I am 25, divorced father, non-combat vet. I have been using tobacco in various forms for the past 7 years. I started out by smoking cig butts and my mothers misty green 120's, then 2pk a day of Marlboro reds, then grizzly wintergreen long-cut. I had always experimented with different types of smokeless tobacco. I eventually went back to smoking, then I quit cold turkey. 3 weeks later my engagement was called off and I went out and burned a pack of reds and have been back on tobacco ever since. I switched to Copenhagen strt LC because I was camping and ran out of griz wintergreen pouches, LC had its tendency to dislodge from by lip and cause me to vomit. But the cut and flavor of the Copenhagen was, for lack of a better word, perfect. I have never once, enjoyed the taste, smell, or look of tobacco use, however nicotine, once I let it in my system, because a hell of an addiction. I have been without nicotine before, so I know the symptoms I experience when I go without for some time. Last week, I chose today as my official Day 1. My last few pinches were spread out over a wider stretch of time and were much smaller than my normal, slingblade style face stretchers. I'm writing this with the tension in the back of my head and neck, the dying urge to run out and by another can, and the desperate need to not overeat. I, as with any period of tabaccolessness prior to now, am starting out in a fog and can only expect it to worsen, but I'm tired of this disgusting, money hungry, mind altering addiciton and am ready to finally be rid of it. This is my final attempt to quit tobacco, and nicotine in all forms, not because I will fall off and never attempt it again, but because yesterday is/was the very last day of my life that I will allow nicotine into my body.
