Josh Brolin has an affinity for nicotine pouches and he’s not afraid to talk about it.
Brolin, 56, admitted on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast that although he stopped chewing tobacco, the pouches have become a constant in his life, and he has them “all over the house.”
“My wife used to hear that in the middle of the night,” he said before imitating a chewing sound.
“I don’t even know I’m doing it. I’m sleeping. I have a bag in my lip and I don’t lie, 24 hours a day.
“Then I started taking them out and putting them on the nightstand.”
Nicotine pouches contain a powder consisting of nicotine, flavorings and other ingredients, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The powder dissolves in the mouth and the nicotine is absorbed through the gums and oral mucosa.
He was worried his young children would start picking up the discarded bags, but he thought it might be a good learning lesson.
“If [my daughter] if she puts it in her mouth, she will get sick,” he said. “And instead of stopping, I try to teach them, ‘Don’t do that.'”
“Stay away from daddy’s bullshit,” Maron joked.
“Daddy needs this,” Brolin added.
When Maron asked if Brolin was worried the covers would be bad for him, the “Brothers” star was quick to answer “no.”
Brolin detailed some of his struggles with addiction in his upcoming memoir, “From Under the Truck.”
He previously used nicotine lozenges but switched to sachets after experiencing negative side effects.
“They taste like gasoline and they pack a punch,” Brolin said of the lozenges. “I kept them close to my…between my gum line and my tooth line. I have seven cavities.
He recently found himself using questionable cover art while filming in the Middle East.
“We are in Jordan, and [this guy] comes up to me and he says: “I have some. “And there’s a skull on the top…and they’re 40-milligram packets,” Brolin recalls. “And I said, ‘I can’t do this.’
“And then one day I start to run out, and I’m not completely exhausted yet. I probably have four or five more boxes left. And I have his thing in my pocket, and I went to the gym. And I come running back from the gym.
Brolin didn’t want to waste his own pouches, so he tried the ones he had been given.
“I don’t put the thing in my mouth, and I swear to God on my kids, for no more than 20 seconds, and I had to cancel dinner that night. I was literally fucking my brains out. It was really crazy.
