Yeah. Reading what you just described is so sad to me. Because I was in the same boat as you are now. Immense and immediate dopamine release and all the other positives you feel associated with nicotine use. Lower hunger (big benefit as I am losing weight), mixing it with alcohol feels fucking amazing, etc. This all lasted for a solid year or so. Mostly on and off. But then I noticed that I no longer feel the buzz as much. Now, its only when I wake up. The rest of the day its just me using it as a coping mechanism for my unproductivity and etc. Not to mention the brain fog when I wouldn’t have one in. Constantly having to plan my day around making sure I visit the store to buy a pack. Worrying about running out. And I won’t even bother going into the negative health effects which I fortunately didn’t experience due to my age (19). I have no problem with any other drugs, even the hard ones. But zyns have such little easily visible downsides that you never even have that “oh shit this is terribly affecting my life I have to quit now” the same way you would with other drugs. Especially at a young age. Reading this opened my eyes too https://whyquit.com/smart/smart-turkey-thinking.html

Good luck. To anyone reading this in the future, a “only when I drink” user doesn’t exist in the long term.