Hello. I’ve noticed many people on the snuffhouse are former smokers - snuff is main source of nicotine for them. So do you regret you ever started this? If you could never become addicted to nicotine, would you choose it or rather take snuff/smoke anyway?

I wish I never started. I have been a slave to nicotine for many years, even though much of it has been enjoyable. In the last 18 months I have been dabbling with different cigarettes, RYO baccy, pipe, cigars, snuff and e-cigs. I have found snuff and e-cigs to be very enjoyable, though I do still enjoy a rollie and the occasional cheap cigar. I am however still a slave to nicotine, and despite enjoying snuff and vaping, I am still ensnared in it’s evil web. I would love to be able to have the freedom to go without any of the above delivery methods and just partake when the mood dictates, much like I would with a beer, scotch or glass of red wine, but I cannot. I might have the freedom to chose which method I want to use to get my fix - but I still NEED that fix and that means I am not free at all. I’m still an addict

agree with 50ft_trad … wish i never got hooked on cigarettes. while i enjoy and appreciate the alternative to cigs in snus and snuff … i’d have a little more money and a lot less worry if it never happened.

while id have a a little more money and a lot less worry as @snuffbrant says, i seem to have an affinity for tobacco (read- not just nicotine) in all its forms, but smokeless most. i have never really had an addictive nature throughout usage of many things, however i have had the feelings or ‘cravings’ as some might call them that tobacco soothes since long before i used it. things like irritability, a mental itch i cant scratch any other way or uncomfortable feeling only tobacco comforts. i have now associated these things with tobacco and sort of turned it into an addiction to tobacco/nicotine in the sense craving=need tobacco, but it started long before tobacco use.

My only regret is getting hooked on cigarettes first, which I fear has permanently fucked up my lungs since I am a severe asthmatic and started at such a young age. But like @Firestarter0 I have a mind that tobacco can soothe like nothing else (legal anyway).

Without nicotine I would have killed many many people by now, the world should be thankful I’m always hopped up on nic, without it I would snap and turn into some sort of James-Bond-supervillian

Well, I’ve always enjoyed tobacco, started off with my buddy’s hookah when I was a lot younger (13/ 14); then I tried cigarettes and found the only brand I like is Lucky Strikes but I don’t like them enough to smoke regularly. Moved on to pipes and cigars which I love but are impossible to really enjoy at work, then left everything alone for a good long while before my friend at work brought in an old tin of snuff and I decided I found a tobacco I could use regularly. I’m not sure I’m addicted, but I don’t want to stop.

I wish I never would have started in the first place. I started at such a young age that I don’t even remember what it was like to simply leave the house without worrying…do I have enough cigarettes/snuff or chew and related accessories to get me by for the day or the trip or what have you. It really is enslaving when you pause to think about it. Back when I was a 2+ pack per day smoker and really had no interest in smokeless tobacco products I would have to think about ok Im going here or there,is there going to be a long time between when I can have a smoke? If there was even a remote possibility of such I had to stop and get a can or 2 of dip or something just in case. Even now using mainly snuff with dip as a fill in its annoying going anywhere.We went away for a long weekend over the summer and I took 5 cans of dip and a couple hundred grams of snuff.It was like oh well I better take this in case I feel like a medicated and I better take this in case I get bored of my usual everyday snuff and I better take a fresh tin of this one because I really like it and so on…quite annoying really thinking back on it. Im certainly glad to have found snuff and I most certainly do enjoy it but if I had it all to do over again I never would have taken up any form of nic addiction.

love tobacco hate cigs. wish I started on snuff

It’s an addiction I like and don’t regret. It’s nice to have a vice. Smoking has become unconventional in this here modern world (price, second-hand ethics, regulations, etc.) and dip is just unattractive… so I love having met Snuff. Absolutely. In the end I have more going on and stimulating me throughout the day than one who doesn’t use tobacco, even if it means addiction. I love it and don’t regret it. If I were to start over I would do all the same, except probably switch to Snuff a earlier.

I am not addicted to nicotine. I used to be, and quit smoking cigarettes in 1992. I was smoking 2 packs a day. Now, for me, any nicotine/tobacco I consume is purely for enjoyment, whether it be snuff or pipe. Sometimes I’ll go weeks without anything, mostly due to a time factor. When there is enough time, and I’m in the mood, I do it. If not, I don’t. But I do remember being addicted to cigarettes, and it was horrible.

I am addicted to pleasure .tobacco is but one of my vices to help trudge through destiny. I do not regret the pass nor wish to shut the door on it .Very step I took has made me who I am today. A nicotine fiend 8-} :-B :)) >:) ;))

Well now nicotine isn’t all that bad it mimics acetylcholine - which is a neuron that helps with memory and learning. Now all the negative things associated with nicotine come from smoking tobacco - Snuff is pretty harmless. Now go learn something and have a good few pinches of snuff and tell me you don’t have a good time doing it!

Many people keep saying “if you weren’t spending so much on tobacco you would have cash for a trip, for a new car, for new TV…” so I keep asking them “so, when was your last time you’ve been on Hawaii? where is your new car? and what about your awesome plasma-TV? have you saved your money for that yet? oh, you’ve never been on Hawaii, you have a Volkswagen Golf and ten years old TV. but wait! you ain’t no smoker! and snuffer either!” What’s the point - I have realised that I have not enough money no matter if I buy snuff, or not. There is always not enough money. If I was not a snuffer, I’d spent those money for a book, chips, chocolate bar, cookies or anything that could give me temporary pleasure. My choice is snuff. I don’t regret it - If I had a chance to choose, I would choose the same. Snuff is my friend - it is with me in my good moments, bad moments, always to celebrate with me or to comfort me. I can always count on it, so I don’t count money I spend on it anymore.

Research informs us that nicotine is a drug with many health benefits in terms of increased memory, enhanced ability to focus, along with decrease in depression and anxiety. Yes it is addictive but so are many other useful drugs such as valium and various pain meds. To me, snuff is aromatherapy with a nicotine bonus. I smoke a pipe and I use snuff and have never regretted it. I would regret not doing so.

Why snuff? Because its awesome!

It stops me smoking 40 cigarettes a day and has saved me £4,500 so far this year and my lungs work again!

Nicotine is addictive, yes, but when you compare snuff to the use of cigarettes, I find myself using but a quarter of what I used in the past on a daily basis. I can breathe again, control my craving and enjoy this beneficial hobby which has a major impact to my life without the harm of smoking 2 packs a day. You asked us, “why snuff?” and we have answered with various reasons. But if you were to tally them up the arithmetics would be simple: PURE ENJOYMENT.

But seriously… I think @fredhanna said it well: “snuff is aromatherapy with a nicotine bonus”. That’s how I see it, too. I smoke a pipe or two a day and take snuff when I feel like it. It gives me pleasure. A notion that is unfathomable for most people.

Thank you @Jari_T

@lunecat. That is highly interesting. How many people have you met who use nasal snuff but have never really smoked?

Both @ladysnuff and I have never really smoked; I do have a pipe, but only use it every few months, and TBH enjoy snuff far more

I’ve never smoked, apart from the odd pipe. I started with snuff at 16.

Me too.

“Why Snuff” ? Vitamin N is good for you ! :)>- =D> :-h

Non, je ne regrette rien …

I know a regular nasal snuffer who never smoked. He would have a cigarette very occasionally, like once every few months he might have a couple. I do not regret being addicted to tobacco, it’s a pleasurable and cheap habit.

@lunecat. That is highly interesting. How many people have you met who use nasal snuff but have never really smoked?

I have never really smoked

Am on medication that prohibits me from being able to imbibe a glass of red wine or two. Snuff has replaced my red wine intake ( and is considerably cheaper).

of all tobacco products it has the most uplifting buzz.

Well I have to say as a former cigarette smoker, but consistent tobacco user is that I do not regret starting the habit, but I am glad that as a tobacco user I have evolved. All I have to say for why snuff, is that it is one of the few forms of tobacco where it isn’t taxed to high hell. Meaning generally high quality for a relatively low price.

I have used tobacco off and on since a very early age. I had an uncle that gave me chew while we were hunting “alligators” with coat hangars when I was about 8 yrs old. By the 5th grade I was smoking whatever cigarettes/tobacco my friends and I could steal from the gas station or find along the road, you’d be surprised how many unopened packs of cigs end up in the ditch along country roads. Anyway, I was sitting with a friend by the roadside smoking some cigs we had found one day and realized they taste like crap and the brief buzz wasn’t worth the trouble so I quit. Since, I have occasionally had a RYO here and there, and enjoyed them, but always made a point to never make a daily habit and it has not been hard at all. I’m very interested in why tobacco/Nic is so addictive to most people but for some of us it doesn’t seem to be. Both my brothers and my dad are smokers (got one of them to switch to snus) but I will never be a regular user. Snuff is something I have found in the last several months and I really love it! I won’t let myself be a slave to it though. I use it once in a while as a pick me up when I’m working late, to give me a sharper focus when I’m painting, and to enjoy the olfactory delights it provides. With my moderate usage the many kinds available will provide me with a lifetime’s worth of new snuffs to explore at minimal expense!

When I stopped smoking cigs, I put on 22 pounds and felt generally miserable. I stayed off for five years, then succumbed to the pipe. Much more fun, but too much equipment and takes too much time. I bought a tin of Quit on an impulse and the rest is history. By far the coolest, most fun, practical and least offensive way to use tobacco.

addiction is a reaction of the nervous system to a substance. Some people are prone to certain addictions others are not. With nicotine it has a lot to do with several factors. One is how enjoyable it is to a person. People get different pleasure responses to nicotine. For others nicotine may help their brain function properly (me). The more nicotine does either for someone the more likely they are to get addicted to it. I could go into more detail but you can look up the research and science of nicotine and other addictions on the internet.

Great vid!

Brilliant video @lunecat Thanks muchly! Time for some snuff in these most wretched of times!

I had an interest in snuff for about five years before I actually decided to try it. I got absolutely fed up with smoking coffin nails and wanted something that complemented my Snus habit. It was a natural fit. I actually wish I started with Snuff and Snus versus spending years as a cigarette smoker. Plus, the fact that it has been scientifically documented to not be linked to cancer is also another incentive to stick with this hobby.

I regret cigarettes - vile things. Thank goodness I gave those up. I most certainly do not regret nicotine - a wonderful drug when used through a safety maximising method, snuff, snus, ecigs - all good imo.

Yeah, thanks for sharing that lunecat. Really great stuff!

One can do snuff anytime anywhere

For others nicotine may help their brain function properly (me).

I read an interesting article on the use of cigarettes by psychiatric patients, particularly schizophrenics. The rate of use in this group was something like double the rate in the general population. At first, the theory was just that it was a way of dealing with intense boredom, but then they did a comparison with people in nursing homes and other similar environments, and found it wasn’t that high. The conclusion was that nicotine probably had some therapeutic effect and that the patients were effectively self-medicating. I’ve never been diagnosed with a condition of that sort, but I do find that nicotine deprivation has a really serious effect on my psychological well being for a very long period (months or years). I hate the compulsive, joyless way that people use cigarettes, so snuff is a natural choice.

The only reason I’m snuffing is because I used to smoke cigarettes…I stopped the cigs in favor of the e-cig, it worked pretty well for few months but afterwards I went back to the Stinkies. I stopped again with the e-cig and started researching alternatives. I found Snus and Snuff! Haven’t touched the cigarettes in a good while. I do grab my pipe every week or so. But it’s mainly Snuff with the occasional Snus. As it’s been said, it’s a Nicotine dispenser and an aromatherapy All-in-One! I love it!

I have dabbled in all sort of nicotaina. I used to smoke the occasional cigarette socially, maybe at the pub or a party. But they made me feel dreadful, honestly. I have always been facinated by tobacco, of all sorts really. My grandad smoked a pipe for many years. His father rolled cigarette after cigarette of Prince Albert, and died of lung cancer because of it. My father used chewing tobacco. Many if not all of my historical and literary heroes were users of some sort. It began as a sort of hero worship. I thought there must be something to it if so many great minds had a love for this mysterious leaf. And then it blossomed into a passion that goes with me daily. I greatly enjoy snuff. Its not at all like smoking, but pleasureable indeed. I don’t regret tobacco a bit.