Hello, I just found this site while searching for ways to quit using smokeless tobacco on google. I guess I'll start off by saying that I have been dipping for 3 years now. I started off dipping small ammounts, you know maybe like a can a week for the first couple of months. That turned into a can every say 2 days, which lasted even longer. Then a little over a year ago I started doing a can a day, everyday..and the worst part about it is that I can only do huge dips because I dont feel good enough unless they are huge, and that only allows me like 3 dips per can. Unless I bum dips off my friends then I'll dip up to like 10 times a day.. I only dip Grizzly Wintergreen, I used to dip Grizzly mint but I got tired of it and switched to wintergreen. I guess the biggest reasons I want to quit are:
1) Grizz w-longcut here is $2.40 a can, I buy a can a day so I'm spending basically $17 a week on it, $67 a month, and $806 a year. WOW, just calculating that right now makes me feel like an idiot. I'm paying to kill myself.
2) Tired of worrying about cancer. Every little bump or sore in my mouth I immediately think its cancer and freak myself out.
3) Tired of hiding it from a lot of people. My parents and some of my friends know I dip, but thats it. Tired of hiding it from the people I work with, girls, other family members, other friends, etc. Just being ashamed of it period.
4) Tired of planning my day around when I can dip.
5) High blood pressure and other heart problems run in my family, so dipping doesnt help my future chances of not having a heart problem at all.
-Well, not a super long intro but I forgot to say im 18, and uhh even though I know I havnt been dipping for as long a some people on here, I know I am addicted and I have to much life ahead of me and I dont want to ruin it because of a stupid plant in a can.
Btw, I have one dip left in my can, this can I want to call my last, but I don't know if I can.