ZYN Slim – Cool Mint 9mg

Sitting between the 6mg and 11mg cans, ZYN Cool Mint 9mg gives you peppermint and menthol at the middle S3 strength in a slim pouch. Each can carries 20 pouches. It makes a sensible daily setting for someone who finds 6mg a little light and 11mg more than they need.

Where 9mg sits in the ZYN Cool Mint ladder

ZYN sells Cool Mint Slim in three regular steps, S2, S3 and S4, and this is the middle one. Going down, ZYN Cool Mint Slim 6mg keeps the flavour and drops 3mg; going up, ZYN Cool Mint Slim 11mg adds 2mg in an identical 0.68g pouch. Because pouch size and listed flavour notes stay fixed across the three, the main thing you notice when switching is the nicotine. Older cans of this strength were sold as Cool Mint Strong; the S3 marking replaced that wording.

When the 9mg can earns its place

Mint at this level works well for longer stretches: a drive, a desk session, or the hour after a meal when you want something clean-tasting. The menthol gives a quick cold hit at first, and the peppermint carries the flavour once the pouch settles. With 13.22mg of nicotine per gram, ZYN Cool Mint 9mg has more presence than the 6mg version right from the start, without the intensity of the S4 can. Choosing between ZYN’s two 9mg mints is simple: Cool Mint has menthol, while Spearmint 9mg relies on the mint alone.

• Per pouch: 9mg nicotine
• Per gram: 13.22mg
• Strength: Strong (our scale), S3 of 4 (ZYN’s)
• Format: Slim pouch
• In the can: 20 pouches, 13.6g net
• Single pouch weight: 0.68g

To try another brand’s mint at a similar strength, LOOP Strong Ice Cool Mint is a good cross-check. Otherwise, see every ZYN flavour we carry and pick your next can.