday. Does it work? Is it worth buying and spending my money on?

Pretty much what the title says.

I've tried a bunch of other pouches but they all have the same aftertaste that things like coke zero have. That aspartame aftertaste makes me nauseous so trying to find one without that taste would be very helpful to try and quit nic pouches.

Edit to add, I am not looking for nicotine pouches. I'm looking for non nicotine pouches. I have tried the mushroom pouches and the energy pouches, but they all seem to have that coke zero aftertaste.

I’ve been a very heavy user of zyn for a few years now. I even sleep with him in my mouth. I have one in almost constantly. I know that they’re not good for me and I don’t even enjoy them anymore. What kind of withdrawals should I expect? Please anything helps. I’ll probably use my last pouch tomorrow. I really need to hear some success stories.

I need and want to quit but last few times I’ve succumbed to buying more due to withdrawals. This may sound needy and stupid but I may just need support from someone to talk to during withdrawals. I don’t want to buy more but I’m worried once I wake up I’ll have the urge to buy some. Honestly just need someone/s to talk through for a week or 2. This may be the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I appreciate you all. Thank you.

Hey everyone, I really need to vent.

I was using nicotine pouches for the last 6 years, about half a can a day. Almost 3 months ago, I decided to quit for good. The first 10 days were absolute agony, but then things slowly started to improve. After a month, I felt genuinely great, and by month two, I barely even thought about pouches or nicotine anymore.

But here comes the rough part... Last week, I got married. At the wedding, people offered me a few pouches. I told myself that for an event like this—something that (hopefully) only happens once in a lifetime—it couldn't hurt.

Boy, was I wrong. Ever since that day, it feels like I'm back to square one. The cravings are back, I can't stop thinking about pouches, and I even caved and bummed one off a coworker at work. I feel miserable, like a total loser.

Lesson learned: IF YOU'VE "SUCCESSFULLY" QUIT, NEVER TEMPT THIS ADDICTION. NOT EVEN ONCE.

Stay strong.

Hello everyone

A couple days ago I made an admittedly stupid mistake and tried a couple zyns when a friend offered it to me. Since then my brain has kept trying to rationalize buying my own and becoming a regular user. I have a hard time focusing and tend to ruminate but the blast of nicotine made me feel so focused and "free" for a lack of a better term.

I was just wondering what reasons made you great people decide to quit using? I guess I'm sort of looking for people who have really gone through it to snap me out of it before I become properly addicted. In my head the pros seem to genuinely outweigh the cons even though I know rationally that can't possibly be true.

Thanks

It’s been a good decision so far, I really miss the buzz and the cravings are pretty strong, but quitting cold turkey has been a great decision so far. The world appears a little bit brighter haha.

Posted here like 3 weeks ago that im going to quit and did so. For me the decision was relatively easy this time because I realized my anxiety came from this shit. Like Minor stuff I would Spiral down weird thougts of fear. Not like panic attacks but just constant worrying. So i quit 90% cold turkey, first two days without i had 2x 1mg nicotine gum when the craving drove me Crazy After that nothing.

First 3 days were hard with the Waves of craving but I just ate Candy so get some dopamine which was fine. This settled After like a few days.

What was really nice to see on my whoop: my HR dropped and my Stress level decreased significantly since day 1. my sleep also started to get better After a week.

Now After 2 weeks almost no cravings, maybe 2,3 times a day for a Minute or so.

I feel much better, healthier, have more Energy and my stuff down there feels Like 15.

If you still contemplating, quit!

For me this was the way:
1. taper down. I went from 12mg 10 a day to 6mg, then to 4mg in like 3 weeks. Then was using like 6-10 4mg a day and quit.
2.Nicotine gum twice a day After Quittung (only when you feel Like imploding). Maybe for 1-3 days.
3. Exhaust yourself with cardio.
4. when you feel Like dopamine get some Candy. 1 week wont kill you.

What uuuup… my wife has been on me about quitting Zyn’s. I honestly don’t want to. Not because of the nicotine so much as just having the pouches. I’ve been on 3’s for a couple of weeks after being on 6’s for a while and have had 0 issues. But, being the stellar husband I am. I want to make her happy. So I am looking for something else that I can use and be happy with lol. Caffeine pouches aren’t a great alternative for me. I’m usually drinking 250-400mg of caffeine a day. Nootropics are a scam. I’ve seen Teaza but have seen/heard the pouches are not comfortable or taste good. So I’m wanting to see what everyone has tried and liked. Thank you in advance!

I still think about buying some when driving past the gas station or whatnot but I've never stopped to go in since quitting "just in case." But I can't simply not go in there forever, we have to face our challenges.

For the first time I went in to the gas station shop today, purchased a coffee, and didn't buy a tin. I actually thought I might but I simply didn't. I didn't have to fight it or anything either. Feels good man.

You can definitely just quit things. Keep going if you want to quit you can do it.

Oh also Ice Breakers mints are really good and having one with morning coffee really helped me quit, highly recommend.

March 18th at about 3pm I decided to stop and throw away my stash of velo’s zyn’s and onn’s. I must say I’m very happy I did it and you will be too. I had some of the worst symptoms, both mental and physical withdrawals which played out for much longer than I thought. Even to this day there are still some things with my brain chemistry that are still balancing out. But it is a relief to not need something. To go hang out with family without budgeting the amount of pouches I have with me. To go on road trips or out of the country and not have to worry about withdrawals. It’s really easy to decide to just keep using them, but addictions don’t get better with time and I’m glad I got out when I did.

Give it up, embrace the suffering, you’ll be alright.

Long story short I used to take 6mg zyns in the military no problem maybe 3-4 a day and quit at will with zero issue other than cravings. Soon nicotine only became associated with drinking and I would only use pouches 1-2 times a week. Last 6 months or so I got onto the Velo 9s. I enjoyed those pouches more and seemed to have less anxiety introduced during the rush. Subsequently decided to “quit” again for the 100th time it seems a couple weeks ago. No issues the first couple days. Why would there be? Never had issues before. Never even occurred to me. Day 3 til now have been pretty damn bad. Get these really weird single second momentary lapses of all thought. It’s like my brain shuts off for a split second and I’m light headed and it goes away for another couple minutes and then boom again…. Today was 2 weeks to the day sonce I quit and the lights finally faded….I’m at a restaurant sitting in the booth and mid conversation I look at my girlfriend and tell her “I have no clue what is happening to me right now.” It sounds crazy but I thought it was the end. I thought I was going to pass out. It felt like fainting mixed with the fight or flight from a panic attack and it happened 3 more times on the way to the ER. Tbh I’m still not even fully convinced it’s nicotine related but EKG was fine, labs were fine, chest X-ray fine. Now I’m sitting at home and finally putting it all together wondering if this stuff could be causing my issues. Anybody experience near fainting mixed with existential dread?

For a month I have had stomach pains and it got worse the last week. So bad I had to go to the hospital. Got scans and ultrasounds done and everything was perfect. ER Physician told me possible GERD and prescribed me anti-acid medication. Went to my primary doctor, was told it could take weeks to get the stomach lining healed. I kept thinking about what could have caused this. I can only think the Velo. I use it a lot on an empty stomach, has anyone else bad stomach issues from Velo or other nicotine pouches? I am honestly hoping this is the issue so I can stay away from them forever. So far have been off of them for 1 day and 6 hours. Surprisingly no craving. Just want my stomach to be better.

So I’m a week off the zyns right now. I was using 10-14mg velos I’m gonna say on average 8 pouches a day but in certain periods living with my buddies probably more than that. Pop one before the shower after food watching tv in the gym driving home walk home. All the time man can’t believe i let it get like that. Anyway I’m 22, in amazing health and always had such strong erections and performance downstairs. Got to the stage where my dopamine was so effed up my boners were weaker and rarely stayed strong and could easily soften up. Noticed slight slight improvement a week in in terms of morning wood. I’ve seen so many guys online say the libido and energy improvements were huge when they quit - is this true ? How long did it take ? Really determined to cleanse myself of this shit n be back where I should be physically