I’m interested to know how many members here used snuff to quit cigs ? . And how did you do it ? Did you gradually cut down using snuff or did you stop completely just like that ?, I’m only asking due to their is no such information available on the net about this ? I know their is a few topics about using snuff as a method to stop smoking but it would be great to have one post about how you did it ? I myself have found completely stopping just like that quite hard but then maybe I’m not useing enough … also how much did you use to combat the cravings that you got ?
There are numerous threads about this but the search is pretty much shot at the moment; the simple answer is yes, a lot of us did. The method, in short, is: Stop smoking. Decide on the snuffs you are going to use and just take two large pinches whenever you want a cigarette. You have to get used to not taking little biddy pinches and to really commit, but if you take the pinch whenever you need a smoke slowly but surely the craving will be for snuff not a cigarette. You have to switch entirely - use snuff wherever you smoke, all the triggers etc but by the end of the first few days you will be getting there. The single, vital thing is to take enough to satisfy the cravings - when you have taken a pinch big enough to do that the cigarette craving will fade away after about 2 or 3 minutes. Use plainish snuff that can be used in quantity without causing congestion - menthols and highly scented snuffs are not too great for this, things like Toque quit, natural or original are. Snuff wins over NRT products because they only provide nicotine; snuff provides tobacco and for addicts that’s important because there is evidence that other alkaloids are involved in the tobacco addiction - so with snuff you get everything bar the combustion by-products, plus if you love tobacco, like most of us, you get to keep it in your life. Make the whole thing pleasant, get a snuff box, savour the moment - and no guilt trips if you fall off the wagon; you owe no explanations or apologies, just start again. I said I would have a cigarette if ever I needed one to save my sanity - and I have done but I have turned a 2 pack a day smoking addiction with snuff appreciation on the side to 99.9% snuff use with a cigarette every blue moon if I feel like one. Been that way since 2007. It is very doable. Btw, it’s counter-intuitive in the extreme but large pinches burn less than small - use about a pea-sized pinch per nostril and you will find the whole point of snuff taking opening up.
Fantastic reply and very very informative thank you very much snuffster people like you make forums like this amazing places .
Somebody needs to cut and paste that reply for the FAQ if they haven’t already.
I quit with snuff and electronic cigs. I found that the hand to mouth addiction is just as fierce as the nicotine and alkaloids with anti-depressant properties. Whenever my cravings get strong (which isn’t very often at all anymore) then I pick up my ecig as well. I do snuff all the time though. It’s WAY safer than smoking IMO.
Yes … quit with Snuff and Snus. The snuff acts faster and gives me a ritual that works like lighting up a smoke … the snus preserves the nicotine levels evenly after i take a few pinches.
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Really alkaloids is addictive as well ?
I did about two years ago, and found very quickly that snuff was actually far more enjoyable of a habit for a number of reasons, not least among them being that I could use snuff while at work without having to wait for a break to go outside. Also, in my experience, snuff is not nearly as hard to quit or take a break from for periods of time as smoking was (to this day I tend to go through phases of using snuff for a month or two, and then stopping for a few months without any withdrawal struggles or cravings before one day thinking a pinch would be nice again). Snus is nice too, and I found that I was able to use that on the job relatively discretely also, but prefer snuff because it has an added air of elegance and tradition about it that is hard to duplicate IMO.
Yes, snuffster’s reply should be a part of the FAQ-section. It’s a really wonderful explenation of the chance snuff gives for all smokers.
I never really wanted to quit smoking these last few months but Ive found myself snuffing more and smoking less. Ive gone from a pack a day to 4 cigarettes a day. I have also noticed I’m going through more tins faster. If trying to quit with snuff doesn’t work then you’ll find that your cigarette consumption will slowly decrease as your cravings for snuff increase.
One thing to also consider is the fact that the Feds in the U.S. at least have some kind of clauses and mandates that deal with what is “smoking cessation.” Whether they be devices (e-cigs), delivery systems (snus), or substance (snuff). They’ll never have it. You’re either on the patch or smoking. For the sake of being among peers of the same interest, I actually gave up on quitting but the combination of snuff, rope, and e-cigs has gotten me off the cigs. Will I give this advice to somebody? Wouldn’t catch me, but there’s really something about a nice big pinch of Sparrow when you’ve had just about enough of a task, a rope of Gawith Cherry I can just slice off and enjoy for a bit, and a nice long drag/toot off a lr 306 with a cannon running 3.7v squonking/feeding even just the average 18mg menthol; again just “something about it.”
Well I have noticed something today that when I had a cig I didn’t feel that calm or that feeling after u have one I couldn’t work it out all day and all day I was on edge , until tonight I had snuff and after I felt calm etc not on edge so is this my body switching addiction do you think ? I found it most odd
I started snuffing at about 15 or 16, I can’t really remember. I started so that I didn’t start smoking, although I do occasoinally smoke a pipe. I think I’ve only had one cigerette in my life, and maybe 20 odd cigars altogether.
I quit with snuff for about 2 years. I restarted when I was dating a smoker and I’m quitting again right now. (about 5 days) I used mint snuff with snuff the first time. I can only speak for myself but I have to not have any cigs in the house. If I have access to them I’ll smoke them, no matter how much snuff I have. The day I decided to quit I had about half a pack or so, when I got a craving I would snuff some then smoke occasionally until I finished the pack. Usually by about the third day the craving for cigs goes away.
I was a 2 pack a day smoker. Then at 23, I had a massive stroke. The doctors said I couldn’t smoke, so I started using the lozenges. I was in total misery and would cheat once a month or so. Then I got into snus and then snuff. About 2 months of using snuff, I started getting my technique right. I loved it. Fast forward 7 months and I never even think about cheating. Once I got my technique right, it was amazing. Basically I’m saying is that snuff takes time to learn. You will get enough nicotine from snuff that it will make quitting smoking easier. I don’t know how long you’ve been using snuff, but you should wait until your technique is good. For me, snuff gives me a nicotine buzz every time I use it. Obviously not everyone gets this, but you should get some sort of nicotine effect from snuff, be it a huge buzz or something more modest. That’s when quitting smoking will get much easier. Give it some time and it will get easier.
I flat out quit smoking cigarettes, a year and a half ago, with snuff. I have used snuff exclusively without an urge to smoke at all since last fall. I guess I’m lucky that way, after smoking 2-3 packs a day for over ten years. It was a cost thing for me, I got embarrassed and felt like an idiot laying down good money for cigarettes, and finally resolved to not buy them anymore. All other forms of tobacco exceed a cost that is acceptable to me and I’m very pleased that a google of the term snuff brought me around to such an exquisite hobby. YOU CAN DO IT
@squarefiend Yep a Buzz with a 306 or Ego with a LR306 with (of course) Cannon drip tip and honey flue cured from liquid express is my favorite “vape” “something about it” is right. That and some good old tom buck in my nose and I’m good on the whole smoking thing… You’ve heard this a million and one times I’m sure, but it’s SOOOO TRUE. You can quit. It’s much easier than you think. Simply switch to something less deadly! 
“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.” - Mark Twain
@joe Nicotine IS an alkaloid… among others in tobacco.
@joe Alkaloids and alkalines aren’t the same thing. I’m no chemist, but from my understanding the psychoactive properties of cigarette smoking are largely from nicotine and harmala (both alkaloids). Nicotine has complex activity depending on dosage ranging from stimulant to sedative among others. Harmala is an MAO inhibitor which causes temporary changes in brain chemistry (neurotransmitters). MAOIs are often used in medicine as antidepressants. Long term use of MAOIs builds chemical dependance, and dropping them abruptly leads to withdrawal symptoms. Snuffing helps alleviate this (my opinion) because there is harmala in snuff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmala\_alkaloid What’s funny in a very perverse way, is that the medical community knows that nicotine replacement therapy without treatment for the MAO dependence doesn’t work, but nobody questions the patch or gum which do not address this. In my perspective snuff is not only an alternative to NRT, it is actually a superior method. If snuff is so much better, than why is it not advertised as such? The answer to that lies in the definition of a drug (aka medicine). If a manufacturer claims effectiveness for a medical condition, of which cigarette addiction is classified as such, then the product becomes a “drug” in the eyes of regulators. Drugs require approval, and distribution of unapproved drugs is illegal by FDA regulations, at least in USA.