I’m curious to hear, and expect it might lead to interesting conversation, on how snuff-taking has affected your use of other tobacco products. I’m a fifty something who smoked cigarettes as my main form of tobacco use since the mid-70s. I picked up chewing tobacco and dip use for a while in the Army. Getting into broadcasting as an announcer, I was introduced to inhaling heavy smoked cigars as a way of lowering the voice (that’s a secret on how these “big voice” announcers sound the way they do). I never broke that habit and continued smoking heavily up to quitting cold turkey a few years back. Now that I’m snuff-taking and getting into snuff making, I gave in to an impulse and packed a bowl for smoking. The taste was good, the buzz familiar, the activity reminiscent of past years, but overall I was not all that impressed. The experience was under-whelming. So for me, I can say that having snuff available has already proven as not only an adequate alternative to smoking, I actually seem to prefer it. I look forward to building a collection and exploring snuffs both mellow and exciting. How about you?
I guess it lowers my snus use a little I don’t use too much, I like snus better it’s easier to hide since we’re a “tobacco free college”. I smoke my pipe about 5 times a week, use probably 10 portions of snus on average and dip occasionally.
I smoked the occasional cigarette between 13 and 17, picked up to about a pack a week around 18, quit with snuff, went to a place where everyone smoked and picked up heavily again, quit cigarettes with dip, now I have quit dip with snuff again. Mixed in between 18 and now (20) the occasional (2-3 times a week) pipe. Snuff has saved me lots of hassle (smelling of cigarettes, getting money for cigarettes, having the ‘offensive’ wad of dip in public and around family, etc.) and I’m very grateful that such a wonderful form of tobacco exists. Now I am off cigarettes and dip and I just snuff and smoke a pipe… hopefully I can keep that up without cigarettes coming back into the picture!
Before I took up snuff I would smoke 3-5 pipes a day and now I usually only smoke 1 or 2 pipes a day and 3 on the weekends so it has cut my smoking down considerably which is great because quality snuff is alot cheaper than quality pipe baccy.
Interesting tales. I took snuff up a few months ago with the hope that it would replace Copenhagen dipping. My retina specialist strongly recommended quitting tobacco. After a few weeks–or maybe it was days–I was back on the Cope along with snuff. But now I’ve been off Cope again for a couple weeks, and it feels good. Just don’t feel a strong urge to buy a new tin. My dip use was quite constant, except when sleeping. Now I use snuff in the same way I was dipping: small doses quite consistently. And the drusen in my eyes has not increased–in fact, decreased! So, maybe non-smoke tobacco use does not contribute to macular degeneration. The lit focuses on smoking.
I want to add-- I had been dipping for about 30 years.
@least_weasel Congratulations on quitting the dip! I only dipped for 4 or 5 months and I thought I was going through hell to quit! Much harder to quit than cigarettes, for me at least.
Nasal snuff has always been considered good for the eyes, except by fanatic antitobaccoites.
@snuffgrinder – Are you serious?
I haven’t touched any of my pipes since last fall, been snuffing all winter, also quit dip, cope and real seal fine cut. edm
After 27 years of smoking, thanks to snuff and this site, I gave up the cancer sticks 6 months ago and only take snuff now, which I find immensely more pleasurable.
I would say that other tobacco items have affected my use of nasal snuff the most. While I do greatly enjoy nasal snuff, and I honestly have contemplated quitting oral tobacco, maybe it’s the nic, but I haven’t done so, so while some days I use nasal snuff more than others, I usually have a dip, chew, or snus in. If using a snus portion, I might take a sniff too, but with the other stuff I don’t, I don’t want to sneeze if I have a dip in. It’s a mental war with me, because part of me wants to quit it all apart from the nasal, which I don’t think is a bad habit, and it doesn’t make me concerned about my gums, though it may irritate my breathing passages at times.
My nasal snuff use started in about 2008 with the discovery of this forum, and contributed greatly to my cutting down on cigarettes. I didn’t however quit entirely until I started combining snuff and snus. Then my snuff use dropped whilst my snus intake increased. I have now found a happy medium between the two and no longer smoke at all. Well, except when I’m absolutely rotten drunk sometimes…
I tell you what- Nasal snuff is almost an art to me. I find such beauty in it! I love every little thing about snuff. It’s such a pleasureable thing to me. The INSTANT I take snuff I get a nic hit. That euphoria is so much better than smoking IMHO. I also use e-cigarettes but they’re not bad for you. Its a vapor with flavor! That gives me plenty of nicotine and the “hand to mouth” fixation- but the snuff I just simply enjoy, and it gives me the MAOI’s that vaping alone doesn’t deliver. If you vaped you’d understand. I take snuff and vape. Those are my things. Now I can breathe, taste my food, etc. Such a luxurious thing, snuff! I recommend it to alot of people. Don’t smoke- snuff Toque!
It hasn’t helped me cut back or anything - I enjoy a cigarette, good pipe, cope dip… but just a little of each. Snuff has really helped me broaden my appreciation for tobacco, and given me a fun alternative. Sometimes I can’t smell like an ashtray, nor do I want a big cope nic hit, nor the taste of snus - - so that little pleasant smelling snuff with it’s subtle nicotine is nice. It’s nice. Someday I’d like to try the crazy e-cigarettes. I wouldn’t know where to begin or what to get.
@masterbrewer all you gotta do is PM me, or @ddavelarsen. I’d list an ecig forum but I dunno if they want me to here… PM me for more info if you’re interested. Lemme tell you something though- all those times you try not to smell like smoke- you probably STILL DO you just can’t tell 
EVERYTHING I OWNED smelled like smoke. EVERYTHING. And I even went outside to smoke. Its nauseous how bad it smells to you when you quit smoking altogether. You’ll see what I mean someday. I have faith in you! Snuff and ecigs saved my life. I just know it.
When I started taking snuff a few years ago, I lowered smoking cigarettes. There was even a period of about 3 months when I only used snuff. I found a good one now, and I want to repeat and extend that period! As far as I see it from today, I smoke only a few fags each day, snuff is getting my main thing. So I won’t have a hard time on giving up the damn burning of tobacco!
I do believe that snuff and snus can be life savers, quite apart from the sheer pleasure they can bring. Sweden seems to be a huge social experiment in tolerably safe tobacco use. We are not officially allowed snus in the UK which is an anomally given that smoking is much more dangerous and there is research indicating that snus is relatively safe. Is there however a politician with the bottle to press for it? Not a chance I would say. I’m consistently moving away from tars and gasses to smokeless. Thanks mainly to this site and the info and companionship here, it’s been a real pleasure. (transistor. I think I know what you’re driving at: ‘Therefore, a beetle/FET (field-effect transistor) interface as an innovative biosensor has been developed. This BioFET (biologically sensitive FET) is based on the direct combination of the intact chemoreceptor of an insect with the gate of a FET by means of an electrolyte solution. Depending on the experimental set-up, two different biosensor configurations, namely a whole-beetle BioFET and an isolated-antenna BioFET have been designed. In both configurations, the organic compound that is detected by the beetle initiates a recognition process at its nerve cell membranes, which results in a net potential over the whole insect antenna.’ No wonder you get so much pleasure from snuff. You’re using a field effect transistor to enhance the experience!)
When I started using snus, and then later added snuff, it was to get myself off cigarettes. I’d already tried pipe smoking, which worked to a fair extent, but wasn’t quite enough. The combination of snus and snuff got me down to where cigarettes are an occasional and dwindling indulgence (usually no more than one per day, often none). What surprised me was how much my pipe smoking dropped off, too. Snus for nicotine, a pipe for relaxation, and snuff for pleasure. That’s how it works for me.
I was a heavy smoker who snuffed on the side as a hobby more or less. When the smoking ban came in in the UK I just switched to full time snuffing. My addiction to vitamin N is entirely serviced by snuff but I have the occasional binge on other forms; everything mainstream, particularly US dip and chew also Indian phan, beedees etc. I like tobacco.