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Ok not out.. I used to smoke as well, did it for 6 years. During a period when I was living on Mallorca, I befriended quite some Swedes that were doing snus. Eager to learn new stuff, I tried it and quite liked the taste of it. When I started to snus more often, I noticed that passively the need for smoking was reduced, because I got nicotine from the snus. As it was in that period that I started cycling, I tried to minimise smoking so that I could explore the beautiful island on my first road bike. Snus helped a great deal, though with all the partying going on I could't really quit smoking.
Months later, back in the Netherlands, I was demotivated from cycling by the lack of mountains and beautiful nature, and the smoking habit was back at a pack a day. I didn't have snus to keep me from it and there was no real motivation because I didn't ride as much as I wanted to.
Then came my personal recession. I simply couldnt afford to smoke anymore, so I went online to search for cheap snus and ordered a roll of 10 cans. It took a little while to arrive, but the day it did I quit smoking cold fucking turkey. After about 3 months I also quit snusing as that was much more easy than to quit smoking without a substitute.
Downside of the story is that a year (or 2) later I got a girlfriend who smoked, I started again, we broke up, I started snusing again and never quit since. That's over a year ago now.
The moral of this story: If you're trying to quit smoking, snus might help as it did help me. Northerner is imo the best place to order and if you register you get access to 5-15% discounts which they have quite often.