Two new ideas for the snus community.

[sagedil]

*sometimes*

:wink: :lol: :lol:

[Mullolley]

I wanted to share my personal experience with addiction.

I tried smoking first at 13, every once in a while with my friends, until my parents got suspicious and I stopped.

The next time was when I started college and I got started on cloves because they taste awesome and they made me feel good. I graduated to camel and started smoking in earnest while I was doing summer stock theatre in college. The only breaks we got when we worked in the scene shop all night and day were smoke breaks. So I would go outside and smoke, get a nice break, and enjoy the comeraderie with my smoking friends.

So I smoked throughout college, and I definitely had that pull to smoke every hour or two. On average I would say that I smoked maybe half a pack a day.

When I left college and moved to NY, I started smoking again after I had stopped for a few months. My wife and I smoked in the apartment, and I smoked more than ever and associated it with really good, exciting times.

We moved to another apt. in Jersey and had a balcony that was a great smoking spot, but I started smoking less and less.

By the time my daughter was born, I was around 5 cigs a day. I would be off them for maybe a month, but would always get pulled back. After she was born, I quit for awhile, but started sneaking smokes on my lunch breaks at work, trying not to smell like smoke when I got home.

Then I found snus, and haven't had a smoke since.

Even though I smoked fairly regularly since college, I've never really felt addicted to nicotine. I was more addicted to the habit and ritual of the thing. I never felt what some of you have, which is an unbreakable bond to the drug. I know that a lot of people, once they start the smoking habit, find it incredibly difficult to stop, and I'm so glad it doesn't affect me like that. I could go months without nicotine and be fine, maybe some strong cravings here or there, but I've done it before. If I had to, I could stop, but I like snussing itself, the nicotine is just a bonus.

I don't have scientific data one way or the other, but I think there are a good number of people like me. Addiction is a sliding scale, some people get hit hard by it, some don't get addicted at all, but a good amount are somewhere in the middle. I just wanted to put in my $.02 about it. There are some of us out there, maybe more than you think, that can take up the habit and put it down again. While I wouldn't recommend that someone take that gamble by starting to snus, it's certainly not a sure thing that they'll become addicted.

[RRK]

Liar. :wink:

[RRK]

Well, it doesn't look like anyone else is going to vote so the results are:

20.8% liked idea #1 about a new perspective for using snus.
50% liked the idea about a DIY boxpass.
36.8% did not like either.

The percentages don't quite add up becuase I used a total of 24 votes to divide the first two percentages due to the option of liking both. While the third percentage is out of the total of 19 votes.

Thanks for humoring me.

If anyone would like to trade some DIY snus with me go ahead and PM me. If we get maybe five of us we can have a box pass.

Edit: Whoops never mind. Two more votes while I was posting this.