It’s a fairly silly song, but I find the line fitting to my current quest: quitting the cigarettes and going for snuff as my main source of nicotine. I’m not switching from one to the other overnight. I’ve seen what that will do to people and I refuse to become part of that crowd. It never lasts. I am however stepping up my snuff intake and phasing out the sticks one by one. Having used snuff for a number of years now, my nose is somewhat seasoned and will take just about any snuff I shake at it. Molens is some of the tastiest powder to ever encounter my nostrils, but it still burns my face off. Currently I’m going through my stash of 60+ different flavors/brands of snuff, hoping to find that one snuff that will do it for me. Gletscher Prise has been good to me over the years, but it’s somewhat mild in the nicotine department, so I’ll probably be moving on to some of the toasts and whatnot as I move forward. Toque Quit is on my list of to-try snuffs, but it’s currently not a part of my stash, so it will be a while yet before I get my hands on that one. All the money I’ll save will be a welcome addition to the home finances - as will the portion I’ll reserve for future snuff purchases. @Roderick/@Toque - I hope you are keeping those tasty tinned treats on stock! If any other snuffhouse users are on a similar mission, I’d love to hear from you. Heck, anybody’s welcome to chime in with words of encouragement.
I’m at 20-30 a day myself at the moment. That turns into around 180 British pounds per month - give or take a tenner. Sounds like the Danish cigarette prices are getting almost up to par with the British ones. To me at least, that’s a lot of money that could be spent on other more interesting things. I still have hundreds of pipes and a pipe tobacco stash that will easily last me the next 10 years with 2-3 bowls per day, so no doubt that will get a bit of attention as well. I agree with you regarding the quick break thing. That will probably be the toughest one. Thanks for the encouragement and the snuff recommendations. I’ll have to add those to the increasingly long list of “to try” snuffs.
Hi slartie, I am doing the exact same thing, drastically reducing the number of cigarettes I smoke and increasing my snuff use. I find I only smoke about 2 cigarettes now, one in the morning and one in the evening. I rely on Three Thistle Strong Scotch to get me through the day and it does a great job. I want to try to get Three Thistle Sweet too. I’ll have to place an order for some other goodies as I generally prefer coarser semi moist snuffs and these are extremely fine and dry. Three Thistle Strong is just high in nic content which is why I use it. (Not that’s its bad or anything, just not my preference.)
Hi Slartie, hello fellow “snuff-to-quit” brothers of pain. (maybe that’s overly poetic, but those who know what craving for a cig is, will understand) I’m doing pretty much the same thing, replacing cigarettes with snuff and for the past 6 to 7 days, it’s been all great. I started with just a box of Poschl’s Gawith Apricot snuff. I still got a bit less than half after 6 days. Today I’ve bought two more: Gletscher Prise and Lowen Prise. I’ve smoked cigs for 12 years, and now I can’t stand the smell of them after 6 days of snuff. I think that’s a huge leap forward and I’m also glad I’m done with cigarettes for good this time. They are too much of a health / financial problem on top of all the other problems in life we all have, to stick to them. Snuff is yummy, it’s cheap, it delivers nicotine. Good luck to all of you with you with quitting smoking, I think I may have just made it, and found my method: snuff. Best wishes, Andrew.
@slartie good look with your quest. Snuff worked for me also I was a forty to fifty man myself. I agree with @Vathek Viking dark is excellent easy to take strong in nicotine and quite smoky so a good substitute . It is only available from mysmokingshop though.
I’m trying to go down the same path. I’ve been smoking for just over 20 years, and I’m down to where I only smoke 5 - 6 per day; usually after I get off work. Now that my technique has improved so I can enjoy snuff taking a lot more, I find myself craving the snuff more and the smokes less. I’m going to do a trial run of a smokeless day later this week. Good luck to everyone.
Great to hear from you all, and the best of luck to you. Last night I actually decided to step up the snuff taking quite a lot, just to see what kind of reaction I would get from it. Apart from a hefty dose of nasal blockage due to the nature of Gletscher Prise, I got all the tobacco satisfaction I could’ve hoped for. This morning I am out of smokes, and will see how long the snuff will keep me focused. Normally I would get a pack first thing before going to work, but so far I haven’t really bothered. Funny thing about cost. For the price of one pack of smokes that lasts me a little less than a day, I can get at least two 10g tins of snuff. One tin of snuff will last me at least 3-4 days, and probably quite a bit longer with toasts or similar dry varieties. With that in mind I might actually end up being able to afford some of those top shelf whisk(e)y’s I’ve been dreaming about.
From reading various posts on here and on Smokers’ Forum, I suppose I’m in the minority. I’ve done all forms of tobacco, minus dip/chew. I was never addicted to a form of tobacco. Simply, I enjoyed smoking. The reason I finally stopped smoking cigarettes had nothing to do with them being bad. I stopped, because I lost the taste for them. I won’t sit here and say, for the rest of my life, I will never smoke a cigarette, pipe, or cigar again. But, right now, I don’t have a desire to. I went from smoking unfiltered camels to marlboro reds to nat sherman mcd blacks. After smoking the Shermans for a good month or so, when I went back to the marlboros, I couldn’t stand to smoke the marlboros at all. Literally, the smoke from them tasted putrid. The smoke tasted akin to if you smoked half a cigar, let it go out, then tried to smoke it a week later. I remember buying a pack, at $10/pack, lighting a cigarette, taking three puffs, then throwing the lit cigarette and pack right out the window of my car. The reason I switched to sherman’s is due to them not affecting my sense of smell. When I switched to the shermans, within three days, I started to notice I was smelling smells I hadn’t for a long while, including soaps and deodorants. Once again, I could smell perfume on a female who was standing across the room. It was that noticeable. Snuff has never affected my sense of smell. I enjoy snuff. The flavor, the sensation it gives, etc. I’ll go days without using snuff and I don’t find myself clawing around the room. When I use snuff, I use it throughout the day. I don’t count how many times I do, but I’m sure it is more than 20. I guess my whole advice for you would be, if you’re coming from marlboro land to snuff land, you’re totally going to miss out on the flavor of snuff. If you’re smoking two packs of marlboros a day, you won’t be able to acutely discern the intricacies of snuff flavor. For you, snuff will simply appear to be a nicotine delivery system. Don’t confuse snuff for that. Ween yourself off the cigarettes. Buy some shermans and smoke them for a month. You shouldn’t be able to stomach the taste of any mass produced cigarette after that. When you’re sense come back to normal, give snuff a try. You’ll actually go, “oh, my goodness, there’s this whole facade to snuff I never realized.”
I think one purely psychological factor is key to success: don’t tell yourself, “I’ll never smoke another cigarette.” Instead, take as much snuff as you want, but if you really feel compelled to have a cigarette, smoke one. Over time, you’ll find more satisfaction from snuff, and the urge to smoke a ciggy will gradually fade away. Snuff (and its oral counterpart, snus) will win over cigarettes every time, in the long run.
i agree with PipenSnusnSnuff … i found it easiest to allow myself some smokes, if i really felt them necessary … and, like PSS said, the desire for cigs fades fairly quickly … and the enjoyment of snuff really expands.
I quit smoking a few months ago using snuff. I was a carton a week smoker,(plus a pack or two sometimes), for over twenty years. I found it fairly easy to transition from cigarettes to snuff. One thing that I found helped me was doing massive amounts of harsher scotch snuff to get a big burn. That seemed to end the cigarette craving for me. I know it sounds odd but that deep burn got rid of the cigarette jones for me. I wish you good luck on quitting cigs as I feel 100 percent better and now can go to the gym without wheezing, go to sleep without hearing my lungs and don’t have the morning hack. Good luck, the effort is worth it.
@Vathek - So far 10g snuff boxes are lasting me 4-5 days. 200g is a good 6 months worth of dedicated snuffing for me 
@minux - I hear what you’re saying. I’ve been smoking cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, the pipe, the water pipe, snuffing and snusing on and off over the years. You could say that I’m addicted to tobacco as a whole. It’s not so much that cigarettes are an addiction for me, as much as the quick break @vathek was speaking of. With snuff, you never really have that contemplative moment, unless of course you take a pinch and stare at nothing for a while and have people wonder what’s wrong with you. I will no doubt keep smoking, but cigarettes will be ranked far lower on the ladder of fine tobacco treats. As a result they will probably be few and far between. @PipenSnusnSnuff - I agree completely. That’s also part of the reason why I’m not drawing a line in the sand and go: OK, here’s where that stops, and where this begins. I enjoy most forms of tobacco far too much to simply quit them altogether. If I feel like having a cigarette, I will probably always have a pack or two on hand. Back when I used to drive long distances to and from work, my pipe was my trusty companion. I wound up having to re-hydrate my cigarettes during that period. @greencrow - I tend to steer clear of the stuff that will attempt to blow my head up/take my face off. I like my sanity far too much to wade into that particular ball of hurt. However, the snuffs that do burn, I have come to tolerate more and more. I’m not anywhere near the toasts just yet, but I’m getting there. Luckily I have never had the lung, hack, wheezing problems, but I can completely understand why that’s a good thing to be rid of. On a side note, as I mentioned in an earlier post, I ran out of smokes yesterday morning and haven’t felt like having one since then. I was also not at work yesterday, so the quick break thing never came up - I didn’t have anybody to take a quick break with, so it sorts itself out nicely like that. Today I’m back at the office and now the 8am church bells are tolling. Now I want to step outside with a hot mug of coffee and a couple of my colleagues to have a quick chat about why our government needs to get their act together and how, if we were in power, would be so much better at their jobs.
Ive been finding that I go without smoking for up to a few hours because I would rather enjoy a few pinches. Im sure I can use that to ween off smoking.
@Vathek What are you saying man? 200g in a month? Wow… Do you really go through 200g of snuff a month? @PipenSnusnSnuff “but if you really feel compelled to have a cigarette, smoke one” I think I’m too proud to do that now, after 10 days of quitting, even though I had minor cravings to smoke but only in moments when I got angry on something. Now, before you laugh I know 10 days is nothing, I’ve quit smoking 9 months before this time ( in 2010 ) but during that period I had some really intense cravings which snuff helped me throw away with just a pinch now, that’s where my pride is.
My longest quit was a year and a half, and I was just ravaged by cravings. I was thinking about them constantly, kept reaching in my pockets to grab one, hell…I even had dreams about the damn things. 18 months later and it was like I was back to day one. Nicotine is a terrifyingly addictive substance, but at least snuff seems a lot better for me. If not, I’ll just live in blissful ignorance. =D
@Erg0lite: I’m not laughing, and you should do whatever works for you. But bear this in mind: if/when you relapse, your pride will be severely wounded. At that point, you are at your highest risk to throw in the towel utterly, and go back to being a full-time ciggy smoker. Giving yourself permission to fail, yet maintaining your determination to keep working on the switch from cigarettes to snuff, avoids that trap. And that is a trap that the vast majority of smokers attempting to quit fall into.
I concur @Vathek from heart.
200g a month is not that much. Figuring An average for me of 10g a day, more on the days I’m off work, It’s 300g+ a month for me.
I guess because I’m rather new to this and 200g seems like much to me now. @PipenSnusnSnuff That is exactly what happened to me the first time. I had some wine with a friend while having a chat about stuff and I lit one up and there it was, back at square one. But the difference between that time and now is that I have this snuff which miraculously not only takes the craving away but now, after less than two weeks, I can’t stand the smell of cigarettes. @Vathek For how long has this been working for you? Any negative side effects with that quantity? I may be a bit overly cautious with this but since I’ve heard my lungs do all sorts of weird sounds, getting tired fast and a number of other problems related to smoking I don’t really want to be replacing those with others.
I find intriguing @Vathek’s elimination of earwax by snuff. I’ve noticed the same effect. Somehow my ears don’t wax up as much as they used to.