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HoosierRed14 Enthusiast

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heard the hooch was good stuff I can't buy it here we have that smokey mountain crap that stuff sucks the mint finally was the one I liked Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

i have to buy it online.......not too bad priced, buy a roll of 6, shipped ~$25 i think

SnakeEyeSS Senior Enthusiast

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Long term way, keep using, until you get cancer and they have to remove your jaw. Problem solved!

 

This almost happened to my cousin. He had some cancer in the throat from the stuff and they thought they were going to take part of his tounge or jaw for a while.

 

Hilarious part? He decided to use after he watched our grandma have a pretty rough death from lung cancer( I personally saw her hack up a tar covered chunk of lung). Watching that at a young age is what kept me far away.

scz71864 Enthusiast

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real simple for me. i just stopped buying it, dealt with the withdraws until it was gone

idnative1948 Enthusiast

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Did you ever get depressed while you were on Chantix? That is one of the side-effects that hit me bad so quit the damn stuff and went cold turkedy.

 

 

 

I've been chewing since I was 12 and I'm 51 now. I quit for three years using a drup like Chantix and it worked. I was using about a 2 cans a week when I quit. I fell off the wagon (after an extremely stressfull day) about two years ago and now I chew 3 times as much as I did before I quit. So I don't know if it was worth it now. I know its not good for me but I'm just happier using it. I know its stupid but when I quit using Chantix I didn't have the cravings but I just couldn't shake the depression that goes along with not having something to look forward to.

j-ten-ner Senior Enthusiast

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I quit smoking almost 2 years ago. Cold turkey.

I don't know how much of an addiction chewing is but I think the best way is cold turkey too.

 

I smoked cigarettes for 28 years. One to two packs a day.

What made me quit was not for health reasons or the money.

No, I did the math and realized that in 28 years I've worked a whole year just for cigarettes.

 

I certainly wanna live another 28 years but certainly do not work another year just for cigarettes.

 

In the aftermath if I had known how easy it was to quit I'd have done it 28 years ago.

 

so long

j-ten-ner

nibael Enthusiast

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i dipped for 17 years. got a lump in my throat and went to the doctor. they found cancer. removed my tonsils and some lymph nodes. i have a scar from my adams apple to behind my ear. I have chemo treatments every two weeks now, they make you feel horrible. needless to say i have quit dipping cold turkey. i am 39 years old. i wouldn't wish this sh*t on anybody. everyone who dips, smokes or chews should stop immediately.

Coffeehound Enthusiast

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Did you ever get depressed while you were on Chantix? That is one of the side-effects that hit me bad so quit the damn stuff and went cold turkedy.

 

 

 

I've been chewing since I was 12 and I'm 51 now. I quit for three years using a drup like Chantix and it worked. I was using about a 2 cans a week when I quit. I fell off the wagon (after an extremely stressfull day) about two years ago and now I chew 3 times as much as I did before I quit. So I don't know if it was worth it now. I know its not good for me but I'm just happier using it. I know its stupid but when I quit using Chantix I didn't have the cravings but I just couldn't shake the depression that goes along with not having something to look forward to.

 

I guess it wasn't Chantix that I used but it was something like it. Its called Welbutrine (spelling??) and it worked. I had no cravings but I did still have the depression. By depression I mean like, for example, I used to look forward to having a chew and going outside to work on the yard or whatever, but when I quit I didn't have the cravings but then I didn't feel like going outside to work on the yard. I know...stupid right? But thats how my head works or at least how the nicotine trainied my mind. Thats the part I couldn't shake.

 

Welbuterin works but I think they quit perscribing it for nicotine addiction now though.

KARNUT Senior Enthusiast

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Quit smoking 18 years ago, cold turkey miss it still. you will get real mean hate every thing. Just prepare yourself for that and quit. Oh yea and put on thirty pounds, now on weight watchers, always something.

'01LS1 Senior Enthusiast

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Quit smoking 18 years ago, cold turkey miss it still. you will get real mean hate every thing. Just prepare yourself for that and quit. Oh yea and put on thirty pounds, now on weight watchers, always something.

 

Knew a guy that quit smoking cold turkey, gained the thirty pounds & started smoking again 3 or 4 years later. Retained the 30 pounds too...

 

Am sure between the pc world of today, gubermint insurance along with more taxes, tobacco of any sort will all but be outlawed in the next 5 years.

j-ten-ner Senior Enthusiast

j-ten-ner

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...Am sure between the pc world of today, gubermint insurance along with more taxes, tobacco of any sort will all but be outlawed in the next 5 years. ...

...or just replaced by "medical" marijuana.

 

:rolleyes:

so long

j-ten-ner

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Grumpy Bear Senior Enthusiast

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I smoked for 35 years. One to five packs a day depending on my mood an stress level. Chewed only a few. Clean now 6 years. Like you Chris, depression kept me away form Chantix but I tried EVERYTHING they sold and quit twenty times a day for over five years. I finally dawned on me one day that I would never be able to quit a habit by replacing it with another habit that contained the same additive ingredient I was trying to quit! Call me slow. :sigh:

 

I'd done it often enough to know the discomfort of the withdrawal so warned the wife that for the next four days I wasn't going to be a very nice person. :rolleyes: (some say I'm still not) 

 

I made myself a promise that I would not turn 60 as a smoker. So at age 59 - 364 days - 23 hours - 59 minutes and 59 seconds I put out my last smoke, tossed my tin, lighter, ash trays, rolling papers and so on and went to bed. 

 

I took allot of showers the next three days. Hard to smoke in the shower. Prayed more than I ever have and gritted it out. 

 

When people ask how I just say, "Grit and God". 

diyer2 Senior Enthusiast

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4 minutes ago, Grumpy Bear said:

I finally dawned on me one day that I would never be able to quit a habit by replacing it with another habit that contained the same additive ingredient I was trying to quit! Call me slow. :sigh:

Cold turkey ex smoker 12 years ago.

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