Addiction
phaidenbauer • 28 Feb 2025 •
As you might know, I smoke cigars two times a week with my best friend on my balcony. It has been a ritual for years and won’t change anytime soon. But there is more.
Quite a while back, I also started smoking cigarillos in between those cigar meetings. And most recently (well, quite a few months back, honestly) I changed those for pouches filled with synthetic nicotine.
My consumption of those pouches skyrocketed a bit, due to tracking I know my average per day is around 8.55 (totalling about 145 micrograms of nicotine).
Thinking about my health stuff (and recently discovering the changing of my oral membranes due to the pouch consumption), I decided I should get rid of the pouch and cigarillo addiction.
There is no definite path yet (since I got a small stockpile of those pouches), but the plan is to reduce smoking down to only the cigars. We’ll see how it goes.
Comments
Good luck with that! Addiction can be hard to tame. 😣
@jasonleow You put them between your lip and the “bottom of your teeth” (I hope you get what I mean 🙈). So it’s in direct contact to get the nicotine into the bloodstream. At first, it has a bit of a burning feeling (similar to eating something spicy, but dedicated to a spot), though that gets weaker the more often you use them. I recently pulled my lip down to see what changed, and I can clearly see some blood vessels that don’t look the same, why they are at other places in my mouth (where I don’t put the pouches).
Take care there! Just curious… how do the nicotine pouches change oral membranes?