I sometimes forget and wonder why I’m finding myself irritated with people… Then I remember, Nicotine!

Withdraw is something I avoid. Tried cold turkey with the cancer sticks and I should had been committed. I always have snuff,snus,dip,and my pipe. The world is a safer place when I have my nicotine! B-)

Snuff…don’t leave home without it. But if I do, I have plenty of places to hide the bodies >:)

The strange thing is it makes it hard to think, yet my insults gain a clarity that only toxic hatred can create. And the thing is it’s usualy cause mofos be breathing too loudly or are too coporeal.

snuff doesnt help me haha, only snus does. if im low on nic and snuff is blocking my nose, it makes things worse!

The strange thing is it makes it hard to think, yet my insults gain a clarity that only toxic hatred can create. And the thing is it’s usualy cause mofos be breathing too loudly or are too coporeal.

lol, well said.

Only when I quit the “nails”. This was before I found and used snus and snuff. Both are great tools to quit the sticks, by the way. I get that certain itch if I don’t use snus or snuff for a few hours, but nothing like cigarettes, which are the devil in disguise if you ask me.

Man, I thought I was alone in my experiencing of this phenomenon! Interestingly, irritation is the only affect I experience (i.e., no cloudy headedness). Am I alone in my experience that Nicotine makes me feel really foggy headed? Especially when I smoke the pipe (e.g., 1792 makes me become one with my chair for at least 30 minutes)…

Mind your own business!!! *sniff (aaahhhhh…) Yes, I suppose I do! Actually, for me it’s like I’m on edge at first, then if it goes on for too long I get rather irritable.

I just get vaguely wistful with snuff. With cigarettes I turned into Charles Manson’s evil twin - the really bad one the Mansons don’t talk about.

Irritable and moody, somewhat depressed even. But that’s if I go without it for a day or more, other than that I notice myself getting sleepy and unfocused if it’s been an hour or two, but nothing too bad, sometimes I intentionally abstain if I feel like relaxing (though sometimes I use a lot of snuff if I want to relax, haha).

for me it takes longer to get to the point of true nastiness then it did with cigs but it still happens. Which is odd because I start craving snuff quicker.

Same here - I used to be a nightmare without cigarettes but once rid of them it has never seemed a problem. But I must admit that when stressed I do still reach for a cigar - that seems to hit the spot in a way that pipes and snuff just can’t.

I haven’t had snuff or my usual 2 cigarettes in about 5 days since I’ve had this bad bout of bronchitis/sinus infection/ear infection. I tried my e-cig and even that hurts, and Doc says absolutely no snuff till i get better. Snus is holding me through, but I’m pretty grumpy and headachy without my nic fix.

Hope you feel better soon @TobaccyLassy!

It’s hard to put a finger to it, but it certainly is not irritation. Some kind of apathy i guess, like there is no purpose of life and no matter what you do nothing really matters. Then, after some snus, i suddenly can see everything bright and clear and the world becomes a beautiful place that is worth something again.

My head is not a fun place to be when deprived of nicotine. A dense fog of gloom leads to a lack of clarity, whilst peoples every move and sound is like getting poked with a sail needle. People avoidance tends to alleviate 80% of the irritability, but not the gloom. Seeking some form of nic fix is always the solution, and it seems a lot more socially acceptable than plunging a fork into some irritating twerp’s thigh and garnishing them with exotic vocabulary :))

I call it nico rage and like many I got it real bad with cigs but not so bad with snuff, infact I only get it with snuff if I’ve been using a lot and then stop for few hours and still it is mild in comparison with smoking so to me that’s a huge snuff plus. With me when I smoked it manifested in lots of swearing while atttempting to accomplish the simplest task, I really felt like screaming or roaring as loud as I could or like breaking down and crying so not a disirable effect at all. This is actually the first time I’ve come across people describing this. I used to search on nico rage and came up with nothing. Maybe it is not that common? or at least in the extreme as with ourselves.

Oh, yeah. The few times I tried quitting cigarettes cold turkey were just awful, irate epochs. The same emotional miasma alcohol withdrawal produces. Sheer insanity. For me, snuff and smoking a pipe outdoors works well; I have no intention of eliminating nicotine, it has too many beneficial effects, but inhaling smoke had to go.

I always inhaled those mini cigars since I moved to them from cigarettes some 3 years ago but I suppose I only smoked half as many as I did with cigarettes. Now I don’t want any smoke even in my mouth so a pipe would have no appeal although I’m sure it can be very nice. Never tried it and I’m not starting now. Just remembering this nicotine gum has quite a bad withdrawal also so I want to get off that perminantly too but I find it good as a backup if the need is felt. The nico gum is supposed to help stop smoking and I suppose it does but then you become reliant on it and I think there are many people in that situation and have been using it for years.

I HATED nico gum, and have found electronic cigs to me much better. I have tried the mints and patches too, and found those to be even worse than the gum

Has no discernible effect. I snuff all day, but a day or two off doesn’t light up any withdrawal symptoms. Then again, I’m generally irritable anyway. Not sure I’d notice.

I was a monster without my cigarettes when I was smoker. Since changing to snuff and snus, I can go without for hours without getting irritable. Instead of feeling like I could murder someone for a smoke, I just notice I’m missing not having had a pinch for a while but it’s not a full on must-have-right-now craving.

I HATED nico gum, and have found electronic cigs to me much better. I have tried the mints and patches too, and found those to be even worse than the gum

I’ve never tried the electronic cig but I noticed a shop poped up in town seemly solely to sell them. Jumping on a current craze I suppose. What I wouldn’t like about those is it continually reminiding me of a real cigarette. It would be a backward step for me now but if they do help people then why not. I don’t like the patches or mints either but the nasal spray is really a heavy hitter. You might like that.

Never come across the nasal spray … although now I’m into this stuff the nose is spoken for Good call on the backwards step, though a decent safety net tactic maybe. Better to have one of those in a crisis than a cig I suppose. I’m not ready to completely move away from cigs yet though :-SS I’m pleased with cutting down to 1/3 of what it was, and think I’ll linger here a while until it’s automatic (I’m still having to think about alternatives rather than them being primaries) then take it from there.

If snuff is not enough for you, add snus to your routine. I cut my smoking by 80% with snuff alone. When I added snus into the rotation, it made dropping cigarettes easy. Now I can get by on snuff alone, but I use snus simply because its hands free (and my hands are often busy) and lasts a long while.

If I don’t get a Pinch and a Blue Monster in the morning I get a lil jumpy.

Actually it hasn’t happened since I quit cigarrettes. I usually have my lip well packed as well as the nose with a nice assortment of snuff.

If I allow it to happen, it will. Especially when I’m dealing with middle-school students. Whether they know it or not, the benefit greatly from my snuffing in between classes.

If I don’t get a Pinch and a Blue Monster in the morning I get a lil jumpy.

Yes, jumpy would be the correct word to describe it, or tense or twitchy, but not irritable. Usually even a small dose is enough to treat the symptoms.

My normal state is cranky, irrational and frequently overly offensive when insulted. Snuff calms me and makes me into the kind, considerate person I will never be

i didnt really go into much detail earlier. frustrated, on edge and tired without nic. relaxed, un-driven and not a care in the world with it. too far to the extreme either way haha. plus what i said before.

snuff doesnt help me haha, only snus does. if im low on nic and snuff is blocking my nose, it makes things worse!

though ever since stopping smoking (and as snus use slows), the snuff effectiveness is up.