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Grinds is great for anyone looking to either kick their tobacco habit or simply find a convenient, healthy way to gain a boost of energy. Our blog is your go-to hub for tips to help you live your best life.
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Battle of the Beverages (Part One): Caffeine Content & Regulation
When deciding which type of caffeinated beverage is best, we think it’s best to consider a couple of different factors. In this article, we’ll look at caffeine levels and the ability to regulate caffeine with these different types of drinks. In next week’s post, we’ll consider calories and price.
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How to Avoid a Caffeine Crash
We’ve already discussed how nicotine is more addictive than caffeine, but are there any downsides to regular caffeine use? The answer to that question can be complicated, but we’ll do our best to simplify it for you, and give it to you straight.
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The Secret to Long Term Change
Contrary to popular belief, motivation is NOT the key to long term behavior change. It plays an important role, but it’s not the star of the show because it can’t be counted on. You want someone in the leading role who shows up every time, someone who is consistent and dependable. Right? Then, we’re here to tell you: don’t count on your motivation levels alone.
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The Mystery of Motivation

The Mystery of Motivation
Motivation is complex, because it can move you toward a desired behavior, or away from it. This can lead to a psychological tug-of-war.
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How Tiny Habits Lead to BIG Success
We have previously discussed how improving your skills and/or getting the right tools can make a new habit (such as keeping a nicotine alternative product on you at all times) easier & more consistent. But when neither of those approaches work, there’s one last option: scale the desired behavior WAY back. Make it so small and so simple it would be ridiculous not to do it.
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How to Make Behavior Adjustments Easier

As you start creating healthy habits in your new nicotine-free lifestyle, you might find yourself struggling to do the behaviors with consistency. DO NOT interpret this as failure! It’s part of the process of change, which might take some dialing in to perfect. Instead of getting down on yourself, ask yourself what’s making it difficult for you. What about the desired behavior is presenting a roadblock?

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Quit Nicotine to Save Money & Protect Your Family
Tobacco and nicotine users have always been treated differently from those who don’t share their habit. If you’ve ever had to explain the bulge in your lip to a stranger or defend the use of your spit can at work, you know all too well the scrutiny that can accompany your nicotine addiction.
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Find Your Tobacco Alternative and Change Your Behavior
The Law of Ability: Make It Easy & It Will Come If you subscribe to the “Go Big or Go Home” mantra, we’re going to have to ask you to leave that one on the court or field. When it comes to changing your behavior, “Go Big or Go Home” is actuall...
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Quit Nicotine by Changing Your Behaviors
Before starting your journey to get rid of your nicotine addiction, you have to plan the route to get there. In a previous post, we asked you to brainstorm all kinds of different behaviors that could help you wean yourself off of nicotine over time. If you haven’t done that yet, read part one of How To Set Yourself Up For Success before continuing on here.
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You Can Quit Nicotine in 5 Minutes
How hard is it to quit nicotine? The truth is that you can’t quit anything overnight and quitting nicotine is mentally and physically hard. But, the first step -- the one that leads to quitting nicotine completely once and for all -- you can complete by the time you finish reading this article: make the damn decision. 
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You've Been Taught To Believe Nicotine Benefits You… But It Doesn’t

Without even realizing it, continuous exposure to tobacco-positive messaging convinced you over time that tobacco and nicotine can benefit your functioning and make you look cool, desirable or rebellious at the same time. So you likely decided to give it a try, never intending to become a life-long user, and accidentally got addicted in the process. 

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Which is More Addictive: Nicotine or Caffeine?

So you’re ready to kick your addiction to nicotine, but just about everything you’ve watched, read and heard suggests using a tobacco replacement or alternative (like Grinds Coffee Pouches) to help you curb cravings and rewire your brain. Is caffeine just as addictive nicotine? Does replacing nicotine with caffeine mean you’ll be quitting one vice just to pick up another? The short answer is “no.” Keep reading for the long answer.

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