I thought about putting this thread somewhere else but, this is where most everyone congregates. I stopped smoking about 10 months ago. Yeah don't clap your hands yet. I started dipping instead. I had thihabitit a while back and had stopped it to start smoking and then back. I had said at thbeginningng of the season I would stop dipping also. Well, 3 weeks ago I woke up to an empty can of dip and thought well, this is as good a time as ever to just not buy more and stop. I hit the woods without a can in my pocket or a spit bottle in my pack. I sat for 4 hours and didn't even think once about it. later that day I did fold and smoked cigaretteet. I ended up smoking a few throughout the day and one Sunday morning. Thcigaretteet I had Sunday morning made me sick. That was it, I had had enough of it. All of it. So as of tomorrow morning at 8am, it will be 3 weeks. Now don't get me wrong, I have had my moment. Even a couple of days to be honest. It was hard at first, very hard. I had cravings as would anyone who has been using nicotine for 15 years but and emigrainerain head aches. The sweets cravings have been through the roof and that dazed feeling you get after not having nicotine has been pretty bad at times with spaced out moments for days on end. I have done something I thought may help. I stopped going iconvenientient stores. I know this sounds a little strange but, really I have not been insidconvenientiant store but, 2 times since and that was in the past couple days. How has this helped? This is where most people buy their nicotine, well, where I did anyways. By not going in I haven't had a big poster of Grizzly looking me in the face from behind the lady ringing me up. At this point my cravings are gone, no headaches, I still want sweets somenothingpthing like I did before, my mood swings are gone and my mouth feels and smells so much better. Top that off with the deer don't smell wintergreen every time I have to spit (not saying that keeps them away) there is much less movement from my stand now and I don't get mad when I realize I left my can at the house. Add to that my pocket is $60+ a month heavier. What was the point of this thread, well, if it encourages one person out there reading this to stobaccoing tabaco product, its done what I wanted it too. If you want to stop using, do it/ Let us know through this thread how you are doing and what is bothering you. Use it to vent about how you feel. Recomendations for those quiting or thinking about it. Just thought this might help.
Good for you Stick! I stopped a year and a half ago and it wasn't easy. I still get cravings once in a while but i feel so much better than when i smoked.
Good post man. I've been dipping for a long time, probably since I was 17 or so (33 now). I have been on this kick for the last couple months of stopping and really want to. I did leave my can at home once this past fall when I hit the woods and just about went nuts. It's hard. What really gets me, is over the summer, I did quit. I switched to an herbal snuff for a while, thinking that would help me through the nicotine cravings, then quit using it too. Well, it did really help, but for some reason, I ended up buying a can of real stuff and haven't stopped since. I have two cans left and I really, really want that to be my last two cans. I'm going to go back to the herbal stuff. I've found that its not really the nicotine that gets to me, its just having something in my lip. I want to kick this stupid habit once and for all.
I quit on my 23rd birthday, Had chewed a can of copenhagen long cut a day for almost 5 years. Decided that for my birthday i would quit chewing. Did it, have had one dip since then. Still get cravings every now and then. In fact just thinkin about having 1/4 of a can of cope in my mouth kinda made me want one. lol But Not having head aches, and feeling miserable all the time is great! Its been seven years w/o for me now! You got it muzzy man, lay it down and never pick it up again! merry christmas everybody! be blessed, Andrew
Been 4 months without junk tucked into my lip. Still very hard to resist, specially after a large meal.
With me it is having something to do with my hands, after a meal and while doing things or working on things. Today my brother and I cut the tounge off a small trailer and extended it. While we were doing it the craving hit me for a split second. It quickly went away though. It is hard and I can't say it will be easy but, you have to push through and just resist. Once you make it so far its like you hit the peak of a mountain then down the other side. When you do quit, just push through. Use the determination you use while hunting. Like when you go weeks without seeing a single deer but, still get in the stand. You go up and down throughout a hunting season. Quitting is kind of like that. you have highs and lows until you break through. Its kind of like chasing that buck and the kill is kind of like making it through the withdrawals. You have bad days, good days, bad moments (like dropping your pack out of the stand), good moments (like having 5 deer at 15yd for 30 min) then the break through (you arrow that big guy) and it was all worth it.
Never tried it and never will, but I come from a family that does smoke. I try to help each one of them as much as I can when they decide it is time to quit. Congratulations on your determination to quit and I'm glad to read that is working out for you. It is a very tough thing to overcome.
Sticknstrings & Muzzyman I smoked for 36 years and am from a family of smokers. I chewed playing semi pro ball as a catcher too.One game I took a bad bounce into the goin and I swallowed the whole can and just about died that day. Never chewed again. Have a few friends that are less a lip due to chew too. Disgusting stuff,truly a drug and the smoking was and is a drug. I tried to quit for 20 years and have quit now for 15 years. Just last summer while driving I reached into my pocket on my t-shirt looking for my smokes. My wife asked if I was on crack or what? I said what, LMAO. The cravings do go away but the smell will always lure your thoughts and that scense of just a drag will always entice you too. Don't go there and don't think that a cigar won't drag you back into the relm either ,cause it only leads back to the filthy habit that we all would like to go away! 8 years ago at elk camp I was bbquing super and yelled to my partner to pass me a smoke ,he came out of the trailer and asked what I was smoking,LMAO, again just the habit thing. Take a deep breath and it's gone. Good luck to the both of you and may God take away those urges. Rocky
Quitting smoking and dipping was the hardest thing I ever did. I'm smoke free for 35years and dip free for a year. When I quit smoking I had smoked for seven years and was smoking over two packs a day. I started dipping to quit smoking and quit dipping a year later. Back a few years ago a friend enticed me with some dip and I was back on it for two years. A little voice in my head would say I'll just have one drag or one dip it won't hurt then I would start all over again. Then that same little voice would say to me you screwed up you shouldn't have done that LOL. I must have quit a hundred times.
Im a life time dipper, and really stepped it up after actually stopping smokeing for good 3 years ago. I can go all summer without a dip but as soon as I step in the woods I want one. I havent dipped in a couple of weeks, and really want to quit. But just the thought of being in the woods makes me want some Griz! its hard man.
I started smoking in High School then dipping. dipped a can of Kodiak a day in HS and college. Quit smoking in College and dipped all the time. I quite for a year, started up, quit for two years, started back up. Went to the dentist about 6 years ago and while getting my teeth cleaned the lady said my gums were "pre-cancerous". Just the word cancer scared the hell out of me. I quit on the spot 6 years ago and haven't chewed since. I will never dip or smoke again, absolutely hate them both now.
It is very hard. I know many people over the years that have said stuff like "why don't you just quit that stuff". When I tried to tell them how hard it is, they just don't get it. I have heard it said that it is harder than crack to quit. I believe it. If nothing else it is so easy to get your hands on it. Most of te time we are only a few minutes away from being able to access it. If you haven't in a couple weeks, the hard part is almost over. Well, it will never be completely over but, the urges will not be as bad. You can do it!! Just push through like you would a bad season. Just keep going and don't let it get to you. Ignor it, think about something else. The feeling of wanting a dip will leave after a few minutes. If you really want to do it, you can!! If nothing else think about what bad could come from it.
I have tried to quit a few times dipping now but i guess i truely dont want to yet. I say it every hunting season, after the season i'm done. I am just so used to doin it with certain things. Working outside, before and after hockey games, hunting, and the worst one of all DRINKING. I cant go 3 beers without a dip it sux. Ive only been dipping since 09 but maybe I need my dentist to tell me something like troutking said...AHHHHH jeff your bottom jaw is going to fall off...Hopefully I never hear that!!!
I tried for years to quit smoking with no sucess! It took me getting a Woman pregnant for me to go cold Turkey 21 years ago and havent looked back since! Now I cant stand the to be around someone smoking!
I want to quit dipping eventually, but now is not the time because I know Im not mentally ready. I still like having a chew! I go through phases with it, and Im sure in a few months Ill be in a "I hate dipping" phase. Started when I was 16 and Im 26 now. I was chewing a can every 2-3 days for a few years, and over the past 2 years, a can typically lasts me 1-3 weeks, so nowhere near as bad as it could be.
Been quit foe almost two years but did it for 8 years. It was so hard but promised myself when my baby was born that was it and I did it and never dipped since. I just think of my son having to bury me because of my habit.
Quitting is the easy part.Staying quit is when it gets rough. I've been dipping since I was 13.I'm 42 now. Started smoking 22 years ago on top the dipping,but I only smoked at work.July 6th of this year they gave me my walking papers and I've not even wanted a smoke since. Cope on the other hand,is a whole nother ball game.The last time I tried to quit that,I made it a week before the wife went and bought me can. I've got 2 can of Copenhagen long cut left ( I get 2 1/2 days out of a can ).I've stocked up on mint candy and I'm gonna try to quit again.Hopefully with the mint candy,I can at least tame the mood swings long enough to get it done this time around.
I've quit smoking... a few times. The longest was 7 years. Don't ask. LOL Anyway, I quit 6 and a half weeks ago. Not only do I feel a whole lot better.... but I'm becoming rich. LOL Here in NY a pack of smokes is 9 dollars and change. I would lite a cigarette, take a couple puffs and throw it away. Everyone used to ask me, why do you bother, you don't even smoke half the thing. Well I did really to the tune of a pack and a half a day. So do the math, a pack and a half times 10 dollars a pack is about 15 bucks a day. I just found $450 a month. LOL
I quit smoking in March of 2002, havent looked back and havent had one since. I still get cravings however, but they pass pretty quick. Hang in there !!!