Cutting back on Snus usage

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

Hey Sage, do you snus while you smoke your pipes? If not, your snus usage would go down as you pipe smoking increases. It takes a while to smoke a bowl. I don't usually snus and smoke tobacco at the same time but I do snus right after.

I haven't really tried to cut back on the snus usage yet, but I didn't sleep with one in last nite, so maybe that's a start.

[sagedil]

I *try* to remember not to have one in, but I forget sometimes :lol:


But yeah, adding the pipe should already result in less snus used, one of the reasons why I am doing this now, just to see how far I can comfortably push it. But today has been really easy. I just have to be a bunch more conscious of my choices than i normally am. But again, have had no feelings like i am not getting enough nicotine even though I have used half what I normally do.

Need tokeep this up the next few weeks, just to lock the new habit in.

i have plenty of money to buy what tobacco I need to use today. But my goal is to "cellar" at least half of what I am currently using. But if can keep my snus usage where it is today, I can buy double what I use. So 5 years from now, suddenly I will be smoking nothing but tobacco that has been aged 5 years.

A huge powerful motivator for me to draw down my snus usage a bit.

[spirit72]

Frankly, I haven't really felt a need to consciously regulate my usage. It just kinda happened on its own.

I kinda settled in to a rhythm naturally, and it has pretty much stuck. About a can of lös a week, and 2 cans of portions or so.

Now that I've started throwing nasal snuff into the mix too, it's actually more like 1 can of lös and 1 can of portions.

[daruckis]

ive noticed i keep my 01 portions in longer than usual.

[sagedil]

Frankly, I haven't really felt a need to consciously regulate my usage. It just kinda happened on its own.

I kinda settled in to a rhythm naturally, and it has pretty much stuck. About a can of lös a week, and 2 cans of portions or so.

Now that I've started throwing nasal snuff into the mix too, it's actually more like 1 can of lös and 1 can of portions.

Snuff has never affected my snus usage, just two separate issues for me.

When I hit about a year and a half snus usage, I noticed my usage slip a bit. My first year plus, I probably used about 15 potions a day, that slipped to 12 a day over time. Not that I still wasn't chain snusing, I just started to keep them in even longer than I had when I was a newer user. Nothing conscious, just sort of happened. This is the first time have ever specifically tried to regulate my usage a bit. mostly, just not chain snusing any more, letting myself go without for 30 -60 minutes, depending on how long I left the previous one in.

[snupy]

My snusage seems to remain stable. Since I started snussing in the spring, I used 4 mini-portions per day. I have experimented with regular portions, even finishing off a can of Grov black that my sister had ordered, yet I end up at the same level of snusage, which is 4 minis per day. I am not sure how that will turn out, given I am using primarily los now, as of my last order. On the other hand, I can do micro-hits, even smaller than a mini-portion with los. There IS something going on as far as cutting back, however. Yesterday, I was very deeply involved in a major project and totally forgot to snus for about 3 hours. That never happened when I was smoking.

[sagedil]

So just wanted to update.

I used 8 snus in 16 hours yesterday, exactly s much s I would have hoped. Today is even stranger. I have been up 11 hours now and have used only 4 snus the entire day. feel absolutely fine, nicotine levels s good s they ever are. Just so strange to be able to cut back usage so much. And i haven't really missed the snus during my breaks. If anything, makes me appreciate the snus do use bit more. Of course, smoking the pipe helps. I have had two bowls so far today, about to smoke my 3rd.

But very, very, very pleased at how well this experiment is going. If I can keep it up the next 6 weeks, saves me about $35 in snus I don't have to buy, money all invested in pipe tobacco I will be putting away for the next 5+ yers

[Kvlt]

A can will last me about 4 days. I keep them in at least for an hour, up to two hours.

A friend of mine only keeps them in for 20 minutes. :shock:

[RRK]

I have been up 11 hours now and have used only 4 snus the entire day. feel absolutely fine, nicotine levels s good s they ever are. Just so strange to be able to cut back usage so much. And i haven't really missed the snus during my breaks. If anything, makes me appreciate the snus do use bit more.

Hmm, were have I heard that before? :wink:

[texasmade]

ive been using less this past week maybe 3-4 prillas a day i think im going through some things

[sagedil]

I have been up 11 hours now and have used only 4 snus the entire day. feel absolutely fine, nicotine levels s good s they ever are. Just so strange to be able to cut back usage so much. And i haven't really missed the snus during my breaks. If anything, makes me appreciate the snus do use bit more.

Hmm, were have I heard that before? :wink:

There is a difference, I am still using about 7 -8 in my full 16+ hour day. I admit that I have a nicotine addiction, I am just trying to find the minimum necessary amount of snus necessary to meet that addiction. Trying to use just three would just make me feel ill all day, NOT going there. Ever.

[Skimo]

I can stretch a can to about a week, 10 tins lasts me about 2 months, tight budgeting and timing the snus for maximum lip time are key.

[sagedil]

have stayed stable at 8 snus a day now for 4 days. I have no need to cut it any more than that. Any more and would feel it, and that is simply not an option for me. 1 Elyxr and 2 other sterks each day, and 5 regulars. Works out to a snus every 2 hours

[WickedKitchen]

When I decided that I was going to only snus I would average about 8 portions a day be it reg or sterk. There were days in the teens and days close to none but 8 average.

Now with nasal snuff two things have happened. My snus usage has gone to 3 or 4 each day without me even thinking about it but more importantly it has opened up my senses in a different sort of way. I am reborn into snus and the different flavors again.

For the longest time I would have only 2 brands really and one was always Grov. I love that stuff.

I guess I could cut back from there but I don't really want to right now. Maybe some other time. For now, I'm working on about 12 different cans and it's going to take me a while to get through them. We'll see what happens at that point in time.

[sagedil]

I never really noticed snuff much affecting my snus usage. But it is really cool that your tastes have reawakened. I seem to be going the other way. I suspect that soon, all I will really use is LD White and Nick & Johnny Black. My pipe smoking is much more varied, all I really seem to want from snus these days is stability.

Not counting my occasional mouth party with Discreet. And I have a V2 limited edition sweet clove in right now. But that is really just like the occasional desert snus.

And FWIW, my use has stayed at 8 snus a day,, including my morning Elyxr for going on two weeks now