Turn how much you use now into a week-by-week step-down schedule: a lower daily limit each week, a lower strength where it helps, and a quit day you can put on a calendar.
Nothing you type here leaves your browser. There is no sign-up, no tracking and nothing is written into the address bar — the schedule is worked out on your own device. Who writes this.
| Week | Pouches a day | Strength |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | 8 | 6 mg |
| Week 2 | 7 | 6 mg |
| Week 3 | 5 | 6 mg |
| Week 4 | 3 | 3 mg |
| Week 5 | 2 | 3 mg |
| Quit day | 0 | — |
This is the same schedule the Lastlid app builds. Round up on a bad day rather than throwing the week away.
Three things decide it: how many pouches you use a day, how strong they are and how long you have been using them.
A taper runs four to six weeks. Four is the base. One to three years of use adds a week, more than three years adds two, and using fifteen or more a day adds another. Six weeks is the cap — past that a taper stops feeling like progress and starts feeling like your normal life.
The limit drops in even steps, and the last week is set so quit day is not a cliff: heavy users land at about three a day before zero rather than dropping from twelve to nothing overnight.
Where lower-strength pouches exist for what you use, the schedule moves down through them in the second half — for example 9 mg to 6 mg to 3 mg. Cutting strength and count at the same time is what lowers the nicotine your body is getting, rather than just the number of tins.
The same stages the app walks you through once the pouches stop.
Neither is better for everyone. Stopping outright is shorter and sharper, and it works well for people quitting on a strong decision. Tapering spreads the withdrawal out and gives you a run of small wins first, which is why it suits people who have tried before and relapsed. What matters more than the method is having a date and a number for today.
Yes. The schedule is built from your own numbers, not from a brand. Strengths differ between brands — Zyn is commonly 3 and 6 mg, Velo and Rogue go higher — so pick the closest strength to what is in your tin.
For most people the hardest stretch is the first three days, and the physical side settles over the first two weeks. Cravings do not vanish on a schedule after that: they get rarer and shorter, and attach themselves to specific moments. A taper means you meet a smaller version of that withdrawal each week instead of all of it on one day. See the full withdrawal timeline.
Go back to the limit the next day and keep the week where it is. A taper is not ruined by a single day over — it is ruined by deciding the whole plan is off and going back to your old count.
No. The calculation runs in your browser, the numbers are not saved, not put in the address bar and not sent to a server. Close the tab and nothing is left behind. The Lastlid app works the same way: your logs and plan stay on your phone.
This page gives you the schedule. The Lastlid app runs it: one tap to log a pouch, how many you have left today, a three-minute craving timer for the moment it hits, and morning reminders that follow the plan you just built.
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