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!

My first snuff was either Buttercup or Honey Bee, can’t remember which one. I purchased both of them at the same time at a local grocery, I had just ordered from Mars Cigars and was waiting on my parcel. After I received my Mars package I realized there was quite a difference between the products. That was in December 2006 or January 2007. Edit: Prior to snuff I had smoked and quit in November 2006 with dip, then quit dip (mostly) with snuff. I still battle with dip but feel like I’m finally getting the upper hand on it. I had smoked since I was 17 and quit after 9 years.

My first snuff was either Buttercup or Honey Bee, can’t remember which one. I had just ordered from Mars Cigars and was waiting on my parcel.

Man I miss the convenience of Mars…

Poschl Red Bull was my first snuff. I took a risk and ordered a box of 20, figured it would last me a long time and that my friends would want to get some too. I ended up selling most of them so I could sample other snuffs.

Wow @vito445 nothing like jumping in both nostrils first, eh?

My first snuff was handmade by my great grandfather, he loved snuff. I sniffed a little bit of that thing and sneezed nonstop…

My first was either Ozona Raspberry or the original Dr. Rumney’s…can’t really remember which. A local tobacco shop, The Pipeseller offered several of the Ozona and Poschl varieties, as well as the Rumney’s. I remember at age 18 thinking that the Brits were crazy for sticking tobcco up their noses. Hahaha.

In the late seventies aged 9 or so I found an empty tin of Wilson’s snuff (which you could get in most corner shop and even chemists’ then) in the street and puzzled, pocketed it and showed it later to my grandfather who explained what it was. I remember also my schoolmaster explaining about snuff because it was in a book we were reading in class (Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’, I think). He claimed though that people took it because they enjoyed sneezing! First snuff I actually bought and took (aged 15 I think) was the ‘Captain Black’ of snuffs, yes good old Gletscher Prise which I bought from a long gone traditional pipe shop in Finchley, London.

I don´t know it exactly but very first was probably Radford´s by Poschl…(box was dark blue)…but it was ages ago…I used to take a single pinch a day !!

Poschl Gawith Apricot, Ozona Raspberry-orange-cherry, and Gleisher-Prise about 15 years ago

American Snuff’s Honest Scotch. Just a few weeks ago. It was enough to get me interested in researching and finding more. It was a 33g tube, so I still have a lot left. When I go back to that after some Dholokia, I have to remind myself to easy on the fine dry stuff. I wasn’t a regular smoker (never a pack or even half a pack per day), but I was smoking a clove or Nat Sherman 1 to 3 times per day. Since about day 3, I have rarely even wanted one. Thanks for the explanation of TAD. It appears that I’m well on my way to serious condition here. And enjoying the journey.

Very first was J&H Wilson Medicated 99. I thought it´s dynamite. But…it encouraged me!

Those little blue Wilson’s tins must have been the first snuff of many a British gentleman. Do they still sell them in corner shops? I live abroad now so don’t know, but a few years ago most asian corner shops had a little box of the different Wilsons snuffs kept on the bottom shelf with the rolling papers, etc…

My first snuff was WE Garret Sweet. I liked it enough to delve deeper into the snuff world, but I’ll never touch it again. My cat loves it tho

Were you a smoker before? Yes cigars and cigarettes. What brand/flavor was your first snuff? I am ashamed to say that I have no idea. In a galaxy and time far, far away one of my work colleagues used snuff and let me try some. I loved it and I am sure that I would have asked him for the details but I really cannot remember after all these years. I do know that the very first snuff I bought was F&T Dr.JR Justice. I purchased that from the original shop in the Haymarket, London because I used to smoke F&T cigarettes and because I had seen films with Dr.JR Justice who always struck me as great fun and a terribly old fashioned English gentleman. I even bought a wooden snuff box from there but that is sadly long lost. If you used snuff as a way to get off the cigarettes, how long did it take to finally ditch the sticks? As much as I like snuff it just didn’t work out with my lifestyle. I wish it had weaned me off cigarettes as it would have saved me a fortune over the years.

My first snuff, weirdly was McChrystals while living in Sheffield as a kid. Later, I went to universty in Leicester, and the only snuff the tobacconists sold was Wilsons of Sharrow. Which means nothing except it’s a funny old world, I suppose.

Bought a can of Tube Rose and Superior at my local Food Lion…well, my very first was actually a ground up Maverick cigarette, but that made me realize that I could quit cigs after using nothing but snuff for a day, and I was smoking a pack a day. Then I bought tube rose and superior. My wife said it couldn’t be done, but I did it! Will be one year snuffing as of December 27th.

My first nasal snuff was patchouli Coke Snuff in 1975. I was thirteen, and got caught with it in algebra class. My second nasal snuff was Copenhagen when my father punished me for the Coke Snuff; he tried to make me sick with it. That didn’t work, but snuffing Copenhagen turned me off putting tobacco up my nose until a couple of years ago when I looked around for something menthol to clear up chronic sinus problems. That snuff was Hedges, though I found out in the process that I don’t like mentholated snuffs.

my first snuff woz toque christmas pudding then some toque cheese & bacon about 15 min’s later, and yes snuff help me cut down on the cig’s a bit but not quit. snus got me off the cigarettes in the end, but and this is a big but i still some times light up a pipe maybee 2/3 times in a month but now it’s for the pleasure of a good rich slow smoke on a fine quality tobacco NOT a quick fix as in the past…

The day I joined this forum is the day I received my toque order and put down cigarettes. My first snuff was toque Rose. Yes, snuff was the method I used to quit smoking along with the occasional dip. It’s been over a month and I haven’t had a smoke. The key to quitting cigarettes using snuff is to take pinches until you are satisfied. At first I was going through 5 grams a day but I’m down to 2 grams a day now. Just keep shoveling the stuff in until that little nicotine demon goes away and the feeling that you want to kill someone subsides. It worked for me.

I was around 14, using my brother ID to buy(24 according to that), and it was WE Garret Scotch. I took one pinch and condemed this practice to madness. Years later(legal this time) i aquired some Red Seal. Much more pleasent and so the story goes.

Were you a smoker before? Yes cigars and cigarettes. What brand/flavor was your first snuff? I am ashamed to say that I have no idea. In a galaxy and time far, far away one of my work colleagues used snuff and let me try some. I loved it and I am sure that I would have asked him for the details but I really cannot remember after all these years. I do know that the very first snuff I bought was F&T Dr.JR Justice. I purchased that from the original shop in the Haymarket, London because I used to smoke F&T cigarettes and because I had seen films with Dr.JR Justice who always struck me as great fun and a terribly old fashioned English gentleman. I even bought a wooden snuff box from there but that is sadly long lost. If you used snuff as a way to get off the cigarettes, how long did it take to finally ditch the sticks? As much as I like snuff it just didn’t work out with my lifestyle. I wish it had weaned me off cigarettes as it would have saved me a fortune over the years.

Chris - thanks for confirming that there was a F&T shop in London. I thought I had imagined it. It was in Covent Garden market at one point I think? As a teenager I used to go to Smith’s in the Charing Cross Road, and always dressed up in my oxfam tweed jacket for a visit, so as to appear older and more sophisticated, lol!

@AustinAllegro I think at one stage - before my time - F&T had several shops but I am not sure where. The F&T shop I used was at the top of the Haymarket and had been there since the days of Beau Brummel. The famous bay windows are still there but it is now some sort of stationery shop. The only tobacconist I know of in Covent Garden is Segar and Snuff which has been there for many, many years so you may be thinking of them. They are now owned by the Davys wine chain and there is piece about them at http://www.davy.co.uk/CigarAndSnuff.php?menuid=4 They still do their own snuff - albeit probably produced by someone else. I also used G Smiths for a brief period before they closed down. At one stage they did have a good selection of pipe tobacco and cigars but I never tried their snuff.

I was 24, given to me by a priest, it was Gawith Black Rappee, I’m 54 now, also I was never a smoker. I hate the smell of prerolled cigarettes, it makes my eyes burn. The other forms of smoking such as a pipe or even handroled cigarettes using drum doesn’t have that effect on me.

I was a smoker before, with a preference for old man cigarettes like Camel, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, Chesterfield or English Oval. I rolled Drum for years. Now in Canada the only decent cigarette I can get is Export plain (never liked Player’s plain much). I still smoke them sometimes. My first snuff was McChrystal’s, which I snorted WAY too hard. They stopped selling snuff in Winnipeg thanks to the arcane Canadian packaging requirements. I remember seeing scotch snuffs when I was in North Carolina, but I was told by shopkeepers they were for old ladies, and that they weren’t nasal snuffs.