How I Learned To Stop Smoking And Love The Pouch

A normal package of Zyn pouches.

Hey everyone, just a practical tip today. It isn’t gardening, and it isn’t likely to lead to a dramatic and immediate improvement in anything but your lung capacity, but I’m writing this because there are probably others out there who, like me, struggled with being addicted to cigarettes and are worried about that posing a risk of more severe COVID-19 infection.

You’re probably also tired of smelling like smoke all the time, and hacking up globs of goo isn’t fun either. But you love your nicotine! I do too. The sort of mental clarity and focus nicotine gives me is perhaps second only to caffeine, but it seems to have a shorter duration, which means it doesn’t keep me up all night the way caffeine does.

One Zyn pouch

Here are a few basic tips I’ve learned over the past few months as I progressively switched more and more from cigarettes to nicotine pouches, and a little bit of the science I found that guided my decision.

Day 1

Try a nicotine pouch. You can get them from a variety of manufacturers, but my preference is the Zyn 6mg variant. Originally from Sweden, Zyn is at least not directly tied to any of the evil American tobacco…