Thread: Anybody use snuff?

I have been fighting my cigarette habit for ages and I am leaning towards snuff at the moment. I would give up completely but for my fiancee who doesn't seem to want to give up and it is so hard to give up when somebody smokes around you all the time.
I quite like snuff but it seems to be frowned upon a fair bit by society. I would prefer to use an oral snuff but unfortunately it is not legal in the EU so nasal it is. I have tried a few different brands and generally prefer it to smoking apart from the brown residue in tissues.(but it is better than smelly hands)
Is it popular in any other countries? Anybody in sweden that can comment on 'snus'?
After the smoking ban in England I found it better to use snuff than to join the hoards of people crowding outside the pubs!

I tried it once and did not like it.

I have never seen anyone use it in Belgium.
Don't know if it is illegal or not. It just looks gross.
I have also read that it is linked to throat and nasal cavity cancers.

not all the time but if I have a nice rough cold with the drips I use some as it clears up the sinus mush better than the drops you get. I learned it from the grandfather who called it Old country medicine or Swedish cold-ease depending on how he was feeling.

I don't know how it will work for your purposes as again I have not used it so.

You can't chew in the EU? Thats odd.

On the other hand I have heard from a lot of guys that quitting chewing is harder than quitting smoking. I used chew as a crutch for a short time to cut down in my smoking, I don't know if snuff would help you the same way. The main reason it worked for me is because, I didn't like to spit in public so it helped my to pass on my nicotine fix thereby cutting down. Once I cut down I used lower nicotine and finally nicotine free tobacco cigarettes to break the addiction cycle, then I just quit.

I thought about trying snuff in the same role, but it isn't commonly available here. Since I was using it as a quit aid I wanted something I could find at the corner store. In America you can get chew/dip anywhere.

We are talking about dry, nasal snuff right?

Not the moist "snuff" like Skoal or copenhagen, what we call dip here.
I only ask because in addition to the above there is also chewing tobacco which is like shredded leaf or compressed plug tobacco.

Using both the dip and the chew is generally considered chewing tobacco, even though you really only chew the chew while the dip is just sucked.

Hows your Duetch? You might want to check out this forum:

http://www.smokeless.de/

I used to love the Peach Skoal, and the Apple wasn't bad either.

http://www.skoal.net/shop.php?kat=5&...1B6FB43F2AF9F9

I took a trip to Mongolia a few years back and brought a few small tins of snuff for gifts since Lonely Planet told me that would be appreciated. On the plane ride back, I had a leftover tin and decided to give it a try, since the flight is long and my habit was at its height.

It was... unpleasent. Have you ever jumped into a pool and had the water go up your nose? It sort of felt like that, only with a lingering tobacco contact itch.

I found that pipe smoking helped me cut back on my tobacco usage because a big part of it was tactile and all the cleaning and packing rituals took care of that. Plus, I would smoke one half-bowl of tobacco at the end of the day as opposed to a number of cigarettes throughout it. Pipe smoking comes with PAD as a side effect, though, so you don't save money.

We only have nasal snuff in England(as far as I can find) I think everything else is prohibited.
Yes sometimes it does give quite a kick and too much of it is quite unpleasant but I do like the variety of flavours available.
I was just doing some research on smokeless tobacco and came across a new 'electronic cigarette' which uses flavoured nicotine vapour instead of smoke.
there are a few brands - ruyan, sedansa and ecig are just 3.
I would get one to try but I have a feeling that the government will outlaw them sometime soon.(Not sure why but if they don't allow snus I dont see why they would allow these)

It's extremely big in Sweden, probably even bigger than smoking nowdays. I used to use snuff when i "quit smoking". I was using it until 5 years ago when I quit nicotine all together. (I have taken up pipesmoking in the recent years, but only a bowl a week or less.)

I did like snuff a lot, no smoke, no cough, no aggrevating the surrounding. Still, bad breath, sore gums.. still "an addiction"... But way better than smoking!

We have friends in Germany, and when they last came to visit, the husband had started using snuff. Personally, I never could get past the whole snorting stuff up my nose thing.

Mammoth Cave twist, on the other hand, is divine. Thankfully, I can't buy it in Washington State, so I'm not addicted, but when I go back to Tennessee/Kentucky to visit family, I buy a few twists to bring back with me.

I used snuff for 17 years...and quit. Life is not the same since....

(and snorting is not the "real way" to use snuff.... )