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biggerred

12-23-2007 10:19:57

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When I joined the Army I smoked. To quit smoking so that I could get enough wind to run, I started dipping. Well that was 30 some odd years ago, and now the Doc at the VA says quit or have half of my face ane neck cut off. I guess that is a no brainer, but it doesent make it any easier to quit. Anyone have any helpful hints?

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GA Dave

12-25-2007 17:17:20

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to Iowa Bob, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

John M, I had the prescription filled three times, twelve weeks worth. I quit the Chantix at ten weeks because I was having trouble sleeping. I may just be one of the 40% it works for. Keep trying and good luck. David.

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Tx Jim

12-25-2007 04:18:49

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to Tramway Guy, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

I quit dipping over 3yrs ago cold turkey after dipping for 35 yrs. It was a little hard at first but if one makes their mind up it can be done. I get around friends that dip but I don't crave a dip. Hang in there. Tx Jim

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Paul N Texas

12-24-2007 09:38:12

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

I quit once for 3 months. Could not stand the human race. Ate Rolaids like candy. Bought a pack of Beech-Nut, and got immediate relief. 15 years later, I quit again. Humnan Race is still tough, but no Rolaids this time. It's been more than 3 months this time, and no problems other than I sometimes find myself reaching for my back pocket out of habit. I'm fortunate in that when I decide to do something I can. I gave up alcohol 20 years ago Feb '08. Not that I had too, just realized as a Paramedic, what it was doing to brain cells I might need to help someone else. Woke up after a night out with the wife, and said "I quit". She did too a month or so later. Still feel bad the next morning, but think that is from all the injuries as a Paramedic, and Cop....

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cat236

12-24-2007 00:21:52

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

I started chewing skoal at around 8-9 asked one of my buddies dads, I am 39 now.I could buy it when I was a kid real easy at a feed store near my house. When I was going in the Army and got my physical they said I would need surgery to repair my gums,never spit either and always ate adn drank with chew in,STUPID. Young and stupid, never stopped, or had gums repaired.All of my lower teeth are exposed,gums ar emostly black and hurts like crud when I put a dip in.I stopped a couple of years ago as Doc said it cant be helping with the fact my bladder no longer has a lining and intestines are in serious trouble.I quit until this summer a friend had a dip and I just tried it. I found it helped with the naseau from my illness,my health continues to decline and I figure I am not long for this world anyway,so might just enjoy some of it.When I did quit I found that Cold Turkey was the way to go I used sweetened flake cocunut to help deal with the physical loss.My muscles throughout my body felt as if they were in spasm and my irritability was terrible.You have all of my support in quitting and I wish you well.

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Lumpy

12-23-2007 19:55:24

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

Quit cold turkey! All it takes is will power. BUT!, you have to want to quit. I started when I was 11, now I'm 38. Jan. 1, 2007 was the last time I chewed. I work with 2 other guys who chew, so it wasn't easy. I have chewed alot of gum over the last year, but I'm glade I quit and the gum is a whole lot cheaper and healthier. You can do it, just think positive.

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D17 man

12-23-2007 19:47:29

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

all this talking about chewing is making me need one. good luck with quiting, thats somthing i need to work on

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D17 man

12-23-2007 19:46:41

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

all this talking about chewing is making me need one. good luck with quiting, thats somthing i need to work on

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GA Dave

12-23-2007 19:41:26

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to chrisalma, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

Never chewed but smoked for 48 years. Read a article about Chantix and having a doctors appointment that week I got a prescription. Took two 1MG pills for a week and kept smoking. Second week quit but slipped one every now and then. Third week quit compleatly. 4-1/2 months and not even one cigarette. I think this drug should work for chewers as it blocks the receptors in the brain. Worked for me so far. David.

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John M

12-24-2007 06:28:31

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to GA Dave, 12-23-2007 19:41:26

So did you have to go one to the next box of Chantix? Im on my third pack in the second box and as far as I can tell it is NOT working for me. I did the first back and still smoked, second pack I didnt completely stop, but cut back to maybe half of what I normally smoked, third pack I stopped completely but the cravings were bad, real bad. Since that pack, I have slowed down alot, but still smoke. I think my doctor may have explained it to me wrong or I misunderstood what he said, or something.

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mjbrown

12-23-2007 17:25:42

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

I read that they put ground glass in the dip to lacerate the membranes in your cheek so the nicotine get into your blood faster. Does that help.

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Garry in OK

12-23-2007 17:16:45

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

I quit smoking about 20 yrs ago by convincing myself I was tough enough to get through today but would have one tomorrow.

Also, tons of sunflower seeds, bubblegum, toothpicks and whole cloves helped. I still eat toothpicks and suck on the cloves, but my wife tells me it's a warped individual who enjoys the taste of cloves.

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7812

12-23-2007 16:36:05

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

There ain't nothing to quitting the chew. I've quit 1,227 times.

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ben brown

12-23-2007 16:26:15

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

i quite smoking about 4 years ago got up one morning decided it was time to quite been smoking sence i was 14. got up to burning 3, 4 pack a day. keep a pack in my left shirt packet . did that for about a mouth funny i been packing smokes in that pocket for so long just didn't seem right so now pack my cell phone in it. had a cartoon in my truck took a year for them to get smoked by my sisters kids, and me giving them away. like the one post below i said if i want a smoke i going to have one worked for me, havent had one sence and lot of my family still smokes though my trucks and houes are smoke free. now i didn,t tell any one i was ging to quit so no one was asking me how it was going . no pressure. it took a good year to realy see the results. well except for my wallet man saved a lota money. was traveling this fall and was in iowa. guy in front of me bough a carton of name brand smokes he got about 35 cents back from a fifty. when he went out the door i said to clark didn't realise how much money i been saving lady behind me said thinks for reminding me as she bought a carton.

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comfortking

12-23-2007 15:54:40

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

I started chewing Redman when I was twenty three as I worked for IDOT and most of those fellers chewed. I had smoked off and on for 5 years but could quit anytime I wanted. I told myself that chewing would be the same B-ll S--t. That chewing went to as much as 3 pouches a day when we were working 18 hours during farming or construction season. I tried to quit several times and a few times I got down to a pack a day and then it would happen, something stressful would come along and I would start at it full bore again. My oldest son drank a lot of soda at this time and he and the rest of my family was on my case to quit chewing. I issued him a challenge; He was to stop drinking pop and I would quit chewing, the game was on.
The first few days were bad as I had ever known. I felt like I was in slow motion and toxic at the same time. I kept a pouch in the house and I would squeeze a litte in my fingers and lick that when I could not stand it any longer after a week I was past this and that pouch stayed in the house for a year and I knew I could get it any time I wanted so I would not panic and think I needed it. I was not going to loose to a 17 year old boy and he like wise was not going to loose to the ole man. Six years come Dec 26th and I haven't chewd and he does not drink pop. I had dreams off and on for a couple years that I did take a chew and it was terrible because I let the family down, only a dream. I say make a bet with someone and have it so you can both win. I have been told since it is harder to stop chewing than to get off of many of the street drugs. Good luck

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T.K. in PA

12-23-2007 15:40:01

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

Good Luck to you!!

I dipped Copenhagen for 31yrs, tried to quit once. Worst 6 days of my life, I knew better than to try and quit at planting time.

Hope you make it.

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super99

12-23-2007 13:29:46

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

I hear ya, don't know a good way to quit. I started Red Man in 72, 25cents a pack. I said when it hit $1 a pack I'd quit. Then I said when it hit $2 I'd quit. Same at $3. Tried to quit a few times, made for a week once, had a relapse. I've tried gum, hard to find something that doesn't stick to my OLD partial plate, or it is too sweet and it gives me a tooth ache, and then I get to working it too hard and bite my lip or tounge. Know I need to quit, maybe when it hits $4.50. I'm not gonna chew anymore, But I'm not chewin any less either. Good luck, if you find something that works, please let us know. Chris

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Richard L

12-23-2007 13:23:21

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

I never dipped, I did smoke for 45 yrs. I was not allowed to smoke in the house for the last 20 years. I was having surgery on my foot and I would be in bed for about 3 days and in the house for about 2 weeks. I told my wife I would quit the day before surgery. She said "Yeah Right" day before surgery I was headed home from work. About a mile from the house I took the pack out of my shirt pocket and there were 5 cigarettes in the pack. Rolled the window down threw them out and said that is all. It is 3 years 2 months now. All I can say is make up your mind and stick with it. I had spent probably $300 on quitting the last 2 years before I did it my way.I had Hypnosis, acupuncture Quit smoking seminar, the pill, patches. I believe if it was out there I tried it. My wife always told me I would not quit until I was ready. Dang why is she always right? As that one commercial says DON'T QUIT QUITTING. You won't regret it.

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Tedoh

12-23-2007 12:27:28

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

Took what was hopefully my last dip four weeks ago today. Hasn't gotten much easier yet. I've chewed up a box of toothpicks and gained about 5 lbs, but I have alot of support at home. Maybe this time I'll make it. Good luck and Merry Christmas to you, Ted.

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Steven f/AZ

12-23-2007 11:21:16

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

Nicotine gum or patch... if you have the habit of needing something in your mouth and spitting they make some non-tobacco chew that is mint leaves or something.

Good choice to quit, but I'm sure you will have issues from doing it so long later on.

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Gun guru

12-23-2007 11:06:16

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

Chew gum. Have se# with girlfriend.

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Dan-IA

12-23-2007 11:48:21

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to Gun guru, 12-23-2007 11:06:16

I agree. I can't say I used chew, but I do know that I had a friend in college that smoked like a chimney. Then Jesse met Jeannette, and she hated it. So she jumped his bones anytime he was gonna head out for a stogie - we didn't see either one for about a week. Then all of a sudden he didn't smoke anymore.

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phillip d

12-23-2007 10:36:04

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Re: OT/ Quitting the Dip in reply to biggerred, 12-23-2007 10:19:57

If by dipping you are refering to chew or twist,did you try nicotene gum?

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