Notes on quitting pouches.

What the studies found, what building the app taught us, and what pouch quitters told us. A post that makes a claim links its source. A post that does not says so.

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Resting heart rate in week one off nicotine, against each person's own baseline. Back to baseline by week 8 to 12.

· 6 min

What 37 pouch quitters' hearts did over 12 weeks

The only cohort so far that followed snus and pouch users off nicotine week by week. It is small, it is Swedish, and it is the closest thing to a study of you.

af Geijerstam 2025 · 37 snus and pouch quitters
Coming · 4 min

Cochrane on quit apps: a risk ratio of 1.00

Across 14,133 smokers, apps made no measurable difference to quitting. Why Abrupt puts that finding in the app, and what it does instead of promising.

Whittaker 2019 · 14,133 smokers in 13 studies
Coming · 4 min

Pouch use among US adults doubled in a year

Past-30-day use went from 2.3% to 4.2% between 2023 and 2024. What that means for an evidence base that is still almost entirely about cigarettes.

Chang 2026 · 15,340 US adults aged 19 to 65, Monitoring the Future panel
Coming · 5 min

Why week two decides the attempt

In two placebo-controlled patch trials, 83 to 97% of the people who used at all in week two were back to daily use by six months. The app shows that number on the day it happens.

Kenford 1994 · 200 smokers
Coming · 7 min

The withdrawal timeline, in 315 people who quit on their own

Irritability, poor focus and bad sleep peak in the first three days and are mostly gone by week four. Where that curve comes from, and how closely a pouch user should expect to follow it.

Hughes 1991 · 315 smokers