Donald Trump‘s administration may be addicted.
The consuming craving: nicotine pouches from the popular tobacco-free product Zyn, an oral substance that poses itself as a healthier alternative than chewing tobacco.
The sleek disk-like containers are ubiquitous throughout the administration. Employees across the various departments have been partaking, noting the pouches’ mentally invigorating effects.
From the White House to the Department of Commerce and beyond, staffers can be seen carrying the tins close for whenever they need a dose.
They are so popular that even Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr swears by them.
‘Nicotine pouches are probably the safest way to consume nicotine,’ he told a Brazilian radio host last year.
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Ha, I love it! I myself am a big fan of reasonable use of nicotine. If Big Pharma came up with a pill that confers the benefits nicotine does, it would be splashed across all media and tens of millions of Americans would start using it. You can do your own research and find that nicotine prevents dementia and Alzheimer’s, sharpens the mind and even wards off viruses and bacterial pathogens. I do not use Zyn, but do use a 7mg nicotine patch fairly often. I also occasionally use a small piece of organic tobacco leaf, not so much as chew but rather as nibble. Ground organic tobacco mixed with high quality cannabinoids (emphasis on high quality, 3rd-party lab tested cannabinoids, especially CBG and CBD) can be used as occasional snuff. This mixture has helped me a great deal with a case of mild vertigo that would not go away. I see tobacco as a natural herb, which if used wisely, does much more good than harm. (BTW, I had my first exposure to cigarettes when I was four years old and loved it.) Tobacco and nicotine are not for everyone. I am not advising anyone to do anything. Definitely not promoting smoking anything. Just saying what has worked for me. ABN
American Buddhist Net 
Why not just caffeine? Does nicotine do something that caffeine does not? Me personally, I tried it and it gave me a kind of jitters that was uncomfortable, so I have not continued using it. Maybe I didn’t give it enough of a chance, or maybe I used too high a dose. I used the gum rather than patch.
Nicotine is somewhat similar to caffeine but also different in its own way. If you have zero previous experience with nicotine, I imagine it would not feel good at first. You definitely want to start with a very low dose, if you want to try it at all. Check out the benefits of nicotine to decide if it might be helpful for you.