i was wondering if the people who quit smoking with snuff do it, and just how long it took them to be smoke free? a fun question.

Though I actually quit by using the patch for 4 weeks and then treated myself to snuff I would say that to be successful you could use snuff in place of the patch. Use the snuff and don’t smoke at all anymore, no excuses. I haven’t smoked cigarettes in a few months now and have no desire to, and that’s after a pack a day for nearly 25 years. I also calculated how much I’d save in 4 months at $4-5 a day and went and spent the money. Basically a guilt trip on myself. If I spent one dime on cigarettes now I’d feel like a fool for spending the money.

i am proud of u all and plan on joing you smoke or cig free folks soon. i think it is time, i really do. i think your body and mind finally get to its end with smoking at tells u so, i know mine is… wish me luck… i have a weeks worth of cigs left then i will make my first big try in a long time…thank u all 4 the support, tim

Why don’t you give that stupid new gimmick I see advertised on t.v. a try. Those gold plated magnets you wear on the top of your ear!!!

-BrianC I completely agree with your last post. It has been less than a week now that I have been using snuff. I was smoking about a pack a day. Well, I bought a fresh pack Monday morning and I’ve only smoked 9 of them so far. I have been training myself to use snuff in place of the cigs every time I get the urge to smoke. Yesterday I only smoked 1. Today I’m shooting for zero. I would also like to point out that I have been smoking for 14 years. -towler My father is currently down south (think Mississippi). He’s been sending cartons of smokes to me (Chicago) because they are so much cheaper there. 2 more cartons arrived yesterday and I already have one of them sold to a friend. As soon as I find another taker, the other one’s gone too. Get rid of the extra smokes! Remove the temptation.

Nice post Towler… I had a 40 cigarettes per day habit. Here’s how I moved over to snuff from ciggies. Firstly, try to make it not a ‘hard’ and final decision. Psychologically it’s easier to say to yourself I can smoke whenever I want, but I want snuff… Start replacing a cigarette with a pinch. Every time you fancy a smoke have a pinch instead. If you have a cigarette don’t sweat it, just realise that it was your choice to get your nicotine fix from a smoke that time rather than from a pinch of snuff… Then go back to having a pinch every time you have a craving. Rinse and repeat, if you falter, get up, dust yourself down, start again. It’s all a double bluff I realise, but speaking as someone who’s tried every kind of NRT from patches, spray, gum to hypnotism and finally holding metal balls and having positive energy charged through me… (No joke!) etc, and failed - snuff can be your saviour! Snuff is better I think than NRT because you have the paraphenalia… You have a snuff box, or a bullet and all the bits and pieces that go with it. There’s a ritual like with smoking… You have ‘tobacco’, you still get a nicotine hit. You’re still slightly ‘naughty’…! When you decide, you decide. Do it for you and for noone else, unless you really don’t want to stop… I gave up for all kinds of people, but giving up because it was my decision was the one that worked. You can then become a person who uses snuff to get their nicotine hit, but has the odd occasional cigar, pipe, cigarette if you want - that’s a nice feeling! I still smoke, but smoke when I want to, not the other way round. Do I want to stand outside the pub smoking in the freezing rain, or sit in the warm with my pint and snuff box…? Easy question! Best of luck and keep us updated.

I do not quit smoking completely, but I reduced a lot smoking using snuff, is more, I prefer snuff over all the rest of taking tobacco ways. Nowadays I only smoke some Dominican Cigars( I do not buy Havana, as I think I told before, because I don’t want to give no one euro to Fidel Castro)…and sometimes a good Pipe with a blend of Va.+Perique.

Good for you Macalpe. Screw Fidel Castro. I do have to admit I’ve always been curious about Havana’s and wonder if they are that great or if people just want what they can’t have (being illegal in America). Now if we can just get people to stop going to Citgo gas stations. It really pisses me off every time a see someone pull in to a Citgo and send their money to Hugo Chavez, who openly hates us and will inevitably screw us over with the money American’s gave him. I banned Citgo many years ago and anyone going there should have the taste slapped right out of their mouth. I’d walk before I’d fill up there. HEY US CITIZENS…DONT GO TO CITGO!!!

I have tried true Havana’s and was good but nothing real special to me. I think it is just the allure of having something your not supposed to have. I much prefer CAO cigars. The CAO CX2 being my favorite cigar. I also enjoy the Acid Cigars. And when I want something lighter and fairly cheap I go for the Smokin’ Ass cigars from Hawaii. And the infamous Backwoods tend to find there way into my mouth on occasion. Very cheap & not all that bad of a smoke. I don’t even know where to go to find a CITGO around here. I’ve seen them while traveling but there are none around me. I think there might be a few in Sacramento but I’ve never been to them. The same could be said to any oil from Iran. The last thing we need to do is support Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

macalpe, troutstroker just gave me an idea… I need to send you some ‘backwoods’ cigars… You’ll love 'em! I’ll get some in the mail to you tomorrow. They’re just a great simple american cigar that smells and tastes great.

merdock69, Backwoods are a Poschl product made primarily for the U.S. market by Altadis U.S.A!

Well, I guess I can add those to my list of many great things I own that come from Germany… My Miele vacuum, my BMW 323i, my poschl packards club snuff, my bayer aspirin, my knorr soups, my hk .45, my hk p2000, my hk USP, my mauser, my walther p38, my p08 luger, and now my ‘backwoods’ (err. poschl) cigars… Sorry Macalpe to get your hopes up…

Well he still may not have these available in Spain or never tried elsewhere in his travels. Might still be worth sending because they are good. Many other great German products I enjoy are Paulaner Hefe-weizen, Schladerer Williams Birne Pear Brandy, German stone ground mustard & my favorite the german sausage & the Muscat Hamburg grapes one of our local wineries uses to make their delicious Black Muscat wine.

Good night to our American fellows. As you said, Havana are good cigars but at the same level than others great non Havana Cigars. I insist, Dominican are really good, smoothers and handmade Cigars, and also you have in USA very good and high quality Cigars. And we, here in Spain, have really first 100% pure tobacco Cigars made with Havana and Dominican seeds but made at our pretty Canary Islands. We may not forget that people from Canary Islands learn to Cubans to do the modern Havana “famous” Cigars. Canary people still continues making great handmade Cigars. I repeat NO ONE DOLLAR OR EURO TO FIDEL AND CHAVEZ!!!

@ merdock69 Mmm backwoods black and aromatic are the only cheap cigar I will smoke. 100% natural tobaccy. They make a good but harsh blunt if you have a prescription for medical cannabis as well. I don’t know Spain’s laws. I would rather give Fidel my $$ than the Bush oil company in all reality. Don’t hate me

Ohhhhhhhh Yaz, your digging a whole for yourself!!! why would you say such a thing. That is very unpatriotic!!

The difference between Castro&Chavez and President G.W. Bush is very easy to find. Castro and Chavez are Dictators and criminals. President Bush is a democratic leader of a democratic Nation and Legal system. I prefer oil from Bush and hate all things that come from Socialist Dictators. Excuse my boldness but this is my thought. Pedro from Spain

Yeah, I probably shouldn’t have even responded to any of this, and was trying to bite my tongue, but I must say… Operation Northwoods anyone? I can’t support terrorist organizations. I do love my country, but I have no respect, and a great amount of fear for the US federal government, and their infringing on human rights and libertys. I do realize that Fidel/Chaves do as well, but they aren’t occupying many countrys and destroying our paper currency in the name of Oil, under the guise of “freedom.”

That one is even worse! I wasn’t trying to go there.

Of course, Ron Paul supporters are all over my myspace page I wish I could attend and see the Ron Paul Blimp

good to know snuffgrinder, always fairly knowledgeable, or at least good with the googeling

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/citgo.asp Read this if you really think a citgo boycott will do anything more then make you feel better.

As far as cubans. They are unusal to be honest, never tried another tobacco quite like them. Which can be said about any type of tobacco at the same time they did have some qualities that if they where my taste I wouldn’t want to go any where else for them. Personaly I like Dominicans much better. Though I think cuban seed (which is not anywhere near the same really) makes awesome pipe tobaccos (which some how seem to get closer to the cuban in the cuban seed then most cigars do)

Hello. I was amazed of how easy it was for me to switch from heavy chain-smoking at least 20-30 cigarettes a day to snuff! I felt a bit uneasy for perhaps a day or two, and now at least two months later I never even think of lighting up! As a matter of fact I have been shaking my head ocassionally thinking “why didn’t I do this years ago?” I absolutely love the history, the culture and the ritual of snuff taking. I have a substantial collection of snuff boxes, and have been fascinated by snuff for years, before finally taking the step to switch over completely. At work it is a blessing never to have to steal time for a smoke break and at home - no ashtrays stinking. I can sit anywhere in restaurants, trains - theaters. It is so much better and today I wouldn’t dream of buying a pack of cigarettes. And I smoked since I was 13 years old - that is for 31 years!! So - snuff out the ciggies and join the wonderful world of snuff :o) Cheers Viking

I am doing pretty well giving up the cigarettes and snuffing instead. I wont pretend I dont have any, some days I snuff only but as there have been a few Christmas parties recently, I sometimes end up on the cigarettes after a few drinks. I think im probably down from 15-20 a day to maybe 10 per week. I think this will stop all together eventually. Snuffing is so much nicer, though I do have a tendancy to over do it!

I smoke when I’m at work in the pub, (I’m a barman as well as running my own business. Luckily I hope to finish in pubs after 5 years in February), just to skive off for 5 minutes no other reason. Hey I’m a lazy sod lol. I now only smoke abut 10 a week though rather than 20 a day.

It took awhile for me to quit smoking cigs mainly because I couldn’t really do snuff at work for a while. I still can’t but I can use snuff but I use snus instead then.

how can’t you snuff at work, but you can smoke and use snus?

I work with food it would be too easy to get the snuff in the food especialy since it might get on my fingers I’d have to leave and then wash my hands every time I snuffed not very effective. I can use snus because it just sits in my mouth and isn’t even noticable that I’am doing it.

@ Micheltn: Good luck to you! Many of us have quit this way. You will too.

I’ve been bouncing back between 1/2 pack to 2 packs depending on my allergies. I’m hoping this winter I’ll be able to strictly use snuff and snus and cut out the smoking. I’m finding that my cigar habbit doesn’t help. I feel so much better when I don’t smoke cig’s, and still get my tobacco fix with snuff. There are day’s when I’ll just use snuff, and chew on a high-end cigar without ever lighting it. It seems like a waste of a cigar, but I enjoy it.

If you really want to quit send me your cigars.

Its a long project because you keep nicotine in your system. When you stop and don’t take nicotine, in the long run you forget about cigarettes but the cravings are more intense when they happen - most of my failures were due to the impossibility of combining a good time, alcohol and and other people smoking around me. With snuff your nicely topped up the whole time and its much easier to say no because you are not screaming for nicotine. It took me two years to get to the position where I was truly, mentally off cigarettes as a state of being. As I’ve said before, the thing that helped me most was losing that hyped up guilt thing where its the end of the world if you have a cigarette. I set no limits or bounds and said Im switching to snuff but will have a cigarette if things get bad. Gradually the balance tipped to my day to day craving being for snuff not cigarettes. Maybe Im just weird but I can have a cigarette - or several - and have no wish to use them regularly. Its all bound up in the concept of switching to an alternate form of nicotine NOT the concept of never having a cigarette again. Works for me.

I’m in the same boat as all of you in this thread. I don’t want to stop the cigars at all though…I like them and I think 2 or so a week isn’t horrible… The cigarettes are the problem…20 - 30 a day is the problem. I can’t wait to be done with them. I’m really hoping I can make the mental switch from cigarettes to snuff…I agree, depravation only makes you want them more. Absense makes the heart grow fonder kind of thing. We’ll see if the new girl can make me forget about the old one.

I still struggle with smoking-but cut WAAAAAYYY down to maybe two cigarettes a week if that. But I alternate between nasal snuff and copenhagen “snuff” cut chew. I had to get away from taking in so much nicotine at a time, seeing as snuff is a kwik blast of nicotine and ciggs is a massive amount-lasting longer. As soon as I got used to just enuff from snuff, I don’t even crave a cigg at all much. Now I can’t even smoke a whole cigarette. Thanks SNUFF!

@Micheltn, I’ve got about $700 or so wrapped up in my cigar collection. I only smoke a couple a week and often only chew on them. I see your point, maybe I’m not ready to quit. No, I do want to stop the cigarettes. @Jerk, I’d be willing to ship you two packed humidors for $400!

I think it has been a year or just over a year now since i quit smoking with snuff - apart from the first few days i can’t think of any time i have wanted to or got the urge to smoke. When you add up the financial cost over a year to smoke in the UK it is such a mind boggling expensive habit costing thousands of £ pounds, i’m glad to be done with it!

Im convinced that the key to it is to NOT think in terms of giving up your favourite smokes. Lets face it, we are adult tobacco lovers - we like our leaf. Maybe a better analogy would be prime rib/cheeseburgers. Your smoke is the prime rib, you wouldn’t live off it but you’ll never say its too high in fat Ill never have one again - you have it now and then. And you don’t crave it all the time because you satisfy your hunger on a regular basis. Cut out the guilt, worrying what others think and the awful feeling of never having a smoke again and saitisfy your day to day hunger with snuff. It does take a while to swing the balance but because you are getting a proper, tobacco based dose of mother N that process is not too difficult. Put it this way, two weeks ago I was on holiday - I saw some English cigarettes I have not seen in 20 years. I bought them and lovingly smoked the pack; I haven’t even considered having a smoke since. Its my prime rib. And when you get really into snuff you think of it in the same way you did your smokes - its not like NRT, its a feasible way of using tobacco.

@ mcguyver75 Do you know how much snuff I can buy for $400? Besides I got to fix my 2003 F150 Supercrew that started miss firing. Hopefully that won’t cost me much to fix.

I’ll sell you a half tin of blessed snuff. It’s been blessed by me.

Being the Orthodox Chrisian I am, I carry holy water in my flask instead of whiskey, well in one anyway. Allergies and asthma acting up today, having a hard time getting any nic! Strong snuff’s of Dholakia White helping a bit, but painful.