Snus to quit smoking

[Jean]

Same old story: I "started quitting", had difficulty keeping quitting and then used snus.
As many people, snus made showed me smoking had little to do with social life, keeping your hands busy and so on. The only thing that mattered was the drug. That is something smokers don't like to admit.

[Tristik]

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I actually tried to quit smoking about 5-6 times over the course of 4 years using a nicotine patch before I ever heard of snus. Twice I lasted up to 8 months before buying cigarettes again. When you've grown up from middle school to around 30 years old smoking, you've learned how to do almost everything in life with a cigarette in your hand. That is a really hard habit to break and the nicotine is only a small fraction of that battle. This last time I quit, I started using some dip (Grizzly Wintergreen specifically) because I told myself that, no matter what, I wasn't gonna go back to cigs.

Then I saw a sign for Tourney Snus at a Speedway gas station and was curious to what this spit-less tobacco was. Bought some and it sucked. Looked it up online and got directed here and to some articles about swedish-made snus and health effects. Made my first 3 can sample order from northerner and have been snus'n ever since. Although at first I was using a mix of dip and snus still, but after a while, the dip got phased out.
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[Snus Boost]

In an effort to quit smoking I started switching up brands of cigarettes. One day I bought a pack of Marlboro and there was a coupon for free snus. I figured what do I have to lose? I started with Marlboro (this was back when they had like 8 portions in a pack) and I noticed that the Camel SNUS had more. After they helped me cut down on smoking but not quit one day on a road trip I googled snus. That introduced me to real snus and as soon as I got home I placed an order. The day that U.P.S. delivery came was my last day as a smoker! I started with all flavored Extra Stark and moved on from there.

[Frosted]

I was desperate to give up cigarettes. Tried with nicorette inhalator for months. Cold turkey for 5 months and then found snus. Giving up smoking was like falling off a log with snus and I've not smoked for 4.5 years and will never smoke again.......unless they ban all smokeless tobacco.

[lxskllr]

I started with snus cause I found it interesting and tasty. Quitting smoking wasn't a concern. That just happened as a side effect. My very first snus-like product was US Camel. That was enough to get me to look it up online, and I got the awesome 24 tin sampler from Northerner. That was easily the best intro to snus, and it's a shame they don't have it anymore. With all the ridiculous restrictions, it would be impossible for them to create its equal today, at least for Americans.

[Theline]

Obviously i did aswell, i am in my first week without the smokes, and have been using the thunder wintergreen los for now i also use general los stark. Without snus, i wouldn't last one day without cigs

[Fazer]

I did .... I would be half dead by now if i hadn't started on the snus, Goteborg Rape got me started

[Skell18]

I did I started with sterks initially now I am on a mixure or original and sterk, extra sterk, depends what mood I am in but now mostly original and white portions with the odd sterk in the evenings.

[Theline]

How many here started with snus to quit smoking cigarettes, and what type of snus did you get started with?