Wondering how to use snuff? What to chew? Or do you use Skoal tobacco, the moist snuff and pulverized one? These are all phrases to mean the use of smokeless tobacco; this article easily explains how to use it.
Steps
Step 1. Open the chewing tobacco package with your hands
Evaluate the freshness of the tobacco by checking if it is moist and pleasantly aromatic.
- Snuff is also available in pouches or sachets. However, the same method is used regardless of the packaging. However, tin cans are the most common containers for this tobacco.
- If you are a beginner, try to get the chunky chew. It is easier to pinch and hold in one place in the mouth.
Step 2. Pack the tobacco
This step is optional, but it helps you compact the tobacco so it's easier to grab and you can get more to put in your mouth.
- The easiest way to do this is to simply slam the can a couple of times on any base, which can be your leg like a table.
- The most refined way is to hold the can with the thumb, middle and ring finger, keeping the index finger free. Move your hand quickly up and down, forcing your index finger to make a banging noise on the side of the jar. The impact of the finger will cause the tobacco to compact.
Step 3. Take a pinch of tobacco
Taking the first one from a new can is more difficult than subsequent takes, but you just have to simply put your fingers deep into the tobacco and take out a pinch. A pinch is usually the amount you can hold between your thumb and the tip of your index finger. If you have recently started chewing, it is best to take a small one.
Step 4. Put the pinch of tobacco between your lips and gums
Make sure it is well compacted, as you don't want loose tobacco running around in your mouth at the risk of accidentally ingesting it.
When you are starting out, it is best if you put it on your lower lip, as it is more difficult to hold it on the upper lip. Experts can put it on the upper lip, or make it like a horseshoe (all around the lower lip). Compact the tobacco with your tongue, if necessary, to make sure it is firmly in place
Step 5. Wait for the juices to accumulate in your mouth
To get more juice, move your lip in and out. You don't have to chew, unlike chewing tobacco (like Red Man). Nicotine is absorbed through the lip, without actually having to chew it.
- For some cuts, it may be necessary to run some saliva into the pinch of tobacco. This is because some cuts can leave you feeling like cotton in your mouth, and you want to moisten the tobacco by producing saliva.
- If you are a beginner, you may experience a pleasant buzzing or nausea followed by vomiting. If you start sweating, feel nauseous or have an uncomfortable light-headedness, get rid of the tobacco immediately, as you may soon feel sick.
Step 6. Spit the juice
Wait until your mouth is full of the tobacco juice.
- You can use a plastic bottle to spit. Make sure you close the bottle cap when you spit in it, otherwise it could tip over.
- You can also use a spittoon or snuffbox. The important thing is that you find a suitable container that does not overturn, and that prevents the juice from escaping.
Step 7. Store unused tobacco in a cool place
The fridge or freezer is fine because they prevent it from drying out.
Advice
- Always check the date indicated on the package. Stores often sell old or about to expire tobacco. The production date should be no later than the month and the expiration date must not be past.
- For your first pinch, avoid strong tobacco like Copenhagen and Grizzly. Try Skoal or a cheaper brand like Longhorn or Husky. These have less nicotine and cause you less "dizziness" (buzzing).
- If you later find that you want more than a "buzz" (your body adjusts to your nicotine intake), you can try adding additives to your tobacco. In Alaska the natives use the ash of a mushroom harvested from a birch tree, which they call "punk ash", mix with the tobacco and you get an incredible buzz, similar to what you tried the first time (you will probably also try some nausea). The natives also call it "Eskimo Cocaine".
- Don't spit tobacco on the floor or anything else someone might pass by. You can spit into a container. We are just a couple of rude ones to get banned from using this product!
- Flavored Wintergreen tobacco and some brands (such as Grizzly, Stokers, Longhorn, and Hawken) can cause an effect called "Alligator Lip", which occurs when the gums become wrinkled.
- Drinking something right after using snuff is unpleasant, as you still have the taste in your mouth. This reminds you that you need to brush your teeth and have a drink. Remember to rinse your mouth with a little water and spit it out, before drinking, if you can.
- Don't use snuff when you're drunk or upset. It will hurt you if you are not used to it.
- While this article is about tobacco in tin boxes, tobacco in pouches can be a little easier to handle, since it's cleaner, doesn't need to be compacted, and is already the appropriate size.
- Thoroughly cleanse your mouth with water or another drink at the end. There is nothing worse than feeling the slight nausea from the first take, and then swallowing a mixture of tobacco, saliva and leaves.
- If you get used to tobacco over time, you can start "gulping" or swallowing this juice. However, you can get sick if you try to do this before your body has completely adjusted to it.
- Don't try to sniff out the tobacco before you get used to nicotine.
- Punk ash, eskimo cocaine, iqmik are other additives that you can pleasantly chew with tobacco (check if they are available in your country).
Warnings
- Once you have become addicted to tobacco, it is very difficult to quit. Read the article on how to stop chewing tobacco for more details.
- Smokeless tobacco can cause cancer and gum disease. It is not a safe alternative to smoking.
- Smokeless tobacco contains nicotine like cigarettes and is addictive. The sure way to not get addicted is to not try. Teenagers who start chewing tobacco are more likely to become smokers later in life.
- Chewing tobacco can cause bad breath, yellow or brown teeth, chapped or bleeding lips, gums that recede to the point of tooth loss, and heart disease.
