Weird feeling (2 weeks of snus)

[Koko]

Hello, first at all English isn't my native language so sorry if I make few orthography mistake. So I'm here to share my experience with snus and getting some advices. I'm actually 21, I used to smoke since 15 something like 20 to 30 cigarettes a day, figured out recently that this crap was killing me. I quit smoking and switched to snus 2 weeks ago now. Before that I tried vaping and it definitely didn't worked for me. The first week using snus was absolutely great, didn't felt the lack of tobacco additives substances present in cigarettes, i thought that it was going to be more hard and complicated to totally quit my old habits. Sadly few days ago I started to feel some weird and disturbing feelings. When the nicotine begin to kick me I can feel my hearth beat and blood pressure increased, my chest is shrinking and my body start shaking a bit. I'm taking about 5 to 8 Swedish snus daily, those contain 10 to 18 mg of nicotine. I really don't know what I'm supposed to do, that feeling scared me. I'm thinking about seeing a doctor. I'm actually still at university and do not really have a heathly life style. If you have heard similar story or could give me some advice I would be glad to hear them. Thank you in advance for your answer and don't hesitate to ask me few other questions if you want.

[Premium Parrots]

Welcome to snuson mate. It appears you are using snus that is high in nicotine. Try using a snus with a lower nicotine content. Most snus is 8mg nic and most everyone can tolerate that but there are a number of different snus that are lower than 8mg. You might want to start with a lower nic snus. Like many users I can only tolerate 8 mg. The short answer is you are using snus with too much nicotine.

Good luck

[Koko]

Thanks for the short answer, well to be honest i didn't did a lot of research about differents snus strenght. I was smoking strong tobacco so automatically i thought that ordering strong stuff will be the best way to definitly stop smoking. Jesus i feel a little bit stupid right now... Anyway thank you mate.

[Premium Parrots]

Its cool. When I started using snus I believe only 8 mg snus was available. I stopped smoking cold turkey and started using snus. It took me just about 3 days of snusing and I tossed the cigs out for good. I smoked 20 to 30 kools for years then switched to camel menthol unfiltered [terribly strong] then to roll my own cigs....Snus has easily got me off the nasty cigs and saved me a ton of cash as well.

[CzechCzar]

to echo PP,

You are using too strong a snus! Many of our northern European bretheren (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc.) like their snus STRONG. I have never been able to appreciate anything greater than 8 mg.

My guess is that the high nicotine content masked your withdrawal symptoms from the chemical additions in cigarettes. When your body stopped craving those toxins, you were able to tell that you were using too strong a snus.

[cliff0rd]

If it can be of some help when I started with snus it took me 2 weeks to understand that I was using too much nicotine. At that time I was vaping to get rid of the cigarettes and strong e-liquids + strong snus wasn't a good combination.
I switched to snus only and learned to use one strong portion, then a regular one and simply by alternating all day I was fine. There are days that require more strong portions, other days the first in the morning is strong and than I use regular all day long. You' ll learn soon to feel your nicotine "state" and adjust for the better. A different thing will be using lös; you can make a prilla of the right strenght, with the right product at the right moment, but first you have to fall in love with snus.. and it'll happen.
Give snus enough time and it'll win the cigs, I'm sure.
Good luck friend, go on like this!