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