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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?

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. 

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.