Snus usage compared to cigarettes

[albertusvs]

I stopped smoking about 2-3 months ago, through snus. What is strange is that I am using far less portions of snus than the amount of cigarettes I used to smoke. I was a 30 cigarettes a day guy, 40 when I was stressed. Now I am on 5-6 Thunders a day, 8 when I am stressed and then I don't feel very good afterwards.

Also I used to smoke heavily in the morning and the evening. Now my usage is more even through the day. Of course my energy/fitness levels are far higher and other medical conditions have cleared up nicely.

Would like to know the rest of your experiences and compare numbers.

[Skell18]

I used to smoke about 20 a day, sometimes 30, when I was at uni I would get through 60 a day, what stopped me smoking more was the lack of hours in a day! Now I use anything from 4 - 8 portions a day.

[Darwin]

Using from 5-8 Thunders a day means that most likely you are close to the absorbed nicotine levels you were getting from smoking or at least the apparent level of nicotine intake is similar.

[albertusvs]

Well, my cigarette brand used to be 12mg per 1g cigarette. Assuming 30 cigarettes per day, at 1mg per cigarette, that is 30mg. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6...?dopt=Abstract

My brand of snus is 17mg per g, at 0.9g. So 15.3mg per portion. Lets assume 15% absorption. So assuming 6 portions per day, that is about 14mg total. http://www.swedishmatch.com/en/Snus-...cotine-uptake/

So I am using about 50% less nicotine.

For high usage days, it comes to 40mg vs. 19mg, so also about half the amount of nicotine.

A portion of strong snus has about 2.3 times the amount of bio-available nicotine as cigarettes. So I should be taking about 40% the amount of portions as individual cigarettes, which is 12, but I am taking 6.

Using from 5-8 Thunders a day means that most likely you are close to the absorbed nicotine levels you were getting from smoking or at least the apparent level of nicotine intake is similar.

[Burnsey]

Good links albert. I went from 20-30 smokes a day and have leveled off at 8-10 portions a day depending on what I'm doing. The flavor or the snus seems to dictate how many portions I use and not the N content.

[NeonMouse]

I think im getting the same amount of nicotine as i was when i was chain smoking. Around 7-10 portions of extra strong a day. Less tobacco though if you think about it as that.

Before i was smoking around 14g of tobacco a day now im down to around 10g or less.

[Skell18]

The flavor or the snus seems to dictate how many portions I use and not the N content.

Same here, if I like the flavour I tend to use more, that pretty much most snus

[squeezyjohn]

I use far too much!