I’m seeing quite a few posts around that mention taking large pinches, mainly to stop irritation but also that that’s what people do when they stop being noobs. I have tried it … and it falls out! I’ve found that a large pinch will have me coughing forth a dust cloud as well as having a fall of stuff once I’ve stopped inhaling - literally just drops out of my snout all over my shirt. The next thing that happens is my nose tries to quickly flush out everything that did go where it should and stay there. Net result is that out of the large pinch I took, the only thing that stops in there is the much smaller pinch I would otherwise have taken … or less if it starts gushing. The other thought I had is that it could be rather wasteful even if it did stop up there. If I’ve got my head round this correctly, it’s only going to “work” if it’s got contact with the softer part of your nose, so once your nose has a coating … the rest of it is doing nothing just waiting to be blown out. Smaller pinches does seem work better for me, even if that means doubling/tripling up to be sure I’ve got a “dose” and built up a layer. So is there something I’m missing guys, or have I just found the best way of loading up for me?
My pinch size varies depending on what snuff I’m using. I’ve also found that most of what ends up on my shirt falls from my thumb and finger while pinching. I thought it was falling out of my nose at first. Some bigger ground snuff will allow a little to fall from my nose. If you found a way which works for you I say stick with it. To each their own.
In terms of surface contact, there are two saving features. 1) the amount of surface area in your most is more than you think, and a well spread big pinch can coat thinly. 2) immediate contact isn’t necessarily required, as nicotine is water soluble. 5he fluids that keep it stuck to the inside of your nose also add a wicking effect, allowing your body to leach nicotine out of snuff not making direct contact. Feature 1 requires practice for you to improve your technique and 2 requires practice for your body to acclimate to snuffing, giving a balanced mucus response. I had this same question a year ago when I was but a lurker here, and pieced the information together with the chemistry of tobacco and the sinus’ response to snuff.
All that being said, maybe let your sinuses get used to smaller pinches, then gradually increase as you feel comfortable. The main rule is this: Get as much snuff shoved up your face-holes as possible with whatever method is most pleasurable. If you don’t like it, you’re doing it wrong.
snuff doesn’t work on direct contact. It basically makes a tea in your nose and that’s what absorbs the nicotine.
Big pinches + mucous = good osmosis " steady, longer lasting nic draw " yum =))
Got it! Thanks guys! I think I’ll stick with “building” from smaller pinches for now till I get a little more fluent with the whole affair, and experiment with tweaking the technique every now and again. Thanks for the comments
I tend to take large quantities in smaller batches. I find it easier to control where I want it to go, and I have less throat hit from the overflow of a huge cloud cruising around. Snot is your friend. At first the copious amount was obnoxious, but it subsided into a more normal amount over time. I haven’t blown my nose yet today, and yet I’m not all caked up with snuff. I think my brain eats it.
Nigel has a nose twice as big as mine. It’s obvious from the pictures he posted. I heard his mother has a nose twice as big which he was born out of.
Large pinches have the definitive advantage that you consume more snuff, making it easier to justify the large quantities the average snuffer is buying regularly. I see this might become a problem for me as my consuming habits are not quiet in sync with my purchasing habits and I don’t want the snuff to loose it’s aroma. On the other hand, I seem to be able to taste the snuff better if the pinch is not to big. But what is to big anyway?
Well with what I already have, what is waiting for collection at the PO, and what has only just been dispatched, I don’t think I’ll be running out anytime soon! Here I am 3 to 4 weeks into this new venture (not sure exactly) and I’ve still not finished ANY tins yet
I tend to take large quantities in smaller batches. I find it easier to control where I want it to go, and I have less throat hit from the overflow of a huge cloud cruising around. Snot is your friend. At first the copious amount was obnoxious, but it subsided into a more normal amount over time. I haven’t blown my nose yet today, and yet I’m not all caked up with snuff. I think my brain eats it.
Nice to know building is a recognised sports and accepted in these waters It’s working for me so far, but then again going to the toilet fully clothed worked for me at one very distant point in my life too (infancy), so I’m prepared to accept things might change
Big, small , what’s it matter? enjoy the snuff anyway you like. The big pinch has to do with the amount of sniff required to get it in place. Small fine particles travel fast a larger amount weighs more , so in theory big pinches travel slower. I don’t have a problem with any size pinch, boxcar,back of hand, spoonful, or any other method. Some day it will become natural for you .Stick with what works.
Sounds good! Thanks for the advice
It takes some practice, particularly how hard to inhale, but once you master the big pinch, I find it easily the most rewarding method. I do get some droppage of snuff on my clothes which I just dust off.
i like the scent of some snuffs which i take small pinches to feel the aroma longer but when it comes to nicotine i use some easy to take snuffs for quick nic rush (6pinches for each nostril) like gawith apricot etc. Do i waste my g.apricot? Yeah but i can buy it from my local store at low cost.
A big pinch is ‘better’ for the nic hit etc, but to be honest I find it a lot easier to take a big mound off the back of my hand rather than a pinch. I’ve just bought one of the new snuffhouse snuff boxes which is absolutely ideal for back of the hand. Lot less mess as well.
Hmm, well I am getting more up there via building … and then my nose is running heavily and I can’t resist the urge to blow it :-S Maybe I just need to get a bit more acclimatised to it :-/
Sounds like you’re on the right path. That path is the one that leads to the most enjoyable snuff experience, which I believe is the one that includes the phrase “stupid amounts of snuff in your nose”
I haven’t blown my nose yet today, and yet I’m not all caked up with snuff. I think my brain eats it.
Hahahahaha! =)) Depending on the snuff, I take bigger pinches…moister snuffs I like put in piles on the back of my hand.
I tend to pile it on the back of my hand, with two neat piles for adjacent nostrils, it’s kind of akward but Otherwise if I try to boxcar too much ends up in one nostril and not enough in the other ~X(
Cool, a stereo snuffer! I’m going to have to try that; I’ve always done one side at a time.
here’s one to try. reach into your snuffbox with your thumb, index finger and middle finger and do a double pinch touch your index finger between your nostrils and big sniff, then go wipe your nose. Actually I like to take a big pinch but take small hits off it, A throw back to my smoking.
Sterio snuffer, yeah I like that @Mouse ! :))
It’s working for me so far, but then again going to the toilet fully clothed worked for me at one very distant point in my life too (infancy), so I’m prepared to accept things might change
Not to be repetitive, and you probably found your own way, we all found our way with bits and pieces taken from others here and there. I DID USE ADVICE FROM SH ( SH is the closest entity to University of Snuff ) But whats natural to you, may be indifferent for someone else, but what did work best is finding my own way… NO CORRECT WAY…different strokes for different folks. I adjust size by type of snuff, ( but I use spoon most times ) but for instant, If in the morning I want the best apricot snuff ( IMHO ) TOQUE APRICOT to last a long scent a small pinch ( with the textbook light inhale ) works better than a spoon, scent lasts longer with small pinches than spoon ( while a big pinch or big spoonful tends to mask aroma a bit ( don’t know why or even care… It’s just what I noticed…so I adjusted. ) NTSU Black for instant, I try and get that up between my pupils… The higher up the better… and it doesn’t clog me up …surprised given the grind…I love the burn and the the ammonia smell ( I don’t air it out and others might say I’m nuts) …But what about the farmer who contracted cancer from stuffing snuff in his ear for 40 years…do we know if he aired his snuff out? was his snuff talking to him? is that why he choose his ear? at least he was above the neck and getting closer to the usual orifice for nasal snuff. There are worse places to stick it ( not there yet… keep reading ) Was he using snuff the correct way? i’m not to say, but i bet you he had 40 years of fun ( if it wasnt fun he woulda quit after a week… yathink ? ) if only cancer did not get in the way …he may have had 40 more years in other ear…anyway…just enjoy@50ft_trad…I am glad your here and snuff in GOOD HEALTH @50ft_trad… Perhaps? In one of those packages your soon to retrieve, you may have some BRUTON ( brutal ) on arrival…USE A BIG PINCH and immediately notice that you have returned to your infancy and went to the toilet fully clothed once again decades later…I know this as the case as first time I snuffed BRUTON, I took a huge spoonful and looked like my chubby baby self when I was a one year old in OCT 1963 , tears cried outta both eyes ( yet spoon only went in one nasal passage ) but instead of my blue favorite baby rattle in hand, I dropped my 1893 sterling demitasse Tiffany Spoon ( T&co ) that clanged on the floor. I almost shat as well, but had to refrain, I was snuffing in the bathroom of a Federal Building and returning to the courtroom, I didn’t have a change of clothes and I wasn’t comfortable wearing my handy Depends that day ( my very young girlfriend bought for me when I asked her to buy me some hankerchefs when she went clothes shopping , she hates snuff and says my handkerchefs look like I wiped my backside…so why don’t you wear depends instead, less wiping, less mess ) Alas, I am sure I will be single again soon.
Oh, I’m still trying to find the right way for me - very much in the exploratory stage. I expect a good few more weeks (at least) of exploring before I realy start to settle on anything
Sometimes I take a big pinch, squeeze it firmly, open my fingers letting the pinch rest on my thumb, put my thumb ON my nostril (sealing the pinch in), letting my index finger hold the other nostril closed, and give it a big closed-blowhole sniff while pulling my thumb away from my nostril, breaking the seal and creating a vacuum lifting the big pinch right in. The strong vacuum helps to throw the snuff around in my nose better than a slight inward air current. Think about the spray of a higher pressure water hose compared to the steady stream of a lower pressure house. Soft sniffs tend to give me more of a throat or sinus hit compared to the strong short burst of this method.
That sounds like something I need to try, particularly when I get something that’s dried out a bit as that’s when I have the most trouble. Thanks
Wow! I’ve been trying the plug and blocked sniff routine tonight, and it’s worked a treat :-bd With Macouba I found pulling my thumb away whilst the vaccum was there worked well, but with my 60/40 Royal George and SP No 1blend which is a fair bit drier), a better option was sniff while blocked then stop the sniff (thumb still in place, and quickly pinch my nose with the other hand, then take my fingers away and give a little sniff … sounds more complicated than it is I think. Bottom line … more up the nose, much more flavour, no throat hit AND an unexpected bonus - less of a streaming nose. Maybe there was some irritation from the other techniques that was making my nose run more :-? Possibly more of a throat drip with releasing the thumb with the vaccuum still on though, so it’s obviously still going high up. Thanks @apvonkanel I’m going to play around with that some more
no throat drip happens cause that’s the main way the body cleans the nose.
Thanks @bob, I kind of noticed that before when swallowing. The vacuum caused would draw it back, but it just seemed to be a lot sooner with the Macouba which is why I thought it’s landing higher … or at least more is than the other way.
I boxcar it in and if too much goes into one nostril (as referred to by @Hisgirlfriday ) I simply put more on my thumbnail.
As long as it all gets into your nose, there isn’t any waste!
@50ft_trad …I think this is probably the best method for big pinches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YS15FOPwKE
Not sure the headdress would suit me but this does help justify the purchase of a churchwarden pipe which I’ve been putting off for a week or so :))
I have just watched this video clip again and it has really got me wondering…how on earth did they come up with the idea of filling tubes and blasting the stuff up someone’s nose?? I am trying to imagine the conversation - it probably started along the same lines as this very thread: “how do you take your stuff dude?” “well I just grind it up and stick my nose in the bowl” “Yeah I used to do that too but half of it used to fall out, ended up wasting half of it” “Happens to me too sometimes…so annoying…I’ve been thinking though, my dad’s got this cool pipe - cleans the ash out by blowing through it…” “…Are you thinking what I’m thinking…”? “Wanna give it a go?” “Nah, you must me out of your mind…” “Pussy” “Alright, but just don’t overload it ok…Wooooaaaaaahhhhh…duuuuuude!!! You gotta try this man!” These guys are the forefathers of this forum… ^:)^
I’m a big believer that great thing can come of being prepared to try something stupid … in fact I think my whole life was built on that very premise =))
@50ft_trad So that church warden pipe really is gonna come in handy then - Can you post the video? The headdress is optional by the way
Living alone, I’ll need to rewire the vacuum cleaner to blow first :-"
air compressor and a aluminium straw?
=)) 240cfm with a blasting pot for venturi delivery? X_X
and if you don’t happen to be in possession of any fancy equipment - a simple bicycle pump would do an equally fine job! Looks like we have a project going on here… :-B
This should do the trick! No need to rewire the vacuum cleaner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\\_q\\_ifItT5i8
Good thinking :-bd
Delivery would be awkard though - would need to glue an inverted funnel to it I guess
Maybe a funnel up each nostril? But if I’m doing that, driving fast with my head out of the window would save buying a leaf blower
Yeah but then I would have to hang off the roof of your car and empty two tins of your favourite snuff into each funnel. Now that would make good video viewing!! :-c Hasn’t your neighbour got a leaf blower you could borrow? I am beginning to think that these guys with the church warden pipe method who live in the rain forrest had already thought all this through.
Hasn’t your neighbour got a leaf blower you could borrow?
Nope. He’s got a dog … but I’m not sure that’s going to help :o3
I am beginning to think that these guys with the church warden pipe method who live in the rain forrest had already thought all this through.
… I just ordered one :>
Then he probably has one of those poop-scoop things which could double as a snuff spoon, if I remember rightly we were looking at methods for delivering large amounts of nose gear. Good work on ordering the pipe - but you know you’ll always wonder whether you should try the rain forrest shaman method every time you reach for it so you may as well give a go just to get it over with. :>
I have just watched this video clip again and it has really got me wondering…how on earth did they come up with the idea of filling tubes and blasting the stuff up someone’s nose?? I am trying to imagine the conversation - it probably started along the same lines as this very thread: “how do you take your stuff dude?” “well I just grind it up and stick my nose in the bowl” “Yeah I used to do that too but half of it used to fall out, ended up wasting half of it” “Happens to me too sometimes…so annoying…I’ve been thinking though, my dad’s got this cool pipe - cleans the ash out by blowing through it…” “…Are you thinking what I’m thinking…”? “Wanna give it a go?” “Nah, you must me out of your mind…” “Pussy” “Alright, but just don’t overload it ok…Wooooaaaaaahhhhh…duuuuuude!!! You gotta try this man!” These guys are the forefathers of this forum… ^:)^
Best stuff I’ve read on here and probably true. lol When it comes to snuffs like Pöschl Red Bull, Ozona President, Toque Flavors like Chocolate, Apricot, Coffee or any other medium snuffs I tend to take a GIANT mound of the back of my hand one nostril at a time. With tins of Toque or WOS I just tap out onto the back of my hand and don’t care about the extra waste because they are still so cheap to purchase. When it comes to drier Scotches, Toasts and Whites and prefer a very tiny spoon or a good old pinch and repeating until my nose is full of wonder. Fill (rinse if needed) and repeat.