anybody quit chewing tobacco?

hoof print · Jan 24, 2012

Post below about smokes got me thinking again. I chew 2 cans of tobacco a day, and I believe I finally REALLY want to quit.

Anybody done it? I"d like to hear your story if you have.

I know quitting smokes and chew should be much the same, but with the ammount of nicotin you get from a chew I hear that there are some differences.

641Dave · Jan 24, 2012

I smoked in the army, got out and started dipping copenhagen until last year along with cigarettes. I got to where either or was fine with me as long as I was getting the nicotine.

Don't ask me what happened but last March I said the hell with them both and haven't had the urge since.

BigTone · Jan 24, 2012

I was at about a tin a day and loved it! I met a farm girl who grew up around it so she didnt mind, she didnt think it was nasty so I didnt quit when we first got together. After i proposed to her things changed, I grew up a little and realized that I wanted to be healthy and stick around for 50 or 60 more years instead of dealing with mouth/throat cancer, die, and leave the most important thing in my life, my family. so about 6 months before our wedding i went from skoal to grizzley to rooster, and i hated every moment of it, nothing compared to skoal so the enjoyment went down a little. I woke up on October 10, 2009 and threw away what ever i had left in my last tin. I married the greatest woman in the world that day and I have not bought a tin since. I did use the nicotene patch for about a month and then good old self control and will-power after that, best thing i could have done!

I wish you the best of luck my friend, and my only advice is you have to quit for something YOU believe in, and stick with it!

Tx Jim · Jan 24, 2012

I started dipping Copenhagen in 1967. The young man I was sharing rides to college with got me started dipping. I dipped to about 10 yrs ago. I quit "cold turkey" because I didn"t think it was helping my high blood pressure in any way plus I didn"t get the same "buzz" as when I first started.My friend that got me started died of lip cancer last year. I"m glad I QUIT DIPPING.

JDB · Jan 24, 2012

Qitting chew can be rough, quit several times in fact. The last time, I prayed that God would take away my cravings. About a month later, I caved in and bought a can, thought I was gonna die, puking, turning green, ect. Never looked back since. Find a reason to quit and do it. You will not regret quitting even though it may be rough for a while. Quit!

sheep tick · Jan 24, 2012

i quit for about two months a couple years ago,bummed a chew from my brother one day and been chewing since.i figured at my age and health i could fall over dead any second so why not enjoy your self.sstill chewing and drinking whiskey and enjoying life.. i dont think your going to live forever so enjoy.

TGIN · Jan 24, 2012

I smoked for yrs. and quit 10 yrs. ago . I quit chewin the same day I started !! Guy give me a dip out on the hay wagon on a hot day and it was like I just took a bite of a sawdust sandwich . did not think I was ever gona get all that out of my mouth , was sure glad to get back to the barn and the water hose .

JOCCO · Jan 24, 2012

For me its was bags of bech nut and whatever else was available. Started as a teen and quite off and on. Guess $11 a bag was the biggest factor. There was a bunch of us that did and we all quite guess it was a thing like smoking. It was not easy and will be hard if all you friends still do.

Rodney Middleton · Jan 24, 2012

Quit smoking 30 years ago should never have started . Took up copenhagen years later quit 2 years ago, all cold turkey. Lowered blood pressure 20 to 30 points. Only way to quit is man and quit. Rodney

Case e · Jan 24, 2012

Maybe this will help you quit!

Case e · Jan 24, 2012

Dont mean to be gross or cruel but this is a real possibility for you if you dont quit, best of luck, it wont be easy but you can do it!

Two Dogs · Jan 24, 2012

I dipped Copenhagen for about 20 years until it got too valuable. Then it was the cheap stuff for a few years. One day after I retired I woke up sick and lay around in the bed all day so could not dip. The next day I woke feeling fine and said to myself "you dummy, you didn't need that crap yesterday so what's different today?" It's been about four years now. Seldom even think about it. JUST DO IT!!. TDF

in-too-deep · Jan 24, 2012

I guess I'm a part-timer. On for a month or two, off for several months or more. Mostly start again during spring and fall fieldwork. I agree with the poster below about switching to a less tasty brand. It won't taste so good and after awhile you might not even like the taste. You could eventually get to that mint snuff...the herbal stuff. Never tried it, but atleast it would be something you could stick in your lip and pretend. I get scared when I think about one day looking at the inside of my bottom lip in the mirror and finding a little white spot. Cancer.

Dave in GA · Jan 24, 2012

I quit after the first time I tried it. Couldn't handle it.

Bruce from Can. · Jan 24, 2012

I chewed Redman or beach nut for at least 20 years,and spent the last few years trying to quit. Sounds kinda dumb, but it ain't as easy to quit as it was to start. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it even now, and I haven't had a chew in 5or6 years. Iquit in part because of the ridiculous price, and partly becuse my wife was always telling me I should. And she kept getting these ugly pics of poor buggers with advanced mouth cancer. So I started to chew a little less each day untill I could go without for a day or so. Sure I would back slide sometimes, but then I wouldgo back to quiting again. Still have a part of a pack in the one loader tractor cab.Don't recon I'll ever need it now but, when I was quiting I always new it was there, ahd I could go and get it if I lossed my battle of will power. Guess I have won now. Bruce

730 virgil · Jan 24, 2012

i quit smoking when one day after lighting up
and wondering what smelled so bad i got looking at my fingers and saw they were a pukey looking yellow.
i thought if my fingers look this what do my lungs look like i threw that one and most of a new pack out the car window.
skoal however was a different story i thought i would go nuts when i quit that that was 35 years ago.

Gene in Mi · Jan 24, 2012

I agree with Big Tone, you will quit when you are ready and find a reason to. I quit every morning for 20 years, and then one day I decided that I really did want to live as long as I could. That was it, cold turkey.

northvale · Jan 24, 2012

Apparently, chewing tobacco is used at a high level in Asian countries and leads to kidney & urinary tract cancer. Something not even mentioned in USA. I gave it up recently because of price and a weak kidney. But hey, Ibuprophin tears up kidneys, so I've quit that also.

Geo-TH,In · Jan 24, 2012

My brother did, after he died of cancer.

JayinNY · Jan 24, 2012

My friends father chewed, I wanna say redman or something in a pouch or bag for years then he had a heart attack and quit. My friend and I tried it, I wanted to puke it burnt my mouth so bad! But my friend started it and keep chewing until he got married, then he stoped, well he is now divorced and started chewing again!! Good luck to you.

Rollie NE PA · Jan 24, 2012

I chewed Redman for years and smoked Parodi cigars. I quit about ten years ago and never looked back. I was having alot of heartburn at the time. Also gave up alcohol at the same time. At the time if I drank 6 beers a week that was alot. With a CDL it is too risky. If I feel like a beer I have a Coors or Sharps NA and I am just as happy.

You can quit if you really want too.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 24, 2012

I chewed off and on for 25 years-I quit December 18th 2009, the day my dad was diagnosed with incurable stage 4 lung cancer.

Watashi · Jan 24, 2012

I dipped Copenhagen for almost 20 years and quit cold turkey October 16, 1997. Hard to believe it is coming up on 15 years. I had a cancer scare that helped me quit. When you are READY to quit it is easy to do.

pat sublett · Jan 24, 2012

I smoked 3 to 4 packs a day until 1967. Like they say it's easy to quit, I quit every day for 15 years. I started on copenhagen when I quit smoking. I quit dipping in 1983. I learned that you can not gradully quit and it is not wise to trade one habit for another habit. My advise to you is quit now.

Paul from MI · Jan 24, 2012

July 30, 1987, 3:00p.m.---last smoke I had after 25 year of smoking a pipe. Not easy, but I just didn't enjoy smoking anymore. The only way to quit is QUIT!

ShepFL · Jan 24, 2012

Listened to my Dad hack his head off every morning due to bare a$$ Camels. Swore I would never smoke - tried it and swore it off.

Been chewing tobacco since 10 and now 50. Working on quitting now as it just to dang $$. Copenhagen for many yrs. past 2 yrs it has been Husky Natural fine cut. Closest I could find to Cope.

Only really get the craving when outside doing strenuous work or at deer camp.

bingo · Jan 24, 2012

Smoked for 40 years, got bladder cancer 15 yrs. ago, Drs. said it was caused from smoking, told me to quit, kelp right on smoking for another 4 yrs. finally made up my mind to quit, took up chewing, just swapped one bad habit for another, at this time we owned 3 tobacco stores, got free samples from reps, all time, went for yearly check up, found I had a heart mumur, stopped chewing 7 years ago, yes its hard to do I could take a chew as big as my fist right now just wont. Stopping using tobacco didn"t lower BP one bit, still high today. You can quit, just make up your mind and stick to it, don"t ever take that first chew, you will be right back on it.

03machstock · Jan 24, 2012

I was only about 2 cans a week for 3 years, told myself i would quit and did, cold turkey. All about mental toughness. I relise i was not as bad as most of you in quantity per day, but the longer you wait the harder it will be.

NW Ohio Tim · Jan 24, 2012

I quit chewing Skoal about 11 years ago. I had chewed for close to 20 years and was up to 2 cans a day.

I used mint flavored Nicorette gum. It's not rated for chewing tobacco so I freehanded it. It was expensive to buy, but a buck or two cheaper than the Skoal for a weeks worth, so it was OK.... Skoal was cheaper back then too, Nicorette is about the same price as it was back then. Anyhoo....

There were two levels of Nicorrete, get the one with the highest dosage of nicotine you can get.

For me, I just started chewing the gum when I'd get an urge for a dip. Alot of times, you just do it out of boredom, so pop a piece of gum in instead of a dip. For the times you really miss it, like after a meal, go ahead and have a pinch of tobacco. I knocked myself down to less than a can a day right off the bat.

After a couple days, start trying to give up the "needed" dips. I replaced tobacco with Nicorette after one meal a day.... then another after a week or so. Within a month, I was down to only needing a dip of snuff first thing in the morning and right before bed.

Got the morning one kicked, and prolly went for a month before I gave up the bedtime one. I finally did it though.

Then I was addicted to the gum, but it was better for me than the snuff, and cheaper so I just chewed it for a couple months. I slowly started weaning myself off the gum with regular chewing gum.

I'm guessing it took me 6 months, start to finish.... I chewed regular gum like a crazy man for about two years, but I finally weaned myself off that after awhile too.

I still get a random urge every once in awhile, but it goes away as quick as it hits.

When I started chewing Skoal, I think it was 35 cents a can, when I quit it was just over $2. I think it's close to $4 now. That's incentive enough for me to stay off.

Good luck, I'm pullin' for ya!!

Tim

Used-to-be-iowa-dave · Jan 25, 2012

Was can-a-day for over 20 years. Was always going to quit on some big, momentous occasion: getting out of Navy, wedding day, various graduations or promotions, birth of a child (twice), anniversaries, birthdays...got tired of expense, the way it ran my life, lying to my wife. Finally quit on a Tuesday, maybe 8 years ago. A coworker was quitting and I felt guilty doing it around him. Go figure why that was more important than any of the above...whatever, just glad I'm done with it. Cold turkey. Sucked, but there was no other way for me...if I had any nicotene I wanted "all" the nicotene. Get through the first 24 hours and it gets easier, but I had night sweats, dreams. It was weeks before I realized I had really quit and was going days at a time without thinking about it. Felt good then. I hope you can find your "Tuesday" my friend; nothing momentous, just a quiete voice inside that's really you and not the addiction that says, "now and never more"...God's grace to you always.

cannonball · Jan 25, 2012

I quit in 1984, was chewing 3 packs or plugs a day..An old man had got me thinking, when I offered him a cut of day's work and he just cut a small piece off, I said is that all you want? He said yep anymore is too rough on him..I was taking about half a plug at a time. Got to thinking about what he said and was wondering what it was doing to my body along with the cost, I quit cold turkey. Carried a pack of red man in my pocket and cannot remember how many times I was talking and reached into my pocket and pull it out to get a chew before I thought about what I was doing...wore a hole in the package of red man and finally quit carrying it.. just remember one thing....I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me....worked for me... I would say to anyone go for it, what do you have to loose?

Jeff IA · Jan 25, 2012

I quit about 20 years ago (Skoal). I'd do ok for a few days or week or so, then buy another can, take one dip, get mad at myself and throw it out. Did that a few times, as I recall, before finally quitting. Wintergreen lifesavers got me by for a long time. I occasionally have a dream about having a dip, even after all this time.

Do it, you wont regret it. Good luck. Make it happen.

Ron in Nebr · Jan 25, 2012

While I don't doubt what anyone says, I chew Copenhagen myself, I just can not IMAGINE how anyone can got through a can of chew in a day, much less two or more cans???

I put a chew in when I get up in the morning and, other than mealtime, have one in all day until I go to sleep at night(sometime even fall asleep without spitting it out). And I average a can a week. Now- I don't spit(maybe that's it?), until it gets old and loses all it's flavor, then I might spit it out and put a new one in...othertimes I just "refresh" and put a pinch in on top of whats there. Usually once every 30 minutes or so...

Just always seemed to me that anyone going through chew so fast they use a can or two a day would about have to be spitting out alot of good chew?

On the original topic- I did quit for a year several years ago. Pure misery for several weeks....wish I wouldn't have started again, but I did...gonna have to quit all over now.

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