Quit Chewing Tobacco

Day one, here it goes. Does anyone have any tips?

...I could sure use some.

-startingnew89

I’ve chewing for 16 yrs and currently at a can a day. Teeth are yellow, gums + lip hurt. Need to stop before this $7 a day habit kills me.

Quit date is 1/12/09.

Wish me luck.

I stoped chewing on new years day, I have chewed for 15 years, the last two years I was going through two cans a day, ya I know thats insane, not to even mention all the money i was spending, but I,m holding strong, where theres a will there is a way.

I started dipping when I was 18 and being 20 and just turned new year figured I’d try not to dip in 2008 as a fresh start on new year and I never really made resolutions. It’s worked so far but it gets tough when I go do an activity that I related to the times with dip. Only thing I found is some smokey mountain herbal chew w/ no tobacco and no nicotine but still nothing like the real stuff if anyone has other substitution ideas let me know please.

I’m not a religious man, but THANK GOD I GOT THIS MONKEY OFF MY BACK!!!!!!
Never again will I put that CRAP in my mouth!
Never again will I PAY the bastard tobacco companies to give me cancer!!!

If you use tobacco, QUIT!!!

I had a tooth pulled about four weeks ago. It was not related to my chewing habit of some twenty years. I was in a lot of pain for the first few days and didn’t have any chew. I figured this would be a good springboard to quit. So it’s been somewhere between four and five weeks for me.
I’ll tell ya, it’s real hard when doing something that you used to do while chewing, like gaming, playing the piano, etc.
I think I made it passed the hard part now comes the reconditioning.

Good luck to anyone trying.

I have not used tobacco for 78 hours.
The support group www.quitsmokeless.org is the most effective assistance to breaking your drug addiction that I have come across in the 25 years that I have been an addict. (Do not fool yourself, if you use tobacco you are a drug addict.)
It is even more effective than the patch or gum.
I feel more confident about quitting than I have in the 25 years since I started using nicotine.

I’ve been checking out (and I joined) quitsmokeless.org
It looks like a useful support and help for quitting.
Nov 25—-counting down the days.

I have been using dip since about 1981.
In 2002-2003 I quit for over 1 year, but a death in the family stressed me to the extent that I started again.
I have always taken good care of my teeth (other than using tobacco), but my gums have receded WAY back from my teeth. Sometimes I pull back my lips in the mirror and wonder what’s holding my teeth in!
November 25th is my wifes birthday and I will try again to quit. I think I will use the patch, it helped a lot in 2002.

I sit here writing this because I put a chew in. Dohhhh. I wanna quit, so I looked this up on the net. So, I’ll now look into all of this and see what I can learn.

Peace. Timitsoo