Oscar Wilde said, “You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?” Since using snuff I’ve experienced much more of a calming effect than I have from any other type of nicotine delivery system I’ve tried. Have others experienced this? Also, and I’m not sure if this is a coincidence or not brought on by being fed up with feeling rubbish in the mornings, but my desire to drink alcohol has most definitely decreased since using snuff. On a typical evening at home with no prospect of having to drive anywhere, I would quite happily sink a good few beers, or drink the most part (if not all) of a bottle of wine. Don’t get me wrong, I still like a beer or glass of wine, however often find that I don’t have a desire to drink at all in the evening, or if I do, one (possibly two) modest drinks has become a maximum. Like I said, I’m not definitely asserting that there is a connection, however there may be. Has anyone else noticed unexpected positive benefits from being a snuff user?
@Thunderbird I like that Oscar Wilde quote, one of my favourites 
I think that the point you make here is valid, in that snuff is a more (if not the most) refined use of tobacco/nicotine I’ve encountered. When regularly consumed it seems to deliver the nicotine in a very steady gradual way, as opposed to the sharp spikes of smoking cigarettes or vaping. I’m not sure whether the connection between cigarettes and alcohol is causal or habitual myself, but they do seem to have a reciprocal relationship don’t they? Likewise for myself cigarettes and caffeine. I’m definitely calmer and more focused when using snuff more frequently, though personally there are still occasions for me when only combustion will do; I’m trusting that in a finite time frame this will organically diminish and become less so. I do find smoking is sometimes tedious (although that hasn’t stopped me doing it yet) but snuff never so. I definitely feel fresher in the chest and more relaxed yet focused and enlivened in the mind with fine snuff, I feel much better about my snuff taking habit than I do about cigarette smoking, and I think this in itself exerts a positive influence upon me.
Well @Thunderbird - what about quitting smoking, never getting colds or flues anymore, joining in with this Great community, the feeling of Enormous Pleasure and Relaxation when taking snuff and Much more…!! :D. Also I’m happy to hear You can decrease Your alcohol drinking with the help of snuff! :">
Interesting comments so far, thank you very much. I agree that drinking and smoking have somewhat ritualistic elements (as does snuff of course), and they do obviously go superbly well together! Maybe it’s just the case that as I’ve stopped one habit, I appear to have stopped (or at least affected) another as well. As to caffeine, I’m a coffee enthusiast, I buy freshly roasted beans which are only a couple of days old (from roasting), and I grind them whatever I want coffee. That doesn’t mean that I drink too much coffee, usually just two or 3 cups per day. I always thought that coffee would be my “desert island discs” luxury, but then I would miss snuff…
Maybe the calmness is just a natural consequence of enjoying all the benefits of not smoking, but still enjoying all the benefits of nicotine. Cigarettes make me a bit jittery. My hands trembled when I smoked them. Carbon monoxide, maybe?
I think that, in addition to the above reflections, the scents in snuff have an effect. Aromatherapy if you will. Direct, without intervention, to the pleasure centers of the brain. Scents also are strongly linked with old experiences neurologically; kicks in a kind of pleasant (or unpleasant) nostalgia maybe.
I’ve said this before elsewhere, but the best side-effect about snuff to me is that it seems to have opened up my airways. My nose has never worked very well, one side or the other would always feel blocked, though it was just the size of the nasal passage that was reduced, presumably due to some sort of allergy or allergies, but now it works fine and that really helps to create a good frame of mind as I can sleep well, and breathe better during the day.
I consume way less alcohol since I gave up smokes and started snuff/snus and when I do drink it is normally now 1 or 2 and I drink for taste rather than effect. Snuff really does calm me also. It enhances my ability to focus on the moment and totally relax. Since starting snuff I have also started eating less junk food and am feeling a good bit better now that cigs are in the past. So far snuff has been a winner for me.
We’ve all heard that your meant to take five serves of vegetables per day. I think we’ve all convinced each other that one of them should be snuff.
I think that, in addition to the above reflections, the scents in snuff have an effect. Aromatherapy if you will. Direct, without intervention, to the pleasure centers of the brain. Scents also are strongly linked with old experiences neurologically; kicks in a kind of pleasant (or unpleasant) nostalgia maybe.
You may well have hit on something there…
^^^ Ditto to @Mouse 's comment - I hadn’t thought of it like that; in terms of the aromatherapy sense, that’s really very interesting and worth more consideration. Snuff therapy… Sounds right up my street! They say that olfactory feedback does trigger deep seated memories for good or bad, this is one of the theories on the phenomenon of Déjà vu, as an unconscious reflection of that trigger (and that ‘they’ making a change in the matrix :)) ) The other thing I noticed when I first started snuffing was the dreaming thing [I know this has been covered previously on another thread]. But whenever I start hitting the snuff and smoking less I get the most crazy vivid dreams.
I haven’t really noticed dreaming with snuff. Did with vaping though. Vaping made me feel decidedly odd.
You might be interested in the previous threads posted below, regarding the effects of nicotine and aromatherapy. http://www.snuffhouse.org/discussion/8388/how-does-high-nicotine-announce-its-presence-to-you#latest http://www.snuffhouse.org/discussion/8368/snuff-as-aromatherapy-enhanced-by-nicotine-some-thoughts#latest
Watched this today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg13hTZ7jIc I suppose another way of looking at it.
Intresting what you say about the loss of interest in drinking. I reported similar findings in athread I started some time ago, and It’s still going on.
Well @Thunderbird - what about quitting smoking, never getting colds or flues anymore, :">
Interesting. So hopefully I will be immune to disease of any sort. When I use to smoke I rarely if ever got sick. So with snuff fuck you germs! I win!
Snuff seems to hype me up more than calm me down but, cigs calmed me down too far to start with. My body is wonky.
Well, as to getting colds, I’m recovering from a stinker so I don’t think that it follows logically that taking snuff makes one immune from colds. Having said that, I do usually suffer from hay fever here in the UK in the month of June. So far it’s been a fairly wet June so perhaps that’s having an effect however on the drier days, whilst I have had itchy eyes my nose has remained ‘neutral’.
Most of my regular snuffs are very stimulating and they just bring everything into focus. Nicotine is unqualifiedly positive for the mind and spirit. The strong coarse snuffs are more relaxing and I use them when reading before bed mostly. Using some snuff is like a near-sighted person putting on glasses, everything is clearer.
@I_snuff_therefore___ Great video link!! Very interesting… Favorited this thread to save that to watch again at home when I have a little more attention to give it.