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Nicotine pouch restriction makes quitting harder for workers (nbmediacoop.org)

submitted 1 day ago by Sunshine@piefed.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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[–] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago

The same corner store that sells a carton of smokes without question suddenly can’t sell you a pouch that might help you quit. That’s not logical health policy. It’s hypocrisy.

It's profit over lives. They WANT you back to buy cigarettes.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

as a smoker who absolutely hates smoking, ugh..

[+] HikingVet@lemmy.ca -18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Addicts not wanting to go without their drugs.

[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

Ya well I'm a adult and my addiction is legal, fuck off with the judgement.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By definition, an addict can't go without whatever they're addicted to without extreme discomfort. That's why most successful addiction treatments involve the person slowly and voluntarily decreasing their intake, to keep it to the point where the discomfort is manageable.

Nicotine withdrawal symptoms can include headache, nausea, and difficulty concentrating, and just one of those can result in you fucking up on the job—not a big deal if you're in marketing, but if you're a heavy equipment operator someone could end up getting killed. So I'd much rather that anyone trying to quit smoking do so in a controlled manner and with whatever aids work for them, rather than being forced to go cold turkey (or return to smoking) because of poorly-chosen policies. Y'know, just in case.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

As an industrial mechanic who quit cold turkey while working, if you need a pouch like the people I see using it, it's not being used as a quitting aid. It's a replacement.

And they leave those pouches everywhere, like cigarette butts.

[–] b000rg@midwest.social 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Your experience is not universal. I quit smoking using the pouches. Sure, some people are just going to use them as their delivery method instead of a cessation aid, but that doesn't invalidate the ones like me. Stigmatizing the cessation aid hurts people in the long run because smokers will be less likely to pick them up. And if you were a smoker before, you know the smallest excuse will suffice to "delay" your quitting.

ETA: That being said, I find it absolutely vile that the companies making the pouches are the tobacco manufacturers who are getting people addicted in the first place. In a just world, tobacco executives would be treated as the slimy drug dealers they are.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

More than replacement. It's a way to sell addicts more drug because there are no use limits in society.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

If we're being pedantic about it, fully replacing smoking with pouches means they technically have quit smoking, but not quit nicotine.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wonder if the pouches biodegrade, or if they are made from something like nylon.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Cellulose based.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Surprisingly good news.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Zonnic doesn't say and the short search I conducted did not say. I would be surprised if they were biodegradable with the company not specifically mentioning that.