I’ve dabbled in every form of tobacco at some point or another and find snuff the bext to help quit smoking. The problem I have is that by the late afternoon of days where I only snuff and not smoke I get all jittery as if I had too much caffeine. Is this a matter of too much snuff or not enough cigarettes? Thanks,
I think it’s the cigarettes. If you smoke and go without snuff, as i’m doing, you would probably not get any really noticeable side effects. Cigarettes are far more toxic compared to snuff. For me snuff isn’t strong enough to mask the cigarette cravings.
When i have a session of too much strong snuff I also feel jittery and light headed, but the feeling only lasts for a minute or two directly after i’v used it.
Hope this helps.
Ya I find it doesn’t mask the cravings either. I find what works is constantly snuffing throughout the day to not get a craving in the first place. Because once I get a craving I won’t settle for anything but a cigarette.
Caffeine and nicotine balance each other out.You may want to try smoking a pipe. It give me more pleasure than cigarettes ever did. And it is healthier for you .according to the surgeon’s general’s report pipe smokers live 3 to 5 years longer than non smokers.
Young people say smoking pipes are what old men do,Well how do you think they got to be old men?
Do you drink enough through the day when using snuff?
Basement shaman, I actually have a pipe, I had smoked some sail and made my own blend and couldn’t help but to inhale. That left me in even worse shape than the cigarettes. And Salmiak you might be onto something. I’ll take note to drink more water.
Vitamin C as well
A lack of vitamin C gets you all jacked up?
E cigarette helped me, now that I’ve increased my snuff intake the only time I vape is in the morning with my coffee and in the late evening after dinner/before bed. Other than that it’s just constant snuffing .
"W.J. McCormick, M.D., of Toronto, Canada, was one of the first to make the discovery that the nicotine and other poisons in cigarettes and other forms of tobacco, when introduced into the body, rapidly use up the available reserves of vitamin C.
This, of course, should not be a difficult conclusion to come to. In addition to other helpful features, vitamin C specifically works in the body to neutralize and destroy poisons. Smoking, cigars, and snuff put a lot of poison into the system; and the vitamin C is quickly used up in trying to eliminate it.
Yet, oddly enough, it has been discovered that when the supply of vitamin C is exhausted?the body tends to crave the nicotine in the tobacco even more than before!
When massive doses of vitamin C are given (either intravenously or orally), these toxic substances are cleared out of the system. Thus, by taking large amounts of vitamin C, the body can more quickly eliminate the nicotine and other noxious poisons?and the one trying to get off tobacco can do so more easily and quickly." from : http://stoptobaccotoday.com/vitamins.html
I believe that snuff, pipe tobacco and cigars haven’t got anything close to the same toxicity as cigarettes and should be classed separately ie less harmful. Yet I wonder if there are small amounts of harmful chemicals in these things, but whether enough to cause health issues I don’t know.
We do know that many of those do have chemicals which can cause mouth cancer. But I believe the amount of those chemicals is so low that it poses no real risk overall.
Having just managed to ditch the coffin nails (for now anyway) I thought I’d share my thoughts… With smoking cigarettes there is a chemical addiction, and behavioural addictions. I found it easier to battle the behavioural side first. With me it was the rolling as well as the smoking. I use snuff to offset the nicotine cravings, and use vape to offset part of the behavioural side where snuff wasn’t keeping the beast at bay. Together they quelled the majority of the cravings, but I was finding that at certain times of day, neither could keep the demons at bay. Whether it was the smell, the smoke released toxins, or the sensation of the smoke itself, there were times when I absolutely must smoke! I decided to try the pipe for those times when only smoke will do. It took a few days to adjust, but I found that smoking a part bowl was enough to keep the most severe cravings at bay. At first, three of four bowls were needed to merely cope, but I am currently only smoking a couple of bowls a day, with each bowl being smoked in two or three instalments. There are moments when the cravings still hit hard, but between the three alternatives, I am so far succeeding. I have more work to do, and want to get to the point where the snuff and pipe is something that I want to do, not need to do. I don’t know if I will achieve that, but at this moment I am coping with reasonable comfort
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Before I quit cigs completely I took an interim step, RYO. I bought an injector machine, the tubes and bulk tobacco. A combination of having chemical free tobacco and having to go through the effort of “rolling” a cig each time helped, in my case. The main thing for me is not having ANY “store bought” cigs in my possesion… the temptation is too great for me.
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@miamimark - Hi - do you live in Miami? I live in Key West!
I understand what you mean about the effort involved in roll-your-own cigarettes. It reminds me of what Michael Pollan said - you can have all the fast food you want, as long as you make it yourself. Can you imagine the effort and clean-up involved in having to make your own french fries?
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@MarkM … yes I live in Bal Harbour!