Whats up guys,planning my eventual quit date,which is July 15th by the way,and ran across this site,which I think is pure gold.
I'm from Canada,if you didn't notice,Alberta to be more specific. Pretty much the chewing capital of Canada,its all over here. There's only three cans of dip you can get up in the great white north if you didn't like sucking on dry dust,and thats cope snuff,cope long,and cope wintergreen. Wintergreen wasn't around when I started,so naturally my first pinch ever was some fine cut cope. I've got a solid group of four friends I have known since early elementary school,all of us chew,and have since we were 15 years old. I'm 24 now,closing in on 25 in 6 months. All 4 of us have pledged to quit,after a music festival we are headed to in mid July. Call me weak for not quitting today, maybe its a nostalgia thing, but we haven't done something like this since high school and we are gonna give it one more big bang before we call it quits.
I've lost relationships due to dipping,I've lost time,I've lost money,and in general I'm sick and fucking tired of it being the only thing I think about. I've sat there thinking about quitting since I started the habit, and eventually "next week" or "next month" turned into 9 years. I've chewed for 9 and a half years and as far as I'm concerned its been about 9 and a half years too long. What I wouldn't do to go back in the dressing room during tryouts and tell those kids they are fucking morons and never put the pinch in my mouth. But I can't now,and I know damn well whats about to come from stopping.
I've attempted to quit numerous times,but twice I was so close to kicking the habit that when I think about it I lose sleep. When I was 20, I stopped for a year(yup,I made it fucking 360 days without putting a pinch in my mouth,can you believe how fucking stupid I was for giving in yet again) but I think with the 4 of us kicking it together,and the help of this site,I can get over that hump and never touch the shit again.
Its 30 bucks a can here in Alberta,and when I started it was 7.99. Getting pretty expensive to kill yourself up here nowadays, I guess the governments gotta take your money for your hospital bed somehow. The money I've lost,the girlfriends I've lost, the family I have disappointed, its all settling in now and I am looking forward to joining up with a sick group of guys who are tired of this bullshit as well.
I will post roll on the 15th,and I will stay off.
Thanks for reading,good luck boys,one day at a time.