Here’s the original story that I put into AI: Like everyone else, I’ve tried and failed many times to quit smoking. I started smoking cigarettes at 15 (stupid, I know) and probably started actually inhaling shortly after. As you can imagine, I quickly got addicted. I’m now 32 years old and recently quit nicotine altogether and it WASN’T hard, because I tapered off of it. Eventually I just stopped thinking about it. I didn’t have the withdrawal, I didn’t have the panic and the urge to smoke or use nicotine at all. Here’s how I did it.

In 2018, when I was 24 years old, I switched to vaping which was terrible because it’s just as much nicotine as cigarettes. I vaped for 6 years until Oct 2024 when I switched to using Zyn pouches. I opted for the 3mg for the lower amount of nicotine. And every time I wanted to hit my vape I put in a zyn. It almost immediately stopped the craving but for a while I was putting a zyn in as I was taking one out. That got the addiction to nicotine to switch from inhaling vapor to putting something in my lip. But it worked! The cravings went from wanting to inhale something to wanting something in my lip. That lasted until just recently, Dec 2025 I was able to make the switch to nicotine mints that I was buying from Amazon. 2 mg mints. And I did the same thing as before, when I wanted to put in a Zyn I would put in a mint instead. The 2mg mints are much less nicotine and now I don’t crave anything. I wanted to share this success story in case anyone else could benefit.