How do you use Gutkha?
First, I would like to say that I am not a habitual tobacco user. I am from the United States and came across some Gutkha imported from India.
I enjoy trying new things so I decided to purchase some to use. I have searched the internet and can still find no instructions on how to use the tobacco.
I see many warnings of the dangerous affects and addictions to it. I understand these and have no intention of becoming a regular Gutkha user.
But I still do not understand how the Gutkha is used. I first tried putting it in between my gum and lower lip. I felt some effect but it did not feel like i was getting very much nicotine into the blood.
Am I supposed to chew the Gutkha? It seems very hard to chew and i'm not sure how i would go about doing this, its very crunchy and brittle.
Can anyone give me some beginners tips on using Gutkha?.
Thanks!
No! It's okay, my mother has a Russian friend who drinks vodka everyday with raw chicken soaked in some little container, and she got hooked to ghutka. And so did my mother's salon people .__.
Anyway, you just chew it, or you combine it with paan and supari to make like a traditional .. chewing thingy. I'm of Bangladeshi ethnics, so we really don't call it Guthka but something similar Zarda.
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but thats not how we like tie it up, we really just roll it and then fold the ends into a tiny square, usually that's done for parties. If you go to your local Indian grocer and ask for ; a dollars worth of paan, a dollars worth of cut supari ( betel nuts ), zarda (tobacco) and ghutka, you can lay it all out on the leaf ( paan ) and stuff. I don't think it's horrible that you're doing this, judging from experience, kids even try it. Needless to say I started when I was 5-6.
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