bob, you poor soul. You are just proned to addiction , it would appear.
A pinch of General Ekstra Sterk Lös in the upper lip and a pinch of Bernard Brasil Doppelt in the nose (Holy Cow Batman)…
@JustPlainMatt I suppose the only way to find out if you’re addicted would be (and I don’t recommend this and most especially if you are an ex-smoker/chewer who’s moved to here instead)is to stop a while and find out. Personally I would guess if I didn’t know I don’t know that it would be worth going to that extreme to find out. I am a convert from smoking and I do recall at the ripe age of 11 picking up and enjoying my first without a cough or a hitch (both my parents smoked heavily so I pretty much already was ‘defacto smoking’ anyway) how “I’ll never get addicted to this” (Yes, I actually thought that and thought somehow my 11 year old body and being was above or exempt… well I was 11 after all, what can I say? I also thought I should be able to just go live on my own at that age and could absolutely could not see why I couldn’t/11 year olds weren’t allowed.,… but anyway, major digression there) I’m no where near satisfied or confident that I’ll never smoke again (been able to go a week or two at a time before ‘something’ catastrophic invariably comes up requring the complete assurance that I’ll get my calming nicotine in a dose I can count on… though this/last week I had at least one such catastrophe and survived with three pronged response of snus, snuff and revival of the e-cigarette, so there is hope), so I’m just about at the 2 week barrier again right now (please nothing bad happen oh please oh please oh please… I know its a prayer in vain but I make it anyway)… I do think its within my sights… I have considered grinding up the remainder can and a half of NAS’s I have (but just sitting here even talking about it makes me want to smoke some instead… time to remember not romanticized but realistically how rank that cigarette would be in comparison, insert a general mini snus, grab up the NTSU and fire up the m-801 e-cig instead ) @bob I realize I’m really going out on a limb with this, but… by chance do you also happen to be addicted to eating, you know, food? (With this too you’ll really know if you are when you risk ‘death by withdrawal’ from lack of it)
Actually foods that spike insulin are very much addictive. Sugars and simple carbohydrates. Add nicotine to this for a good case of the shakes. Or not.
Seem to me I’m in the minority on this thread. Meaning, most of you appear to be former cigarette smokers (I only did it for a couple years socially back in school) and have replaced that addiction with the much better alternative of snuff. Perhaps I find it hard to get addicted because I was never hooked on any nicotine product before.
I have a theory. Addiction makes the world go round. If people bought just what they need the world economy would tank badly. It is the little luxuries people are addicted to and buy that grease the wheels of commerce, so with all my addictions I am just doing my part for the economy. Just half joking.
The up side of addiction. Who’da thunk?
Reminds me of the military relative giving his “why war is good” speech to Harold in “Harold and Maude” (just before Harold went ballistic at Maude who was posing as a “Peace activist”)
Great movie by the way. Yeah I get really grumpy when I don’t eat for a while. I start lossing weight and feel really weak. It’s nasty. Though I don’t take credit for that one. My parents got me hooked on eating really young, I know this will be hard to believe but they had me eating before I was even a todler. Nachman I have to agree addictions are a very important and viable part of the economy and cultural force as well. Seriously without coffee do you think the world would run the way it does? I’am sure it wouldn’t.
“Seriously without coffee do you think the world would run the way it does?” That’s not a good argument in favor of caffeine.
definite addict. General Ekstra Sterk in lip and a snootful of Levi Garrett. …just topped off with a good pinch of McC clove. Yeessss!
Nope, I’m not addicted to snuff at all. Just can’t go without it for to long.
I am one part addicted and second part just love the taste. I’m certainly not giving up snuff anytime soon but it can turn out just like with hookah when I used to smoke quite a lot and then I just slowly stopped liking it and eventually quit.
I’m not addicted to snuff. (Sorry had to take a pinch) I can live without it. (Another boost) It wouldn’t be the end of my world if it all disappeared tomorrow…(Sniff) OK I’m lying. I am addicted to snuff, but not for the nicotine. Snus more than supplies my nic needs. Snuff is more for the scents, the relaxing properties of some snuffs, the memories associated with with some scents, the sheer pleasure of appreciating a masterfully blended snuff.
Ive now managed to stay off cigs full time for the first time ever. Not really through any willpower or anything just that snuff gradually took over completeley as my way of taking tobacco. Im definitley addicted and when I wake up I feel that same urge to pinch as I did to smoke, plus all the other triggers, but the weird thing is that I don’t go insane for a pinch if I happen to leave my snuff at home. That would never have happened with cigs so it leads me to the conclusion that snuffing is a much milder addiction?
Snuff takers are no addicts they are connoisseurs ! /people who appreciate, don’t know if it’s the right word google translate gives it to me/ =D
I sirs am a confirmed nicotine junky, I also have many other issues, I drink too much coffee and sometimes, only sometimes I will start a discussion without using the search feature first… I will quit there. Confession is good for ones soul.
I am addicted , cant live without .
I quit smoking 4 1/2 months ago, haven’t had more that a slight inkling to go back. I appreciate snuff more than I ever even remotely liked cigarettes. Now I have enough snuff to last me through to this time next year… yeah, I’m hooked. Being worried about running out is NOT an issue, so it doesn’t feel like an addition. Maybe I’ll see about skipping a day, then again, probably not.
Addiction is now narrowly defined as “uncontrolled, compulsive use despite harm”; if there is no harm to the patient or another party, there is no addiction. So, it would be a “no” to addiction. It would be a “yes” to compulsive use of snuff, coffee, and sometimes sex…depending upon availibility…lol