Hey bro, I'm kinda the black sheep of this dysfunctional family. Everyone hates me here. However, I quit tobacco after 10 years of a can a day dipping, and I've got the right to speak from experience.
I understand your fear of hunting season coming up. Nothing like sitting in that stand waiting on that buck to stroll into your plot. You've got that sweet dip in y our lip, that calm tobacco flowing into your bloodstream while you wait for that perfect shot. that can in your back pocket is your validation. It is your manhood. It is what makes you the king of the fucking wood.
Believe me, I struggle with the same battle.
Those old familiar ways.
MAN UP!!!!
Look, its in your head!
You can beat this shit like a real man, and you can still pack your lip. Pack it with Smokey Mountain or some other herbal dip that actually heals your mouth and restores health to your gums. Start working on herbal alternatives so that you go ahead and kick the physical addiction. Then you have every right to enjoy an herbal snuff on those cold mornings in the stand waiting on that 10 pointer. Take my word, I dipped every single day, ALL DAY, for ten years! I couldn't spend an hour without Skoal in my mouth. Now I function normally, doing all those things I used to love doing while dipping, but I haven't used Skoal in over a month! Its mind over matter!
You can do it. Draw on whatever motivation you need to! You will get all sorts of criticism from the hardliners here telling you "don't quit for your wife, children, etc." but don't let that get you down. Some people rely on others to make decisions for them. Some of us just need a good reason to change. You quit for your daughter / son, and that's a damn good reason!!!! My own daddy quit 20 years of tobacco for me when I was 6, because I wanted to copy him. Now he is 24 years tobacco free and has never looked back! He didnt quit cause he stopped liking tobacco! He quit for me! In fact, I believe it is actually a great thing to quit a deadly habit out of love for others!!!! What is selfishness? Is it quitting for yourself? What is selflessness? Its quitting despite yourself, because you know there are more people than just you that are counting on you.
Quit today my dear brother.
Resolve in your heart to hunt that deer, to watch that race, to fish that lake as a free man. you can still pack that lip with a healthy alternative and enjoy those perfect moments. BELIEVE ME!!!! I AM A LIVING TESTAMENT!!!! I never believed I would be able to function without a dip in my mouth!
I love you today, and I quit with you today.
Stay alive for that baby. Stay alive for your wife. Stay alive for yourself. THERE IS NO WRONG REASON TO QUIT A DEADLY HABIT!!!!! THERE IS ONLY A WRONG REASON TO CONTINUE!!!!!
Your brother and friend,
Lucius DeBorgia
