Trying to quit smoking using nicotine gum often fails because it simply cannot replace the smoking habit. Chewing gum is too different from smoking but it is quite similar to chewing tobacco. Thus, indeed, nicotine gum seems to be much more effective in quitting snus than quitting smoking. If you can’t handle the cold turkey method and can’t even go with slowly reducing the amount of Snus you chew daily, then the nicotine gum can be just what you need.
Let the gum take care of your nicotine addiction. Work on using distractions to stop thinking about Snus. Remember that practice makes perfect and don’t give up.
You’re probably not surprised since you’ve seen this on box but have you really though about it?
The first step in quitting anything is knowing how bad you are addicted to it. At first people thought that Snus wasn’t addicting since you don’t smoke it. After some Government intervention we saw the new ads for Snus which you see on the left. Yes, Snus is addictive and that is exactly why tobacco companies were forbidden to market it as a “way to quit smoking”. It doesn’t help you quit. It only displaces one form of the drug with another which is also much more accepted in society.