I just started using nasal snuff, something my wife is surprisingly okay with to supplement my pipe smoking. My first snuff was Gawith Apricot Menthol. I cannot figure out how to take it. I am not snorting it, just gently sniffing with my nose as if I was smelling roses yet for some reason, it always goes straight to the back of my throat and into my lungs which gives me a killer sore throat but only on my right nostril, no issue with my left nostril. Any experienced snuff takers have a solution to take this?
Advice on Nasal Snuff
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Fribourg & Treyer High Dry T is super-fine, so with that grind+moisture it requires a mindul serving and care. I liked Bernard's stuff ( Klostermischung and Zwiefacher ) when starting due to grind and a bit more moisture on it - both super tasty snuff.
Bernard Zwiefacher is best described as intricate. This means that there are several flavors at work simultaneously to deliver a layered set of aromas. Fig or raisin evolves into a cocoa flavor that is mingled with hay or earth and then pursues to an almost buttery sweet menthol. Not one element seems to override any other and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Bernard Klostermischung is homage to the monastery that first compounded this unique mixture. This is a dark and by schmalzler standards, quite dry; most of the moisture is from the fat. The flavor is sweet like dried raisins and maple sugar which provides a lovely accompaniment to the rich and smoky tobacco blend underneath.
Bernard Zwiefacher is best described as intricate. This means that there are several flavors at work simultaneously to deliver a layered set of aromas. Fig or raisin evolves into a cocoa flavor that is mingled with hay or earth and then pursues to an almost buttery sweet menthol. Not one element seems to override any other and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Bernard Klostermischung is homage to the monastery that first compounded this unique mixture. This is a dark and by schmalzler standards, quite dry; most of the moisture is from the fat. The flavor is sweet like dried raisins and maple sugar which provides a lovely accompaniment to the rich and smoky tobacco blend underneath.
I take a deep breath first then use a short sniff. Limits how much inhaling one can do and prevents transport to the throat.
I usually tap some snuff onto my thumbnail and wrap my index finger around the end of my thumb (the boxcar method). Form the snuff into a little pile.
Bring it up to your nose and barely inhale it. Think about just barely getting the snuff into your nose at all. You’ll figure out the right amount to inhale.
Dryer, more finely ground snuffs will be more difficult to control than coarse, moist sniffs.
Bring it up to your nose and barely inhale it. Think about just barely getting the snuff into your nose at all. You’ll figure out the right amount to inhale.
Dryer, more finely ground snuffs will be more difficult to control than coarse, moist sniffs.
Take a pinch slightly smaller than the size of a pea, and bring this slightly inside toward FRONT of nose. Take light and gentle sniff as if you're smelling a flower. Do this once, twice, thrice for each nostril as tolerance builds. Word of warning, snuffing all day and having a nicotine heavy pipe same day makes me feel crumby and sick the following morning. So, I typically choose one or the other. Snuff all day, or pipe all day.
Welcome to the nasal snuff and pipe club!
Welcome to the nasal snuff and pipe club!
Rolled up dollar bill and smaller lines? Sorry I just realized we were discussing snuff as opposed to 'sniff' my bad! 
I used almost all my harvest just to make one flake, because my leaves are very small. I get many midrib and smaller leaves that I feel a waste to throw away. So I decided to make a nasal snuff out of it. I just got a very nice baker grade vanilla essence that I planned to use as flavoring.
I need some help deciding my recipe for nasal snuff. I never tried nasal snuff before so I don't know what to expect. I planned to use Calcium Carbonate to help delivering nicotine as I read midrib has less nicotine than the lamina. Calcium Carbonate is what used traditionally here for Betel Chewing, as it help to release the alkaloid contained in betel nut. It also used for mixing with tobacco to be used as chewing tobacco. I also read that 1 grams of sodium carbonate to 100 grams tobacco is what advised for nasal snuff, but is it the same for calcium carbonate? And I think I need some salt for flavoring. Would these recipe work?
50 grams tobacco
0.5 grams calcium carbonate
Pinch of salt
A few drop of vanilla essence
Should I toast the tobacco? Or should I cook them? Should I add some sugar of any kind?
Strange! I've been hit in the nose quite a few times but nothing hard enough to have broken it.
It can be congenital, I think. We can have all kinds of asymmetries and still survive. That's my best guess why the "airflow" would be much better in one nostril than another.