Hi Guys Second post How long does a 25 gram tin last you ? i’m not sure on my usage yet Regards Shaun

well it can depend on how hard you hit that one tin… For me a 25 gr tin Tom Buck is 5-6 days a 25gr tin of say hdt is about 10- 14 days 10 gr of anything good 2 days tops… Btw Welcome

About 10-14 days for me. Stefan

I wouldn’t worry about your usage. Alot of these fellows use a ton of snuff. some don’t. I use about 25 grams a year at most. but I like the variety. Toques cheeze and bacon is making me use more than my normal tho. and I’m sure if I could get spanish jewel quanities I would do more too, but I couldn’t ever see using 50 grams a year. So use what makes you comfortable. IMHO I think 25 grams should last a normal user at least a few months. but what do I know…

This is like estimating the gas milage for your car using miles driven against amount of gas put in (snuff used/snuff acquired). The real concern is not running out of gas!

I wouldn’t run out of gas for possibly the rest of my life already but I don’t even come close to many members here. Since June I’ve gone through four 25-grammers. I’ve finished several 10g tins too but I’ve acquired more at a much faster pace. My mix of snus and snuff is finding it’s natural order at about 50/50 but then again it depends on many factors. I just ordered a cache of snus that I didn’t need too…impulse. Oh dammit. Ha!

I suppose it depends on your response to the snuff your taking, and how much is enough to satisfy you. I’ve used 25gram tins in less than a week and had them last as long as a month. For me the milder the snuff the fast I use it. That is probably because I make large snuff lines and sniff it all up with a straw when it’s a mild snuff, but the stronger ones I prefer taking a couple pinches a nostril or using a snuff bullet. It’s all preference. One things for sure, no matter what your rate is it is sure cheaper than most other forms of tobacco, and so so good…

I was using a lot more because I was snuffing big lines, then I discovered I can get the same effect with smaller toots. I do feel guilty for not giving as much support to our good snuff dealers, but I have a lot less running out of the back of my nose into my mouth and I seem to be getting as much good out of it. A 25 will now last me a month or more.

WOW, some of you guys get through a 25 gram tin proper quick, and some take for ever. Before I had to make the switch form Swedish Snus to Snuff due to financial reasons, I’d chew from the moment I got out of bed, until the moment I got into bed Constant drip feed of nicotine, all day. If I try inserting the same amount of nicotine up my nose with snuff, it drips like a tap. At the moment I’d say I’m not using that much. But, I’m sure over time that will change Quick question: Does your nose stop dripping over time or, is this just an inevitable bi-product of snuff?

Your nose gets used to snuff in time and you’ll find it runs a lot less. Having said that, some snuffs still make my nose run like a tap, and I’ve been snuffing for years.

Ermtony´s right. Again. Some snuffs that caused alot of running some months before don´t do so by now. But Schmalzler ALWAYS makes my nose run fast. It´s the same with Taxi. Thinking about it, maybe it´s more likely with coarser snuffs.

For me, I’d probably clear a 25g tin in a week or less if it was all I use. But, because I have somewhere around 75 types of snuff open on my desk, I’ve yet to empty a single 25g tin since June when I started snuffing. Also, I’ve got about as many open tins of snus in the fridge at the moment, and go through snus all day long. So, without snus, it would probably be much faster. Still, there’s something interesting about snuff. Perhaps it’s the result of being a child of the 90s, but I’d say snuff creates the Pokémon effect on people. Once they start, they need to get them all. There’s such an incredible variety about snuff, and if you’re the collecting sort, there’s an element of pride at being the one to find some weird snuff no one else has tried. As others have said, your nose will get used to snuff. When I began, every pinch I’d need to blow my nose. By Septemberish, I could go all day without having to, depending on the snuffs I use. Occasionally, your nose will act up, and start running at everything though, like mine is today.

I’m three quarters way through my third 1lb cannister of WoS IHT No22 and thats just from February this year. Not to mention my regular supplies from Tim and Rodders. So judging from previous posts i appear to be a heavy user!!

I imagine I use about 25g a week. About 10g of that is McChrystals O&G which I buy in bulk, 5g or so of Hedges L260 in the mornings, 5g of an SP or lavender snuff, , 2 or 3g of a toast and 2 or 3g of a rotating variety in my collection. I now have established which snuffs I like which means I don’t have so many tins going stale these days.

I buy in bulk rather than tins, but 25 grams lasts me about three days.

Shame on you Iceman, Since you started this post I thought I would check when I last made and order… Nov 13 was the last shipment I got in… I have gone thru 2 25gr tins of Tom buck and almost finished with a third. I am now scraping the bottom of a 50 gram F&t hdt, my lotzbeck perle is on its last leg not to mention all the miscellaneous tins I have laying around and pillage through… So I guess I go through more then I first realized… I am now considering rehabilitation hopefully I can find a good out patient program=) Awe how am I kidding… I’ll have a punch for o’l time-sake!!

I use maybe 10 grams a week, but for me snuff is a secondary source of nicotine. Snus drip is constant. Snuff is more aroma therapy with benefits.

@Ibild Wow, that’s a lot. Having said that, people often said my snus habit was out of control. A constant drip feed 18hr a day. Thinking back how that started, it was slowly at first then, as soon as my body got the hang of it, game over. It’s the same with snuff. When I first started it was maybe 10grams a week. I’ve noticed over the last 14 days how a 25 tin has been dropping a bit faster than 4x4 as my body thinks “hang-on, I like this” Another thing I’ve noticed in the last couple days is, I’m dipping into the Fribourg & Treyer High Dry Toast, all the time. Three weeks ago I figured this will be the one that I pass to my kid It’s always been the same with me, a very addictive personality. Why have a little if you can handle a lot. Thing is, I can’t afford a mental out of control addiction at this moment in time @bigmick I love Snus, only got 7 los in the freezer now

@ukiceman, I’ve only got 5 cans of lös in the freezer, but I’m still at 35 or so cans of portions. Time to reorder.

I find I haven’t acquired as many snuffs, but it’s more of a function of my wallet than anything else. I do want to try them all, but I probably only take half a dozen pinches a day (I’ll do it at my desk but not in meetings and NOT with the clients around), so it’s kinda hard to justify my getting more when I’ve already got about 2 dozen snuffs I’m slowly going through. All that being said, with the new Pöschl’s and Molens coming out, I might just have to make some orders… I also want to try more American scotches…

@ James S. Wow, Half a dozen pinches a day!!!.. You can’t be an ex smoker on that tiny amount ? maybe i’m wrong? Do you never get stressed and want more, how about after food. Any nicotine taker loves food because it means one thing, A BIG HIT Credit on your self restraint, wicked

I think it would last me along time. I must be a lightweight. I can’t see how some use so much. I get stopped up after so many sniffs during a day. Now if I bypass the sniff, and just do the pinch and shove, I do use a lot more, but I also notice alot on the floor too.

I was rotating so many tins it was next to impossible for me to tell how much I was using. I counted 47 “active” tins on my desk last week, which I thought was getting rather ridiculous. So I moved all of them (except one brand new 25g tin of Toque St. Clements) to the closet along with the rest of the stockpile, telling myself that I will only use the St. Clements over the next week. Well, that was eight days ago and I estimate I’ve used nearly half of the tin since that time. So that is more or less 13 or so grams in 8 days. That really surprises me, as I thought I was a heavier snuff user than that. I guess I am now using a bit less than when I had 47 snuffs in front of me (it sometimes is too easy to shamelessly indulge when I have all of that in front of me), but I’m not trying to hold back any. I smoked for nearly 20 years (gave it up two years ago), but during the last couple years of smoking cigarettes I had cut down to around 3-5 per day. I haven’t even had a snus in weeks either, although I still have 12 cans of Gotlands Anis in the freezer. Snuffing pretty much made me lose interest in snus.

Tom, I dont know if you use menthol snuffs or not but it does sound as if you may… Menthol does open up the vessels in the nose, but the it will constrict the flow of blood, thus causing you to get stuffy… Also using multiple snuff in the course of a day can clog you up as well… I generally stick to 1 sometimes 2 brands at work; when i am home I use a couple others over tea, and reading the news…

Two thirds of the snuff I use in a day is mentholated, and have never had a problem with clogging, snottiness or stuffiness. I guess some people are affected and others not. Strangely, too much of the toasts will clog me up though.

I do use menthols, actually it’s because I like them best, but I also have congestion with non menthols too. Usually it seems if I binge snuff alot in a row I have these issues. If I do some, and wait a while before I do more, it’s usually fine.

@tom502: If I go to bed without rinsing my nose (I use a rubber ear lavage bulb) I clog up and have a heck of a sinus headache. If I clean my nose well I don’t have a problem. It may not work for you, but it is worth a try. Breathe out through the nose while you are rinsing.

Thanks, Nachman. I do use a neti pot sometimes. I still think it’s a seasonal thing too, as I am not having the congestion I was at all during the summer.

I’ve not emptied a single tin since I started snuffing properly in April. I’m currently rotating about 50 different snuffs, though the end of my 8.5g O&G is well within sight.

I can’t empty one either. I know it might sound odd, but I wish I could empty them quicker, because I like to keep buying more, yet they just build up more and more. I’ve been using bullets lately, filled one with O&G, gonna see how long it lasts using it exclusively. I think the Dholakia bullets are 5g?

@ukiceman: Yep, I am an ex-smoker, and at first I was huffing through the stuff at an alarming rate. But I tend to have a ‘dry nose’ in the morning and until my sinuses wake up any snuff I put up there mostly falls right back out. That and I get the most horrendous boogers and I can’t really go mining for green gold during my Monday staff meetings. Snus is my main nicotine vehicle, with snuff as the hood ornament. I love snuff, and there may come a day when my reliance on high-nic jolts drops and I can get by on snuffing, but in the meantime I lip those portions hard and gut the juice to get the turbines up to speed in the morning. Also, although I’ve taken massive pinches of high-nic popskull like Rooster or Garrett, I don’t seem to get enough nic as I would squashing a portion. But then again, I was used to vacuuming down American Spirit RYOs or nonfilters…snus and snuff. I never mixed cigs and cigars, or Ramen with mac n cheese. But snus and snuff just go together…

With beer or drinks too.

James S said “I never mixed cigs and cigars, or Ramen with mac n cheese. But snus and snuff just go together.…” Agreed wholeheartedly with that one! I’m reasonably new to snus, very new to snuff. Since quitting smoking I’m still feeling my way around as far as how much I need, or want, of either. The natural usage had trended towards a snus portion every 3 hours or so, hit the e-cig occasionally, and a pinch or two an hour. Yesterday I purposefully left the snus out of the mix to see how well snuff could take of business on it’s own. That was a fail Garrett Sweet and Honey Bee for the nic, others for variety. All I managed was congestion and I was practically chain vaping the e-cig. In the early evening I did a thorough cleaning and grabbed a Probe portion. Didn’t hit the e-cig but a couple of times the rest of the night and the snuff resumed it’s role of being a source of pleasure ‘stead of need. As well as they go together, vaping, snus and snuff, it’s going to be awhile before I empty a tin. Thas’ alright by me!

@ James S. “I love snuff, and there may come a day when my reliance on high-nic jolts drops and I can get by on snuffing, but in the meantime I lip those portions hard and gut the juice to get the turbines up to speed in the morning” Exactly what i used to be like. The average smoke has a nicotine content of approx 0.4 grams per fag, and some strong snus portions have about 17 mg/g I was a hard-core smoker when I started on the Snus, I’d get the same sick felling i got when I started smoking! When I started on the snuff, it didn’t cut it, but what do you expect dripping that in our systems ALL day ? However, over the last couple weeks my body has excepted this fact and it’s not as bad as it was, I still like a chew but I’m having to conserve it a little coz I’ve got no money, I’m bankrupt.

That’s what I thought too. Same message in another thread.

that’s what i figured as well

i think ill add a little bit of water to my can, thank you very much.

I use a slice or two of cucumber

I thought about vaping, but with all the horror stories of batteries that go feet-up, recharging, etc, I said nah. If somebody handed me an e-cig I’d try it, might even like it, but when the jones for a butt hits, I’ll bum one off somebody, smoke it, enjoy it, and then hang it up again. I usually only crumble once a week, I reckon 1 cig a week’s a helluva lot better than 20-30 a day, which is where I was 5 years ago…

@ ukiceman: I also wanted to mention I tried the Thunder Frosted, and while I dug the flavor, even as a seasoned smoker I found the nic just a wee bit too much…

I’m probably averaging around 5-6 grams of snuff a day. Its odd how sometimes a tin will seem to empty itself really fast. Others seem to sit around and last a while. For me it depends on many variables such as the type of snuff, my environment, and the mood I’m in. Also, there are some snuffs which seem better when taken in large scoops at once, while others I like to sniff in small hits more frequently. I guess on average a 25g tin will usually hold me for the better part of a week. I probably disqualify from the survey though due to my OCD urge to use things up. For the record, I never smoked other than an occasional pipe and the rare cigar but I used to use Skoal and Copenhagen regularly before switching to snuff.

Since quitting the smokes i average 25g/tin of IHT22 a week + a pinch here and there of other snuffs when out walking the dogs etc.

Answering my own question, with the use of some very sensitive scales I can report it’s on average, roughly about 2.5/3 grams per day. Having said that, today was 5 grams. My lowest day was 1.5 with F&T HDT, i,m hoping i’ll top-out at around 15grams a week

Reading this has made me aware how low my usage really is. I might get 6 small pinches down a day, which is plenty for me

My usage does not follow a pattern. For pure tobacco snuffs I might take 2 months to finish a 25-30 gram tin. For the ones which I love in the nose for the flavor and fragrance, I think I’ll finish a 25 gram tin in 10-15 days days. I keep alternating so as to not get bored of either type. 

I have never opened a tin of anything and stuck with that one snuff till it’s finished. As such, it’s hard to guess how long a tin would last me or what my general consumption rate is. As such, a tin can last me many months, but only because I’m not using it exclusively.

25g in 2.5 days give or take.

At any given time, I probably have at least 20 tins of different snuffs open. I rarely use just one. But some types disappear more quickly, I have noticed. For example, Wilson’s Liquorice Ice… a 25 g tin of it lasts me about 2 weeks. And a 5g tin of it only lasts 2 days, at the most. To me, different snuffs disappear at different rates, and over time, even that can change. In contrast, I’ve had a 35g tin of White elephant, and another like sized tin of Cheetah, for 3 years. Same goes for the 41 Photo Yellow Lily line. I hardly use them at all, and when I do, it’s just a very few small pinches.

@mrmanos Totally agree! I’ll consume Berwick Brown a lot more hungrily than I will something like Royal George or Bordeaux. Maybe that’s an extreme example, but I’d also consume WoS Thyme and Lemon heavier than a WoS SP, Viking brown heavier than Viking Dark, and Toque Vanilla or Toffee heavier than Coke or Pumpkin Pie. In fact I’m actually putting off refilling my (now empty) 75ml bail top jar of Berwick Brown that I load my snuffbox from, from my 1 litre bulk jar, purely because of how fast I’ll wolf through it, and neglect everything else I’ve currently got open. I’m actively trying to cut down on my number of open and part used tins, as it’s gotten out of hand… again.

Usually a 25g tin will last me 2-3 weeks if I’m using it often. Like many here though, I don’t use one snuff exclusively so generally a tin might last 3-4 months since I’ve got a dozen or so in rotation.

It completely depends though on the situation though. I used 25g of WoS Super Menthol in less than 72 hours on a 2300mi/3700km roadtrip.