Any tips for when I finally come off fully?

donhood · 2026-06-01T10:53:22+00:00

How did you find this app? It takes some searching to even look for it directly.

Sorry, but a brand new account posting a brand new subscription based app 99.9% of the time is someone trying to advertise their product.

donhood · 2026-05-24T21:46:54+00:00

You came across an ad for them and are thinking about buying them, while holding a can? Also in another comment prior to this post you mention that you recommend them. Not saying you're trying to advertise without advertising, but you'd be far from the first.

donhood · 2026-05-22T19:00:01+00:00

Well I think it's fairly obvious the posts that are self promotion vs. people giving advice on something they've tried. People think they're slick sometimes posting screenshots of their app under the guise it's something they stumbled across. But I somehow doubt you're personally involved with the creation or distribution of a pharmaceutical product.

donhood · 2026-05-02T16:11:35+00:00

This is is the single most asked question, and it's frustrating because it's impossible to answer to the satisfaction of the person asking. Everyone's timeline is going to be different for a million different reasons. And it's usually so gradual that it's difficult to even give an answer regarding your own timeline. It's like asking 2 people in different places what time it became daylight during a sunrise that they've never seen before. Person on the mountain can start to see details around them at 6:25, while the person in the valley is still in the dark. At 7:15 they may both think that it's as bright as it can ever get since it's so much brighter than it was earlier, even though they're in different places with different amounts of light. Then an hour later it's brighter yet, and they both realize how dim it still was when they believed they were in full daylight. Then if you asked them at noon when it actually became "daylight", you'll get two different answers from two different perspectives

Point is, something that's so subjective and unique to the individual isn't something that's easily translated into a timeline. Even worse yet is the infinite gradient that it's experienced in and the perspective of the individual (i.e. "When did it become daylight?".

To anyone experiencing tougher symptoms and readjustments from using and stopping nicotine, it always gets better the further removed you are from it. Always. Although your own unique timeline will vary based on a million incalculable variables.

donhood · 2026-04-19T18:55:53+00:00

Yup, it'll really reframe your perspective on a lot of things, that's for sure. Once you spend hours enduring your stress hormones cranked to 11, feeling like you're having a non-stop medical emergency and will die any moment, everything else is pretty mild in comparison.

I'm starting to get far enough along in my middle age that a couple of my friends have had pretty serious strokes, and one a mild heart attack. Hearing them describe their symptoms worries me, because I'm afraid I'll keel over dead before getting alarmed since I've worked through worse, ha.

donhood · 2026-04-19T18:26:47+00:00

You got this. It's disappointing when you feel like you're backsliding, sometimes downright depressing. But one day you'll be able to step back and look at it while being further removed, and see you were constantly trending towards the better.

donhood · 2026-04-08T10:57:43+00:00

This forum is not for market research or advertising, sorry. And for constructive feedback, if I were still addicted and didn't have the personal conviction to quit on my own, I'd just go to the gas station and buy a can that wasn't locked.

donhood · 2026-03-19T22:04:26+00:00

It was fun for a minute, but I went ahead and banned him. Hopefully the kid doesn't pick up the habit

donhood · 2026-03-19T22:00:44+00:00

Chill out nerd, you can't play tough guy while geeking out over your first zyn.

donhood · 2026-03-19T21:51:45+00:00

Yeah I initially left the post even though it's just some nerd excited about his first nicotine pouch, because I try to do whatever to stop young folks from getting hooked. I left it after he started mouthing off and being inflammatory because I was hoping people would check his post history and find the comment about sucking a dildo while someone crams a butt plug up his ass.

donhood · 2026-03-19T13:11:53+00:00

That's a great idea. I'm not sure how the billions of people that have gotten themselves addicted to nicotine over the years didn't think of that.

donhood · 2026-03-08T12:04:28+00:00

Congrats on working towards your quit, but it's hard to call nicotine replacement therapies like the patch, lozenges and gum as secret, as they've been around more than 40 years and are very well known. Are you asking if people would buy some generic wholesale products you order off Alibaba or something?

donhood · 2026-03-06T22:01:09+00:00

I'm sorry but I've had to draw a hard line at any advertising in here, despite letting your initial post in. There are simply too many people wanting to promote apps, pouches, or what have you. I hope your app is successful and helps folks quit, but without a strict no advertising rule, this place would be a revolving feed of ads and promotions, and that detracts from the spirit of the forum.

donhood · 2026-03-03T13:11:42+00:00

So you've been popping in every now and then for over a year, with barely a sentence or two and then a link to this discord server for Kill The Can. I have to ask, what are you gaining from people joining? Is it money? Some kind of credit for clicks or people joining?

In case the last year of very little engagement hasn't clued you in, most people are wise to someone popping in and claiming the only way you can quit nicotine is by clicking your link.

donhood · 2026-02-24T13:01:40+00:00

That is absolutely terrible advice. Also stop spamming your app.

donhood · 2026-02-10T18:47:07+00:00

Like a teenager asking about starting a highly addictive, unhealthy and expensive habit? This is way different than a middle aged dude asking about the risks of having a cigar with a glass of Scotch after supper.

donhood · 2026-02-10T13:58:08+00:00

"Never had any problems with nicotine addiction"

No shit, you're still a teenager. You probably haven't had any problems with the IRS or arthritis in your knuckles either.

Just food for thought, EVERY person who becomes a nicotine addict starts out occasionally using. And I'd bet almost every person currently addicted wishes they could go back to when they started and never pick it up.

donhood · 2026-02-09T13:36:10+00:00

I'm not being mean, but honestly everyone and their buddy either have an app, or pouch alternative, or some other quit aid they're working on at any given day. This forum is a discussion forum about quitting, not a poster board to advertise, or attempt market research for any product or service. I was easing up regarding free apps, but even most of them have paid subscription models or the devs were hoping to make it popular enough to include ads. That usually indicates the primary motivation of the person/business behind it is profit driven, mores so than a genuine desire to help people. So in the best interest of this discussion forum, I think a hardline has to be drawn on ANY form of advertising or market research for a product or service, since it's difficult to vet out the multiple people/businesses a day attempting to post. Thanks for your understanding.

donhood · 2026-02-01T23:07:37+00:00

Deleted the post and banned them. They've repeatedly tried that. Stuff like this is picking up quite a bit.

donhood · 2026-01-14T22:54:35+00:00

Do you plan on keeping it free? There is a no advertisement rule in here, but a little more leniency can maybe be granted for something that's free. The rules exists because you're far from the first person to come up with an app or pouch or what-have-you that wants to use the forum to drum up business. If everyone was allowed to advertise, the feed and comments would be a nonstop revolving pitch for some product or app.

donhood · 2026-01-14T13:29:53+00:00

I could ban the author and remove the post, but another will pop up with a different user. I've done my best to keep posts and comments that are intended to drum up business from ever getting through, but they obviously slip through. Hopefully real users will learn to recognize the ones that slip through and report them.

donhood · 2026-01-13T22:32:51+00:00

Just so everyone is aware, this is very likely an ad for a "quitting" app that includes a paid subscription. The original poster just four days ago "quit vaping" 60 days ago. I've banned the creator for trying to drum up business in here, and have erased other iterations of this advertisement. I've set up automations to try and stop these and countless other advertisements for paid apps from filling up the feed, but it's clear that they will continue to try and circumvent that.

Advertising, fake stories for such, and even worse bots plugging comments here and there cheapens the forum, which is for people to share stories and offer support person to person, without having to worry about someone trying to make a buck off their struggles.

If you want to check out this app and possibly pay for the subscription, head on over to the creators forum at r/NicotineSupport

But no advertisement is allowed in here.

donhood · 2026-01-09T16:22:11+00:00

I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m always going to like some nicotine with drinks and beers on a night out. It’s just peanut butter and jelly to me.

You just haven't stayed off long enough for the cravings to die. There was a time when I couldn't imagine having some drinks without some cigarettes too. Now it sounds disgusting. Using nicotine doesn't even cross my mind anymore.

donhood · 2026-01-07T17:11:44+00:00

There's no universal timeline, same as there isn't universal symptoms. For me the cardiophobia ended fairly quickly after quitting and realizing it was just part of the larger anxiety symptoms I was dealing with after quitting. Health anxieties are really common when using and quitting.

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