HOW TO USE

How to use Dip-Zip

Two ways to do this — treat one pinch at a time, or treat a whole can at once. Start with the pinch method. It takes thirty seconds and it tells you where your dose is.

Method 1 — By the pinch

01

Portion out your usual pinch into the lid of the can.

02

Cut it in half. Then cut it in half again. You're now looking at a quarter of your normal pinch. It will look too small. It isn't.

03

Add 2–4 drops of Dip-Zip.

04

Work it in with a finger on the lid until it's evenly damp.

05

Use it as you normally would.

Titrate from there. Start at 2 drops. If you want more, go to 3 or 4. If the pinch feels too small, take a little more tobacco. Everyone lands somewhere slightly different — spend the first day finding your number.

PINCH COMPARISON — NORMAL VS. QUARTER, OVERHEAD

Method 2 — Treat the whole can

More work up front, nothing to do afterward.

  • 01

    Empty the can into a small bowl.

  • 02

    Add 4 mL of Dip-Zip — a quarter of the bottle, a little less than a teaspoon.

  • 03

    Mix thoroughly. Every part of the tobacco should get some. People rush this step; don't.

  • 04

    Return it to the can.

  • 05

    Use quarter-size pinches from then on.

One bottle treats about four cans this way.

You'll notice an ammonia smell. That's normal chemistry — raising the pH releases ammonia that was already sitting in the tobacco as ammonium salts. It fades, and it doesn't change the taste of the dip.

  • Tobacco pouches

    If your pouch is running out of life: add 2–4 drops when it starts to fade and keep going. Usually good for another round or two.

    If you want more from the start: add 2–4 drops at first use.

    If you normally run two or three pouches at once: try one pouch with 2–4 drops instead. That's the whole point.

  • Chewing tobacco

    Chewing tobacco isn't alkalinized at the factory at all. That's why it takes a handful to get anywhere — you're working almost entirely at the bottom of the curve.

    Which means it has the most to gain.

    Take about a tenth of your usual amount — roughly marble-sized instead of golf-ball-sized — add 2–4 drops, and knead it in. Titrate from there. A bag of chew goes a very long way like this.

Don't use it with nicotine pouches

Zyn, ON, Rogue, Velo, Alp and similar products are not tobacco. They're purified nicotine on a filler, already pH-adjusted by the manufacturer. There's no tobacco matrix for Dip-Zip to work on. It won't help, and it may irritate your mouth. Don't.

One thing to be straight about

Dip-Zip makes more of the nicotine in your tobacco available to you. That cuts both ways.

Use it to take less, not to take more.

If you keep your pinch the same size and add Dip-Zip, you are increasing your nicotine intake — building tolerance and deepening dependence. That's the opposite of what this is for, and it isn't what any of the math on this site describes.

The whole design of this product assumes you shrink the pinch. Take a quarter of what you used to. Get the same nicotine from a quarter of the tobacco, and put the difference back in your pocket.

And plainly: Dip-Zip does not make tobacco safer. Smokeless tobacco causes cancer, gum disease and tooth loss, and nicotine is addictive. The healthiest thing you can do with this page is close it and quit. If you want help doing that, call 1-800-QUIT-NOW — it's free.