I started dipping at the ripe old age of 12 at a high school football game one of my buddies who had been dipping for a while offered me a pinch of skoal wintergreen long cut behind the bleachers and i took it my little sister tried it at the same time she immediately spit it out gagging saying it was the nastiest thing she had ever tasted(thank god) I didn't feel the same way i fell in love instantly with the way it made me feel the next day I went to a small gas station that was owned and ran by an asian lady who had a reputation for selling to minors and I bought my first can, that one lasted me almost a week but with every can I bought I dipped more and more and the cans lasted less and less time until by the time i was 18 I was dipping 3 cans a day and had to get the cheapest can I could find to even be able to afford my habit I stopped several times over the last 15 years never more than a few weeks and there have even been times that everyone either thought i had stopped or never knew i dipped in the first place. Here I am at 27 a slave to something that i shouldn't have ever tried, something that is sending me to an early grave taking me away from my wife and kids I can't do this anymore I lurked on this site a lot on my other stoppages but never posted anything and just recently I decided I am full on done I have taken my last dip I know it's a hard battle and a life-long one but it's one that I am determined to win I will never use tobacco again