I m still vaping with a new device I went to 6mg instead of 16/18 mg but it makes a lot more vapor and it’s in direct inhalation so I guess I still get the same nicotine amount through the day. Sometimes I take snuff for pleasure and sometimes I try to quit vaping with it. When I think about it I will try to pinch a high nic snuff like Lundy Foot straight after waking up, get one pinch at mid day and one pinch at the evening and it should make me reduce my vaping.
I’ve dropped down to 6mg too. I’ve also started using a Pina Colada flavoured juice, which isn’t particularly enjoyable, but the habit is still hard to break. I’ll get there. I ditched the cigs, so I can ditch this too. I just need to be ready
I started with vaping in late-2008 . I was obsessed with it until about 2015 .I still love it now as a smoking simulator . But it hasn’t helped me quit .
I ve always felt ‘hollow’ using nicotine alone , I went 18 months without any whole tobacco products and they were tough times . My temper was of particular concern , frankly I m lucky not to be cooling my heels in jail right now . I was that volatile .
I started supplementing the nicotine with variants of smokeless tobacco around 2011-12 . Whole Tobacco Alkaloid eliquid was also available at the time …but ruinously expensive . I ve made my own but the process scared the bejezzus out of me :D
I just sort of fell into a daily pattern of snuff use last year when my COPD was playing up . Now weeks go by and I don’t pick up my efag . I doubt I ll ever give up vaping as a tobacco simulator . Decent quality juice in an artisan device can deliver a hedonistic experience well in excess of any smoking I ve ever done . 
I just don’t see me relying on it as a drug delivery device anymore .
My next vape order will be 0mg .
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Four weeks since my last post in this thread, and it’s now time to take the leap. The only vape I have left is about three drags in my pen type and one cartridge in my cig type. I’ve managed thus far into the afternoon on just snuff, and have decided I’m done having to buy vape and charge batteries. From here on, it’s just snuff and the occasional pipe bowl. Done! Finished! End of! I might end up using the pipe a little more for a while, but my target with that is a maximum of 50g a month. What’s that? Three to four bowls per week?
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I never vaped tobacco, but in the last 2 months I noticed that the more snuff I used the less RYO cigs I enjoyed, until a week ago when the last one tasted and felt horrible. The downside is that I don’t fancy pipesmoking so much anymore. It was an enjoyable 2 bowls per day ritual for me. Guess that I’m fortunate or I just switched between rituals, and once I managed to get over the initial beginner’s enthusiasm and binging sessions with snuff and my nose became more "educated"and also went down from 35-40 pinches daily to roughly 20. Still smoke the occasional pipe now and then, because I like pipes and still have huge amounts of pipe tobacco to consume. There is certainly an important part that autosuggestion plays into this transitions. And for me snuff taking has only advantages over any other form of tobacco consumption: cleaner, “healthier”, cheaper, less time comsuming and infinitely tastier and more diverse in flavours, both plains and aromatics. The only downside seems to be the ocasional nose clogging, but that’s helping a lot to narrow the options and eliminate the snuffs that don’t suit me.
Done it! I’ve just done two weeks with no vape, and because vape was a major part of the support structure when I kicked the smokes, it’s taken almost a year from ditching the cigs to be ready to move on. The first week saw me increase my pipe use up to two or three pipe bowls a day. I had expected this to happen, and was prepared to allow that for a few days. However, this week I have smoked maybe three bowls all week, which is a level I am happy to maintain. I don’t want to ditch the pipe altogether, just limit myself to a maximum of 50g a month. The rest of the week has been snuff only, and while there have been some cravings, it has been reasonably easy to disregard them. As such, this has been the first week where I have been (almost) snuff only, and surprisingly (VERY surprisingly) my snuff intake hasn’t increased. In fact, if anything, it may have even dropped slightly. For the first time in 25+ years, I now feel that I use tobacco on my terms, and because I want to, not because I need to.
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Bravo! Well done!
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