115 Days - Here's what I've noticed.
I was using 2 cans per day of 6 mg Cool Mint, I would do 2 pouches at a time. I haven't had a Zyn in 115 days, I'm extremely proud of that. I just wanted to let some of you know what I have noticed throughout this, and I'm also curious to see if anybody else has noticed any of the same things I have.
I gained weight, a lot of weight. I am a relatively active person, I lift three days a week for an hour and do cardio five days a week. I have gained about 40 pounds since I quit in. And I can't chalk it up to being muscle weight, because none of my clothes fit anymore, it is definitely just flubber.
This sort of goes along with the weight gain, but I've noticed a significant increase in snacking and meals in general. I travel a lot for work, and wow, I was still using ZYN. I would throw two in 95% of the time whenever I was driving somewhere. What I've come to learn is now I have replaced that habit with the habit of grabbing fast food, or gas station food. Looking back now I can honestly say I never really felt cravings for lunch because I always just had pouches in. This also stems to when I'm drinking. I never understood why people would get the munchies and get like appetizers when they were drinking, but now I need to have a bowl of chips, or pretzels in front of me whenever I am drinking. Again looking back, I would always have pouches in when I wasdrinking, so I would never have the urge to eat.
I have saved a ton of money. The app that I use to track says that I have saved over $1000. So that is awesome.
I don't have random pouches laying in my yard or in my vehicles now.
The first week sucked, I felt like I was sick. I had a really bad headache, and I just didn't want to do anything, zero motivation. I tried caffeine pouches during day five, those definitely helped with cravings. I only used the caffeine pouches for about two days and then after day 7 I decided I wanted to stop using them. I don't know what it was, but after day 7 my cravings dropped down to basically zero, at that point I was already beginning to see a financial relief and that kept me motivated to stay off of them.