Just curious as to your early snuffing memories. Were you a smoker before? What brand/flavor was your first snuff? If you used snuff as a way to get off the cigarettes, how long did it take to finally ditch the sticks? Of course I understand that there isn’t any one answer (specifically to the last question). Just curious as a new guy in these parts. Looking forward to reading your responses. 
My first was W.E. Garrett Scotch. I didn’t know any better…
lol… one of the first things I found in a local store was Honest… I’m kind of on the fence with it. Sometimes it hits me right, and other times I want to throw it at the yappy little 5 pound dog dog that lives next door. 
I tried my first snuff about 15 years after I had quit cigarettes cold turkey (with lots of Tic-Tacs.)
You’re a bold one. I’m going at it the other way and trying to ditch the smokes myself. I won’t call it a rough go so far, but maybe it’ll help when I get that first order in as opposed to trying to survive off the stuff I find locally.
Not really “bold”… Just thought that I would try a bit as a lark when I saw it for the first time when I went to a wedding in Tennesee. It cleared out my clogged eustachian tubes within 24 hours. An ear nose and throat doctor had been attempting to unplug me (without success) for about 9 months.
lol… an experience like that has to have you shaking your fist in the air after looking at the medical bills I bet. Glad to hear about the positive experience.
I am one of the few who can say that I am a tobacco user due to the advisement of my doctor. Couldn’t get him to go as far as writing me a prescription for tobacco but, due to drug interactions between decongestants and other medications, I have definate (if under the table) recommendations.
The first time I shoved tobacco up my nose, it was a home-made snuff I threw together with some pipe tobacco I had laying around. My first professional snuff was Toque’s Silver Dollar Original (Silver Dollar is the only kind I can find in any local shop). I was able to quit the cancer sticks almost immediately. I may still have one occasionally in social situations, but I haven’t since felt any need to go out and buy a pack of cigs. I still smoke a pipe and sometimes a cigar… But those don’t count…
@Scurvy Hopefully that changes soon…just read that WoS has a deal with 2 distributors to bring a line of 10 or so of their snuffs to cigar and tobacco retailers. My first snuff was Toque Blueberry! I got their 6 for 5 with the Blueberry, Coke, Toast and Marmalade, Quit, Whisky & Honey, and Peanut Butter. I smoked for quite a few years with no luck quitting until I found glorious Swedish snus. Had a brief encounter with Camel “snus” before I found the real stuff, so in a way I have to credit Camel for pointing me in the right direction. It was the land of milk & honey Pre-Pact when you could get snus shipped USPS for very reasonable costs…very different now with shipping starting around the 40 dollar mark. Even ordering four rolls at a time, shipping is over twenty percent of the cost of each can, and it got to the point where I got tired of having to order it 2 hundred bucks at a time. principle, I guess.
My first was some Ozona Raspberry, back in the teen years, when I was still smoking nasty chemicalized big-tobacco ciggies.
1991 Tried snuffing Copenhagen! I was using it as dip at the time, but I thought it might work. It said “snuff” on the label fercrissakes! Nowadays, I could probably manage to make it work as snuff, but at the time it hurtlike hell. I was young and stupid. 1993 found some scotch snuffs in a shop. Can’t remember precicely what they were, but I bought 2. I think it was Three Thistle and Railroad Mills. They hurt like hell too, and I gave up after a few attempts. I finished them off as dip. 1995 I found some English snuffs in a fancy tobbaconist during my travels. Ibought a jar of Smith’s Lemon. Again, it was more of a novelty and I smoked throughout this whole period. I got the snuff out once or twice a year therefter and had a pinch. 2008 I found that same jar in a drawer after having forgotten it for several years. Curiosity got me to go online (everything was pre internet up until now) and search for “how to take snuff” or something like that. I discovered a world bigger than I was prepared for, many sites and online merchants, and of course including this forum. So I dove in and started reading as much as I could and buying as much snuff as I could afford. My smoking dropped off considerably, just because I was so enthusiastic about trying so many snuffs, so I had plenty of nicotine in my system. I never set out to quit with snuff. I did also begin to experiment with snus, and found the combination of snus/snuff reasonably sating/preventing cigarette cravings. So I gradually dropped the cigarettes altogether. It really wasn’t a hard thing to do by that point. I guess it was probably 4 to 6 months of a phase-out period. There was probably only one or two times in there when I had to will myself not to smoke. Actually, once they were all gone, it was easy just not to buy anymore. I will still smoke if I want to, I never made an oath or swore off them forever kind of thing. But months to years will go by and I won’t smoke. Then I might have the odd one, or more likely a bowlful in a pipe.
Tube Rose when I was in high school around 1985 or so.
Top Mill No. 1 (I think) around 1971.
Hedges L260 in the mid-1970s. My granny used to use it, much to my mother’s chagrin. It was probably the most widely available snuff in the area at the time.
Packards Club, totally on a whim. Liked it right off even though It lifted my eyebrows a bit. Still smoke a daily cigar and a bowl periodically. Gave up cigs yrs ago. Love the snuffing life though! TAD…Well, that comes with it.
I smoked and snuffed together for about 30 years then ditched the cigs when the Uk ban on smoking in bars kicked in. My first pinch was some kind of menthol which I have never been able to find again. It was in a fancy, circular, plastic pot that had been metalised silver, like the Poschl President boxes. I was seven and it blew my head clean off my shoulders.
My first snuff 1973 , Coke snuff a white sugar[compared 2 snuffy weiss] I think it was raspberry. My first tobacco snuff Levi Garret scotch but that didn’t deter my interest. Snuff other non tobacco snuffs like Uzara & kanna. Then I found Mr.Snuff; opened the world of snuff to further my TAD. Herbals have there place but tobacco is my mistress. As for cancer sticks Smoked 39 years I hand rolled for the last ten of them. Still roll two or more a month. I love smoking so I smoke pipes . Snuff just is the major nicotine delivery system of choice.
Rookie here. TAD?
Sorry, ‘Tobacco Acqusition Disorder’…seems like just about everyone on this site seems to have anywhere from a touch to full blown. Frankly not a bad thing to have to ‘suffer’ from!