quitting the chew

[oldmud]

YOU CAN DO IT, YOU ALL CAN DO IT!!! I QUIT 3 YEARS AGO AFTER 51 YEARS OF SMOKING, COMEON YOU CAN DO IT!!!

Don

[26blackwatch]

I'm like admin.Smoke, Chew, Smoke, Chew, Smoke and chew.I am trying to give them both up now.Started taking a pill my mom took.I will let you know how it goes.But if it works for me like it works for her your gold!!!!!!!!!

[Admin]

I'm like admin.Smoke, Chew, Smoke, Chew, Smoke and chew.I am trying to give them both up now.Started taking a pill my mom took.I will let you know how it goes.But if it works for me like it works for her your gold!!!!!!!!!

For those who have never tried it hands down the nicotene patches work. Sorry forgot to mention this.

Biggest problem is mental but that patch stops the craving

[nauti dog]

Breel,
Keep up the good work. They say it is mind over matter.............if you dont mind it dont matter. For me it mattered. I just got head strong and fought it with my mind instead of trying to replace it with somthing else. No matter what you try to replace it with it will never be the same. Let's face it i was not afraid of the negative affects of the habbit i would still be chewing. As gross as it was I enjoyed it. Face the craving head on. If anyone tells you it will go away they are full of shit. Once a chewer always a chewer. Good luck...........i am with you brother. If I did't fear losing my face i would still be sucking on the Copenhagen.

[HoosOnDeck]

thanks for starting this thread.

i hadn't been considering quitting chew until i started reading.

i took my first dip of Copenhagen when i was 12 and honestly there has not been a single day in the last 16 years i've been without.

i grew up around tobacco farms and it was encouraged. i've played and coached baseball since i was 3 so i'm constantly surrounded by the stuff. I switched to Kodiak in the late 90's and watched the price go from $2.09 a can up to $4.65 (cheapest in the area, i know my stores).

hell, i dont even spit any more when i'm on the boat. sunflower seeds are a definate no-no (hulls get everywhere and are a pain to clean). On the ballfield i feel out-of-uniform with out a dip.
Those two scenarios being said, imagine how hard it is to consider quitting when well over 300 days a year i spend either on a boat, a ballfield, or even both on some days.

good thing is, my oldest nephew, (13) thinks it is absolutely revolting, and he fishes and plays ball too. the hook isn't in him yet and i remind him constantly to leave it alone.

wish me luck, i might be starting to maybe consider thinking about the possibility of the chance of planning to intend to devise a scheme to prepare to maybe quit.

[Reel Jule]

If you never used smokeless tobacco on a regular basis, you may think this thread is a little disgusting. And you would be right.
I, like most of you guys started chewing at a young age. I grew up on a tobacco farm, tobacco was our way of life. Wouldn,t have to buy it, just go to the barn & help yourself. Then came the Levi or Red man. From the time I got up to late in the evening I was chewing. We all know & think of the risk. We all tell oursleves we can stop if we want to - we say 'Well its not as bad as smoking' - we actually really enjoy it - it makes the day go by easier - it gives us something to do. Then you start realizing you're still chewing even when it makes you sick - when your not enjoying it - when you have bad heartburn, when...when...when... And you know you should quit.
Some people use the excuse and say they can't quit because they are addicted to it.
In my opinion its a habit. One I did for 32 yrs. I would stop for weeks, months & once close to a year at a time. It was always on my mine. It would only take seeing someone else chewing, or offering it to me or just buying that one pouch and I was back at it again.
Then one day I had enough. I had a good friend who use to smoke cigarettes, then went to leaf, then went to small cigars thinking it was safer. The last time I saw him before he past away he lost his tongue & his right cheek. The doctors had transplanted a part of his butt to his face and his lip.
After seeing that and thinking how much I mean to my wife and my kids and how prescious life is......I said ENOUGH.
From that day until now, five & one half years later, I have had no desire to use tobacco. NONE
My only regret is not stopping sooner, because the fear of cancer never goes away.
Its not worth it guys, STOP before its to late. Your family will thank you.

[tolmaz]

well...I cant imagine rigging without it.. i smoked for 15 years or so and just quit. Havent touched it since...but now mint skoal...right now I gotta have it. i stop dippin for about a year when I spent alot of time on the road. Only thing to do in a car for 5 hours a day are eat, smoke or chew.. i picked chew..that was about 5 years ago..still doing it..