snuff is the opposite on nicotine then pipes. It's a decent but small amount of nicotine entering your blood stream almost immediately (if you look at nicotine levels in blood, snuff spikes those levels in half to three minutes but it dumps that nicotine in almost immediately once it crosses the nasal membrane and because of how blood flow works it crosses the brain blood barrier almost instantly (like cigs which dump a smaller quantity of nicotine into the lungs per puff). Which applifies the stimulating nature of snuff (which might explain why I snuff most first thing in the morning waiting for coffee and when I am binge watching t.v. shows Jeeves and Wooster at the moment.)