I am Jewish, and while smoking or the lighting of any fire on Sabbath is forbidden, taking of snuff is not. Snuff is even allowed on Yom Kippur to refresh the soul, and I have shared some with the Rabbi in shul on that day.
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I read a ridiculous book called “The easy way to stop Smoking” or something along those lines. A friend recommended it. I though it was a joke, but at the end of the book, you are told to smoke your last cig and throw out the pack. That is exactly what I did about 7 years ago. It’s amazing but this ridiculous book worked. It’s off topic, but just a suggestion.
@fbones24 allan carr book maybe he is interviewed in this documentary interesting watch http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/we-love-cigarettes/
@fbones24 allan carr book maybe he is interviewed in this documentary interesting watch http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/we-love-cigarettes/
Good web site and documentary. Thanks. IHT No.22 enabled me to quit smoking. The SP’s and florals, menthols etc helped but only when I got into that toast was I able to walk away from smoking and stay away. I am like Alan Carr though in that I waited 30 years before quitting. I did read his book about 15 years ago and I think it certainly had some good points but obviously did not work for me. One myth I think is that the longer you smoke the more difficult it is to quit. I don’t think this true at all. Cold turkey was not for me and pharmacutical products only helped me on the road to realising I wanted to quit. Toast snuff was my answer and if I would have discovered it earlier I could have quit then. BTW they didn’t show any of the people who lived to over 100 that smoked all of their lives or examine their cases to see why that may have been so. I suppose they would just say that there was some kind of different genes involved.
Stop smoking now and put that money away ,when you turn 50 you can buy a nice ride
I do know one thing. When I stopped smoking and got over the initial adjustment to snuff only, I found I was coughing a lot less when taking snuff and it made taking bigger pinches much easier. I think tobacco smoke has a detrimental effect on the protective surface of your throat, but I’m just hypothosising, so dont quote me on it. Just personal experience. I often get snuff in my throat but it doesnt bother me at all. When i smoked it made me cough like crazy.
I smoke about a pack a week still (basically only at work). I make them count, though–I prefer old-timey filterless cigarettes. They’re hard to find in Canada, but I’d be sad to see them go. The price of tobacco is atrocious here, which I guess helps keep the habit down. The last pack of cigarettes I bought was $17. A tin of my grandpa’s beloved Copenhagen in Manitoba is now $27. Snus is a relative bargain at $18 for General Titanium or Wintergreen.
I gave up a 20 year cigarette smoking habit for snuff, and light pipe smoking. I can breathe again and smell. The right snuff = the right nic hit. Awesome. Thank You Snuff Master’s and distributor’s! Real BACCY! no more o’ that Murican’ manufactured poison in a stick.
I am Jewish, and while smoking or the lighting of any fire on Sabbath is forbidden, taking of snuff is not. Snuff is even allowed on Yom Kippur to refresh the soul, and I have shared some with the Rabbi in shul on that day.
I remember reading somewhere or other that snuff is or was especially popular among Jewish people for this very reason. Is snuff-taking still at all common in the Jewish community?
I quit cigarettes cold turkey when they reached the ridiculously high price of $2/pack.
Two bucks eh? That’s when I started…now mine are $6 and some change to $7. The fancy Nat Sherman’s I like on occasion are about $10. Cutting down now, maybe getting closer to the lovely harbor of only smoking 1 or 3 on occasion…
I just placed an order for 75g of rolling baccy, but along with it was 100g of pipe baccy and 100g of snuff. I’m not ready to give up the rollies just yet. I still enjoy them, I just didn’t enjoy them controlling me and that has started to change now.
Here you can either support criminal gangs by buying their cheap fake or smuggled cigarettes or line the pockets of the government with tax which is then passed to the rich via the bankers. Another few good reasons to help keep me off the ciggies. Actually the last few times I have passed the super market cig counter I couldn’t help notice that there were no customers whereas previoulsy I would have had to queue. It seems that with the dead economy people are realising they can’t afford a ~ £50/week habit.
@50ft_trad have you ever looked at D&R tobacco their out of N Carolina some great RYO “pipe tobacco”
@3_D I don’t think they’re for sale this side of the pond (from what I can see), and the taxes and release fees etc would be WAY too nasty to buy some in. Thanks for the thought though.
@anthonyJ I have also smoked cigs for about 12 years and I also couldn’t get enough nic from snuff until I tried Taxi Red. Two large pinches in each nostril will have my head spinning, my heart racing and ready to run to the bathroom. Snuff has enough nicotine if you take enough of it with your pinch. This is true of any snuff I believe. Use more you’ll find your threshold.
I actually went and had a cigarette two or three days ago and found it very unsatisfying, the same way snuff was vaguely unsatisfying (though pleasurable) when I first used it. I guess my body has adjusted to this mode of nicotine intake.
@anthonj I used White Elephant when I quit cigarettes, and haven’t had one for 48 days. I do however, enjoy a pipe once or twice a month.
Now that I’ve quit smoking with the help of snuff, like @horus92 , when I do occasionally smoke, I find it disgusting. As an added deterrent, whenever I do smoke I eventually get a sinus infection. I can honestly say I don’t miss it. Like @basement_shaman, I was enslaved by cigarettes. My relationship with tobacco and nicotine since I’ve taken up snuff full-time is completely different.