to my understanding most people actually prefer smoking, but for those like me that prefer tincure/quid its because the trip lasts much longer, has more meaning and isn't too intense.personally i think people shouldn't smoke salvia extracts, it just happens to be naturally potent so extracts aren't required if ur smoking it right.
Smoking worked for me just like a bit, up to the firs state (laugh and the belief that something is going on), and tincture didn't work anyway. For me both ways failed