The same corner store that sells a carton of smokes without question suddenly can’t sell you a pouch that might help you quit. That’s not logical health policy. It’s hypocrisy.
It’s profit over lives. They WANT you back to buy cigarettes.
as a smoker who absolutely hates smoking, ugh…
Addicts not wanting to go without their drugs.
Ya well I’m a adult and my addiction is legal, fuck off with the judgement.
By definition, an addict can’t go without whatever they’re addicted to without extreme discomfort. That’s why most successful addiction treatments involve the person slowly and voluntarily decreasing their intake, to keep it to the point where the discomfort is manageable.
Nicotine withdrawal symptoms can include headache, nausea, and difficulty concentrating, and just one of those can result in you fucking up on the job—not a big deal if you’re in marketing, but if you’re a heavy equipment operator someone could end up getting killed. So I’d much rather that anyone trying to quit smoking do so in a controlled manner and with whatever aids work for them, rather than being forced to go cold turkey (or return to smoking) because of poorly-chosen policies. Y’know, just in case.
As an industrial mechanic who quit cold turkey while working, if you need a pouch like the people I see using it, it’s not being used as a quitting aid. It’s a replacement.
And they leave those pouches everywhere, like cigarette butts.
Your experience is not universal. I quit smoking using the pouches. Sure, some people are just going to use them as their delivery method instead of a cessation aid, but that doesn’t invalidate the ones like me. Stigmatizing the cessation aid hurts people in the long run because smokers will be less likely to pick them up. And if you were a smoker before, you know the smallest excuse will suffice to “delay” your quitting.
ETA: That being said, I find it absolutely vile that the companies making the pouches are the tobacco manufacturers who are getting people addicted in the first place. In a just world, tobacco executives would be treated as the slimy drug dealers they are.
More than replacement. It’s a way to sell addicts more drug because there are no use limits in society.
If we’re being pedantic about it, fully replacing smoking with pouches means they technically have quit smoking, but not quit nicotine.
I wonder if the pouches biodegrade, or if they are made from something like nylon.
Cellulose based.
Surprisingly good news.
Zonnic doesn’t say and the short search I conducted did not say. I would be surprised if they were biodegradable with the company not specifically mentioning that.
