Well stumled across this site with my girlfriend while looking up oral cancer. I am 38 years old and have dipped for the past 23 years. I dipped 1-1.5 cans of copenhagen a day. Well the reason we were looking up oral cancer was on Thursday night while brushing my teeth I scrapped a receding tooth gumline too hard and woke up friday morning with a sore gum and a huge white patch. So course this scared the shit out of me much like it does everytime but something was different looking about this white patch than the normal ones that I get in places from time to time. Course that didn't stop me from sticking the crap in my mouth but scared none the less. Saturday I ended up going to clinic care cause my lymphnoids were swolen, the white patch was still there and had gotten larger, and my gums had become swolen and tender. Got prescribed antibiotics and sent home. Needless to say my 1 can a day habit became a one dip only for a few minute habit. I thought thats stupid to to put myself throught the pain of dipping and only doing it once a day so I decided to quit. I went to the my family doctor on Monday and had them check everything out. They did blood work and told me no cancer. I have bacterial infection of the gums and strep throat. I guess being sick has allowed me not to feel the withdraw as bad as I ususally do when I have tried to quit. Now that I have started feeling better I have actually had more of a craving. I still have that white patch in my mouth which still concerns me and swolen gums and now have about 10 ulcers on my lip and tongue. This has been motivation for me like no other. I think with the help of this site, my family, and this scare this quit will be my last one.