My name is Ole, I’m from Norway, and I’ve been using nicotine pouches since I was 17 years old. I’m 44 now. That’s almost three decades of being hooked on something I honestly hated but couldn’t stop.

These pouches - we call them snus - are strong. You tuck a small pouch under your upper lip and the nicotine absorbs straight into your bloodstream. One pouch can deliver as much nicotine as a cigarette, sometimes more, and because you keep it in for so long, it becomes incredibly addictive. The physical withdrawal is bad, but the mental cravings tied to daily routines - coffee, work breaks, stress - can last for years.

Over the years, I quit a couple of times. Once with help from the Norwegian health service. Once on my own. Each time was horrible. The withdrawals were brutal - headaches, irritability, anxiety, the whole thing. And even when I managed to quit, the urge never left. If I saw someone pop a pouch in, I wanted one too. Every single time. It was constant mental stress: I want one. I shouldn’t. I want one. I shouldn’t. It was exhausting.

Then came the last stretch - six or seven years straight of using pouches every waking hour. One box a day, 22 pouches. It was expensive, it made me feel awful, and I still couldn’t stop. I tried twice. Both times I lasted maybe three days before the withdrawals got so bad my wife begged me to start again “for the sake of our marriage.” That’s how bad it was.

I had basically given up.

The Documentary That Changed Everything

Somewhere in those years, my wife and I watched a documentary called The Final Fix, about Meg Patterson - the doctor who used neuro electric therapy to help drug addicts detox with no withdrawal symptoms. Pete Townshend from The Who sat in her clinic and walked out clean. No heroin withdrawal. In three days.

Watching that, something clicked.

I already knew a little about Bob Beck’s work. And then I found out that Bob had actually been in contact with Meg Patterson - that he had studied her work and developed something from it. That got my attention.

I went to bobbeck.com and read the testimonials. I even wrote to them directly and asked if this could work for nicotine. They were honest with me. They said Bob Beck himself believed nicotine was the most addictive substance known to man - that they couldn’t guarantee anything.

But I was desperate. I had nothing to lose.

So I ordered a Brain Tuner.

What I Did - Exactly

I want to be specific here, because I wish someone had told me exactly what they did.

I started using the Brain Tuner about one week before I quit the pouches - while still using them - just to let my brain start adjusting. I didn’t cut down. I didn’t taper. When my last box was empty, that was it. Cold turkey.

The first week without nicotine, I did three sessions:

• morning
• midday
• evening

Some of those sessions I ran for 40 minutes, switching the modes. The first 20 minutes I used mode 1, 4 or 6, then I switched to the next mode for the next consecutive 20-minute session, meaning, if I started with mode 1 the first 20 minutes, I switched to mode 4 or 6 the next 20 minutes.

The intensity strength was such that I could feel the buzzing, but not too high intensity, just enough that I could feel it, and a pinch more. If the sensation lessened during a session, I turned it up a notch.

I tried to do 3 sessions a day as often as possible during the 30 days. Also, you can do more if you feel it's needed (if you get withdrawal symptoms, etc.). I feel that doing 3 sessions a day, spread over morning, afternoon, and evening, works well for giving the brain the input it needs during this period.

That was it. Thirty days. Three sessions a day. Forty minutes each.

And here’s the unbelievable part:

I had zero withdrawal symptoms. None. Not a single one. No headache. No irritability. No cravings. No urge. Nothing.

It was like I had never used nicotine in my life.

The urge - the thing that usually stays for years - was gone. Completely gone. I could sit in a room full of coworkers using pouches and feel absolutely nothing. No temptation. No pull. No internal battle. It was like my brain had been reset.

As I’m saying this, it’s been 528 days since I quit. More than a year and a half. Still no cravings. Still no urge. Still nothing.

I even tested myself once at a party. A coworker offered me a pouch, and I thought, “Let’s see.” I put it in for two minutes and didn’t like it at all. Took it out. No urge afterward. No relapse. Just… nothing.

That has never happened to me before.

One More Thing

About four months after quitting nicotine, I stepped on a nail in the grass. It went straight through my foot. I ended up in the hospital and was sent home on oxycodone and tramadol for six days. When the prescription ended, the withdrawal hit hard - I couldn’t sleep, constant bloating, stomach full of gas, just horrible.

And then I remembered: Meg Patterson’s whole research was on opioids. That’s exactly what the Brain Tuner was originally built for.

So I strapped it on.

The bloating - gone. Just like that. Within a day or two, the opioid withdrawal had cleared.

Final Thoughts

I can say with 100% certainty: I could not have quit nicotine without the Brain Tuner. I tried. I failed. Many times. With the Brain Tuner, I quit in 30 days with no withdrawal and no cravings - and the freedom has lasted.

It changed my life. Truly.