Pouch Break · nicotine pouches.
App page. Not yet on the App Store.
Pouch Break is for the person who never smoked a cigarette, went from a couple of pouches at night to a can a day at 6 to 11 mg, and now has a pulse that will not settle. It counts pouches, works out your daily nicotine load in milligrams, and writes a dated step-down that walks that number to zero. The counter is free forever. What you pay for is the ladder.
NicotineTaperEngine takes two numbers you already know — the strength printed on the tin and how many you get through in a day — and returns a schedule. Your count comes down first. Then the strength steps: 11 mg, then 9, then 6, then 3. The ritual stays; the dose is what shrinks.
Specimen Worked from 8 pouches a day at 11 mg — a starting load of 88 mg. Multiply the two right-hand columns of any row and you get its milligram figure; that is the entire calculation, and it is the reason you can check it.
| Day | Pouches | Strength | Load | What changed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 5 a day | 11 mg | 55 mg | Count floor reached at this strength |
| 15 | 6 a day | 9 mg | 54 mg | Strength steps down; the count goes back up |
Day 15 is the step people get wrong on their own: you take one more pouch than the day before and your nicotine load still falls, from 55 mg to 54. The habit is not the problem to solve first.
Day 8 is marked HOLD. Hard day? Hold the plan for 24 hours instead of breaking it. That is a button, not a failure. Go above plan three days running and the app offers you a new schedule and then waits for you to tap it — it will never quietly move your target so the graph looks better.
Connect Apple Health, read-only, and your resting heart rate is plotted against days pouch-free. For most people that chart is the actual reason they downloaded this. It is not the lungs and it was never the lungs; it is the palpitations at 2am.
Specimen Ember is used on this site in exactly one place, here, because the rule in the app is that Ember means "this is your body". It is never a button, a label or a rule anywhere else.
Those bars start at zero, which is why eleven beats look like very little. A chart starting at 60 would make the same eleven look like a collapse, and that is the commonest way a health app lies without stating anything false.
What the app would print under that chart is "resting heart rate is down 11 bpm since day one". What it will never print is that your heart is healthier, or that the taper caused the change. It is a chart reading, from Health, with its dates on it. Anything more would be a claim I cannot make about you.
Logging is one tap and one question: why. Bored, stressed, after food, driving, drinking. Two weeks in, the app can tell you the hour you actually reach for one, which is rarely the hour you assumed — the mid-afternoon person is usually a mid-morning person who never counted.
Slip and nothing is wiped. Your best run stays on screen next to your last seven days and the direction they are heading. There is no reset to zero, because a counter that punishes you for one bad Tuesday gets deleted on the Wednesday.
A 7-day free trial on both, once per Apple ID. Prices above are the US storefront and Apple sets the figure in your country. Renewal date and the route to cancelling are printed directly above the purchase button in the app, and cancelling goes through iOS Settings — there is no in-app flow designed to keep you.
Nothing in the free tier expires, and none of it becomes read-only later.