Welcome to Style Byte. Today we’re talking about the surprising online brotherhood of men quitting Zyn, the chalky nicotine pouches everyone seems to tuck into their lip. When college student Dylan Sjolie found himself carrying a Zyn “every waking moment,” his heart raced, his sleep vanished, and he googled “how to quit.” That search brought him to QuittingZyn on Reddit, a community of 10,000 members coaching one another with shout-outs like “Let’s get it, bro” and “Keep smashing it.” Here, strangers swap tips, track withdrawals—“I wake up with loogies every morning the size of Texas”—and flex a kind of “muscular camaraderie.” Founder James McHugh says quitting can feel like “a quiet struggle” masked by macho identity. Volunteer moderator Don Hood doles out tough love and daily check-ins. Success stories include one member going three months nicotine-free after an ER scare. And Mr. Sjolie? Ninety-one days in, he slept through the night and rediscovered his social life—“probably more social now than I was a year ago,” he says. Zyn may be a man’s habit, but leaving it behind, these guys prove, takes a team.
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