Hello to everyone in this nice forum.
I am both, new to snus and new to this forum, so I'd like to introduce myself and tell you my snus story.
I come from Switzerland and am 28 years old. I've been smoking cigarettes for like 12 years and started to develop a really bad cough lately because of all the smoking. So I became a little bit worried and checked my lung functions and did an x-ray of my chest, which both turned out to be okay so far - no signs of a COPD or cancer. But as the cough became worse and worse and I noticed that I was coughing like every two minutes or so while other people around me would never had to cough at all I knew that I had to stop smoking.
I had tried to stop smoking before and in some cases was successful for a few weeks or even months but each time I would start to smoke again. I've tried nicotene chewing gums as well as nicotene patches only to find out that they both bring only moderate help while being damned expensive.
I am learning Swedish and while watching the Swedish movie "fröken sverige" in order to improve my Swedish skills I noticed the main caracter snusing all the times. This reminded me of my last holiday in Sweden where I once tried one piece of portion snus. It was a bad experience because I had no idea on how to use it, so - please don't laugh at me - I started to suck on the portion rather than putting it under my lips. This obviously didn't taste very good to me and so I never tried it again.
But encharmed by the main caracter of the movie I started to read some websites about snus and learned that I used it the wrong way this one time I tried it bacik then. So I kept on reading more and more pages and started to become curious again. The more I read, the more I wanted to try snus again; I also became sure, that snus could actually help me quit smoking.
So I decided to give it another try and ordered like 10 different brands of snus on snusexpress.com. While waiting for the snus to come, I kept on smoking and my cough became even worse. So I decided to not only give snus a try but to definitely switch to snus - even if I would not like it. Since the snus had not arrived yet and I really didn't want to smoke any longer because of the bad cough I placed another order at buysnus.com and had it shipped to me by UPS overnight express. I bught a big amount so that I'd be forced to use it rather than throwing it away for I knew that one can get used to something just by trying it again and again and this is what I decided to do with snus. I'd done this with guinnes beer before.
So one and a half days later I received the snus and - applied the correct way this time - instantly started to like it very much. I've been snusing for quite a few days now and I was - without any afford - able to reduce my cigarette consumtion to one or two a day (it used to be like 10 to 15 a day). I even was invited to a official dinner in a restaurant yesterday evening and I left my cigarettes at home and was easy with snus - absolutely no need to smoke at all. This would never have been possible before.
I think that snus makes a great substitute to cigarettes. No, it is even better than cigarettes - way better. As somone else on this forum has mentioned before, I also like all the different brands and tastes available. Snus is not for sale in Switzerland so I have to import it from Sweden too, what makes it even more special to me for I like Sweden and I also like to do something that not everyone else does. I don't know anyone elso who snuses actually.
I think that smoking cigarettes is nothing more than an ugly addiction while snusing is kind of a lifestyle. And it's much healthier than smoking :-)
I've vacuumed the cans of snus and put them in the freezer. There are two more cans that i keep in the fridge and one that I always have with me. I've only tried portion snus so far but I also have lös in the freezer, so I'll try lössnus soon.
I really like this forum and it has helped me alot on making my mind about switching to snus. Thanx to all who contribute to this forum - you've all helped me reduce my smoking habits and I'm sure that I won't buy a new pack of cigarettes once this one that I still have will be empty!
I am both, new to snus and new to this forum, so I'd like to introduce myself and tell you my snus story.
I come from Switzerland and am 28 years old. I've been smoking cigarettes for like 12 years and started to develop a really bad cough lately because of all the smoking. So I became a little bit worried and checked my lung functions and did an x-ray of my chest, which both turned out to be okay so far - no signs of a COPD or cancer. But as the cough became worse and worse and I noticed that I was coughing like every two minutes or so while other people around me would never had to cough at all I knew that I had to stop smoking.
I had tried to stop smoking before and in some cases was successful for a few weeks or even months but each time I would start to smoke again. I've tried nicotene chewing gums as well as nicotene patches only to find out that they both bring only moderate help while being damned expensive.
I am learning Swedish and while watching the Swedish movie "fröken sverige" in order to improve my Swedish skills I noticed the main caracter snusing all the times. This reminded me of my last holiday in Sweden where I once tried one piece of portion snus. It was a bad experience because I had no idea on how to use it, so - please don't laugh at me - I started to suck on the portion rather than putting it under my lips. This obviously didn't taste very good to me and so I never tried it again.
But encharmed by the main caracter of the movie I started to read some websites about snus and learned that I used it the wrong way this one time I tried it bacik then. So I kept on reading more and more pages and started to become curious again. The more I read, the more I wanted to try snus again; I also became sure, that snus could actually help me quit smoking.
So I decided to give it another try and ordered like 10 different brands of snus on snusexpress.com. While waiting for the snus to come, I kept on smoking and my cough became even worse. So I decided to not only give snus a try but to definitely switch to snus - even if I would not like it. Since the snus had not arrived yet and I really didn't want to smoke any longer because of the bad cough I placed another order at buysnus.com and had it shipped to me by UPS overnight express. I bught a big amount so that I'd be forced to use it rather than throwing it away for I knew that one can get used to something just by trying it again and again and this is what I decided to do with snus. I'd done this with guinnes beer before.
So one and a half days later I received the snus and - applied the correct way this time - instantly started to like it very much. I've been snusing for quite a few days now and I was - without any afford - able to reduce my cigarette consumtion to one or two a day (it used to be like 10 to 15 a day). I even was invited to a official dinner in a restaurant yesterday evening and I left my cigarettes at home and was easy with snus - absolutely no need to smoke at all. This would never have been possible before.
I think that snus makes a great substitute to cigarettes. No, it is even better than cigarettes - way better. As somone else on this forum has mentioned before, I also like all the different brands and tastes available. Snus is not for sale in Switzerland so I have to import it from Sweden too, what makes it even more special to me for I like Sweden and I also like to do something that not everyone else does. I don't know anyone elso who snuses actually.
I think that smoking cigarettes is nothing more than an ugly addiction while snusing is kind of a lifestyle. And it's much healthier than smoking :-)
I've vacuumed the cans of snus and put them in the freezer. There are two more cans that i keep in the fridge and one that I always have with me. I've only tried portion snus so far but I also have lös in the freezer, so I'll try lössnus soon.
I really like this forum and it has helped me alot on making my mind about switching to snus. Thanx to all who contribute to this forum - you've all helped me reduce my smoking habits and I'm sure that I won't buy a new pack of cigarettes once this one that I still have will be empty!
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