Anybody Dip/Chew?

[rox]

Good Luck to you. I knwo it has been in the news lately but if you haven't read it, order on line at Amazon.com and get A Million Little Pieces.

I know how difficult it is for you, 2 year later and I am still chewing Nicorette gum, but I am finally down to the 2 mgs. The good news is in France they regulate prices on a bunch of prescription and non prescription drugs and a box of 96 pieces of Nicorette is only 14 Euros, compared to like $69 in the USA. This is probably a big reason why I am still chewing the gum, it's pretty cheap.

I congratualte you on quitting tobacco. Initially it was so hard, even with the gum, that the only thing I found I could do when I had a real bad urge was to go out and run. I would run until I was physically exhausted and once so the craving would go away. I don't have to run any more and now a peice of gum now and then takes the edge off, but the first few weeks were incrediable hard. I didn't have to run all that long either since my lungs were shot. I have increased my lung capacity at least 4 fold since quitting smoking, it is just great. After 2 eyars I am over all the psychological triggers, getting in the car, ahving a cup of tea, sitting down at the computer. You think you will never get over them, psychologically but you will. For me now it is jsut the physical nicotine and it is about time I gave up the gum. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Like James Frye says in his book A million little pices, when you are tempted, when the urge is overwhelming, just don't do it, hang on. Just hang on. you can do it /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[PineRidge]

Used to smoke pipes, cigars, and even cigarettes but never chewed. However a case of throat cancer will make you give up all tobacco products real quick. I have first hand experience that those radiation treatments are no fun at all my friend.

 

[Buck]

I quit smoking after 35 years of 1.5 - 2.0 packs per day seven months ago.

I'm over the withdraw symptoms during the day. I still dream about smoking nearly every night!

I'll tell you, I've lived a privileged life. These people that smoke crack I really feel for now. I just can not imagine how hard it must be to give up something like that... I can't say I'd be any different if I lived in the streets as a kid.

 

[Varmintmist]

I dipped from 13 to about 40 with just a couple quits in between. Boot camp, once because of the price, then they came out with Timber Wolf, and once for a year and a half that ended the day a guy at work sucked on a gun barrel.

One day I put one in and it just didnt taste good, that was it.

For the first 6 months there were bad days and then there were really bad days. At almost exactly the one year anniversary I was jonesing BAD. One whole year without and I was in the same mood that I was at about week 2. I still get the urge but it passes pretty quick.

I put what I would have spent on snuff in a coffee can in my gun safe, made a heck of a down payment on a real nice original 30-40 Krag last year. Realizing how much I was spending on nothing has helped me stay away. Plus, I'm looking for a nice M1917 /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[stevenf]

Duckbuster, Let us know how you do, I've dipped Copenhagen for well over 30 years, regretably when I was in school the principal came and had a talk with the rednecks/cowboys in the dipping area he told us no more dipping in class the teachers had complained about the bottles left behind in the desk (can't blame em) if we were caught we'd be expelled. I was young and stupid and asked him if we didn't spit would it be OK his response with a grin was "SURE" being a recovered snuff addict himself. It took me a month to be able to do it without choking but I succeeded, sadly to this day I still dip and don't spit. I'm sure it'll probably kill me some day but I'm hoping I'm plowing a food plot when I keel over and fall off the tractor and it proceeds to run over me and bury me in the field. Good luck with your quitting I just can't find a reason good enough to quit at this point in my life the expense sure isn't an issue I put a dip in in the morning when I wake up and if I remember I take it out when I go to bed so a can of snuff last me over a week.
Steve

 

[tposts]

<font color="blue"> I just can't find a reason good enough to quit at this point in my life </font>

How about your friends and family and yourself ??
I have seen some pictures of people with cancer in there mouths from chewing and dipping snuff...it is not a very pleasant sight. I could only imagine what the individual is suffering through.

 

[DuckBuster]

Unfortunately, you're not going to die plowing a food plot. You will likely die very slowly (years) over which time you will have to eat out of a straw, not be able to talk, and slowly shrivel up to the point that noone will ever remember you for what you were but for what you looked like at death. Closed Casket my friend.

I have always had the thought that I would always dip. I could never quit! I'm **** glad I was wrong. I have been quit for a week now and it gets easier and better everyday.

You dip one dip all day long and don't spit, so you won't reap some of the benefits that others would (no more spit cups, $$$ savings, etc.). But you will add years to your life which would allow you to plow those food plots into your golden years and you will die a respectable death.

Good luck with whatever you choose to do.

Also, say a prayer about it. I have found that my faith has helped me alot and provided me alot of guidance in getting over this addiction.

 

[sixwarden9]

Quitting for a week does not constitute quitting for life. Talk to us when you have gone a year or two without dipping. I believe that a dipper never quits, only stops for a while....a while may be for the rest of his life. I like most, have stopped and started again for twenty years. I've used the $ angle on myself, etc. At a dollar a can at the Indian reservation, it’s less than coffee and since I don't drink I think I can spend twenty dollars a month on snuff. I did not like DuckBuster's post, too much doom and gloom and no support. Almost everyone I know who dips, desires to stop, but it is a personal decision. It is not one that you can push someone into, they have to decide, “I want to stop." Every time I "quit" in the past was because I was trying to please someone else and each time I started again. My wife of ten years even told me, "I can't make you quit. You will stop when you stop, or when don't have a lip to put a dip in."

I will stop when I am ready or not at all, but do not make a person feel inferior because they have not chosen the same path as you.

 

[tposts]

<font color="blue"> but do not make a person feel inferior because they have not chosen the same path as you. </font>

You must have an inferiority complex if what Duck buster said makes you feel that way.

<font color="blue"> At a dollar a can at the Indian reservation, it’s less than coffee and since I don't drink I think I can spend twenty dollars a month on snuff. </font>

Snuff is cheaper than coffee,so I should quit buying coffee and switch to snuff ???

As far as Duckbusters post being too much doom and gloom,I think he made an excellent post and said it as nicely as one can.
I have used tobaccos /chewed/cigarettes/pipes/cigars/rolled my own,I have even tried corn silk as a teenage,growing up I would get the cigarette butts out of my fathers ash tray and get a few good drags off of them. Tobaccos are not good for you. With that said I think though it is a choice that is totally up to the individual, I am personally against smoking bans in privately owned businesses. If you own a business you should be able to post a sign at the entrance advising non smokers before they enter that this is a smoker friendly establishment and let the individual make the choice of entering the store or not instead of the goverment telling the store owner what to do.
What a long way our society has come,they are worried about kids seeing cigarettes on t.v,but drugs and sex seems to be ok on the silver screen.

 

[Deerlope]

Dipping chewing smoking I agree is not good for me but neither is the toxins that the gov allows industry to spew into the air each day. The tabacco industry got a bad rap in my opinion. That industry(tabacco) is not the only one at fault for many ills. They are just the ones that got caught.