Hi everyone, Like many tobacco users, I’m a pretty heavy smoker (Pack a day) and I’m starting to be disgusted by my own habit. I’ve tried American smokeless tobacco (Skoal & Copenhagen) but it’s even more disgusting than smoking due to the fact that I have to spit the excess juices. I’ve also tried the pharmaceutical option (gum and patches) but they just have zero enjoyment factor. Thus bringing me to this point… I’m looking for an alternative to these and I’m considering nasal snuff but I have no idea what brand, flavor, or type I might enjoy. I’ve heard that fribourgh & treyer is a great brand but looking at the flavors I’m unsure of what they would actually “taste” like. Could anybody suggest a good brand & flavor to start out with?
A good place to start are the Poschl/Ozona brands. Moist and with a more coarse ground to them that makes them easier to take. Fribourgh and Treyer art more of an advanced snuff. The Quit With Snuff and Toque brands could also be a good place to start.
I started out with Poschl Ozona President and McChrystals Original and Genuine. Both are somewhat mentholated, and the first is about the most user friendly snuff out there, due to it’s moistness, fairly coarse grind, and easy dispenser. I still use it often. The thing that hooked me was, the first time I used the Poschl President I was amazed that I had no desire to use snus, which is what I was using to quit smoking. Many beginners find Toque to be incredibly attractive, and there are loads of different flavors, all of them extremely clean and natural, with good to pretty high nicotine content. Their “Quit” can be mixed with their other flavored blends to give quite a nicotine kick. The combination of snuff for pleasure (some are incredibly high in nicotine, but they aren’t very beginner friendly) and snus to feed your nicotine jones (which doesn’t require spitting in most cases, and is much “cleaner” than American dip) have enable many heavy smokers, including me, to quit.
For a beginner, I would recommend Samuel Gawith Menthol, Samuel Gawith Irish D Light and Gawith Hoggarth Dry Orange. This will give you three examples of different classes of easy to take snuffs.
I agree with the Poschl/Ozona suggestion. They are very easy to take. Also, lately I have been using Wilsons of Sharrow’s ‘Burgundy’. It’s quite dry but due to the coarseness I imagine it would make a fairly good beginer’s snuff. Though I don’t find the nicotine content to be very high so it may not be an optimal choice to help quit smoking.
Honestly, I hear all the time about what’s a good beginner’s snuff and what not. Really, you just have to get in there, in my opinion, and get your feet wet. I can name several that would be good for beginners, but it also boils down to what you might like.
Thanks for your advice everybody! I have tried the snus before, but I’ve only tried the new camel snus that available in the american market. And from what I’ve heard from other people who’ve used snus, the american version is not at all what true swedish snus is (I thought it tasted like a weak and overly sugared version of tobacco, like somebody tried to make a tobacco flavored Kool-Aid or something). I have seen Toque’s website and their selection of flavors is quite impressive, but I find the idea of a Bacon & Cheese flavored tobacco to be… uhhh… questionable at best. The Poschl brands seem good and I have to say that the Ozona President packaging looks “pimp” for lack of a better word. Again, thanks everybody!
I second the Toque recommendation. The 10 for 9 deal is the way to go. Just avoid the Cheese & Bacon. I do. 
(And so does the Toque proprietor!) Choose the flavors that sound appealing to you.
Has anyone here tried the Toque bullets? They seem like a nice clean way to go
My only complaint with bullets is that you have to sniff kinda hard to get it all out of the hole in top, and you get it more in your sinuses than in the front of the nose where it should be. Bullets are a good way to go if you can’t use some other technique.
Is that just with the Toque bullets or do all the bullets available have the same problem?
I’ve only used 2 different kinds of bullets, but they were both pretty much the same, one was plastic(Quit With Snuff brand) like the Toque bullets, and the other was a metal one.
Bullets are good in theory. It’s a shame that no one has ever manufactured one that actually works as it should. Give it a try – Toque bullets are cheap and reusable, but I think you’ll find that nothing beats the pinch.
whatever works. Man I avoided toasts for a long time because they are advanced snuffs. And well never had a problem with them really. My suggestion is try the widest variety of snuff types (grind and moisture mostly and scent types [florals, medicate, fruit, svaory etc.]) see how they work for you and which ones agree the most with you. also experiment with diffrent techniques.
There are no “beginner” or “advanced” snuffs. Don’t get hung up on that. This is an unfortunate myth that is inadvertently perpetuated here all too often. Other than the German snuffs I sampled when offered to me way back when, the snuff that I started out with was Garrett Sweet and Mild. It took a bit of trial and error to get the snuffing technique right, but I mastered it within an hour. It was a lot easier to handle than that first cigarette.
I started on the Garrett sweet too. Scared me at first but is now a “staple” snuff for me.
I quit a 40+ year smoking habit with snus (not Camel Snooz) 1 1/2 yrs ago and don’t miss it at all. Others have, but I don’t know if I’d been able to do it with snuff alone. If you have dificulties don’t be afraid to try real snus. Snuff and snus can coexist quite nicely together.
I recommend Toque for you simply because the scents are true to the name on the tin. Unlike say F&T or some Wilson’s products. Snuffreviews and the reviews on most of the web stores have pretty good descriptions of flavors so you shouldn’t be surprised. Half the fun of snuff is finding out what you like. Just remember there are differences in scents of snuff of the same names from different companies. F&T Morlaix is totally different from Wilson’s Morlaix.
I agree with kjoerup that there are no beginner or advanced snuffs, but I did begin with Garrett Scotch and uh…whooooeeee. I love it now but the first few times I was sitting there with watering eyes going, “My God what have I gotten myself into?” Speaking strictly from my own experience, the Poschl/Ozona line is what got me into snuffing as a habit, but they didn’t have the nicotine “oomph” I needed to get over cigarettes; snus and stronger snuffs did that for me. But they’re still terrific snuffs and you can’t beat a long toot of Gletsher Prise while standing out in the snow!
I echo the “try what sounds good” apart from maybe Dholakia White. We could lose you with that one.