Cigarette Cessation Help...

I hand rolled mine at the end. They look professional and could do it while driving. It became a real inconvenience . Carrying the tobacco getting the papers out folding then just right, applying the right amount of pressure rolling it,then right before i lick the glue strip the damm thing would break in half. Then I start over. I cut back alot since I just didn’t pull them out of a pack and lite up. Now I can smell a smoker from a great distance even though I smoke a pipe now.

Something that helped me was replacing my ever present Zippo with a snuffbox. I found that I unconsciously toyed with my lighter and when I quit smoking and stopped carrying it “something” was missing. I didn’t put 2 and 2 together until I bought my first snuffbox. I have a friend that carried a bic pen in his hand for months, just to have something to do with his hand besides hold a cig. I guess I can sum up the whole post by saying do something with your hands.

Isn’t it funny that a stupid cigarette plays on the mind so well that it takes looking at every aspect of it’s association to us. Glad I am quitting. Already noticed that my fingers don’t yellow by the end of the day :slight_smile:

persistence is the key to try again.

Taxes just went up on tobacco by .50 another reason to rid yourself of them. I heard in Maryland that they plan on tacking another $1.00 to this in a couple months

If Camel has their 75 cent off per pack deal going, I can get them under $4. I paid $8 for a pack at a little shop in Baltimore. That was insanity.

Here in the UK cigarettes range from about £5.50-£10.00 ($12-$20) a pack depneding on brand and where you buy them, Marlboro prob weigh in at a good $14-$15 a pack depneding on where you buy them, over £10.00 at motorway service stations! I am glad I quit as I have saved soooooo much money and snuff, snus and pipe baccy last waaaay longer than a packet of fags did.

My wife and I both get coupons from Malboro but it is so not worth the cost. @Dogwalla Born & raised in Baltimore, a little neighborhood called Westport. They ought to give smokes away just for visiting lol @Skell18 I’ve always heard that the UK can be pricey but that is steep

Enjoyed my first 1/2 pack day and working on keeping it going. Even had a couple of drinks without the urge to smoke :slight_smile: Everyone has been a great help

Well done mate! I hope you realise how significant that half pack is - in the flesh, honest to goodness proof of snuffs capacity to kill those cravings. Just try a whole day where all you do is take a massive couple of pinches when you want to smoke and you will be there. It sounds like that half pack is habit/ritual based - the mental aspect of smoking - as you couldn’t have done it otherwise. This is from a two pack of marboro reds a day, plus cigars AND a pipe addict. Best thing I ever did was buy a nice snuff box and used that to cover the ritual side. Draw those pinches out, anticipate them, take the short break you take with cigarettes but use snuff: that switch-off from the job, the chores, the whatevers and you’ve got it beat. BUT: If you creep back up to a full pack or two, if you get pissed off with snuffing, if you just need to smoke - do so with no apologies to anyone, especially us. Sometimes people feel like they have to explain, you don’t. This site is full of people who have been there - and it’s hard. All thru my stopping period I said if I need a smoke I would have one, no guilt, no bullshit, my business. I have no idea why it helped me but the amount of days that that kept me off the smokes was unreal and all the time snuff was doing its thing. No rant intended :smiley:

I think like most, I toyed with quitting and would try the latest, greatest only to find it wasn’t for me but with snuff it becomes natural and the pleasure of the different snuffs makes my nose crave for them as my stomach would cherry cheesecake lol The natural approach that most had used is the trick for me

I think one of the hardest things about quiting anything is that thought of this is the end of this. So saying I won’t freak out if I have one or two or three…, removes the finality of it.

I honestly believe that when you try to make demands on yourself, you ultimately fail just as when you acknowledge a problem, you start to work on a solution that does not have demands in it. For me it is the support of all the great people in this forum with insights to things that I alone might never thought of

One of the great things about using snuff to help stop smoking is that the discovery of a new scent or different type of snuff is more than enough to keep variety in the experience, and your mind of smoking. Now I try and match snuses with snuffs for different experiences, I can honestly say that at no time do I feel the need for a cigarette especially when I have an Oden’s Extreme in my lip and a nose full of Dragun, enough taste and scent there to last you a week :smiley:

If you are someone that is following this thread to help you reduce or quit cigarettes, you might want to add some spearmint to your snuff. It helps keep your head clear and has other benefits.

@MattheFox get some WoS Country Mint or Crumbs of Comfort, best spearmint snuffs I have ever had, if you want a extra menthol kick, got for the Extra CoC or Prime Minister, all brilliant!

@Skell18 I got a small snuff grinder and can now add spearmint to any of my snuffs. It works great :slight_smile:

I must be doing great, my wife is talking about repainting the house lol

I noticed on this thread & a lot of others that most used more snus than snuff to quit

Chasing the dragon may be a fool’s errand, but if it leads to a less dangerous journey, I’d rather be the fool. The dragon is in the snus.