No more dip :) Thanks!

[expatpipe]

I think I finally made it. It's been hard but in a few hours I'll have quit chewing tobacco for one month! It made me crazy for a few weeks, antsy and irritable. But thanks to the pipe and focusing that energy on pipe smoking and learning more.. I've kept my mind off it. I chewed tobacco/ or dipped for over 20 years! And I mean from morning till night. This forum has been a lot of help distracting those cravings and it amazes me how much combined knowledge you all have. Thanks to everyone!

 

[hobie1dog]

Congrats, now get to smoking your pipe alot more. :clap:

 

[collindow]

Hey awesome! Always hard to get rid of an ingrained habit like that, and I'm sure everyone else on the forum is as glad as I am that you've managed to go so long and that we were able to help!

 

[krgulick]

Congrats. The long term habits are the hardest to break. Load up a pipe and celebrate the milestone.

 

[collin]

Congratulations! Not everyone can do that.

For many years if I wasn't eating or sleeping I had a dip of Copenhagen in my mouth.

Harder for me to quit dippin' Copenhagan than it was a fifteen year 2 1/2 pack a day Winston habit.

Hang in there, you're home free if it's been a month. Just don't EVER borrow a dip from someone just for old times sake,....never!
Aren't pipes and pipe tobacco so much nicer? :mrgreen:

 

[pstlpkr]

Just don't EVER borrow a dip from someone just for old times sake,....never!

The same goes for those trying to quit coughin' nails.
Congratulations on this magnificent milestone!

 

[expatpipe]

Thanks for the kind encouragement. There were a few times I actually considered putting pipe tobacco directly in my mouth, yikes. But, I got past that point thank goodness. Yes, from a young teenager to my time in the Infantry dip has always been a part of it/me. Nice to let it go and make a wiser choice.

 

[unclearthur]

Great news!!

 

[hfdpipe]

Dip to me is like what a chocolate cake is to a fat girl, bad news. Been 5 years for me, tins still catch my eye every time I fill up my tank as the gas station. Congrats on making a wise decision.

 

[archerdarkpint]

BB,
I can dig it. I chewed from the time I was 12 when I started with Redman or other leaf chew to Skoal then old brother Cope, habitually from 1981 til about 2001. And I mean habit.
Personally, I have not had a dip since the end of 2001, but it was not until a very close friend had a near cancerous experience that swore me off.
On that day, my maker and I had a conversation and there were some promises made, but I've been true. Sure, I've smoked cigarettes, pipes and cigars to allay the urge, but it was a strong pull. As a matter of fact, I dream about it some times and find myself running my tongue along my "dipping spots" and it's been hard, but possible. On top of it all, I've been free of cigarettes for the last five years, and that's also been a feat.
In the field, it was almost second nature since the dipping helped me to stay on point when others were fading and after I quit, running patrols or shooting at the range made it the hardest to time to fight the urge. It was not until I went cold turkey for eight months with no tobacco at all that I was able to pick up a pipe again without worry of a relapse.
I bet you could poll all those out there who dipped, and asked if they had a choice, and if the Great Creator came to them and assured a long life in spite of dipping,I bet they'd be quick to dip until the last days. But since it was so hard to quit, and reality being what it is, I fear and abhor a relapse because I never want to go through anything like that again; the quitting. It was rough.
Pipes keep it all in perspective. I enjoy nicotine, but after much effort and a lot of discipline, I have become the master and it's rare that I go out of my way for a pipe; it's just not the same as a cigarette or ever close to the flood of nicotine experienced from dip .
Good luck to you. Only you can quit...it's hard, but keep up the quitting and every day, it becomes a little bit easier and a little bit easier, and a little bit easier, and a little...

 

[bubbadreier]

Glad to hear my friend! Keep puffing on the pipe and remember that you have a support group here! (Even if all we do is tell you light up a pipe!)

 

[mastertech]

Way to go. I've used dip here and there, I used to be a cigarette smoker, and thanks to the pipe I haven't lit a cigarette in weeks now, and it has been much easier to give them up this time than in the past, probably because I still get a bit of vitamin N from the pipe. I use to use dip when I was some place that I couldn't smoke so I know a little bit about that stuff to. I have noticed that the Vitamin N that I get from the pipe stays with me a lot longer than with cigarettes, don't know why, or I suppose it could just be mental with me. A pipe is definitely more time consuming than cigarettes but it is also so much more fun and pleasurable, my only regret is that I didn't make the switch sooner. Anyhow congratulations on your quit, hopefully I'll make it a month and hopefully I (we) will make it much, much longer.
Alan

 

[pstlpkr]

A pipe is definitely more time consuming

Excellent observation. I can say that the 3rd anniversary of my last cigarette came and went without notice... until just now. (January 2, 2008)

Mastertech, that is one of the things that draws me to the pipe.

The sheer inconvenience of a pipe is something that I look forward too.

Unlike dip, snuff, and coughin' nails a pipe is by its nature a pain in the posterior.

And, the big 3 are far to convenience and easy.

There are just too many things that are easy these days.

 

[expatpipe]

Archer, I too started on the Redman and went straight to dip from there, A road march without dip is.. well, hell. Glad you kicked it and hope I can keep the same record as you.
Alan, hard to get rid of the N urge, but it is possible. We'll do fine!
So right Lawrence, nothing like working hard all day and then, reaching for my pipe in my locker as I'm walking to my car from the construction site. A feeling of "Earned" pleasure.