Nicotine pouches · iPhone and Android
Cut down or quit nicotine pouches, one step at a time.
Most pouches go in before you have decided anything. TinTap puts a tapper under the lid of your tin and a plan on your phone. Tap before each one, hold a number for a few days, then it drops. You pick where it ends, down to none if that is what you want.
Why cutting down is hard
You don’t decide to take a pouch. Your hand does.
Not the first of the day. You remember that one. It is the 11:40 one you took while reading an email. The one at a red light. The one you had already swapped before you finished the sentence you were saying.
Pouches are silent, hands-free and invisible, which makes them the easiest thing in the world to take without noticing. That is why deciding to cut back rarely survives a Tuesday. It is not a willpower problem. It is a habit doing the job a habit is for, which is running without you.
Pouches in a can-a-day year. Ask yourself how many of them you actually chose.
Things currently standing between the craving and the tin.
How it works
One tap, at the tin.
No journalling and nothing to write down later. Your log stays on your phone.
Get the app and the kit
TinTap is on iPhone and Android. The starter kit is two tappers for $39.
Stick one under the lid
It sits inside the lid of the tin you are on, where your hand already goes.
Tap before every pouch
Touch your phone to the lid. TinTap logs the time and shows where you are against today’s number.
Move the lid to the next tin
When the tin runs out, the tapper goes with the lid. Nothing to set up again.
The plan
A plan that steps down, not off a cliff.
Setup asks what you use now, when the first one of the day happens, and whether you have tried stopping before. However many times, that is experience, not failure.
Then you choose. Cut down to a number you are comfortable holding, or stop completely and step down to none. Pick a pace of 2, 4, 8 or 12 weeks. You hold each number for a few days before it drops, small enough to live with and often enough to get somewhere.
Your plan does not end because a day went over.
An illustrative plan starting at 15 pouches a day and stepping down every six or seven days over eight weeks to 13, 11, 9, 7, 5, 3 and 1, ending at zero.
Day one
The plan starts from what you actually do, not what you wish you did.
Down to 9 a day
Each drop is marked, so you can see the number move.
Halfway
Around here the plan can suggest the lowest strength your brand makes.
Your last one
On a stop plan, the final step is a day at zero. On a cut-down plan, you hold.
One week clear
Seven days past the last one.
Why a tapper, not just an app
Half a second, in front of every one.
Before you take a pouch you touch your phone to the lid, and the screen tells you what you are about to make it. This would be your 5th of 8 today. Forty minutes since the last one.
Then you decide. Sometimes you take it, and that is logged without a lecture. But you took it on purpose, knowing the number, which is the part a plan needs and a good intention never gets.
You cannot download a speed bump. An app on its own only catches the pouches you remember to log, and those were never the problem. The tapper sits in the lid, where the other ones happen.
The number that moves first
Count the ones you didn’t take.
Every tap gives you three choices: log the pouch, wait ten minutes, or not now. Wait, and TinTap checks in when the time is up. Choose not now, and that is a craving passed.
Passing on one is the biggest moment in the app, on purpose. It is the number that shows you getting somewhere before the daily count starts falling.
Tracking that feeds the plan
Five things nobody has ever told you about your own day.
TinTap asks when you woke on the first tap of the day. The first one of the day says the most.
A live timer on the tap screen. The gap between pouches is the part a daily count never shows.
A 24-hour dial you can drag through the day. Every habit has a slot it rarely skips.
A stretch you already manage without trying. That is a floor you own, not a target somebody set you.
After a tap you can tag what set it off. Nine presets, plus your own.
Nothing typed and nothing remembered. All five of those fall out of knowing when.
The same fifteen, two different habits.
Count them and these two people are identical. Time them and they have almost nothing in common, and the place each would start cutting is different.
Steady across fourteen hours. Evenly spaced, no anchor, nothing to grab hold of.
Six before noon, then nothing, then nine after seven. Two triggers, not one habit.
Same count. Different habit. Different thing to change.
Why not just
Everything else needs you to remember.
What this is built on
No testimonials here, because there are no customers yet.
TinTap has not shipped. Rather than invent praise for it, here is the evidence it was built on. Judge the idea on that, and hold us to it later.
Recording a behaviour changes the behaviour, with nothing else added. It is why a food diary works before any diet starts.
Habits fire on context rather than intention. You interrupt the cue, not the willpower, which is why the tapper lives on the tin.
Time to first use after waking is the opening item of the Fagerström dependence test.
Pouches in a can-a-day year, at fifteen to a can. Most of them were never decided on.
Want the long version first? Read the guide to nicotine pouches, take the dependence test, or see what withdrawal actually looks like. All free, no email required.
The starter kit
$39 for two tappers. No subscription.
A small envelope with two tappers in it, so the tin at home and the one in your bag both have one. There is no subscription and no way for us to earn more when you use more.
If TinTap works and you stop buying pouches, we lose nothing. That was the point of pricing it this way.
Questions
Before you ask
How do I quit nicotine pouches with TinTap?
When you set up, choose "Stop completely" and a pace of 2, 4, 8 or 12 weeks. TinTap gives you a daily number to hold for a few days before it drops, and the last step is a day at zero. You tap before each pouch, so you always know where you are against the day. TinTap is not a medical treatment. If you want free support alongside it, 1-800-QUIT-NOW is available in the US.
Can I cut down instead of quitting?
Yes. Choose "Cut down", pick a number you are comfortable holding, and TinTap steps you down to it and keeps you there. You can switch to a stop plan later, or the other way round.
How fast does the plan go?
You pick the pace. Each number holds for three to seven days before it drops. The heavier your habit when you start, the smaller the early cuts. This is a product judgement about what is livable, not a clinical protocol.
What if I go over my number?
The plan does not end because a day went over. The tap screen tells you how far over you are, and nothing resets. If your usage has genuinely changed, you can adjust the plan or start a new one, and past attempts are kept, with your longest run.
What happens when I get a craving?
Tap anyway. You can log the pouch, wait ten minutes (or any time you set, up to twelve hours) and get a check-in when it is up, or choose "Not now". Not now counts as a craving passed, and those are counted on the Today screen.
Is there a subscription?
No. The starter kit is $39 for two tappers, and there is nothing to renew.
Do I need the tapper?
You can log a pouch from the Today screen without one. The tapper is what puts the pause at the tin itself, which is where the pouches you did not decide on actually happen.
What happens when the tin runs out?
Move the lid, with the tapper under it, to the next tin.
Where does my data go?
It stays on your phone. Your habits are your business.
Is TinTap a medical or cessation product?
No. TinTap is not a nicotine cessation product, a medical device or a treatment of any kind, and it has not been reviewed by the FDA. It is a tracking and planning tool for adults 21 and over.
Get TinTap
Start with what your hand has been doing.
Download TinTap on iPhone or Android and order the starter kit, $39 for two tappers. Set a plan to cut down or to stop, at the pace you choose.
TinTap is not a nicotine cessation product, a medical device or a treatment, and has not been reviewed by the FDA. For adults 21 and over. For free quit support in the US, call 1-800-QUIT-NOW.