I am on the tail end of 44, dipped since '97, Kodiak for the longest time, until it got spendy, Grizzly in recent years. Dabbled in the Red Man here and there but never for long. You have to really like to spit for the long leaf stuff...
Went in for my twice a year dental cleaning, new hygienist got all up in my grill about the dip. None of the others ever mentioned it. She tattled on me to the dentist when it was his turn. So I had a little white growth on my gum and they set me up for the oral surgeon appointment to get the biopsy done. Which happened on the 30th. Regardless of how the pathology report comes back in a couple weeks, I have to say thanks to them for putting a fire under my butt to quit. I don't think I ever got close to day 6 before. This time was cold turkey, tried gum before but that really did nothing for me. I needed The Fear to make it happen...
Monday(day 3) so far has been the worst. Couldn't sleep the night before and the whole day i was a blithering idiot. Today was the first day back in the gym due to the biopsy and just not enough hours in the day... I was surprised, today's workout felt really good. I wouldn't have guessed dip would be dragging me down.