Cigarettes taste like burning paper, and at their best smell just OK, but most smokers aren't walking around with cigarillos, despite the better ones tasting and smelling very nice.
It's about nicotine delivery, and even the new hit with the kids, Juul, seems not as nice as a cigarette to me as a very infrequent nicotine user. Maybe box mods are different, I've only every tried the types of vapes you can get at tobacco shops and gas stations and such.
As a side note, I'm surprised snuff isn't more popular. It gives a noticeable but not overwhelming stimulation, discretely, doesn't have the cultural connotations or need to spit of chew, and seemed a little milder too. I guess putting stuff up your nose has it's own connotations. I also don't even know where you can buy it. Certainly not a gas station.
> It's about nicotine delivery, and even the new hit with the kids, Juul, seems not as nice as a cigarette to me as a very infrequent nicotine user. Maybe box mods are different, I've only every tried the types of vapes you can get at tobacco shops and gas stations and such.
Box mods are indeed different. And you don't really need a box mod, good beginner-level devices (from ~$50 and up) charged with an adequately strong liquid do the job great and don't require any special skill. The devices usually sold at gas stations are worth nothing more than a temporary emergency cigarette replacement and Juul is, you know, for kids. As a very infrequent nicotine user you have no reason to care but if you smoked regularly I'd advice to pay your local specialized vape shop a visit and ask the guys what can they recommend.
> As a side note, I'm surprised snuff isn't more popular.
I've bought some snuff once I've forgotten my vape at home and my impression is it's the best tool to quit smoking! Every time you use it - it's a jump of courage and tears, snot and head-shot feeling after it. It's a so damn strong mentol charge I feel like I'd rather eat a Carolina Reaper. Even though I've taken the box that doesn't mention menthol.
Snuff taken the way I know it, under the upper lip, gives a slower hit but a much stronger hit than cigarettes.
What I wonder is about the new "vape-like" pens which heats (real) tobacco but doesn't burn it. If that is similar enough to cigarettes to win cigarette smokers over. I would think so, but I'm not a real smoker (only tried a few times) so can't offer my own anecdata.
> What I wonder is about the new "vape-like" pens which heats (real) tobacco but doesn't burn it.
I see many people around using it nowadays but I'm sure I wouldn't prefer this over a good vape and I've also heard it's dangerous as it may also be heating the filter together with the tobacco so you actually inhale extra toxines.
BTW about vapes - although I believe these are generally healthier than any kind of cigarettes (and so do many doctors unofficially) I've heard many liquids (usually flavoured like vanilla, maple, coconut or caramel) contain diacetyl, pentanedione and/or acetoin so you can "popcorn lung" syndrome (which is much more dangerous than what ordinary cigs do) quickly [1]
If it's anything like weed, than actually less similar to cigarettes than existing vapes.
Sniffing snuff is much stronger than cigarettes but less intense I would say. Like if you don't smoke a cigarette could give you the spins, but in a few minutes you're ok. I have had a few sniffs of snuff, and then a few hours later still felt a bit up, and had trouble sleeping. Unlike chewing or dipping though, I think it's hard to accidentally have way too much.
It's about nicotine delivery, and even the new hit with the kids, Juul, seems not as nice as a cigarette to me as a very infrequent nicotine user. Maybe box mods are different, I've only every tried the types of vapes you can get at tobacco shops and gas stations and such.
As a side note, I'm surprised snuff isn't more popular. It gives a noticeable but not overwhelming stimulation, discretely, doesn't have the cultural connotations or need to spit of chew, and seemed a little milder too. I guess putting stuff up your nose has it's own connotations. I also don't even know where you can buy it. Certainly not a gas station.