I quit smoking last week...and to help I picked up a new Habit...Camel Snus.
I gotta admit that it has taken the edge off the quiting and also have enjoyed the new Camel product. Its spitless so you dont have to spit and it also is safer than smoking.
Snus is a smokeless tobacco product that is very popular in Sweden. It has been used there for over 100 years and so there is reasonable epidemiological evidence on its health effects. Overall, Swedish snus appears to be much less harmful to health than cigarettes, and probably less harmful than other types of smokeless tobacco sold in the United States.
The evidence from Sweden is clear that a large number of Swedish men have successfully quit smoking by switching to snus.
It is a form of snuff that is used in a manner similar to American dipping tobacco, but typically does not result in the need for spitting. Snus is also unique in that it is steam-cured rather than fire-cured, is not fermented and contains no added sugar. The sale of snus is illegal in the European Union<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"></sup>, but due to exemptions, it is still manufactured and consumed primarily in Sweden and Norway and more recently, the United States with the introduction of various snus products by R.J. Reynolds, Philip Morris USA, and Lorillard.
Since snus is not intended nor recommended for inhalation, it does not affect the lungs as cigarettes do. Because it is steam-cured, rather than fire-cured like smoking tobacco or other chewing tobacco, it contains lower concentrations of nitrosamines and other carcinogens that form from the partially anaerobic heating of proteins; 2.8 parts per mil for Ettan brand compared to as high as 127.9 parts per mil in American brands, according to a study by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Health.
I gotta admit that it has taken the edge off the quiting and also have enjoyed the new Camel product. Its spitless so you dont have to spit and it also is safer than smoking.
Snus is a smokeless tobacco product that is very popular in Sweden. It has been used there for over 100 years and so there is reasonable epidemiological evidence on its health effects. Overall, Swedish snus appears to be much less harmful to health than cigarettes, and probably less harmful than other types of smokeless tobacco sold in the United States.
The evidence from Sweden is clear that a large number of Swedish men have successfully quit smoking by switching to snus.
It is a form of snuff that is used in a manner similar to American dipping tobacco, but typically does not result in the need for spitting. Snus is also unique in that it is steam-cured rather than fire-cured, is not fermented and contains no added sugar. The sale of snus is illegal in the European Union<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"></sup>, but due to exemptions, it is still manufactured and consumed primarily in Sweden and Norway and more recently, the United States with the introduction of various snus products by R.J. Reynolds, Philip Morris USA, and Lorillard.
Since snus is not intended nor recommended for inhalation, it does not affect the lungs as cigarettes do. Because it is steam-cured, rather than fire-cured like smoking tobacco or other chewing tobacco, it contains lower concentrations of nitrosamines and other carcinogens that form from the partially anaerobic heating of proteins; 2.8 parts per mil for Ettan brand compared to as high as 127.9 parts per mil in American brands, according to a study by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Health.
