I need to rant about this shit because it's driving me up a wall. So I recently quit smoking and switched over to nicotine pouches. They're a lot cheaper, and I'm not coughing up black shit anymore so that's pretty fucking cool. However, the addiction from pure nicotine products like pouches and vapes is WAY worse. I was able to go about 3 days without a cig and all I dealt with was insomnia, but now the anxiety from not having nicotine is way worse. I had gone months without biting my nails, and just absolutely obliterated my nails last night because I had to go without nicotine for a day. I'm gonna start taking biotin so it's harder to break through my nails, but I'm really upset that I fucked up all of my fingers yesterday
Yeah, I would have gone the rest of my life having one cigarette a day, as I'd been doing for ten years, and been perfectly happy. Then the only cigarettes I liked were discontinued, so I tried a juul. Suddenly I needed nicotine, it wasn't a relaxing thing anymore. I quit now, but it took three years to reign it in. Vapes are bullshit.