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So I have some personal experience with nicotine in different formats. Cigars (not inhaled) and zyn packets you slip under your lip. My experience is that nico
by dageshi 3y ago
So I have some personal experience with nicotine in different formats. Cigars (not inhaled) and zyn packets you slip under your lip.
My experience is that nicotine is highly addictive based on dosage and delivery.
Cigars were in no way addictive, I suspect because the delivery of the nicotine takes quite a while.
The zyn though, I quickly ramped up from low dosages (1-3mg) to the higest dosages (10mg+). And at my worst I'd go through a 20 pack of those per day.
I tried quitting cold turkey multiple times from the zyn, failed each time. Tried slowly decreasing strength till I reached 3mg and then quit, that worked fine and was actually relatively easy.
I still smoke cigars, they just don't trigger the same reactions that the zyn did.
- dieselgate 3y agoStrongly agree with the slow decrease method. One of the nice things about nicotine pouches/gum is they come pre-dosed so it's pretty simple in how to ramp down. Doing it is the tough part. For more fine grained decreases I've used the 3mg, then 2mg, then split up pieces of nicotine gum (2 or 4 mg) to get down to like 1 and .5 mg doses.
- dageshi 3y agoI actually quit over the course of a week. Going from 10mg+ pouches down to 9, 6, 3 and finally quit. Going from 3mg to no longer using was relatively straightforward. Trying to quit from 10mg cold turkey was basically impossible. 4 days after going cold turkey I was still absolutely desperate for nicotine. The difference was massive.