After 15 years of nicotine use I can finally say that I’ve lost all cravings for the chemical. I quit regular use about 1.5-2 years ago but I’ve been an occasional user since (like the typical “only when I drink” guy). This evening it dawned on me that I haven’t had any desire for nicotine whatsoever in weeks, it is an amazing feeling..
The point of this anecdote is to tell some of the younger guys we have on this board that addiction is gay as fuck and sucks, but you can beat it through sheer willpower. Don’t let yourself become a slave to some chemical or other artificial happiness, as so many of us have done before. I smoked weed daily all throughout college and dabbled in some other substances as well, quit all of them cold turkey.
Nicotine has always been pushed onto teenagers. First it was cigarettes, then vapes, now Zyn. Don’t get involved, it does not improve your life in any way. All it does is make people who have already gotten hooked on it crave it constantly. If you never use it you won’t be missing out on anything.
As governments make it harder to smoke cigarettes, snus started to take over, at least in Sweden, in many other countries it was nicotine gums, vapes, e-cigarettes and other fuckery. Anything that doesn't expose others to passive smoking is generally more accepted as it only harms the user.
They say it's hard to quit smoking as it is, now imagine how much harder it will be to quit consooming (((zyn))) that's 5x more nicotine per pouch. (((They))) even lobby hard to ban snus, hoping to get monopoly on the nicotine market to get more people addicted to it, especially kids.