My wife is a gem and a half, and we’ve been married for six years (knew each other for four years before we tied the knot). I dip, snuff, and have an odd cigarette every blue moon. She doesn’t mind the dip or snuff, but the second-hand from cigarettes make her gag. Now, ALL of my X-girlfriends in the past despised dip and believed snuff was simply abhorrent. My wife sees right through tobacco and has a mature understanding that is unbelievably supportive. Even dip! It’s rare in my experience. Despite my ramblings in other threads about dropping exorbitant amounts of cash on snuff gear and freaking out my wife, she’s actually very supportive with it all. Not once has she ever disapproved of ANY of my purchases. I consider myself very lucky, you? %%-
My wife doesn’t love it, but she doesn’t complain about it either. As long as I don’t walk around looking like the first prize winner in a Bavarian Schmaltzer contest, she is pretty cool with my snuffing.
my girl is fantastic … always game for trying a sniff as well, though she usually coughs a bit … and much appreciative that it smells so wonderful compared to cigarettes.
My wife tells me that she would rather I smoke. I guess she doesn’t like it much 8-|
My girlfriend is severely against my snuffing and she would much prefer that i smoke. I never talk about it or do it around her.
My girlfriend is much against my snuffing as well LOL. She does not like any form of tobacco use… I told her that I won’t be giving up snuff though, it is MY THING, and no one is gonna change that. So I just don’t do it around her LOL
My wife prefers my use of snuff to snus and both to my smoking 2 packs of cigs a day. She will use snus every now and then, but won’t touch snuff. She supports my odd passion for tobacco even while thinking I’m more than a bit looney.
All girls I meet think its illegal drugs, no matter how much I try to explain…
Pretty much everyone I meet thinks snuff is illegal drugs, and snus is chewing tobacco. Most people around here have never smoked a cigar, and I’ve never met another pipe smoker. That’s in 25 years of living here. I am in tobacco hell.
My wife thinks I’m nuts to enjoy snuff. She’s tried it a couple of times and hated the burn. She hates it when I spend money on snuff too. But overall she just ignores it. Snuff gets me through the workday and occasionally I take it on the weekends too when I’m missing the nice toasty smell. I love snuff, and it’s not going away from my life, ever. I think she understands that, at least.
Been married for 10 years and my wife likes me snuffing WAAY better than me dipping!
When I have snuff on my face, she tells me I got that brown shit on your face.
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My missus doesn’t much mind my snuff except for when I pinch scotch in the car (“smells like a campfire in here!”). And she likes the fact I don’t smoke near as much as I used to…I’ll never give up smoking completely (enjoy it too much) but thanks to snuff (enjoyable in its own right) the cigs are now down to a dull roar…
Girlfriend doesn’t mind and occasionally after a few drinks becomes quite curious of whatever I’m sniffing and has a pinch herself
My wife doesn’t know about my snuff habit yet. I’ve only been snuffing for a couple months and I usually do it when I’m out in my workshop. She doesn’t usually bother me out there. It’s not like I go out of my way to hide it I just tend to do it when I’m alone, though I may sneak a quick snort when I’m in the bathroom or something. As long as I don’t spend too much at one time on it she doesn’t ask too many questions. I’m not quite sure how to introduce her to it. I’m not how she’ll react to it when she does eventually find out. Though knowing her, she already knows. She’s pretty smart and observant. Hopefully she’ll be more receptive to it than my pipe smoking. She always says it stinks. She tolerates it though.
I am one of the supportive women I actually encourage my husband to use snuff and wish he used it more often. Snuffing is more fun with a partner to compare notes with. Since I am the main user, he doesn’t complain because I do “what a woman ought to do,” cook, clean, raise his child, walk his dog, attend his stupid work parties and never complain about his silly non-tobacco purchases. I have learned by keeping him happy, I get the same in return.
@ desirexe You sound like the perfect wife! Your husband is a lucky man. Wish that my wife would ask for a pinch.
Lol you baby boomers! it is nice to see a woman who enjoys snuff and accepts it, regardless of your wifestyle, although to a degree it sounds appealing in a woman.
My wife is very supportive of my snuff habit. She see the economy of it versus smoking, and even likes to steal a pinch once in a while. She doesn’t understand why I feel like I need to own every snuff that’s available, but I don’t really understand it either. So far she has really enjoyed HDT, Poschl Sudfrucht (although she things stuffing would be more strange to do in public than sniffing).
She just bought me a ceramic burr grinder that I can use on my own blends too. =D
My fiance carries her own Tripletech Zebrawood. She always smells my snuff when she kisses me and say’s “that smells good lemme have some” so I open my box for her to take some of whatever snuff I’ve got. She’s down with snuffing
Her favorites: Grand Cairo, Gold Label, Strausburg
I think she would rather I didn’t take snuff but she is very tolerant. The only snuffs she complains about the smell of are, Viking dark and Molens latakia. She says they smell like tweedy old men.
My Girlfriend is glad that I am smoking a lot less; I pretty much never smoke at the house anymore. But she always insists on kissing me before I take a pinch. She is also not crazy about the the dusting I give our daughter when I kiss her. I guess it’s part of the hazard of having such a long moustache.
My wife approves, and even tries all my news snuffs. She doesn’t even mind the pipe smoking!
My wife is a bit amazed at the TAD. But she is shrewed enough to know that it beats smoking five pound notes every day. And there’s little fallout from snuffing. Still, on the whole it remains a perverse and eccentric habit in the UK. Good! If it became popular, government would want its share of the take and no doubt prices would skyrocket.
My former girlfriend, with whom I’m still close, likes snuff and will have a pinch every now and again. She also like my pipe smoking and will smoke with me every so often. On the topic of the other women in my life, my mother is a cheerful supporter of all my tobacco habits - as long as I don’t spend too much on it. My sister has grown used to the snuff after first hating it, but quite likes shisha, and has been known to have a pipe or cigar. Mosy of my other female friends also like snuff - especially when they’re out. I guess I must be lucky.
My wife tolerates my snuff.
To her it’s still tobacco.
She gave up smoking and the fact that I’m still using a tobacco product… influences her oppinion on snuff.
Mine detests smoking with a capital D and is the most intolerant woman on Earth when it comes to smoking. She even whinges when I smoke in the garden with the consevatory door closed - claimimg she can still smell it. As she is the best possible spouse apart from this I forgive her. She does, however, love the fact that full time snuff using means I don’t smoke and I have been bribed by many a snuff box or consignment of snuff to stay on the wagon (which I would anyway, bless her). So it’s kind of cool and worked out now. She has never so much as held a cigarette and tobacco is a complete mystery to her, so she has no concept of snuff being weird or gross, just that it means I don’t smoke. She even doesn’t bat an eyelid if I snuff in a restaurant.
my gal seems to be more addicted to me having snuff then I’am to useing it. She gets that feeling that I’am running out and better make an order soon before I do. A big part of that is that I don’t smoke and that I enjoy it. Which is what I don’t get you’d think a wife or girlfriend (husband or boyfriend too) would by default care about the pleasure of their partner. That your interests would be great if for no reason then they are your interests.
Mine likes the snuff and the pipe way better then the cigs, anyway on snuff she make her remarks: “stuff on your face” or “i dont wanna kiss you since i smell the snuff” … but since she does it only to make fun here and there but i can live with it.
My wife doesn’t mind and often joins me. I’ve let her try most of my snuffs, but O&G is her only love.
My girlfriend doesn’t mind and rarely even brings it up in conversation. I’ve been snuffing longer than I’ve known her and we’ve known each other 3 and a half years so she’s probably past the point of finding it strange.
My wife is simply glad I stopped smoking cigarettes.
She won’t try my snuff, but she’s glad that I have it, since I haven’t had a cigarette in nearly 3 years.
Win-win. B-)
I have a former girlfriend I see often and about once a week or so I fill up an empty tin with whatever toast I have on hand for her. She is cool with it but doesn’t see how I can snuff a moist snuff like Kendal all day
Anymore, seems my girlfriend uses more snuff than I do.
My wife introduced me to snuff-she bought me two WoS tins (Lemon Grove and Ice Liquorice) for our first wedding anniversary, and it was love on first sniff! I’m also an occasional pipe smoker (she bought me a lovely handmade Bent three years ago, and I’ve dipped in and out ever since, now owning four pipes-two great straight pipes and a very cool Baby Bent-and enjoying it very much) but I don’t smoke a lot due to being a singer for a living. My wife is totally cool with both pursuits, but dislikes plain Virginia pipe tobaccos as they smell “like cigarettes” and much prefers me to smoke more Oriental and Latakia-based blends such as Balkan Mixture etc. No problem at all with snuff though, I can (and often do) snuff myself silly, with no spousal complaint whatsoever.
My wife doesn’t seem to mind too much. At first, I was worried she’d find it strange. She does, but what can I say, I’m strange, and she loves me anyway!
She has complained a time or two about the smell of HDT. I promptly cleared out the schnozz and replaced with Dholakia Swiss Chocolate or Toque Christmas Pudding. She jokes about the black boogers every now and then.
My girlfriend doesn’t mind at all. She will actually run out to the store and pick me up a few tins once in awhile. Just as long as I’m not smoking cigs. Trying to quite those. Only problem is she doesn’t like kissing me when I use any clove snuff. She hates the smell if cloves.
My friends assume its illegal and then ask to try some, then it’s funny watching their reaction. Maybe I should tell them they only need a small pinch of hedges L260.
I care what my wife thinks because we are a unit. And while we have certain things that are personal to each of us, if something has to do with my health I believe that I have an obligation to receive her input. I immensely enjoyed dipping but I also knew that it was bad for my health and that my wife did not like it, she asked me to quit so I did. If I wanted to be selfish I would have never got married.
My wife is supportive of my snuff habit because it pretty much wiped dip and cigs off the map. I might dip 3 times a month and have a cig from time to time, but that’s better than a can of dip every two days. It means not spending the extra money on cigs for me (while she still smokes, and we both know full well she’s a hypocrit), and no bottles of tobacco spit for the kid to get laying around…so yeah, snuff, yay…but I’ve told her many times before, she can make all her false attempts at quitting all she wants, I like tobacco and I’m not giving it up.
My wife doesn’t care as long as I don’t make her do it. She still smokes, so now it’s my subtle mission to get her to snus/snuff.
My wife is certainly in favour of me not smoking, was alright with snus, and most of the time doesn’t give me too much grief about snuff. She sometimes get’s embarrassed if I take a pinch in public. Her worst criticism is that some of them smell like dead grandmother (geranium in WoS Brunswick, which is one of my faves ) but all in all is okay with it.
She asks me for a pinch! And then asks me to fill her snuff box!
I love my woman.
My wife was super supportive until I stopped buying cigarettes. Now she’s slightly annoyed by it because she either has to buy her own or stop smoking. What a mooch
Eesh…I seem to have run into an issue with my spouse and snuff…now that I’m sure I’ll stick with it, I want to desperately branch out from the scotches that I can get in the store but… “Why the hell do you want to order online when it costs more?! You can get snuff for 4 dollars in the store and you get more of it!” Any tips besides the “I’d still be spending much less than you on cigarettes.” argument?
Buy bulk and show her the cents per gram comparison…
Mine is fine with it and will even do the occasional bump of Princes Special
The olfactory part in snuff is at least 50% of the pleasure. You could use the food analogy. Tell her to limit yourself to scotches only is like eating barbecue 365 days a year.
@Micheltn LOL! “get your bitch ass back to the kitchen and bake me some pie!”
Man, you are trying to get me killed aren’t you? lol. Yeah, you try being a stay at home dad and using the “get back in the kitchen” line! Seriously though, I’m starting to get through to her thanks to the other suggestions. I think at this point it’s just that it would be better to wait untill we get out tax returns anyway, then I can make some large orders anyway.
Please stop with the sexism, even in joke/sarcastic form. We want to attract more women to the forum not scare them off. I’ll take it upon myself to be offended for all the ones who are not here. I’m not deleting the comments as I believe they were intended harmlessly, but this is a warning to avoid them in the future. Thanks.
She accepts it as just another one of my oddities. She thinks it is crazy to “shove tobacco up your nose” but she just teases me now and again about it, nothing too serious.
Well, I must admit I was a little offended when I viewed this thread (being a lady myself). I don’t think men realize how difficult life is for women…at least the ones who have children. Actually since I do have a son I find that snuffing really takes the edge off when he’s being a nasty little man.
I think the main problem for women and snuff is the brown around the nostril and boogers. It’s difficult to look pretty and classy when you have something that resembles feces around your nasal opening, ofcourse it’s nothing a good hanky can’t handle. I personally don’t care anymore if I have the brown drip, or if I snuff during shopping trips or condo meetings…it’s worth it, the smell is heavenly and the rush is better than the cigarettes I smoked 10 years ago.
If your lady of the house doesn’t like it, get her some wilsons of sharrow royal george and send her for a stroll outside. There is nothing quite like that amaretto scent when mixed with fresh air. And if that doesn’t work and she complains about the health risks etc…then point to her Glade plug ins, hairspray, cosmetics, Lysol air fresheners etc…now that stuff is suitable for a toxic waste dump.
I started smoking a pipe about a year ago and my wife was very opposed at my filthy new habit. I really only smoke about 3-5 times a week, usually on weekends. I recently started to use snuff a means of getting nicotine when I don’t have time to smoke a pipe.
Recently however I have noticed whenever I go to the deck to smoke my wife follows me. I had her admit on Saturday she likes the smell and has asked if I will get her a pipe. I just might give her one of my small ones (that she does not know I own). Last night she grabbed my Bernard Zwiefacher and asked how to use it. I told her and she thought it was great. She then proceeded to ask me to buy her some that smells like Vanilla or Patchouli. Any suggestions? It would likely have to be moist for her to enjoy it.