I'm a little late starting here but this is my first time (and LAST and ONLY FIRST TIME) getting acquainted with this site. By late starting I mean I quit on March 16th, which is to say that March 16th was my first day of being clean and rid of Copenhagen. I bought two fresh cans of Red Seal fine cut natural on March 15th, thinking I'd discovered a way to out-smart those bastards at U.S. Tobacco Corp... "I'll show them," i thought... "crazy like a FOX!" 25% MORE tobacco than Copenhagen for nearly HALF the price!!! Suckers!!! Yeah, pathetic.
My name's Greg. I'm 33 and started smoking a tobacco pipe at 15 (only one at my high school, COOL. Real distinguished). That led to Camels freshman year of college, and I was chewing by junior year. Guess that puts me at about 13 years of dipping. At the end I was hammering out about 1 can every 1.5 days, chewing whenever I wasn't eating (and occasionally during) or sleeping.
I took one chew from one of those two cans of Red Seal on Tuesday, March 15th. Not sure what happened or why, but I spit it out and then emptied the rest of the can into the trash. Then I found this site. But I saved the second, unopened can. That same Tuesday night I drank, caved, and opened the second can. I chewed like a banshee til I passed out. And then early Wednesday morning I dumped the rest of the last can of chew I will ever hold (and the last nicotine I'll ever sully my body with) into the toilet and flushed it. Been reading a LOT here since then.
Sorry to ramble, not sure how these intros are supposed to work. Just wanted all of you to know that this site is helping people more than you may realize. Anyway today is day 6 for me and it's been shit, which is why I've signed up here. But it hasn't been shit enough to give up and I will not. Noticed at least one other who happened to quit the same date as me, I know that will help. Meantime, I'ma figure out how to post roll.
Thanks all.
