Posted: 2/21/2012 1:47:06 PM EDT
| I have bee chewing for about ten years now. Im not only doing it for my health but i need the extra cash. Its been a pathetic 8 hours so far, and i feel like i am going to rip someones head off for no reason, wish me some luck |
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I have bee chewing for about ten years now. Im not only doing it for my health but i need the extra cash. Its been a pathetic 8 hours so far, and i feel like i am going to rip someones head off for no reason, wish me some luck Hmmmm....Ive only been chewing for ....let me see.... about 35 years. Good luck! 
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I have bee chewing for about ten years now. Im not only doing it for my health but i need the extra cash. Its been a pathetic 8 hours so far, and i feel like i am going to rip someones head off for no reason, wish me some luck Good for you!! Be strong, you can and you will beat this. You keep telling yourself....you can.....and you WILL. The alternative is hell: link YOU CAN AND YOU WILL |
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Stay strong!
Take control of your body. You are paying good money to poisen yourself! Stop! I smoked for 10 years, transitioned to dipping when my job wouldn't allow me to smoke and did that for 10 years. I quit in 2003 when my son was born, for him. I didn't want his old man dying of cancer on him. I transitioned to niccorette gum for a few months, gradually mixed in regular gum, the substituted regular gum. Gotta keep your mouth busy. And the niccorette gum helps the transition. People who dip or chew get a higher dose than smokers, essentially your brain has grown a LOT of extra dopomine receptors, which the niccotine fits right in. Stimulates the "AHHH" pleasure release, the same as sex, and heroin. You will have to prune them by depriving them of nicotine, making them useless to your body. It will hurt and you will be cranky. It will be worth it. Go buy the nicotine gum and chew it by the wadd until you get used to the idea that you chew gum, not tobbacco. Ignore the "reccomended dosage" at first, your body is used to a lot more. Then start paring it down. The gum is expensive, but it will be worth it in the long term if it helps you kick the habit, both in the savings from long term tobbacco use, and the health benifits. 10 years tobbacco free. 
You can do it. |
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I gave up dipping after many years. It is not easy but it is worth it.
Get some whole sunflower seeds and put a whole handful in your mouth. Cracking and spitting them helps give you something to do while getting over the nicotine. They come in a bunch of flavours too. I used the seeds and nicotine gum together and it helped. |
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I was up to 2 cans of Cope a day when I ran out and said screw it. The first week was the worst, then it gradually got better. I'd guess that was 10 or 12 years ago and still when I catch a whiff of someone chewing, especially Copenhagen, my mouth waters and I miss it.
I just keep thinking everyone has to die from something, but I'll be damned if I'm going to encourage it to be from cancer. My mother in law died from mouth cancer, four good men at work have died from mouth and/or throat cancer, and now my dad is fighting throat cancer day by day. You've never seen anything until you've seen someone eaten alive and left to die like cancer will do. |
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maybe this will motivate you more His name is Rick Bender no one likes a quitter
I need to quit. I've been dipping for 11 years and my gums and cheek have a permanent acidic taste. |
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Good luck to ya.
I went cold turkey about 13 years ago after close to 20 years of some sort of chew/snuff - mostly copenhagen. Yep, it sucked. I had dreams about dipping every few weeks for the first couple of years, so real I'd wake up pissed that I fell of the wagon - I could taste it real. I could put a pinch in right now, the craving never fully subsides, but my family comes first now. Maybe when I get old and broke dick I'll buy another can in my retirement years
Once you get passed that initial suck ass it's not too bad, just don't ever think you got it licked and try to sneak a little chew in. I did that the first time I quit after about 6 months of being clean and it was another few years before I quit again for good - thought I could have a little pinch from my buddy while fishing, I ended up buying a can on the way home. |
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I been dipping that Camel Snus shit for a week now trying to ween myself off Grizzle straight. Probably not the best way but when things got really bad the Snus saved the day. Hoping after a while I'll be able to quit the snus with less side effects than going cold off the straight and feeling like this dude ––->
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I dipped for a couple of years. About a can per day at the end.
Decided to make a large enough cash bet so that I would not lose. Won the bet. I think it's been two years now since I last dipped. It took a long time for the 'skin crawling' cravings to stop whenever I finished a meal, had a drink, etc. I seldom even think about it any more. TRG |
| Thanks for the support, about 11 hours without a single dip, the drive home was probably the hardest part. its not necessarily the physical withdrawl issues, its breaking the routine of getting in the car and grabbing a dip and cranking the tunes, that and i feel like i cant focus, its taken twice the normal time just to type this. well at least i no longer feel like killing people |
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Think of it like this: that buzzing, floating dizzy feeling you have right now, it's all that poison leaving your system. Welcome back to having clean blood running through your veins.
Quit myself 2 months ago cold turkey after dipping for many years. Stay strong and one more thing...... BBQ sunflower seeds. 
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Thanks for the support, about 11 hours without a single dip, the drive home was probably the hardest part. its not necessarily the physical withdrawl issues, its breaking the routine of getting in the car and grabbing a dip and cranking the tunes, that and i feel like i cant focus, its taken twice the normal time just to type this. well at least i no longer feel like killing people I recommend heading over to kill the can.org and read up. I quit just over a year ago after dipping for about 22 years. Don't use nicotine gum, patches, lozenges, or any of that shit, you don't need it. The only way to quit is to stop shoving that shit into your face. Find yourself some hooch fake dip or atomic fireballs, they really helped me. Good luck. |
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Who is stronger, the can or the man?
Did you become addicted to nicotine overnight? No. Try the patches. Get up, take a shower (so they stick), put one on. It WILL take the edge off. In fact, you will prob. be buzzing your ass off. Pretty soon, you cut the patches in 1/2. One day, you will forget to put on the patch. You have to fucking do it. Good luck. It's been 11(?) years for me. Life without tobacco is sweet. Who is stronger, the can or the man? Make us proud. |
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Forget the arfcommer who had a similar thread a few months ago - hope he's still strong.
I've had about 10 total dips since November. I keep a huge bag of sunflower seeds almost as constantly next to me as my Horace & Daniel (+ Carl). Keep it up, 2nd. We're all in it together. 
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I have bee chewing for about ten years now. Im not only doing it for my health but i need the extra cash. Its been a pathetic 8 hours so far, and i feel like i am going to rip someones head off for no reason, wish me some luck If you can make it the first two weeks, you will be on the downhill. After a few days, the worst is over, but it takes two weeks to really get in the groove. NEVER TOUCH A SINGLE DIP AGAIN< EVEREVEREVEREVEREVER!!!111!!!1!!!!!!!111! Trust me, I've quit 4 or 5 times. This last quit has been since the first week of January. I won't put another fat, delicious dip in again. I've thought I could, but you can't. Not even after six months. BTDT. Not after a year. BTDT.
ETA: cold turkey every time. And I chewed a can plus a day. The patch only matters physiologically for the first two weeks, anyway. It just draws out the agony. |
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The way I motivate myself is each can represents approximately a box of decent .223 FMJ. That is 7300 rounds a year for the can-a-day chewer. Funny you say that at work today i grabbed a permanent marker and wrote "AR-15" on the top of my left hand as an incentive to build a new one once i quit |
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I still can't get motivated to quit entirely.
When I first started as a teenager with loose leaf chew I set limits to how much I would use in a week and stuck to it. Now I mostly just bum a pinch off of friends when we're all drinking, but there are times when I'll buy a can. I've never done more than 1 can/bag per month in going on 9 years. I sort of think of it as an occasional pleasure like a cigar. Sometimes I still think I'd be better off to just stop though. I need to buy life insurance soon. |