February HOF 2012 Intro Thread

[tintin11]

Username: Tintin11
Name: Troy
Age: 21
Where: Indianapolis, IN
Married: Married to the quit

Hobbies: Making hockey sticks for midgets, and spending time with the blind bird watching.

Addiction: started at age 14 would dip when around friends, by the time I was in high school I was using everyday up to a can a day. Have tried quitting but never made it past a few days. Found this site 72 days ago and its the best thing I have done in a very long time.

[Cornholio]

I LIKE CORN

[Grosstr99]

Username: Grosstr99
Name: Randy
Age: 34
Where: Chicago, IL
Married: Yep

Hobbies: Golf

Addiction: Started dipping at 19 - quit for multiple years at a time multiple times, but always came back to my dark master, the Bear. Reached the HOF with September of 2010 (but stopped posting maybe at day 50), and think I started dipping again in December of 2010. Just tired of the cycle and have bought in all the way to KTC.

[Country270]

Usernamr:Country270

Name: James

Age: 27

Where: Baldwin,Fl

Married: Married 2 years ago

Hobbies: Hunting, fishing , surfing

Addiction : Started using tobacco (cigars, clove cigarettes) back in high school . Started dipping and chewing right about 5 years ago now. Never cared for the cigarettes and cigars as much as I did for dip.

[CB-Man]

Username: CB-Man
Name: Brian
Age: 27
Where: Newport, MI
Married: Single

Hobbies: Horses guns
Addiction : I started smoking when i was about 15 on a daily basis. I countinued this right up to about age 21. I quit smoking when i met a girl. Seemed so easy then. We moved in together. got engaged.... never married she left. So when she left i decided fuck it. buying a pack of smokes. NASTY! made me sick. how could i have ever smoked. Well after trying to get two packs down me i said fuck this. a guy in the shop where i work chewed. I dipped alittle bit around age 16 but it didnt stick. So now 24 years old i bummed a dip of that guy and it was over. started dipping now 27 I am here

[duvallp]

Username: duvallp
Name: Pat
Age: 37
Where: Rockford, MI
Married: Happily married for 11 years. I have beautiful 8 yr old identical twin girls.
Hobbies: Texas Holdem and ice hockey
Addiction Details: I've been a slave to the nic bitch for almost 20 years. Started dipping in high school because I thought it was cool. I've been abusing at least a tin a day since that time. I tried quitting by myself countless times. I previously reached HOF with the February 2011 Class. At a certain point, I told myself that I could "take a vacation from quitting" for a short time. I deluded myself like addicts often do. I'm not going to let that toxic shit give me mouth cancer. I promise to post every day and to stay quit with the February Underground.

[Tommy Dog]

Username: Tommy Dog
Name: Tom
Where: Atlanta, GA
Married: married a texas cowgirl 15 years ago, 13 year-old son, 10 year-old daughter. I venture to say there is no more happily married man in America than I am.
Addiction Details: Started dipping at age 28 (what a moron). Dipped on and off for 23 years. A handful of very long quits mixed in there, repeatedly fell for the "just this one time" lie. Not really worried about the health issue of it, more so my self-esteem, not hiding from my family, just being a pansy controlled by a can of dried leaves, living a lie

[BridgeTown]

Username: BridgeTown
Name: Sean
Age: 28
Where: Portland, OR
Married: No
Addiction Details: Started dipping in HS around age 16. I've been chewing off and on for the last 12 years. I smoked cigarettes occasionally but always came back to the can. I've quit several times but I've never managed to stay quit. I'm afraid of losing my jaw..

"Quitting is easy, I've done it hundreds of times"

[iQUIT85]

Username: iQUIT85
Name: Jake
Age: 26
Where: Wexford, Pa - 15 miles North of Pittsburgh - *(Not a "yinzer")
Married: 3 Years - 3 Yr old Mason

Addiction Details: Started in HS, not quite a habit then. Started playing pro-ball at 18 and it became a full blown addiction. People i looked up to were using so i felt it was appropriate to do the same. What an immature, dumb, and selfish person.

I would chew 2 cans of Grizzly Wintergreen a day, then moved to pouches. My mouth became so raw at times i would switch to pouches because i was scared. At the end of my "obsession" i was chewing up to 3 cans of Skoal Xtra Wintergreen pouches a day. Do the math on that. What an immature, dumb, and selfish person.

November 17th, 2011 i decided to become Selfless, and recognized the blessings i have to live for. A friend of my friend was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer at 36 with 2 kids. Bad luck, yes. Lifestyle habits? Probably. A swift kick in the @ss for a quit and a slew of changes....U bet. Sick of worrying, sick of thinking about what could happen...

NO more rolling the dice, NO more statistics, No more left to wonder. The time is now, cause we never know when that time is up. I QUIT. There's no other option.

[themightyrenegade]

Username: themightyrenegade
Name: Brian
Age: 40 (holy shit, I'm 40)
Where: Dallas
Married: 13 years. 3 daughters - 10, 6  6.
Addiction Details: Began on the beach in Santa Barbara at age 18. Took the addiction back to Vegas (hometown) with me and was responsible for introducing my entire circle of childhood, junior high and highschool friends to the junk. Most of them are still users. This quit is going to stick because of this group and my oldest daughter.

[Ricko]

hay man can i play a long to? well tuff shit cuz im gonna any ways. Me TOOOOOOOOOOOO

Username: Ricko
Name: Richard
Age: 48
Where: West Houston
Married: 20 years
Addiction Details: Super Ninja dipper at home and work. dipped LCSW for 23 years. Squirrelled away cans all over the place. Every once in a while I still find one. This quit stuff sticks and there is no other option.

[dogbreath]

Username: Dogbreath
Name: Matt
Age: 38
Where: North Carolina
Married 15 years one wonderful 2 year old daughter I am thankful for my family

Addiction: I was riding in a truck with one of my buddies when I was 16 and he offered me a dip I said no. He stopped the truck in the road and said what is one dip gonna hurt. The rest was history. I turned 20 and reality hit when I was 21 I had stopped. I went 11 years with maybe 3 dips when my dad passed away. When I was around 34 I met up with one of my old friends that I went to community college with he offered me a dip I dipped 4 more years sometimes two cans a day. My last dip was on 11/11/11. I almost had one on day five and found this site and got educated on smokeless tobacco. If it had not been for the things I learned here I would still be dipping.

[meares78]

Username: meares78
Name: Chris
Age: 33
Where: Washington Township, NJ (just outside of Philly)
Married: 4 years (2 daughters, 3 and 1)

Addiction Details: I started dipping when I was 19 as a way to quit smoking. I had started smoking when I was 16 and I hated it by 19, thought dipping would be the easiest way to quit. Started with bandits and quickly moved onto to Skoal where I stayed for 14 years.

[tex0322]

Username: Tex0322
Name: Bobby
Age: 33
Where: Texas
Married: No
Addiction Details: Started dipping in 10th grade with my buddies in Ag class. Dipped for 17ish years all together.

[KobeJr]

Username: KobeJr8038
Name: Brad
Age: 37
Where: Noblesville, IN
Married: 8.5 yrs (5 dogs, 2 cats, no kids-still trying)
Addiction Details: I started chewing tobacco with Red Man when I was 19 yrs old when I was in college playing football. I quickly switched to Skoal Straight for a couple of years and final settled with Skoal Mint Long Cut. I can't tell you how many cans I have bought, the amount of money and I could go on and on.....
Fun: camping (rv style), watching college/nfl football, and cooking out
TMI: I decide to quit after I had LASIK eye surgery which was the first or second best thing I have done for myself. Of course quitting maybe first but it is sure nice to see. I figured if I was going to spend $3500.00 on eye surgery then I might as well stick around long enough to see everything now. I really don't have any urges or desire to dip and most of the time that I think about is when I forget to post roll. I post role for the cause of the group and what it means to me to have support. My good friend is a January HOF but has quit posting role cause he doesn't think about it. I am grateful for him to encourage me to find this site, but I think he missed how the support is so helpful in the long term with ourselves and the newbies!!! May the path of our decisions go noticed and accountable!!!