Hi, I quit on 9/15, finally posted roll call yesterday and am now posting my introduction.
I am a 59 year old former dipper. I started smoking in 6th grade, switched from smoking to copenhagen snuff in college so I could play rugby and run up and down the field without my chest exploding. I switched to Cherry Skoal around 16 years ago when reading that Cherry had the least nicotine of all other snuff at that time. I think it has 7mg of nicotine while copenhagen has 21 mg of nicotine. This is off the top of my head.
I quit once before. I went to a health clinic to quit. Went through meditation. Quit for 9 months and my mom got very sick. Visited with my family and my brother convinced me that I would never be able to break the habit. I caved.
I have been in systems development for 30 plus years. Started in the mainframe world up to web development. Joined a startup as their head IT guy and grew them until they were huge. Long story short, politics killed me and my gig ended last Dec. I have been in a funk ever since. I hired some new developers for new stuff I am doing on my own. I kept doing more and more snuff and was getting quite crazy. Snuff was hindering me and not helping.
I looked at this site in 2013. Looked at it again in September of this year. Somehow got an email from Chewie that resonated with me. I decided to quit and amazingly have not done any snuff since that day, September 15. Many thanks to Chewie and this site for helping me.
I have to tell you that despite being a former VP, I seem to be the slowest person here as it seems to take me 2 hours to post roll call.
I should have been posting for a while but it just took time to warm to this.
Thank you to whomever created this site and to all of you who support it.
