anyone tried the non-tobacco non-nicotine pouches?

**jasondavis48108** · 07-12-2008, 04:17 PM

Hello all,

I do love nicotine, but all things in moderation I guess. So in that spirit I am looking for something that I can alternate my snusing with that does not have nicotine or tobacco in it. I tried the smokey mountain artic mint pounches and they were kinda nasty, I have only tried one so far and will try again but I'm not putting too much faith in that product at this time. I also have the smokey mountain wintergreen that I will be trying. Smokey Mountain's pounches are produced by XQ of sweden whcih makes me a bit leery of thier product as well. Have anyone tried the Onico snus. Also any other suggestions of products that are similar to snus but contain no tobacco or nicotine? I do like the smokey mountain loose, but this is kinda messy so I can't use it at work. Trying to find a tea bag maker that I could use to make smokey mountain pounches that don't taste like A**

**TropicalBob** · 07-12-2008, 04:46 PM

Real snusers look on these like bastard offspring! I really liked the little tobacco XQs that were being marketed a year ago. Very low nicotine content, but real tobacco in super tasty pouches. Then XQs stopped the real tobacco ones. Like you, I didn't care for their non-tobacco snus. I haven't tried Onico or any others, since I use snus to provide a flat-line level of nicotine in my blood stream. My personality seems to need at least some nicotine, so I often turn to very low CatchDry products or very high Wise Wine and Chef products, depending on need.

**jasondavis48108** · 07-12-2008, 05:13 PM

thanx TB. yeah, I use the catchdry quite a bit. I don't have any intentions right now (or ever) of getting off the real stuff completly, I really do enjoy it and if you can't enjoy life then whats the point, but I've been a bit concerned about the amount of it I've been using. Approximatley 6-10 pounches and 6-10 stonewalls a day. Thats alot of nic! (72 mg if I'm getting all the nic in the stuff into my system) I think the only reason I'm not dead is that the mouth is fairly ineffective at nic absorbtion, and the funny thing is I don't even get the nic buzz in the morning that I used to get. I've tried mixing it up with regular gum but the gum dosen't seem to do it for me so now I only use it to claen my teeth when i can't brush. I like beef jerky. it does a good job of emulating the flavor of snus, but its loaded with sugar and if I keep sucking on that stuff all day my teeth really wll fall out

so I'm on a quest to find something to fill the holes in my snusing day. Maybe I'll try the onico since one can isn't very expensive. I did find some mint only pouches that were tastey, but the flavor doesn't last evry long.