There are many here, me being one of them. Snuff is much more enjoyable I think.

That's me as well....

My experiences were just the same, just sick of smoke. I still have the odd one and always will, but snuff is the main thing now - I might not have a cigarette for weeks and the thing thats helped me most has been not going through any mental quitting saga. No guilt, no willpower, just choosing not to smoke today; a bit like the AA approach. After many, many attempts to quit this has been the best way for me, with snuff (which Ive used on and off of for years) playing a big part. I owe a lot to Wilsons and Toque! Its also great not to have to loose tobacco from my daily life and snuffing is a much purer way of using it.

Welcome chaps

I quit cigarettes because of snuff as well. The more I used snuff, the less cravings I'd get for smoking. I have started smoking a pipe on occasion. However, that is even a rare thing. The only time I'll have a cigarette now is when I have a sinus cold and am too plugged up to use snuff. Right now, snuff is my main thing.

I actually quit cigs with snus but someday I will probably quit snus with snuff... who knows for sure but snuff is something that I have no qualms about admitting to be a lifer.

i quit cigs with snuff. i was couphing up somethin nasty and remembered somethin about snuff and some smokeshop had some old dusty snuffs. instant quitting thanx to snuff.

I quit last July, after smoking a pack a day for 30 years. It didn't make it "easy", but it does separate the addiction from the habit, so I can still have my vitamin N, while I'm working on beating the habit. This is what Grace is talking about. The need to bend your elbow. If you really want to quit, it's amazing the stuff you'll try. My son has come home and found me out on the porch with such a big pinch of O&G up my nose, he could smell it when he walked by, feverishly throwing one of his yoyos up and down. I've got a good friend that says that between the "habit" and the easy availability, cigarettes are harder to quit than heroin. And knowing him, he's probably speaking from experience!

Have Fun,
Java

There is a great section in "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell on nicotine and how addictive it is (or not). It is based on a study done by researchers at Michigan University. As they say, "in the heated rhetoric of the war on smoking" a critical point is often lost. "...how sticky smoking ends up being to any single person, depends a great deal on his or her own particular reaction to nicotine....of all teenagers who experiment with cigarettes, only about a third go on to smoke regularly. Nicotine may be highly addictive, but it is only addictive in some people, some of the time....smoking experts used to think that 90-95% of all those who smoked were regular smokers. But several years ago, the smoking questions on the federal government's national health survey were made more specific, and researchers discovered to their astonishment, that a fifth of all smokers don't smoke every day. There are millions of Americans, in other words, who manage to smoke regularly and not be hooked - people for whom smoking is contagious but not sticky"

Ther's a lot more, but you get the idea.

see also this:

Saul Shiffman1
(1) Clinical Psychology, 706 OEH, University of Pittsburgh, 15260 Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Received: 24 May 1988 Accepted: 5 October 1988
Abstract This study explores the behavior of tobacco ldquochippersrdquo — very light smokers who regularly use tobacco without developing dependence. Eighteen chippers (CHs) who averaged a maximum of five cigarettes per day, but who smoked at least 4 days per week, were compared to 29 dependent smokers (DSs). Laboratory data showed that CHs inhale cigarette smoke and are exposed to nicotine. In both experimental and retrospective self-report data, CHs showed no signs of tobacco withdrawal when abstinent. CHs also differed from DSs in their pattern of smoking: their smoking was less linked with mood states. However, the hypothesis that they were ldquosocialrdquo smokers was contradicted. CHs also differed on psychosocial variables relevant to a stress-coping model of smoking: they reported less stress, better coping, and more social support, but these differences were small. Although the two groups were demographically similar, smoking behavior differences between CHs and DSs were long-standing: the two groups differed in their responses to initial smoking and in their family histories of smoking and cessation. CHs' smoking behavior challenges classical theories of dependence; further research is needed on the factors that may protect CHs from addiction.

These are great stories. Does anybody object to me quoting some of them on my website?
Dave

Well grace if you ever need to go batshit on strangers I've got a few address to send your way!

Mr Snuff; can you provide a link for your website, no amount of googling will bring it up

Good luck Mr Snuff, I know how hard it is getting a CC processor to process tobacco sales.

If my first cigarette made me nauseous and tasted terrible I would not have had another lol! So, can't
relate to that Snuffster. But maybe others can.......

Good luck Grace, we're all routing for you.

Grace, You can do it!
Just hold off as long as you can, until you get twitchy, then take a few pinches, it will set you right.

I used to smoke cigarettes, for over 20 years. I quit, and told myself I hated them, but at times, the urge became strong. One smoke and I was back on the hook. Terrible. I remember buying a pack of smokes, guiltily, then smoking 5 or 6 in a chain, then throw the pack out the car window. Only to do it again. And again. I can't count the number of times I've quit.
Finally got a few years smoke free under my belt, and then took a liking to cigars. Too expensive. Then started roll-ups, because sometimes there was no time to commit to a cigar...ah, slipping down the slope again. I decided to try the pipe. I still like the pipe, it's a very nice way to smoke, and is acceptable to my wife. In fact I am allowed to puff (non-"stinky" blends) indoors. Some pipe blends are quite satisfying in terms of nicotine, but the delivery is very slow. I still find pipe smoking very relaxing and good. I found out about snuff through the pipe forums. I thought: "That's crazy! People still do that??" I had to find out more, and then found this forum. Here I learned a lot about snuffs and flavors, met lots of nice people and now NO urge for cigarettes or roll-ups.