How did you discover snus and what made you stick with it?

[tristanbailly83]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to ask a simple question that probably says a lot about each of us: how did you discover snus? Was it totally by chance, through a friend’s recommendation, or maybe during a trip abroad? Personally, I came across it while looking for an alternative to smoking—and it ended up changing quite a bit in my daily routine.

But beyond that first encounter, I’m also really curious: what made you stick with it? Was it the taste, the effect, the smoke-free aspect, or maybe the culture surrounding it? We all have different reasons, and I think that’s part of what makes the snus community so interesting.

For those who are just getting started or still unsure, I recommend this helpful article that really cleared things up for me in the beginning: https://pros.training-therapie.fr/cest-quoi-le-snus/

Looking forward to hearing your stories and how your snus journey began!

[chainsnuser]

Welcome to the forum, tristanbailly83!

Well, I used to be a chainsmoker, who tried to give up smoking in 2006. Nicorette did not help at all, it only made feel nauseous all the time, made my jaw ache, even wrecked some of my fillings.

So I got the idea to check Wikipedia for info about chewing tobacco to replace this disgusting Nicorette stuff. The chewing tobacco article had a link to snus back then. Snus sounded more promising overall. I actually studied snus for about 2 weeks to find that the anti snus (or anti smokeless in general) propaganda was nothing but pure nonsense (a joint operation between cigarette manufacturers, tax authorities, and useful idiots in the anti tobacco puritan movement, as it seemed)

So, I ordered 5 cans from Sweden. For a former chainsmoker like me, snus immediately was a revelation, replacing up to ten cigarettes with only one portion of snus while even be more satisfying. I placed the next order three days later, and never looked back ever since December 2006.

Cheers!

[Premium Parrots]

I can't remember how I was introduced to snus..........seriously

[Chewbacca]

I was a chain smoker of rolling tobacco and cigarettes. I had tried to quit with pharmaceutical nicotine (patches, inhalator, chewing gum, lozenges, and nasal spray) but they didn’t make me feel good.

I decided to try pipes and cigars but realised after quite some time that I wanted to quit them too. There was a tobacconist I bought pipe tobacco, pipes, and cigars from - i saw this stuff in there which intrigued me. It was nasal snuff so I bought some despite worrying about it.

I then found a big online nasal snuff forum. Though I enjoyed the lovely different scents of nasal snuff it wasn’t quite getting me off the smoking yet and I think someone on the nasal snuff forum mentioned snus so then I found this forum and the rest is history.