I’m very new to this, but for me it’s an attitude adjustment which seems to change the experience. Like someone said up here, “just be bold about it”. If you are anxiously expecting a throat hit it will irritate you more and trigger a cough easier - or so it seems anyway. The same way you pull yourself together for a shot of whiskey. When I go for a snuff with a bit more gusto and natural flow it seems to work better. You’ll get some in your throat, but you can clench your throat, swallow some spit, clear your throat, things like that to sort of wipe the irritation out of the way. Also I tried “blocking off the throat with your tongue” technique as somewhere here mentioned just now, and that seemed to work wonders as well actually. I anticipate I will only get more used to it as well.
… and so will your nose. Check out this thread < CLICKY > for my perspective
These guys are doing some brutal snuff. Have a friend blow it up your nose? This is the messy way. They could benefit with a handkerchief. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9TzBZzhEGU Do not try this without supervision with an experienced sober adult guide! Warning this snuff is made with slaked lime and instantaneously hallucinogenic. As you can tell in the video this is not a party drug. It is a key “Entheogen” for passage to the spiritual realm.
Yeah this is not exactly the method the imperialist Europeans picked up, haha xD Usually the shamans of the rainforest used the much stronger Nicotiana rustica though, right? Regular snuff being based on N. tobaccum… And ofcourse the dosages were to completely transcend the normal mental state of being anyway. I’m not sure I would dare that with nicotine. Just seems a bit brutal. Anyway, absolutely wonderful and fascinating. We could learn a thing or two from those masters of spirit and jungle…
I have that video, lol. ‘Mondo Magic’ is the American title.
I’m slowly transitioning to using my spoon instead of pinching and I"m finding it much more efficient and effective.
I love my spoon and vial; until I dropped it and broke it. The spoon allowed me to start off with smaller amounts when I was first beginning to snuff, which allowed me to get the technique down without the harsh repercussions of combining bad form with large amounts of snuff. I find it very handy for the drier snuffs as well.
I use a spoon and have found that scrunching my face up slightly, as if I’m smelling something unpleasant, seems to restrict the flow of air near the top of my nose, thus preventing it from passing directly to my throat. I figured this out after getting a substantial amount of Lundy Foot into my throat on every attempt. It might look funny to outside observers, but I’ve found it quite effective so far. Oh, and I only do this with fine and dry snuffs; most others go up fine with short sharp inhalations and a bit of caution.