re: Smokeless tobacco

What did indians put on the tobacco to add alkanoids?

Limestone?
Powdered otter teeth?

If you want to really quit use nicorette mini lozenges. Even the cheap Wal Mart brands worked for me. Just don't go halfway on it. I don't know about dipping but it helped me with smoking

Day 6 with no tobacco, been over 20 years as a pack-a-day smoker.

Hope im not jinxing myself.

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Day 6 with no tobacco, been over 20 years as a pack-a-day smoker.

Hope im not jinxing myself.

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I was 2 packs a day for 30 years, quit a little over 2 years ago...

Praying for ya... Seriously... Good Luck, It will be the best thing you've ever done for yourself personally & for your family, Godspeed...

Wife quit 5 years ago, and to this day says she still occasionally craves one. Thats a little scary. Unlike a lot of people, i actually enjoyed smoking. The ritual of having a smoke. Something to do with your hands. An excuse to excuse yourself. Cigarettes as a prop in conversation, its like taking away Gandolph's staff, or a magician getting his cards taken away.

The first two days I did well, I Can Do This. I thought it would get easier. Day 4 and 5 have sucked.

The most embarrassing and self-hating thing about the last two days is that I have nothing to be pissed about, life is grand. If im bitter and pissed off for no reason, what happens when something worth getting pissed about happens?

Football season approaches.

Cigarretes were an excuse to excuse myself from the room when a punt got fumbled or a memo didnt get sent out to bat the ball down.

This season i guess ill just step outside and destroy lawn furniture. Maybe a new sunday morning schtick posting pics of what the nic'd out pissed off fans did to their own property the night before. Dogs would count as property in the states of alabama, florida, and tennessee.

I'm usuall pretty good January through August.
When the season starts I dip a can a game :/

I quit cold turkey for 6 years. Then started back last year

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Meaning The sudden and complete withdrawal from an addictive substance and/or the physiological effects of such a withdrawal. Also, predominantly in the U.S.A., plain speaking. Origin At this time of year, [January 2012] you have probably had enough of cold turkey. Nevertheless, here's another plateful. The term 'cold turkey' is now predominantly used as the name of the drug withdrawal process. Also, by extension, it is used to refer to any abrupt termination of something we are accustomed to. To find the origin of the term we need to delve into the annals of American speech. Let's talk turkey. Cold turkeyThe turkey looms large in the American psyche because of its link to early European colonists and is, as even Limies like me know, the centrepiece of the annual Thanksgiving meal. In the USA, and as far as I can tell nowhere else, 'plain speaking/getting down to business' is called 'talking cold turkey', which has been shortened in present day speech to just 'talking turkey'. This usage dates from the early part of the 20th century, as in this example from The Des Moines Daily News, May 1914: I've heard [Reverend Billy] Sunday give his 'Booze' sermon, and believe me that rascal can make tears flow out of a stone. And furthermore he talks "cold turkey". You know what I mean - calls a spade a spade. The English newspaper The Daily Express introduced the phrase to an English audience in a January 1928 edition: "She talked cold turkey about sex. 'Cold turkey' means plain truth in America." 'Talking cold turkey' meant no nonsense talking and its partner expression 'going cold turkey' meant no nonsense doing. To 'go cold turkey' was to get straight to the scene of the action - in at the deep end. What the turkey had to do with plain speaking, we just don't know. There are a few suggestions but none come supported with any evidence and are no more likely to explain the source of the expression any better than ones you could imagine for yourself - better just to admit, we just don't know. The earliest reference to 'cold turkey' in relation to drug withdrawal that I can find is from the Canadian newspaper The Daily Colonist, October 1921: "Perhaps the most pitiful figures who have appeared before Dr. Carleton Simon are those who voluntarily surrender themselves. When they go before him, they [drug addicts] are given what is called the 'cold turkey' treatment." In the state of drug withdrawal the addict's blood is directed to the internal organs, leaving the skin white and with goose bumps. It has been suggested that this is what is alluded to by 'cold turkey'. There's no evidence to support that view. For the source of 'cold turkey' we need look no further than the direct, no nonsense approach indicated by the earlier 'in at the deep end' meaning of the term.

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Unlike a lot of people, i actually enjoyed smoking. The ritual of having a smoke. Something to do with your hands. An excuse to excuse yourself. Cigarettes as a prop in conversation, its like taking away Gandolph's staff, or a magician getting his cards taken away.

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That's the addiction talking... trust me as we all go through the same process as we purge our system of poison. "...I really enjoy smoking.....it makes me, me.......part of who I am..."

Its all bullshite....when I was all geeked up during the first 30 days I started wondering "is this what everyone feels like all the time? I don't like this....". Your mind is your enemy during this process. You'll be back to your normal deranged self soon enough and won't miss the smokes one bit....unless you're really drunk... and then its fleeting.

Update?

I have an uncle who was a high school ag teacher. He always told the boys they could do it in class as long as they didn't spit. I don't think many of them took him up on it.