Hi everyone,

I am rather new to snuff, having been at it for about 6 weeks or so but already have taken a lot pleasure in it. The past week I have had a cold that had really stuck with me, and have found it difficult to take coarser snuffs. They seem to irritate my nose quite a lot, giving me an uncomfortable amount of burn, and the taste doesn’t really develop very much. Plus, I have to blow them out quite quickly too. 

All in all, I can’t wait for my nose to get back to normal. What do you do when you get a cold? Do you lay off the snuff for a while, or do you switch to a specific kind? 

I’ve only had one head cold since switching to snuff. (Which makes me happy because I used to get 2-3 a year.) The only thing I did different was use a lot of SM 500 & SM Blue, after a few minutes and a good blow I could breath almost normally and went right on to whatever snuff struck my fancy. Yes, the scents were much muted but still noticeable.

Mentholated snuffs and/or Medicated snuffs are always a good choice for a cold :-P 

I used to get sinus infections and have a stuffy nose all the time when i smoked. But haven’t had one since! Sometimes in the morning I’ll wake up with old snuff up my nose, but I just wash it out. Toque Menthol really clears me up, or some Bruton.

Scotches always seem to get me through colds; medicated/menthol snuffs feel great in my nose for about 5 minutes but then I’m clogged worse than ever.  Everybody’s nose is different I guess…

Actually I do find the same James.  It’s good for an initial opening-up, and sometimes it does last longer for me, but then other times it either clogs me up, or all comes rushing out LOL.  Fine, dry snuffs do seem to stay in a lot easier.

…I really don’t pinch a lot of menthol snuff…  I just realized I still have a (pretty much) full tin of Hedges, as well as a bunch of other menthol snuffs kicking around lol…

I don’t know if it’s snuff or my Neti-Pot (everyone on here knows I’m a big fan of Neti-Pots) but my once a year colds now only last a day rather than a week. Snuff opens the tubes and Neti-Pot clears them. 

I’ve got a bit of a sinus, nasal drip thing going on this week and have been laying off the snuff for a couple of days, can’t wait for it to clear up!!

Me too! I love neti-pots and i use it every day!

When i get a cold, taking a pinch of red bull or any other menthol in the nose causes everything up there to loosen up and then i blow it all out, leaving a perfect clean nose, then i take a smaller pinch but sniff it a little harder to get it up there in each nostril, and then it opens me right up and makes breathing a lot easier.

Dang I just developed a cold throughout the day today. Edit: nope just allergies…