It is hard because in a way I don't want to quit,

Hank_The_Tank wrote:

Anyone able to offer some advice on how to quite chewing tobacco? It is hard because in a way I don't want to quit, but obviously I don't want to end up with cancer, gum disease or losing my teeth. I have tried cold turkey and that didn't work so well. I tried the fake/non-tobacco junk and they were too terrible to continue. Tried the beef jerky shreds and that just ripped up my lips.

Hank_The_Tank wrote:

I quit cold turkey.
Sucked bad for probably only about a week or two...I still got the desire occasionally for probably 3 or 4 years, but didn't waver. May have helped that I didn't use any other tobacco for years. I suspect that if I'd have been smoking cigars back then that it would have been harder for some reason....needed to make a clean break from the nicotine, I think.
Same with drinking....took a break for week...just to see how that would go...I'm on the same break after ...IDK...nearly 20 years, maybe?....good luck

dstieger wrote:

have you tried smoking pot?

opelmanta1900 wrote:

have you tried smoking pot?

opelmanta1900 wrote:

GROW POT ON YOUR NIEGHBORS LAND.
DRY IT IN HIS ABANDONED BARN.
SELL IT AND BUY BETTER CIGARS AND
NICOTINE PATCHES....

are you a snuff- pinch guy?
A gay mouth packet guy?
Or a mail pouch wad of leaf guy?

Mr. Jones wrote:

GROW POT ON YOUR NIEGHBORS LAND.
DRY IT IN HIS ABANDONED BARN.
SELL IT AND BUY BETTER CIGARS AND
NICOTINE PATCHES....

are you a snuff- pinch guy?
A gay mouth packet guy?
Or a mail pouch wad of leaf guy?

Mr. Jones wrote:

Buy a good ecig. Mix your own juice, you'll have more money to buy better cigars.

bgz wrote:

I quit cold turkey.
Sucked bad for probably only about a week or two...I still got the desire occasionally for probably 3 or 4 years, but didn't waver. May have helped that I didn't use any other tobacco for years. I suspect that if I'd have been smoking cigars back then that it would have been harder for some reason....needed to make a clean break from the nicotine, I think.
Same with drinking....took a break for week...just to see how that would go...I'm on the same break after ...IDK...nearly 20 years, maybe?....good luck

dstieger wrote:

What ^dstieger^ said. My same experience.

Hankey, you strike me as a feller who finds it easy to talk, but tough to act. At least this is how your posts portray you. Consider what you're moving towards rather than mind-f#&@ing yourself about what you think you're saying goodbye to. Then, find your balls and man up. I know you have balls because you've shared that you have something like 372 kids. So unless they were adopted, you got 'em. And with 372 kids (and untold #'s of wives to bear them) your health matters to more than just you. Your inaction impacts them, too.

I like you. I've traded with you. I'm just getting tired of reading more of the same. You can change. We can't make you.

NWStogie wrote:

I've been quitting for two years now, have cut back some. Peppermint disc and butterscotch disc have helped l, have two cans left and gonna try cold turkey again. Good luck, they say smokeless is harder to quit than cigarettes.

Plowboy221 wrote: