My name is Jeremy, i'm 29. I dipped for 11 years of my life, and as of this posting, I am 10 days completely free of nicotine. I tapered off for about a month, then used nicotine gum after I had stopped. The only thing I use now is wintergreen gum, and the occasional smokey mountain, which is gummy and gross, but it works as a proxy. It's good to not be a slave anymore.