Josh Brolin is a huge fan of nicotine pouches. During an appearance on Marc Maron ‘s WTF podcast , the 56-year-old Dune actor revealed that he uses nicotine pouches constantly after giving up chewing tobacco and nicotine lozenges. Keep reading to find out more.
.. “My wife [ Kathryn ] would hear this in the middle of the night,” Josh said, imitating the sound of chewing.
“I don’t even know I’m doing it, I’m asleep,” he added. “I have a pouch in my lip, and I’m not f–king lying, 24 hours a day.” According to Yale Medicine , nicotine pouches do not contain tobacco and “are tucked in between a person’s lip or cheek and gums; the nicotine is absorbed into their bloodstream through mucous membranes in their mouth.
” Josh went on to say that he switched to pouches after experiencing some bad side effects from the lozenges. “They taste like gasoline and they got a punch to them,” Josh said of the lozenges. “But I used to keep them up by my between my gum and my tooth line.
I got seven cavities. That’s why I switched to this,” The Avengers actor then shared a story about trying a much strong kind of nicotine pouch while in the Middle East. “We’re in Jordan.
And [this guy] comes up to me, and he says, ‘I have some,’” Josh recalled. “And it has a skull and crossbones on the top..
And it’s 40 milligram packets. And I said, ‘I can’t do that.’” He continued, “And then one day, I start running out, and I haven’t quite run out,.