Quit chewing tobacco

[KySongDog]

I've actually said that same thing to myself Semp. It's also going to come with a helluva price.

I know what you are saying, Jim.  I don't have the tobacco addiction, my biggest problem is I am fat.  At 6'1" and 275 lbs I know I've got to lose weight before the big one hits but, like you, I have a hard time getting motivated.   I lose weight for awhile and then gain it right back.   

[Bopeye]

Wow!! What a motivational thread. Didn't know we had so many quitters in this bunch. 

I started dipping Copenhagen at 10 years old. I was living in Gillette Wyoming and my 9 year old girlfriend got me started. I've quit a couple of times. I was quit for two years again until this October. Got the urger real bad and a buddy of mine offered me a dip at that same exact moment. He had been doing that to me for two years just because I had quit it.
I grabbed the can and popped a dip in my mouth. He was shocked! I told him I would just dip that one and then wouldn't have anymore. That evening I bought my own can after work. Now every time he sees me pop in a dip he almost cries telling me how sorry he was that he offered it to me. It's NOT his fault, it was mine and I tell him so. I've been entertaining the thought of quitting again, since I saw this thread come up.

Between gaining and losing weight, high blood pressure since I was 19, and using tobacco, I know my days will be numbered.

My dad said to me the other day as I was helping him get around, "James, I was looking at some pictures of myself when I was your age. You are aging a whole lot faster than I did. Does that mean your heart surgery will be taking place in the next few years or am I going to have to bury my own son? If I do, I will never forgive you."
Kinda made me gulp real hard, because I sure didn't know what to say.

Ordered that dang P90X stuff and going to see if it works. My brother uses it. He's about 5'10", 180 lbs. now and ripped. It's working for him. We'll see if some of my motivation can come back. I wish the best for all of you quitting as well. 

[iahntr]

I might as well jump in here too. I chewed different times throughout the years, but smoking was my big one.
I don't remember the first  cigarette I smoked, but it was at quite an early age. Started swiping them from
my dad, then on to buying them outta the machine at my buddy's dad's gas station, you know, no behind the counter,
show me your ID,,,, just stick your change in the machine and pull the lever and as soon as they fall out the bottom,
grab em, stick em down your pants, hop on your bike and off to the shelter house, or down to the creek.   
Oh the fond memories.   
But seriously, six years ago I decided it was time to hang it up. After 25 plus years of doin it, I gotta say it wasn't the easiest
thing to do, and as dumb as it sounds, I still enjoyed it most of the time, but I had made up my mind I was going to quite.
It's true, you have to be the one to make up your mind to do it, nobody can do it for you, but, as others have said,
many times others, especially family members, are the biggest motivation behind it. We wanna be around for them as long as we can. 


Now I do enjoy smokin a few cigars now and then,,, but I don't inhale. 

[JohnP]

Everybody needs a support system to help them get through this addiction.  I would suggest using this thread as part of your support.  Everytime you get the urge log on, if at home, and talk to us.  We'll surely help ya through it.  Who knows maybe you'll be around for a few more fur seasons....that would be nice. 

Bobeye, I hope your dad's comments struck home.  If'n I had to bury one of my kids I know it would kill me as I'm sure it would him. 

[HaMeR]

I know a man that buried 2 Sons in less than 3 months. We all knew Blaine was down to his last year or so but when Darrell passed shortly thereafter everybody was stunned. Neither deaths were alcohol or tobacco related. John's post made me think about how hard it would be to have to bury a child at any age.

Bopeye-- I'm a quitter too!!    20 years ago next month!! Never hit the tobacco in any way ever in my Life but I sure knew my way around a bar!!  Alcohol free now for nearly 20 years. 

[weedwalker]

I thought I was going to have to quit dippin' last week. I was working in Jersey and ran out of my stash 2 days before I was due to come home. They sell cigaretts everywhere there, but apparently dippin' ain't to popular. I couldn't find a can of dip anywhere. I was starting to panic.   Then I finally found a dusty old pouch of Red Man in a gas station that held me over till I got the heck out of that state.



I might have a slight addiction.

[pitw]

I might have a slight addiction.

[msmith]

I started sneaking my grandpa's Redman and my uncle' Levi Garret when I was 7. Done that off an on til I was about 12 and started buying my own Beechnut from time to time. Back then if you could reach the counter and put the money up there, you took it home. By the time I was a junior in high school, I had gone through all of it, Levi Garret, Beechnut, Mail Pouch, Happy Days (I liked the raspberry), Work Horse, Gold River, Skoal, and ultimately Cope. I had tried to quit several times and in 1997, I was 33 years old, I hung it up cold turkey shortly after the Big Dawg was born. No substitutes or anything, just quit. However, even after 13 years, I could take a can of Cope out of the freezer right now, open it up and take a nice big juicy dip and enjoy it ever so much. I would probably get very sick and dizzy now though. It's not one day at a time anymore, but things like this thread get me thinking about it and I get the urge. Like Semp and HaMeR, I could pound down the cold ones too. Shortly after I got out of the Navy, I hung the Coors Light longnecks up too. Church helps a lot to get over the urges. Not that they offer support because most of them don't even know, but just the fact that there would be a LOT of people very disappointed in me as well as my family, makes it so easy to avoid the urges.

Good luck guys! You can do it.