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I've been using nicotine pouches for about 3 years.
When you have a low tolerance you get a head rush and supposedly it helps you focus. I don't know if it really helps with the kind of deep focus you'd want for studying but it certainly keeps you awake and at my kitchen job it does get you into the headspace to manage the 20 things you're paying attention to at once. Practically I should only be using it for these reasons but it feels nice so I've ended up taking it constantly.
Long term downsides: a pouch feels relaxing but they are heightening your baseline level of anxiety in the meantime, a pouch will give you energy but lower your baseline level of motivation.
Yes, and then no. For the first year I could go off it for a month without noticing anything, once I started tapering off to 4mg pouches from the 11s I had eventually ramped up to I got a taste of the classic nicotine withdrawal symptoms. One of the things a friend reported to me was that you feel amazing while quitting, I also experienced this while tapering off but it was back and forth between that and the bad symptoms.
I do plan to quit because I'd rather take the 20 or so euro a week and go to a nice restaurant instead, once these 4mg cans run out I'll try and find something weaker and failing that just stop altogether.
Don't go past 6mg and avoid the temptation to increase the strength as your tolerance goes up. Right now it's getting hard to find even 6s in my local shops, one place told me the weakest they had was 17mg.
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