When I joined this forum, I was still hesitant on my quit. Therefore, instead of wasting folk's time and making a mockery of the dedicated members of this forum, I wanted to wait before I made my intro official. Well, IT'S OFFICIAL! I am currently on quit day 10 of the rest of my life. I started dipping at the "badass" age of 12. Good ole Garrett Snuff. Man that stuff was nasty! But, I made myself look cool and moved on to better tasting snuff in Copenhagen. Not eating lunch at school and saving that lunch money to support a 1-2 can a day habit for the past 25 years. Being me, I was an expert of vices and had an excuse for all of them. Co-incedentally, on November 23 last year, (at the request of my daughters) I quit alcohol; making the tobacco quit a bit harder and easier all at the same time. The dip quit was kinda pushed on me, by my health insurance carrier. I was notified that if I used tobacco, my insurance would increase $600/year. A TAX that pissed me off, so I flirted with quitting. Well, when I realized that I had an addiction, that pissed me off at tobacco/nicotine. So, being the independent person I am, I decided to quit for good cause I refuse to let anyone or anything to control my life. So here I am. I love inshore saltwater fishing (and dipping), love shooting (and dipping), I love to hunt any game except turkey (and dipping), enjoy coaching my daughters' fast-pitch softball team (and dipping). I'm a die hard New Orleans Saint fan (paperbag and all!) and look forward to watching the Biloxi Shuckers AA baseball team play this year. I wish all of you the best in your quit and hope your as successful at it as I am going to be!