we did our intro thread - i'm gonna fill in some of the info for who i've got on the list - but this is NOT everybody - just a start - y'all do more if you want to? i didn't try to digest it all from the intro thread.
i didn't include folks who were on the intro thread but are now MIA. :-(
User Name: nv0311
First Name: Zeke
Location: Hawthorne, Nv
Age: 42
Family: wife, three dogs, one cat, two ktm's
Job: RDTE Marine Corps Programs.
Addiction Details: Started chewing copenhagen when I was 12. Only stopped two times, once in bootcamp, the other time for about 4 weeks. Chewed 1-2 cans of cope in a day, easily.
User Name: RWB
First Name: James
Location: NC
Age: 27
Family: Married, no kids yet
Job: EMT-I, nursing student
Addiction Details: Started up 12 years ago, quit back in 2007 through the use of this site, maintained my quit up until the 8th floor, caved January of 2010, got right back into a can a day habit for two years and finally decided enough was enough.
User name: Jman
First name: Jason
Location: Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Age: 39
Family: Two sons - 19 yr old and 7 yr old, awesome wife - blessed man
Job: GM for audio/video contractor / salesman / baseball coach
Addiction details: started dipping around 15 years of age playing baseball, pretty much been a dipper since then (ie... all the fucking time). decided I want to live as long as possible and keep my face intact.
User Name: bluebonnetman
First Name: Rick
Location: TX
Age: 51
Family: married, son 24, daughter 21
Job: pastor, teacher, writer
Addiction Details: tried dip and chew in high school, got into it in college, dipped while fishing, working in yard, on long trips, then it expanded more and more. i got tired of it, saw i had a problem. came to this community. i am quit!
User Name: sccrockett
First Name: just call me Crockett
Age: 24
Family: single
Job: Project Manager, Mechanical Contractor
Addiction Details: Dipped five years, on and off for the first three. This is my first committed effort to quit. Just got sick of it.
User Name: moondawggy
First Name: Justin
Location: Birmingham, AL
Age: 31
Family:
Job:
Addiction Details:
User Name: whitenight
First Name:
Location:
Age: 57
Family: married, 3 kids, 7 grandkids
Job:
Addiction Details:
User Name: RatedRKO16
First Name: James
Location: Fairfield, IA
Age: 27
Family: Mother, Brother, Sister soon to be Brother in Law
Job: Medicaid Waiver CDAC Provider for my quadriplegic brother.
Addiction Details: I started when I was 16 w/ Redman on the baseball field, progressed to Grizzly/Skoal at 18. Quittin' so I can keep these pearly whites!!
User Name: wah404
First Name: Wayne
Age: 34
Family: 3 daughters
Job:
Addiction Details:
User Name: jfitzy15
First Name:
Location:
Age: 45
Family:
Job:
Addiction Details:
User Name: marmot10
First Name:
Location: British Columbia
Age:
Family: married, 2 daughters
Job: manage golf resort
Addiction Details:
User Name: TX_Cope_Quitter
First Name: Andy
Location: So. Texas
Age: 34
Family: married, 2 kids, 3rd on the way
Job: Mech. Engineer
Addiction Details: Cope for about 17 years. Time to stay quit!
User Name: jtarms45
First Name:
Location:
Age: 40
Family: married, daughter and son
Job:
Addiction Details:
User Name: Reddog446
First Name:
Location: FL
Age:
Family: married, daughter
Job: police officer
Addiction Details:
User Name: Guy_Dudebro
First Name: Chuck
Location: Portland, OR
Age: 30
Family: girlfriend
Job: design engineer
Addiction Details:
User Name: ScriptCats
First Name: John
Location: Cleveland, OH
Age:
Family: married, son and daughter
Job:
Addiction Details:
User Name: CBird65
First Name: Chip
Location: DFW
Age:
Family: married
Job:
Addiction Details:
User Name: hossmanwc
First Name: Mike
Location: PA
Age: 23
Family:
Job: grad student
Addiction Details:
User Name: dethan33
First Name: Ethan
Location: MA
Age: 33
Family: married, daughter, son on the way
Job: project manager in wireless telecom
Addiction Details:
User Name: Coach Steve
First Name: Steve
Location: NC
Age: 31
Family: Married with 11 yr and 14 yr old step sons. New baby on the way due in September! Likes his wife's awesome boobs.
Job: Attorney / Baseball Coach / Hitting Instructor / Water Boy
Addiction Details: Dipped for 16 years. Started when I was 15 at a baseball camp. Kodiak Wintergreen was the lip turd of choice. Pretty much dipped 24/7. Got the cancer speech from the dentist and decided it was time to quit. My wife found this website for me and has been 100% supportive.
User Name: nodip44
First Name: Jake
Location:
Age:
Family: engaged; fiancee brings a daughter
Job: cop
Addiction Details:
User Name: Bigwhitebeast
First Name: Tim
Location: NY
Age: 44
Family:married, 2 sons
Job: Power plant control room operator / supervisor for 20 years
Addiction Details: Anyone remember Happy Days chew? It started there and quickly went to Copenhagen for 28 years.
User Name: icepig
First Name: Bob
Location: IA
Age: 29
Family: single
Job: Police Officer
Addiction Details: Started Skoal Mint in highschool during wrestling my JR yr. Went to the Air Force, switched to Cope long cut and you all know the story. Had a lipper in all day and night, working, fishing, sleeping didn't matter for the last 12 years.
User Name: Auburn
First Name: Brian
Location: IA
Age: 33
Family: married, 2 daughters
Job: Network Admin/IT Manager
Addiction Details: Started dipping 19 years ago. Continued every since. Chewed at ANY moment. Working, sleeping, in weddings, etc. You name it, I had my lip stuffed with nasty shit.
User Name: Stephen43
First Name: What do you think? I'll give you one guess.
Location: Cypress, TX (Suburb NW of Houston)
Age: 49
Family: Wife, Daughta #1 - 10, Daughta #2 - 7
Job: Environmental Attorney
Addiction Details: I started when I was 13 playing baseball and dipped on an off for the past 36 years w/ Skoal Wintergreen, then Redman Golden Blend, Levi Garrett, back to Skoal Straight. Serial caver. Desparately want this one to be it. I am an addict.
User Name: Bren
First Name: Bren
Location: IL
Age: 35
Family: Married two kids (7 and 4)
Job: Teacher
Addiction Details: I started smoking at 14 and went with that for a while. At 18 I landed a job unloading trucks 3rd shift. Since I was locked in to the warehouse I couldn't smoke. After half a shift, I noticed someone dipping and started there. I continued to smoke and dip during my time in the army and on through college. In 2001 I quit smoking and dipping. The quit lasted until my boy, now 4, got really sick. As the doctors started using terms like chemo and quoting survival percentages, my stress level went through the roof. One day I caved and that has been it since. I would have short quits (a week here or two weeks there), but for the most part I used pretty regularly. My wife finally had enough, and I realized that a can of Kodiak is not worth losing my family.
User Name: pavetheway
First Name: Mike
Location: Wichita, KS
Age: 36
Family: Married, 3 kiddos
Job: Estimator/Project Manager/Truck Driver/Farmer/Equipment Operator/IT guy
Addiction Details: Started chewing Cope when I began riding bulls in college. Didn't have to be a ninja dipper because the wife honestly didn't really mind (at least that's what she said). Finally decided to quit for ME....and I got to thinking about how much $$ I flushed down the toilet and what I would look like with no jaw.
User Name: MarkOliver
First Name: Mark
Location: Binghamton, NY
Age: 46, very soon.
Family: Married with dogs and cats.
Job: Retired law enforcement after 20 years, 21 days. Spent most of my career in K-9 one way or another. Formed New York Regional Police Canine, LLC. on retirement.
Addiction Details: I was handed a can of Skoal "fine cut" when I was 14, maybe 15 at the latest. From that point on I chewed almost everything in a can and a lot of the leaf chews.
By 18 I came back to Skoal and Cope. I dropped Cope by age 25 or so and stuck with Skoal Wintergreen Longcut until January 20th 2012 at age 45, going on 46.
I QUIT because I haven't spit hardly at all since I was 18. My "gut" said it was time. So many people write that they quit because they were tired of sneaking around to get a fatty etc. etc. I wish that was my FUCKING problem. I mastered having a "fatty" in no matter where I was because I didn't have to spit. I dipped all day, every day, unless I was eating. The good news is my stomach feels a lot better since I quit and I don't think I have any long term issues at this point. At this point I'm hoping I am right. Grow a set and quit before it is to late fence rider's. We all can.
we did our intro thread - i'm gonna fill in some of the info for who i've got on the list - but this is NOT everybody - just a start - y'all do more if you want to? i didn't try to digest it all from the intro thread.
i didn't include folks who were on the intro thread but are now MIA. :-(
User Name: nv0311
First Name: Zeke
Location: Hawthorne, Nv
Age: 42
Family: wife, three dogs, one cat, two ktm's
Job: RDTE Marine Corps Programs.
Addiction Details: Started chewing copenhagen when I was 12. Only stopped two times, once in bootcamp, the other time for about 4 weeks. Chewed 1-2 cans of cope in a day, easily.
User Name: RWB
First Name: James
Location: NC
Age: 27
Family: Married, no kids yet
Job: EMT-I, nursing student
Addiction Details: Started up 12 years ago, quit back in 2007 through the use of this site, maintained my quit up until the 8th floor, caved January of 2010, got right back into a can a day habit for two years and finally decided enough was enough.
User name: Jman
First name: Jason
Location: Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Age: 39
Family: Two sons - 19 yr old and 7 yr old, awesome wife - blessed man
Job: GM for audio/video contractor / salesman / baseball coach
Addiction details: started dipping around 15 years of age playing baseball, pretty much been a dipper since then (ie... all the fucking time). decided I want to live as long as possible and keep my face intact.
User Name: bluebonnetman
First Name: Rick
Location: TX
Age: 51
Family: married, son 24, daughter 21
Job: pastor, teacher, writer
Addiction Details: tried dip and chew in high school, got into it in college, dipped while fishing, working in yard, on long trips, then it expanded more and more. i got tired of it, saw i had a problem. came to this community. i am quit!
User Name: sccrockett
First Name: just call me Crockett
Age: 24
Family: single
Job: Project Manager, Mechanical Contractor
Addiction Details: Dipped five years, on and off for the first three. This is my first committed effort to quit. Just got sick of it.
User Name: moondawggy
First Name: Justin
Location: Birmingham, AL
Age: 31
Family: Married, 1 baby girl
Job: Audio Video engineer, musician
Addiction Details: Hooked at 13, quitting at 31.
User Name: whitenight
First Name:
Location:
Age: 57
Family: married, 3 kids, 7 grandkids
Job:
Addiction Details:
User Name: RatedRKO16
First Name: James
Location: Fairfield, IA
Age: 27
Family: Mother, Brother, Sister soon to be Brother in Law
Job: Medicaid Waiver CDAC Provider for my quadriplegic brother.
Addiction Details: I started when I was 16 w/ Redman on the baseball field, progressed to Grizzly/Skoal at 18. Quittin' so I can keep these pearly whites!!
User Name: wah404
First Name: Wayne
Age: 34
Family: 3 daughters
Job:
Addiction Details:
User Name: jfitzy15
First Name:
Location:
Age: 45
Family:
Job:
Addiction Details:
User Name: marmot10
First Name:
Location: British Columbia
Age:
Family: married, 2 daughters
Job: manage golf resort
Addiction Details:
User Name: TX_Cope_Quitter
First Name: Andy
Location: So. Texas
Age: 34
Family: married, 2 kids, 3rd on the way
Job: Mech. Engineer
Addiction Details: Cope for about 17 years. Time to stay quit!
User Name: jtarms45
First Name:
Location:
Age: 40
Family: married, daughter and son
Job:
Addiction Details:
User Name: Reddog446
First Name:
Location: FL
Age:
Family: married, daughter
Job: police officer
Addiction Details:
User Name: Guy_Dudebro
First Name: Chuck
Location: Portland, OR
Age: 30
Family: girlfriend
Job: design engineer
Addiction Details:
User Name: ScriptCats
First Name: John
Location: Cleveland, OH
Age:
Family: married, son and daughter
Job:
Addiction Details:
User Name: CBird65
First Name: Chip
Location: DFW
Age:
Family: married
Job:
Addiction Details:
User Name: hossmanwc
First Name: Mike
Location: PA
Age: 23
Family:
Job: grad student
Addiction Details:
User Name: dethan33
First Name: Ethan
Location: MA
Age: 33
Family: married, daughter, son on the way
Job: project manager in wireless telecom
Addiction Details:
User Name: Coach Steve
First Name: Steve
Location: NC
Age: 31
Family: Married with 11 yr and 14 yr old step sons. New baby on the way due in September! Likes his wife's awesome boobs.
Job: Attorney / Baseball Coach / Hitting Instructor / Water Boy
Addiction Details: Dipped for 16 years. Started when I was 15 at a baseball camp. Kodiak Wintergreen was the lip turd of choice. Pretty much dipped 24/7. Got the cancer speech from the dentist and decided it was time to quit. My wife found this website for me and has been 100% supportive.
User Name: nodip44
First Name: Jake
Location:
Age:
Family: engaged; fiancee brings a daughter
Job: cop
Addiction Details:
User Name: Bigwhitebeast
First Name: Tim
Location: NY
Age: 44
Family:married, 2 sons
Job: Power plant control room operator / supervisor for 20 years
Addiction Details: Anyone remember Happy Days chew? It started there and quickly went to Copenhagen for 28 years.
User Name: icepig
First Name: Bob
Location: IA
Age: 29
Family: single
Job: Police Officer
Addiction Details: Started Skoal Mint in highschool during wrestling my JR yr. Went to the Air Force, switched to Cope long cut and you all know the story. Had a lipper in all day and night, working, fishing, sleeping didn't matter for the last 12 years.
User Name: Auburn
First Name: Brian
Location: IA
Age: 33
Family: married, 2 daughters
Job: Network Admin/IT Manager
Addiction Details: Started dipping 19 years ago. Continued every since. Chewed at ANY moment. Working, sleeping, in weddings, etc. You name it, I had my lip stuffed with nasty shit.
User Name: Stephen43
First Name: What do you think? I'll give you one guess.
Location: Cypress, TX (Suburb NW of Houston)
Age: 49
Family: Wife, Daughta #1 - 10, Daughta #2 - 7
Job: Environmental Attorney
Addiction Details: I started when I was 13 playing baseball and dipped on an off for the past 36 years w/ Skoal Wintergreen, then Redman Golden Blend, Levi Garrett, back to Skoal Straight. Serial caver. Desparately want this one to be it. I am an addict.
User Name: Bren
First Name: Bren
Location: IL
Age: 35
Family: Married two kids (7 and 4)
Job: Teacher
Addiction Details: I started smoking at 14 and went with that for a while. At 18 I landed a job unloading trucks 3rd shift. Since I was locked in to the warehouse I couldn't smoke. After half a shift, I noticed someone dipping and started there. I continued to smoke and dip during my time in the army and on through college. In 2001 I quit smoking and dipping. The quit lasted until my boy, now 4, got really sick. As the doctors started using terms like chemo and quoting survival percentages, my stress level went through the roof. One day I caved and that has been it since. I would have short quits (a week here or two weeks there), but for the most part I used pretty regularly. My wife finally had enough, and I realized that a can of Kodiak is not worth losing my family.
User Name: pavetheway
First Name: Mike
Location: Wichita, KS
Age: 36
Family: Married, 3 kiddos
Job: Estimator/Project Manager/Truck Driver/Farmer/Equipment Operator/IT guy
Addiction Details: Started chewing Cope when I began riding bulls in college. Didn't have to be a ninja dipper because the wife honestly didn't really mind (at least that's what she said). Finally decided to quit for ME....and I got to thinking about how much $$ I flushed down the toilet and what I would look like with no jaw.
User Name: MarkOliver
First Name: Mark
Location: Binghamton, NY
Age: 46, very soon.
Family: Married with dogs and cats.
Job: Retired law enforcement after 20 years, 21 days. Spent most of my career in K-9 one way or another. Formed New York Regional Police Canine, LLC. on retirement.
Addiction Details: I was handed a can of Skoal "fine cut" when I was 14, maybe 15 at the latest. From that point on I chewed almost everything in a can and a lot of the leaf chews.
By 18 I came back to Skoal and Cope. I dropped Cope by age 25 or so and stuck with Skoal Wintergreen Longcut until January 20th 2012 at age 45, going on 46.
I QUIT because I haven't spit hardly at all since I was 18. My "gut" said it was time. So many people write that they quit because they were tired of sneaking around to get a fatty etc. etc. I wish that was my FUCKING problem. I mastered having a "fatty" in no matter where I was because I didn't have to spit. I dipped all day, every day, unless I was eating. The good news is my stomach feels a lot better since I quit and I don't think I have any long term issues at this point. At this point I'm hoping I am right. Grow a set and quit before it is to late fence rider's. We all can.
