Moar Snuff...less snus?

[lxskllr]

Ya gotta do what makes you happy. If you like snuff more, use snuff. The reverse is also true. Loyalty to a product just firms up the addiction, and is counterproductive in the long term. I suspect it's just a phase you're going through now, and your snus use will go back up in the future, but if it doesn't, it's no big deal. It's nice having the flexibility to change if conditions don't allow for your preferred tobacco form :^)

[c.nash]

Ya gotta do what makes you happy. If you like snuff more, use snuff. The reverse is also true. Loyalty to a product just firms up the addiction, and is counterproductive in the long term. I suspect it's just a phase you're going through now, and your snus use will go back up in the future, but if it doesn't, it's no big deal. It's nice having the flexibility to change if conditions don't allow for your preferred tobacco form :^)

It could also be that the snuff is a new experience so you just want to do it more. Eventually you will go back to a balance I think.

[Simplysnus]

I've read a lot of threads and haven't tried snuff, I might sometime but I don't quite get what it gives you that snus doesn't?

[c.nash]

Nothing much man. Just a quick short nicotine burst. And brown boogers. Lol

[Simplysnus]

Nothing much man. Just a quick short nicotine burst. And brown boogers. Lol

lol, sign me up then!

[lxskllr]

Snuff is interesting. Snus is still my preferred tobacco form, but I take at least a few pinches of snuff every day. I use snuff more in cool weather, it just seems to go well with fall/winter. I've involuntarily used snuff without snus for a day, I didn't have any issues, but I was still happy to get my snus tin. It's definitely worth a try. everyone should try snuff at least once.

[c.nash]

It's pretty decent. I was scared to be sniffing stuff but it's not bad at all.

[Monkey]

Ya gotta do what makes you happy. If you like snuff more, use snuff. The reverse is also true. Loyalty to a product just firms up the addiction, and is counterproductive in the long term. I suspect it's just a phase you're going through now, and your snus use will go back up in the future, but if it doesn't, it's no big deal. It's nice having the flexibility to change if conditions don't allow for your preferred tobacco form :^)

Good points.

I was snuffing a few times a day and I always snuff first thing in the morning. I started to pick up the snuff tin again and skip putting a snus in. No reason, I just wanted some snuff more than the snus.

I was lurking this forum and found a similar thread posted by darukis like three pages deep and his update a month later was he wasn't even touching snuff anymore.

Probably just a phase but hopefully I can come out of it using less tobacco overall and enjoying it rather than just feeding my addiction.

[Monkey]

So I have some snus in today. First in a while. It really hit the spot cause I had a rather stressful day and craved it. I'm really enjoying it and I'm glad I'm using it at the moment. I still am going to try to keep it to a minimum and phase out tobacco for good... eventually.

[Owens187]

I find it really easy to stop snus....especially compared to cigs. Several times I have had to abstain from snus and snuff before medical procedures and it was a piece of cake quiting. I stopped up to a week with no jonesing or ill affects. So I'm thinkin that when the time comes that I feel I should quit snus that it won't be a problem at all.

Why bother? What do you got, like 2 years or less left on the clock anyway, old man?!

[CoderGuy]

Why bother? What do you got, like 2 years or less left on the clock anyway, old man?!

That's just cold... funny, but cold

I haven't even considered trying snuff. I have enough sinus problems as it is. Is there an advantage to using snuff? Why do you guys use it instead of / along with snus?

[Darwin]

It's hard to say whether or not your sinus problems will be aggravated by snuff. It's even possible they could actually be helped by some menthol snuffs. Worth a try at least. Most here use snuff along with their snus, some simultaneously, most not. What is so nice about snuff at this time is that it is so much easier to get than snus and is wildly cheaper on a daily basis to use. Thirty bucks worth of snus might be an average month's supply but thirty bucks worth of snuff might well be a six month supply even if that's all you used. If you use it as an adjunct to snus that 30 bucks worth might easily be a year's supply.

It is extremely cost effective if you can restrain yourself from going nuts and ordering everything in sight because it all sounds so good. The number of choices is greater than that of snus by a factor of five at least. Just cruise the snuff reviews section here and be sure to only order small amounts at first. Being a snuffer of only a couple month's experience I won't make any recommendations but others certainly will.

[spirit72]

I stopped snus(for the most part--I still have some stocked, but won't be restocking)back in May. But my snus consumption took a big dip shortly after I started using snuff last summer. It just kinda happened--I decided I like nasal snuff better.

I don't know how much nicotine one can expect to actually absorb from a normal pinch of snuff, but I can say as an anecdote that it is nowhere near what one absorbs from a portion of snus in most cases. The first couple weeks of snuffing almost exclusively were more difficult then I expected.

But tonight, for example, I went about 4 hours without a pinch and didn't even think about it.

[Monkey]

So I had been throwing some snus in here and there but snuffing for most of my tobacco consumption until I got all crazy with thep flu from my kids (they only got the sniffles). I've not used snuff in a few days because of the congestion and have had little ability to sniff but my snus use has not been near as much as before I switched it up. I'm feeling a lot better and still use less tobacco since I cut down but am switching it up a little more to where i am using pretty much equal number of times of snus and snuff not going more than eight doses in a day and no longer chaining and" doubling up on" snus and snuff at the same time

I'm probably not going to quit tobacco quite yet but being able to cut down like this has been a pretty good feeling. I'm glad I don't feel like i have to chain snus anymore.

Just thought I would throw in an update.

[spirit72]

I'm probably not going to quit tobacco quite yet but being able to cut down like this has been a pretty good feeling. I'm glad I don't feel like i have to chain snus anymore.

See, anymore I don't sweat the issue.

When I was a smoker, I constantly obsessed about quitting, because I knew that there was a good sporting chance that the things were going to kill me dead---maybe sooner than I thought, and probably not in a pretty way.

With snus though, and now with snuff, I know that this is very unlikely. So while I may decide to drop it all at some point(and these days, I even feel like I could), it's not something that's on my mind even regularly.