Anybody Dip/Chew?

[DuckBuster]

If you do and want to quit, try out quitsmokeless.org.
They have a forum for support of various quit groups.
Figured I got a few people to start maybe I can get a few to quit.

 

[scott_vt]

Hi Duckbuster,
I dont do either, but do have an occasional cigar, not sure if I wanna give them up /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

scotty

 

[Bird]

When I was 11 or 12 years old, a buddy and I used to ride our horses along the old dirt roads in the area, and we'd pick up soda bottles that we found, take them to the little country store where they were worth 2 cents each, so for 3 of them, we could buy a sack of Bull Durham tobacco and try to learn to roll cigarettes on horseback like the cowboys did in the movies. Of course, we spilled most of it. However, my buddy liked chewing tobacco and a plug of chewing tobacco cost 11 cents. Now I figured if he was that extravagant, it must be good stuff. So one day, I bit off a small chew; just bit it off, then spit it out and thought I'd never get rid of that taste in my mouth. That was my one and only, first and last, experience with chewing tobacco. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Farmwithjunk]

I never was around smokers until I went in to the Army. My family just didn't smoke. My wifes family ALL smoke. They grew tobacco too. When I met her, I went to help her dad with cutting his crop. I saw critters crawling around on the tobacco leaves that looked like something from Star Wars.

Ain't NO WAY I'm putting that stuff in my mouth!

 

[getut]

As a teenager I smoked cigars for a short period until I found myself starting to smoke just a few too many of them. It started to affect my sprints in football practice. I decided to move over to dipping Kodiak and did it for 14 years. I hid it from my family for most of that time by only doing it while driving to and from work. I've been off of it now for almost 2 years and it was almost the hardest thing I have ever done. The family that I hid it from was really the strength that allowed me to overcome it.

Still after almost 2 years I get cravings when I get really stressed or drive on long trips. I do occassionally still smoke a cigar... maybe 3-5 per year on special occassions like hunting trips and such but those don't seem to trigger the same dependent feeling as the smokeless tobacco did.

 

[EddieWalker]

I started dipping Cope in the Marine Corps while on Embassy Duty. The midnight shift all alone in the Embassy was the hardest to stay awake. Another Marine and Detachment Commander both dipped, so I gave it a try. Loved it the very first time.

After about a dozen years of it, and quiting about a dozen times, I finally gave it up for good in 1997. Prices kept going up, which was more of an incentive than anything else, but the real reason I stoped was I couldn't find a fresh can anyplace. After three days of looking and going crazy because I refused to spend money on old, dry and nasty chew, I realized I'd already quit.

I gained 50 pounds, got really lazy and hated doing just about anything. Mowing the lawn wasn't fun anymore with out a dip, drinking beer didn't taste the same and people in general annoyed me all the time.

Almost ten years later, I don't miss it anymore, but for years and years, I sure did.

Good luck to those trying to quite. I know if I started again that I'd never be able to quit it another time on my own.

Eddie

 

[Deerlope]

When I was in the Air Force I worked in a bomb depot and there was no smoking there. Even though I did not smoke then the guys got me to try chewing tabacco and I was hooked. At age 27 I turned to dipping. Stared with Cope, but switched to Skaol. That countinued for the next 36 years. 2 weeks ago I looked into and empty can and said to myself that I did not need this crutch anymore. Now I chew up a lot of wooden matches but that will end soon also. The wife don't mind finding them all over the house just as long as I don't go back to dipping.

 

[Sigarms]

Lets see.

Got into a small fender bender at a light when I dropped (sp?) my "tin" on the floor and was looking for it.

Grabbed the wrong "cup" from the dashboard and took a big swig of tabacco spit.

In an old truck, used the floorbards for a spit toon (sp?)

"chewing" while whitewater kayaking, hit a pretty big hole, went upside down, hit my head on a rock, swallowed a BIG dip and started throwing up going down a nice size rapid.

Accidently dropped an open tin while in someone elses car.

On a plus note, when I used to drink, a tin was great for opening up a "non twist" bottle of beer.

Since married, pretty much given it up except from time to time when around some old friends (since I gave up drinking, sort of a "bond" with some old buddies for better or worse.

What other names for chewing? Used "chew", "dip" and "rub".

Did have a buddy who had a girlfriend who chewed. Hate to admit it, but she was pretty good looking and for some reason, watching her dip, really made her more sexy.

 

[MossRoad]

Bird,
thppt! Although I have only done it a few times in my life, thppt! I really enjoy the taste of chewing tobacco.thppt! Especially when outdoors. thppt! I have never purchased it for myself thppt! and never would thppt!. But there's just something about the taste thppt! I enjoy thppt!. Awfully messy habit, though. thppt! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[EastTexFrank]

Having hung around oil rigs most of my life, where you can't smoke, most of the guys who use tobacco either chew or dip. So, I've tried it a couple of times. I just don't seem to be able to handle it. For some reason, 30 seconds after taking a chew or dip, I'm leaning over a handrail, throwing up. It's probably just as well because those friends who do use it say it is the hardest thing to give up.