re: Zyn/Alp pouch addicts check in:

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Pretty sure Tucker owns a large majority of ALP, why wouldn’t he promote it?

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He did it long before that. Either way, it just seems weird to me to promote vice as a virtue.

Its par for the course for Tucker Carlson though. In 20 years he’ll give a half assed apology and be the biggest critic of nicotine there is. Just like how everything he claims to believe in today on foreign policy, 9/11, Israel, etc etc…he shite on and viciously roasted those of us who believed the exact same thing 20 years ago.

I dont trust that cat at all. High level smarts and next level articulate, but something is way off with him

Coffee ground patches? Do they taste like drinking coffee?

I dipped Skoal and Copenahgen from 1983 to 1997. One morning, I was getting ready for church and a doctor on cable news said A) the amount of nicotine in a can of dip equaled something like 2 packs of cigarettes, and B) a smokeless tobacco habit was harder to kick than a powder cocaine habit. At the time I was up to 2 cans of Copenhagen a day. I quit cold turkey that Sunday and found that he was right about the addictiveness. It was over a month before I could get 10 minutes of consecutive work done in a day without severely losing my concentration for long periods of time. Also, I went from 245 to 285 lbs overnight. I craved a dip daily for YEARS following that and to be honest still do to this day every once in a blue moon.

I have quit drinking pretty much entirely after watch State go through it rough. These Grizzley nicotine punches are tough to shed. I’m down to only a few a day thank god… compared to 2 cans a day. I do however, chew a lot more gum lol.

After quitting cigarettes 20 years ago I don't crave them and didn't from the day I quit, but I had help quitting. A stop smoking clinic on Jimmy Carter Blvd in Norcross had a program. A couple hours of psychological counseling, an injection of a mixture of scopolamine and another drug (I can't recall the name,) and some pills to take twice a day for 14 days. The initial injection blocked the nerve endings from sending the nicotine craving to the brain and the pills maintained that block until my body stopped craving the nicotine.
I slept well that night, went to Waffle House in Woodstock near my house, and sat with my former smoke buddies (this was before Waffle House went smoke-free) and didn't crave a smoke. I still smell smoke (my sweetheart and her daughter) both smoke and it doesn't bother me one bit. They don't smoke in the house. Had an open pack in my car and half a carton in the house and finally tossed them a few months later.

Worked in this industry for a few years with FDA applications process after modern nicotine products were required to gain FDA approval. Nicotine itself does not cause health issues(for the most part…everything is bad for you eventually) but the delivery system does. Zyn or other synthetic pouches are less harmful than traditional dip because it does not deteriorate gum lines like a jaw full of Skoal. Any longtime Skoal or Copenhagen users know what I’m talking about and so do their dentist. I cannot speak to oral cancer reductions. Many moist tobacco dippers have an issue with switching to synthetic pouches due to behavioral habits. Even though they get the nicotine fix after years of dipping people get use to a longer experience as opposed to the quick nicotine release of synthetic pouches making it a shorter time to consume the nicotine. Also as disgusting as spitting is, that is part of the behavioral fix.

Vaping is a huge harm reduction vs combustible cigs. While a lot has been made of teen vaping, teen cig usage is almost non existent. In a couple of decades you will rarely see anyone lighting a cigarette.

I quit dipping end of June. Still getting cravings just not as often.