Hi all Well today I have noticed something which does not make sense ! I started my day of with a roll up benson and hedges silverrolling tobacco , then had snuff an hour after and for the first time I noticed the hit from snuff was faster than cigarettes ?? But how can this be or is this all in my mind ? Thinking about it cigarettes should be a faster hit due to a number of factors, one being burning tobacco and inhale smoke into the lungs and also the added chemicals to the tobacco to speed up the intake ?? Were as snuff gets through the membranes in the nose so should be slower ?? Again this could be me but I have noticed this and experimented all day between the to and snuff won every time ? If I am right then snuff for me alone would be enough to cut out my 7 roll ups a day, considering I was on 25 a day before snuff use . Any thoughts on this topic ?

Anything that is snorted will reach the blood stream faster than other methods (smoking or drinking) This is a simple fact but here is the part of your puzzle that is missing. When tobacco is ground into power, the amount of nicotine is increased by a large amount. This is what gives you a larger rush

its more the surface area the the actual amount if nicotine thats increased with grinding, and if the ph was adjusted to “freebase” the nicotine, which makes it much faster acting. Some older recipes of snuff with out a base are much slower acting. imho.

actualy there was some science on this a while ago. It was interesting the onset of nicotine uptake was faster with cigs but steeper with snuff. Meaning the cigs hit quicker but took longer to get up to strength where the snuff took more time but hit the full effect faster.

Agree it is interesting what you all say makes Sense as well, esp the bit about snuff getting upto full strength quicker than Taylor mades etc and grinding tobacco, surface area that’s given me something to think about tonight while pinching

I agree but would add that the nasal passages are very heavily innervated and have an above average blood supply when compared with the rest of the body. Add to this the actual proximity to the blood/brain barrier and voila, the stage is set…

innervated love that word

When you give up cancer sticks, you’ll find the high from snuff much more enjoyable.

@bob just another way of saying ‘you’ve got a lot of nerve!’ At least up your/our noses. In my case I sometimes think I have a lot of nerves there but have burned out the ones in my 'ol noggin.

Grind up the tobacco in one cigarette and look how much snuff you have made. Now snuff all that tobacco all at once. Did you get a good nicotine hit? Use Toque Quit,that will have you spinning if you do as much toque snuff equal to that cigarette

@basement_shaman I can imagine that you are blasted all day long. It’s all good

@MattheFox Yea I am just an imagined snuffternaut, orbiting high above the snuff world. Boldly going where no snuffer has gone before, consumming mass quanitys of the worlds most brutal snuff; transcending beyond the human realm into the snuffitarium. Where geometric patterns of snuff boxes distort my vision and the snuff aliens give me farsight into the known indefinite time period surpassing now.

@basement_shaman I was just gona say that !

@kurtsnose You will always be Captain Kurtsnose of the good ship SG Banana.

@basement_shaman That’s a good thing right ?

So it sounds like @basmement_shaman is becoming our next Guild Navigator! @cstokes4 will finally be happy to have some company locked in his snuffitarium (a tank currently filled soley with Grand Cairo snuff-gas) =)) Anyway, @Oxon while all of the above comments are true, there is a conversion period that myself and many other former smokers on this board have discussed. I think we concluded that the brain takes time to adjust (building new neuro receptors, presumably) and eventually starts to expect nicotine from the nose. Every now and then I have a cig for “old time’s sake” (or whatever reason I feel like giving), and they always seem to disappoint me. They’re never as good as I remember. I suppose given enough time I could convert my brain back, but have no desire to do so.