I have noticed over the last couple of days a keenness to my sense of smell that I haven’t had for many a year. Maybe it’s the snuff jolting my senses into action, or just clearing my nose and head, or maybe it’s the reduction of smoking of cigs that it’s helped to achieve. Example: I nipped out to the local shop earlier for some bread and fruit juice, and as I stood by the refridgerated goods and thought there’s a really strange smell round here. I was perusing the fruit juices on offer trying to figure out what the smell was so I didn’t take home anything dodgy, and suddenly I thought “it’s a stale tobacco smell”. I was gutted when I realised it was coming from me!!! For years my sense of smell has been suppressed, and occasionally a pungent odour would be detected but not always recognised. Now all of a sudden, literally in the last two days, that sense seems to be reawakening. I’m discovering I am noticing smell quite a bit more, but have not yet tuned back in to what those smells are. To be honest it’s quite a shock
so you decided to take the red pill! Welcome, reality what a concept Put away your mouse and go outside there is a whole awake world awaiting your arrival
I know! Now I HAVE TO take more snuff to mask all the cruddy stuff that I couldn’t smell before - what are you people doing to me? :-t :O)
Makes sense to me, I snuff when being exposed to foul smells - a highly scented snuff is welcome when working in a horse barn or walking in just about any big city!
Yeah, being immune to many smells has been a benefit a few times, but I’ll strive to keep something with a strong lasting flavour on me for a while in certain places I frequent. Especially the places that others say they can smell on me when I’ve been there (work, boatyard, & one of the mates who’s constantly tinkering with cars) The offending jacket went straight in the wash, but may need another cycle to fully remove the (now detected) old tobacco, bonfire, and industrial oil smells. I don’t think having another (botched) attempt at driving a pipe while sitting by a roaring chimenea a couple of days prior helped much :))
Part of the reawakening of my sense of smell, is trying to tune into what those smells are. Is it a lingering effect from the last nose full of snuff, or something external, or a combination of the two, or even of them both plus the nosefull of other stuff before the last one. Often I’m finding there is a smell, but it’s as yet undecipherable. This will of course settle down in time, but smells are not the only thing I’m finding difficult to tune into. My hand rolled cigarette consumption is down from about 60g per week to about 15g not just by less cigs but by extra long filters, and the snuff is increasing slightly, now overtaking the electric cigarette in frequency. There is also the occasional botched attempt at pipe smoking which is gradually becoming less botched each time. This has naturally thrown the nicotine balance out of kilter, but it isn’t always clear in which direction. A few times I have had a fogginess of mind, a touch of nausea or lightheadedness, a feeling of distraction and an unsettled urge for … something. Sometimes when this happens I know the needle is well down, and other times well up, but sometimes it’s really hard to know which. Many of the symptoms for nic withdrawal (or at least cigarette withdrawal) are the same as for too much nic in the system. On top of that, there’s the possibility of it being a psychological craving for the habit, or the absence of the other polluting chemicals, or even just that I need to take the few deep breaths that cigs would have given me to get my oxygen levels up. I am certainly enjoying the exploration of snuff and pipe, and I’m very pleased with the reduction in cigarettes, but the transition can prove rather confusing at random moments throughout the day
Cigarettes and pipes have a lot more monoamine-oxidase inhibitors in their smoke than you absorb from snuff/dip so that might be part of it. Once you make the switch to primarily-smokeless the cravings for tobacco goes down a lot. If I go 24 hours+ without any snuff I’ll definitely be feeling pretty down, but if I go a few hours I just feel a little sleepy.
Thanks … but I’m going to need to look monoamine-oxidase inhibitors up now and find out what they are, how much they’re worth, and whether they’ll make me more attractive to the opposite sex 
As for being sleepy, my sleep patterns are all over the place, but they usually are anyway. They may be a little worse than normal at the moment, but I pretty much expected that anyway to some extent
I’ve come to the conclusion that one’s nose is very much like one’s palette. The more flavours you expose your palette to the more foods you’ll learn to enjoy. I mean, does ANYONE like anchovies on first go? The same applies to your nose. The more snuffs you use, the more scents you’ll learn to appreciate. That’s why you should never throw snuff away.