Posted: 3/6/2010 7:45:17 PM EDT
Chewed for a couple years and around 3 weeks ago quite cold turkey. No big deal really. Most recently however, I am getting my ass kicked. Not because of physical withdrawls, but the fact that working many hours a day on the ranch seems to go by faster with a dip in. It just is weird not chewing when I am working, driving, sitting etc. I am having a hard time resisting it and I need some encouragement either way here. 
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everything in moderation dude. you eat twinkies every 1/2 hr.= lardass. but you eat one every now and then=no problem. same w/ dipping,as i see it. you do it constantly you'll develop a problem, i usually work 10hr. days..... so i have 1 before lunch,and 1 after lunch. no more than that. i try to use this w/ most every thing in my life. jmo.
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Put a pinch in. Nobody likes a quitter. |
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everything in moderation dude. you eat twinkies every 1/2 hr.= lardass. but you eat one every now and then=no problem. same w/ dipping,as i see it. you do it constantly you'll develop a problem, i usually work 10hr. days..... so i have 1 before lunch,and 1 after lunch. no more than that. i try to use this w/ most every thing in my life. jmo. Haha I tried that. See I basically made it so I only chew when I drive or work. So in essence it means a dip a day atleast, for at least 20 minutes, but far less than 10 hours every day. But yeah. I had a few girls giving me a bad time about it, like a week before I quit and I decided that I would throw in the towel for a while but I think I'm gonna start up again. It just is so damn hard. 
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I quit 11 years ago when I went to boot camp. It was screwing up my gums anyway. I might have one dip a year now if I am fishing with my brother and he has a can. I remember some of the guys I used to hang out with, if they were awake they had a dip in, they just drank beer right over it, one guy I know used to sleep with a dip of Copenhagen in, his bottom teeth were rotten by age 21. |
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Brother, I dipped for three years and tried to quit for 2 of them. Finally made it in Oct 08 and haven't had a dip since. The next to last time I quit were some of the worst days of my life. It kicked my ass so bad I was physically sick for three days and had to lay in bed. Then somehow I didn't learn and started dipping again a few months later thinking it would be a one time thing. Finally, I quit and it was one of the hardest and best things I ever did. Cuz I loved it. There's nothing better than a dip when you are bored. But the negatives soon outgrow the positives. Don't do it. There are a billion reasons not to. It's so easy to start again, and every time you do, it gets harder to quit. I never have headaches anymore, I've gotten back down to a regular weight cuz I ate all the time when I dipped, my mouth isn't all fucked up and I don't waste hundreds of dollars a year on it. Stay quit. Cold turkey is the only way. After a few days, all you have to fight is the mental game. Just don't buy it and don't bum one from a friend and it's easy. |
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yeah if you got an addictive personality,you better quit now while you're ahead. i can go hours,days,weeks w/o it cuz i dont hafta have it. some people do,i understand that. i'm like that w/smokin and dippin.......dunno why. just have never had an addiction. I wish I could be that way with smoking. I have quit so many times but always fail because the lack of a cigarette when out at a bar of drinking over at a friends blows. I envy people that manage to only be "social smokers". |
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yeah if you got an addictive personality,you better quit now while you're ahead. i can go hours,days,weeks w/o it cuz i dont hafta have it. some people do,i understand that. i'm like that w/smokin and dippin.......dunno why. just have never had an addiction. Yeah its tough, beer and dip is hard to beat. But I physically don't need it but it is harder than hell to do the same activities without one in. Seems like a weird day every day. Hopefully i get over it. |
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yeah if you got an addictive personality,you better quit now while you're ahead. i can go hours,days,weeks w/o it cuz i dont hafta have it. some people do,i understand that. i'm like that w/smokin and dippin.......dunno why. just have never had an addiction. I wish I could be that way with smoking. I have quit so many times but always fail because the lack of a cigarette when out at a bar of drinking over at a friends blows. I envy people that manage to only be "social smokers". I am that way. Hate smoking yet sometimes will smoke a cigar, with a beer. Interstingly enough used to chew the end of a cigar instead of chewing. and then picked up chewng. Dam thanks everyone for the support it sure is rough. |
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hope you take these guys advice to heart.over the last 25yrs. of dippin/smokin i've come to find my particular situation is an anomoly. not everyone has it so easy. stay away from it if'n you cant control yourself w/ it. i do 1 can a week and prolly close to a pack of smokes a week.
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