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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Stikostika on 2026-05-07 14:21:50+00:00.

I am 21 years old. I picked up a bad nicotine habit in high school during the height of the JUUL craze when i was about 15-16 years old. At first it wasn't really anything that bad. I would bum a few hits off of a friend in the bathroom or on the bus ride home, but i wasn't actively seeking out nicotine. Really, only taking it when offered to me. The head buzz felt nice, and I hadn't really been exposed to weed or anything, so it was really the only thing i could get my hands on to make me feel nice in the head or "high" in a sense. So it was an every couple of days thing.

A few rips here and there, I thought no harm could come from it. A friend of mine offered me a cheap disposable vape that he had bought but didn't like, so i took it off his hands and started puffing on it in between classes, and a little bit when i was home, but again, I didn't feel dependent on the entire thing.

Fast forward a year or two, and the habit had grown to be pretty bad.

Due to me being like 16-17 years old at the time and not being able to just go to the corner store and buy pods for myself, I started buying them off of some other kid that would charge me like $40 for a single disposable vape that would maybe last a week if i was lucky. The nicotine cravings started to really get to me. I felt like I could barely go 30 minutes without hitting something.

This habit followed me until earlier this year. I decided that my new years resolution was going to be to quit vaping, because at this time I was starting to have breathing issues and chest pains and had a health scare with a close relative due to her lifelong smoking habit.

I tried going cold turkey... didn't even make it a day.

Dried using patches... nothing.

Nicotine gum?... nope.

Nothing i did could seem to help me break the habit of constantly sucking on an electric cancer stick.

Finally a friend told me about Zyn. Told me that he switched to them instead of vaping and it worked for him, so I said fuck it.

Took myself down to the gas station and got a can of 3mg Mint Zyns, and gave one a try.

Burned like absolute hellfire. Took it out of my mouth like 2 minutes after I put it in.

A few hours later, I tried again. Maybe made it like 10 minutes with that one. Slowly, I got used to the burn, but I was still vaping. The pouches just didn't give me the same hit. So the next day, I went back and got a can of 6mg.

Those took a few minutes, but they eventually gave me the hit i wanted, and i noticed i was vaping less when i used them, but it still wasn't much. To try to combat the vaping habit I got a nicotine free vape and slowly weened myself off of hitting the vape by trying to make my brain realize that it would only get the hit from the pouches from then on, and over the course of like a week or so it worked.

I was completely off of vaping and was onto pouches. Good for me. Hurray. *applause, drumroll, studio cheering*

But after a while, i got used to the pouches and wanted more. So I bought a can of some random brand in 8mg. Those hit better, but not as much as I would like, but i put up with it.

After a while I stepped up to 9... then to 12... then to 15...

When i first got to the 15mgs, i realized at first. 3 pouches would sate me for an entire day, then it crept up to 4, then to 5.

Slowly, that nice head feeling faded away. Now I'm at a point where I go through about 8-9 pouches (half a can) a day. Yes, i technically DID get off of vaping, my nicotine addiction as a whole just got worse.

Now I have a whole new fucking problem to deal with.

TL;DR: Tried to get off of vaping, but made my entire nicotine addiction worse by using snus