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Brace for impact

J

So I’ve switched back to snus and snuff a month or so ago. Rollies be damned .
Now the dreadful day has come , I’m out of snus and have no money to buy more.
The thing is , snuff alone has never really kept my nic cravings at bay too well. Going through the day without at least a portion of thunder seems horribly slow.
Any tips on going snuff only ? I’ve been using snuff on quite a decent scale these past years , but I’ve never been able to stick to it alone.

D

For me it takes large quantities, taken in lines, of a finer, drier snuff.  Quit (damn it burns) and grunt are about the only thing that can give me that ‘first cigarette of the morning’ feeling.  I too usually supplement with bus or dip to keep the nic levels up.  Without any other source I can go over 5g of the potent snuff in a single day.

I’m not sure why, but I seem to get way more of the nicotine if I suck it up high into my sinuses.  I know it’s not what you’re supposed to do, but it works for me.

T

  Warm the snuff before putting it in your nose. I always find this gives a quicker nicotine hit. I have no scientific basis for this and it could just be imagination, but common sense leads me to believe I’m right.  

C

Scotches.  Anything by US Smokeless is best.  

Bruton does a good job of keeping the dip cravings at bay.

B

if none of that works a can of dip might hold you over.

P

Dose w/snuff the second you feel a craving for anything(snus, cig) or even if its been a reasonable time between pinches. I have heard of, and even participated in, taken a pinch every 20min or so. If you keep the stream of nicotine constant, you wont crave the others as bad, and eventullay will simply crave snuff.

T

I’ve been down the same road as you @Jack. I ramped my snus nicotine down while ramping up my snuff nicotine. Worked a charm. I used this product from The Northerner. They sell 4 levels of nicotine. I used one can per week and by the end of the third can I was done. I hardly used the 4th can…which is 100% herbal snus. If you want high nicotine snuff, I’ve found Navy Plain Scotch snuff, Toque Quit and 6Photo Medicated No.66 to deliver so much nicotine that I was nearly sick. The more you take the bigger the hit.  So it can be done. I found week 2 of the lower dosed Loonic Snus to be the hardest. You may need to ramp down to a normal snus for a week before taking on Loonic. Good luck! It can be done and it’s not too painful.

J

I’ve taken note of all of your advice. I’m gona try and keep it snuff only for a week , if I break down I’ll have to wane myself off snus by pinching some from one of my most recent snus/snuff converts.

S

Viking Dark, Fubar Grunt and Quit taken until the cravings subside and then maintained to stay ahead of the cravings.

T

@Slide also excellent advice! I used to believe you could not get a satisfactory nicotine hit from snuff, until i tried a Scotch and 6Photo Medicated No. 66 . I think both of these snuffs must use a large percentage of air cured tobacco which makes the leaves more available to deliver nicotine. I’ve noticed most English snuffs and German snuffs tend to not deliver a mule kick of nicotine but the American Scotches and some of the Indian snuffs, I assume from my experience will give you more than you want.  This is true of any snuff I’ve had  provided you pinch enough.