How much snuff do you usually take per day/week/month? I know it depends on the mood, day, health, time and so on, but I think we can all tell an approximate value. 1. I used to snuff 2-6 g per day before the break in snuffing, now I snuff… well, it’s hard to tell, but it would be around 1g, as I suppose. 2. Before break - 25 g per week, now 5g 3. Before break - 90-110 g, now 30g

used to snuff about 3-4g a day, i use snus now and sometimes i wont snuff at all, usually its a pinch or two a day. more if i have work to do. with my collection of snuff, i dont think ill ever empty another tin haha…

8-10 pinches so very little.

I use around 5 - 6g aday but I also use a e cig around 1ml 24mg but that’s better than the 50 cigs aday I used to smoke for the past 35 years

It ranges depending on the grind/moisture/nic content. Usually anywhere between 4-8g. I have the occasional dip. And I do use my e-cig usually in the evening after work. And the occasional cig once every couple of weeks. They’re always around since the wife still smokes. Ex cig smokers like myself tend to use more. Non addicts are baffled by 5g+ a day consumption, but these people never bought a pack of cigarettes with nickels and dimes because payday was a day off lol

5-7 grams a day. I like to keep my heart pumping and love the N rush.

@SnuffH3ad , don’t you have any nasal troubles?

2-3grams a day. I’m about to quit smoking the pipe during the day time so this will rise a bit i’m guessing. If i ended up just snuffing 5g of good snuff a day i’d be a happy man.

About five grams a day. I haven’t been smoking my pipe recently, just enjoying snuff more. The last time I had a pipe, I stopped in the middle for some snuff and regretted having lit it.

I am still trying to figure out how you guys calculate your daily usage. But I usually take a large pinch twice an hour.

@SnuffH3ad , don’t you have any nasal troubles?

@Viertel No. I might have a day or two of pain in the right nostril, but I’m otherwise quite fine.

I am still trying to figure out how you guys calculate your daily usage. But I usually take a large pinch twice an hour.

@Harlequin. If I opened 25g tin on Monday morning, and there is nothing left in the tin on the Friday evening, then I know it is >5g/a day, because 25/5=5 and that one snuff is not the only one I use.

You all guys have armored noses.

On average I’ll use 1-2g a day. On a heavy day I might use ~3g per day, but for me that’s walking a fine line. Much more than that and my nose will start hurting, and I’ll need a day or two off.

You all guys have armored noses.

Your nose does get tougher with time i have found. Slowly but steadily.

I am still trying to figure out how you guys calculate your daily usage. But I usually take a large pinch twice an hour.

How big is a large pinch? I thought I was taking a lot, but it sounds like you more experienced folks are able to really shovel it in there.

Larger then an apple seed pinch, 2-3x per nostril.

Depends on the snuff. Best Dark I can accomodate in as much as my fingers will pinch and sometimes go back for even more, whereas with others I have to take several smaller pinches and “layer” until my grin appears As for whether your pinches are as large, or larger than other snuffers - it’s irrelevant! You take the best pinch size for your nose and your enjoyment. Sod what everyone else does - it’s your nose you’re keeping happy, not theirs

i counted up my empty tins for the year and worked out about 28g a week. some days i snuff very little.

It varies so much. Sometimes I only use snus and no snuff but most days I’ll use about 5g of snuff, occasionally 10-15g. It really depends on what I’m doing.

You all guys have armored noses.

Your nose does get tougher with time i have found. Slowly but steadily.

Exactly this. When I wasn’t using snus and was multiple pinching per nostril, getting through 15-20g snuff a day was easy with no nose irritation. Your nose hardens up the more you snuff. Now I’m using more snus and less snuff, I’ve noticed my nose is a bit more sensitive, so I can’t snuff so much as I could before.

20g a day… I wouldn’t even have time to snuff so many times

BIG PINCHES, 3-4 pinches per nostril every 15 minutes, 20g a day very easy to achieve. Big pinches best achieved used MIDDLE finger and thumb.

Something like this? http://snuffhouse.org/discussion/comment/294126/#Comment\\_294126

Jeez, you guys. A 7gram tap box lasts me a couple of weeks. I guess I should up the intake. I’d be willing to bet it will happen naturally when I discover some decent snuffs. I wind up trying to snuff some brutons during the day until my shipment arrives and every time I take a little I start coughing and think to myself “f* THAT s*”. But the fruit ones I have are nasty and have so little nicotine that it’s unenjoyable. I guess that’s how it goes.

Lets see, I just weighed my 2 regular boxes and they hold almost 6g each. they are gone by the evening time most days. After I get home from work I pinch out of whatever looks good in the collection… so I’d say daily probably 10-15g on the average day. Used to be a gram or 2 but When I finally quit smoking and switched to Snuff full time my usage went up dramatically.

snuffy–i use back/hand (actually palm) keep hearing dose being apple seed size. my spoon gives about regular sunflower seed size which i divide between the 2 nostrils. doesn’t take long to be scraping the bottom. i’m not crazy—i pinch the am scotch . i’m about 80% toast guy. i’m virgin to the white snuffs–i must confess

I don’t know how I don’t finish more boxes than I do. I wasn’t aware that apple seed size was the norm. I’d been filling that boxcar up to the tip top.

Apple seed is fine for a beginner, I wouldn’t call it the norm. An almond size per nostril is normal for me.

^^^ Ok, I feel more normal now. The apple seed size just didn’t feel like enough. I just need to get some better snuff; that which I have is mostly crap. :-w

Damn guys! The average on here seems to be like a tapbox a day! A tapbox (7-10 grams) seems to last me about 2 weeks. The first period it was easy to calculate this, because Ozona President was all I used, but the tempo still seems to be the same, and my tapbox just lasts and lasts and lasts and I never seem to see the end of it, lol. I think I hold back a little, compared to how nicotine satisfied I’d like to be. Maybe if I really just let go completely I would do a tapbox a day, maybe… I mean I was a hardcore snus addict for crying out loud. Still, I gotta admit, a tapbox a day seems unreasonable and I have a hard time picturing that, lol. I take farely decent pea sized pinches like every 15 minutes… meaning the dose looks pea sized in loose form… in the pinch it might be more like an apple seed / sunflower seed I guess… Wow guys… 7 grams+ a day…!

This post may come across as disrespectful to a lot of people, but is really not intended this way. There does seem to be a lot of newbies trying to “conform” with their snuff consumption. This can be in the form of quantities consumed, or in the brands/blends consumed, and if you think about it, it’s quite ridiculous. Firstly, if someone is taking snuff, they are already non-conformist to an extent and someone who is prepared to undertake something that sets them greatly in the minority - so why try to conform with others in that minority? Secondly, people measuring themselves against a hardened snuff user and feeling they need to up the ante, strikes me as being like someone trying to emulate an alcoholic. Just because they guy next to you with the gaunt expression and yellowing skin goes through a bottle and a half of vodka a day, doesn’t mean you need to drink more. People find there own level - some people need a gallon of beer for a good night out, others are perfectly happy on two or three glasses of wine. Each to their own, and if you only use 1g a day but enjoy it - good for you! Likewise, if you leisurely rattle through 10g a day - snuff on, and be merry! Thirdly, (sticking with the drinking analogy) it’s perfectly fine to drink a gin and tonic while others are quaffing ale. By all means try different things, but there is no penalty for not liking the same as others. It just leaves you more time and funds to enjoy snuff you really like. There are some fine and highly knowledgeable members here, people whose humour I appreciate - but have completely different tastes in snuff to me. They’re knocking back fine dry snuffs (which would have me laid out choking) in high quantities between dipping, chewing, and smoking a couple of bowls - whilst I’m enjoying the coarser English snuffs (which would have their faces clogged solid), and tooting away on my e-cig and the occasional roll-up. It’s all good. This was not intended to trivialise alcohol dependency, nor was it intended to be demeaning to the newcomers or heavy consumers. When I first started I too leaned on the knowledge of others before I found my own path, but it sometimes seems that group psychology can get in the way for new snuffers striving for what is “best” and what is “right” instead of being encouraged to just enjoy a relaxed and leisurely exploration of the world of snuff. I almost felt “excluded” for a while when I started for not enjoying the same snuffs, quantities, or techniques as other users, and hate to think that some people might even be turned off snuff altogether because they “failed” in some way … simply because they weren’t aligned with the group dynamic

This post…

I agree completely. when i started, i was trying to use snuffs championed by the collective, such as dholakia, SWS, Taxi. im just not suited to dholakia except black which i like, or particularly coarse grinds. went to try scotches too since i was informed that they are high nic and just take practice (i.e upping my snuff ‘level’), but its sat there untouched. similar with White Elephant, but atleast i try that occasionally. Atleast i found home quickly with abraxas, viking(SG), GH, WoS and toque. having said that, i just got the scotches out. ill see.

This post…

I agree too. And it is a fine and valid post to write. This is one of the aspects of why we write collectively on the forum as well, to see how others around the globe are using a product which so few people do use. Things may come through as inspirations and good ideas… others may come through as a surprise or as a new notion one previously hadn’t thought of before. I’ve been very curious about what the norm is in regards to quantities of consumption myself. Reading this doesn’t mean I will change how much I take… but it does give an indication of how much one can relax towards levels of use, and which levels seem unfit to exceed. Anything else would be up to personal will, cravings and economics. I must admit I am inspired to relax a bit more with my quantities (an aspect I have been wondering about for a while now), but that only to a natural degree. I am not chasing the 7-10 gram a day as a set goal level any time soon, lol. If I could have met myself as a smoker in another dimension and seen that I smoked 4 cigs a day I might’ve told myself, “holy shit man, thats not even enjoying the act of smoking. If you are gonna smoke you might as well at least smoke 10 a day and enjoy the whole spectrum of the social cig, the after dinner cig, the coffe cigs… etc. the freedom of feeling free to take the next chain cig in a rapid conversation”. There is a domain of enjoyment which is related to amount as well, and this can only be learned either by doing it long enough til you figure it out by yourself or by seeing what the connosieurs do. For me it’s all about enjoying the nicotine, but staying disciplined enough to still feel the reward. Its a fine balance. I think I have some leeway to work with on in that aspect. I think I can relax a tad bit more.

I was with you up until this point …

If I could have met myself as a smoker in another dimension and seen that I smoked 4 cigs a day I might’ve told myself, "holy shit man, thats not even enjoying the act of smoking. If you are gonna smoke you might as well at least smoke 10 a day and enjoy the whole spectrum of the social cig, the after dinner cig, the coffe cigs… etc.

… and don’t see why enjoying tobacco in modest quantities is less right than getting stuck in. If you should be free to enjoy as much as you want without reproach, then why not be free enough to enjoy as LITTLE as you want. Also, quick question back on these points if I may …

Reading this doesn’t mean I will change how much I take… but it does give an indication of how much one can relax towards levels of use , and which levels seem unfit to exceed. Anything else would be up to personal will, cravings and economics. I must admit I am inspired to relax a bit more with my quantities (an aspect I have been wondering about for a while now), but that only to a natural degree. I am not chasing the 7-10 gram a day as a set goal level any time soon, lol.

… are you referring more to immediate safety of use, so your brain doesn’t explode and your eyeballs drop out? :)) Or alignment with the norm - to kind of standardise your usage?

I just don’t like blindly trying to find good snuffs. It can get expensive and it will eventually turn a guy off when they keep getting crappy snuffs. I figure if everyone seems to like HDT, then it’s probably a decent one to try. I’m brand new to is all still, so I just try to figure out what the norms are. Seeing what is an acceptable amount to take; when I first started I was filling box cars up to the tip top and taking a box car per nostril. I just didn’t know. And when it comes to strength of snuffs it has a lot to do with how much one uses. I could ask the question, how much Taxi are you taking to get that nic buzz? Should I expect it from the tiniest spoonful per nostril or are you shoveling it is. Just like with pipe smoking and most other things in life, there are good ways to do things and unwise way to do things. Why not get a consensus on what the good ways are? It’s all good. It’s helpful for those of us that have never met another snuff taker in our lives. :)>- (I’m from the US, so this is a peace sign, lol)

Agreed! I’ve been doing snuff less than a year, and remember it well trying to find my feet with the whats, hows and whys. This is a great place to come and ask questions, and there’s a huge wealth of knowledge here. It did seem that when I started many people were almost encouraging heavier snuff use, and if a snuff didn’t work for you, you were doing it wrong. A lot of that seems to have calmed down now though thankfully. Keep asking those questions and have fun exploring, just don’t feel bad if a popular snuff doesn’t work out for you or if you find yourself differing from the herd in other ways. A lot of popular snuffs don’t work for me, and on the flip side a lot of the snuffs I do like don’t seem to find much favour with others. In real terms I’m still a noob, but I’ve figured out a few basics. It’s OK to take smaller pinches, it’s OK to not like popular or premium snuffs (I’m not missing out or being thick), and there’s many great snuffs out there that don’t get much airtime. Enjoy the journey … there is no destination.

@50ft_trad Yeah… What I said is just fitting to my mentality. I’d like it to stand for itself without explanations. Just step back and enjoy the inhumane horror of compiled words. As far as to which degree I am following a norm or not, I might not even really be sure myself. I have my own way of going about things. I sure as hell enjoy it. I dont want to debate it.

I have my own way of going about things. I sure as hell enjoy it. I dont want to debate it.

Perfect :-bd You be happy doing what you do, that’s all that matters and is what I was originally aiming at Apologies if the follow up questions weren’t welcome, I was just trying to make sure I didn’t misconstrue. All’s good this end

i was just trying to answer a query. for gods sake doen’t use me as anything to imulate . jesus! just let me say—if you’re trying to quit smoking , you may hit the snuff pretty hard. other people should be proud that they need little outside (i.e. artificial) stimulus. it’s good that an “adult” takes on the cautionary role. i would hope that it be unnessary --but it probably is.

Hello all, I’m a totally new member, but as this discussion seems interesting, I am inclined to ask this: How CAN you take so much (>5g) snuff per day? I’ve been taking snuff for about four years with ever increasing amounts, but that just sounds impossible. The nose. It gets irritated. It really does. Or to put the question around. How do you take care of your nose? Regarding the earlier comments, I am not asking this as to live up to a norm, but because I am repeatedly confronted with the feeling of standing on a underground and thinking “ah, how lovely it would be to take a pinch” just to be set back because my nose is still irritated of the pinch I took 15 min earlier. Otherwise, it is nice to see that other people use the snuff so much. It is like reading how someone smokes three packs of cigs everyday and yours last three days. “I’m not a heavy smoker, I don’t have to be concerned.”

I do find it quite incredible myself I must admit I’ll never be a big snuffer though, it never seems to take much more than two pinches a side for my nose to feel maxed out, and with the coarser snuffs and slower release that can last some time … actually … Just wondering if that’s part of it - fine snuffs needing topping up quicker …? There I go again, thinking about it too much :)) In all seriousness though, I can see how a fine snuff user might need to top up more - like comparing cigarettes to cigars :-?

"Otherwise, it is nice to see that other people use the snuff so much. It is like reading how someone smokes three packs of cigs everyday and yours last three days. “I’m not a heavy smoker, I don’t have to be concerned.”

@SkeG touché

That question comes back from time to time. Maybe admin would consider making a poll, like he did with for example “how old are you” and “how long have you been snuffing”? @Xander @cstokes4 ?

i weighed my average sized back of hand amount, worked out to 0.1 gram.  have about 10 of those a day, about every 2 hours in an 18 hour awake time.  that’s a gram, which is about the same amount of tobacco in one cigarette, but where 90% of the nicotine is destroyed in combustion with a cig, I’d guess the majority is being absorbed with snuff either in the nostril or as it works its way to the lower intestine.  if every cigarette has on average 1.5mg nicotine, that means I’m using the equivalent nicotine of 6.5 cigarettes.  goes to show how much it’s an intuitive process and very individual, because when I was a smoker I only smoked 6 cigarettes at max, tolerance never went higher than that, if I had more I’d start having a lot of negative side effects.  some people are more/less sensitive to nicotine than others, just listen to what your body says, use it up to the point it feels good and don’t try to push past, there’s no rewards for using more.

I’ve gotten up to 5g a day but not too often. The first time was when I first got @Cobguy 's Clove Mint and plowed through half a 10g tin in an afternoon because it was so good. Nowadays it’s when I’m working 16-18 hours strait with dark SG/Vikings. I go through half a box of Kleenex at the same time In my usual days it’s 1-2gs. With SWS St James Parish days it might dip below 1g because it’s just so satisfying, on all fronts

non Alcohol days I go through 5 grams, drinking days more like 10, average probably around 9.75 g then

I was above 5g per day but eventually lost my sense of smell and developed chronic sinus congestion that prescription nose sprays only partially addressed. I then started using snus moderately and moderated my snuff use. Now I can smell again and have two relatively safe ways to enjoy tobacco! The snus satisfies my nicotine cravings, so I am no longer biased toward high nicotine snuffs, either. A bad thing turned into two good things.

I stopped counting long ago. To be honest I think I probably use 5 to 10 grams a day. I use a lot of different snuffs for sure, but I always use a plain Rappee style, an English menthol, and an Indian floral/menthol.

2-3 grams a day.

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 Doesn’t matter how much you take…what matters is if it’s enough for your own satisfaction.

I think coarser grinds like Vikings makes me consume about 2-2.5 grams a day, since pinches can be bigger. Usually its not exceeding 3 grams, not sure… However, right now during corona quauarantine with 100g USA Honey Whiskey lying around I find myself refilling my snuffbox daily. I guess staying home and boredom made my nose habit skyrocket…