It's really quite amazing how much "spit tobacco" has impacted my life without me really realizing it.
[*]I quit going to the dentist because I wasn't liking what he was saying (dumb I know, but sometimes I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
[*]Always planning ahead by buying a 10pak so I'll be sure not to run out. . .even taking 5 or more cans with me on trips just in case they don't have it where I'm going
[*]Avoiding going to the Movies or places where I'd have to be somewhere for more than a couple of hours and couldn't easily spit or get rid of an old dip so I could get a fresh one
[*]Going for a ride in someone else's car and suffering because you've let too much juice accumulate to swallow and don't want to splatter the side of their new car
[*]Not saying something when you should because you know if you open your mouth you're just going to make a gurgling noise because your mouth is full or even worse have a string of spit overflow and look ignorant trying to suck it back before anybody notices
[*]Going to bed at night with a mouthfull and waking up with a black line of snuff sticking your beard together from the corner of your mouth to your chin
[*]Not brushing your teeth as often because sometimes you have copenhagen in your mouth and don't want to get rid of it just yet
[*]It worries me a little that I don't see too many people who have done it longer than me. I wonder if I'm just slower than most, or if there are other more ominous reasons?
[*]I had a spittoon in my bedroom
[*]I had a special 5 gallon bucket full of sawdust and grass clippings out in the garage just for spitting.
[*]Adding water to 6 month old dried out copenhagen because it's all you could find because it was deer season and everybody was sold out. Dipping it even as you hated it.
[*]Spitting in a soda can and profusely apologizing when somebody got confused and drank out of the wrong can . . .(while you were trying not to burst out in laughter. . .that stuff makes you cruel)
[*]The perpetual dirty fingernails
[*]Hating long plane flights because they were so damn inconvienent to dippers
[*]Trying to avoid talking too much or anything that would work up too much saliva when you didn't have a convienent place to spit.
[*]Bending over and twisting your head around so you can spit in a trash can with the door on the side.
[*]Losing your sense of smell
[*]Losing your sense of taste
[*]Rubbing your eye right after you had put a dip in your mouth and trying to get rid of that terrible burning.
[*]Good thing you weren't a closet dipper your list could be 10 times longer..
-Like trying to find a hiding spot that your wife will never lookin
-taking three more craps a day then you need to so you can have three extra dips
-staying late at work so you can dip
-taking the long way home from work
-volunteering to go to the store even though you hate going to the store.
[*]also thought about this
- the original from Dec 04 dipshits... Sitting on the crapper and mis spitting into the toilet and hittin your dick... that was always nice..
[*]____TOP Reasons to Stop Dipping_______
by the Face Savers HOF Feb 2005 class.. (and yes we do seem to have math problems)
Reason #1 I have a new feeling of energy that allows me to work out more and do things that I dreaded doing before ( like cleaning )
Reason # 2 - I haven't "snuck away" from my children in 33 days in order to stuff my lip full of chemically treated tobacco. That's not to say I don't occasionally need a break from the little angels, but it's not so I can slowly commit suicide with dip
Reason #3 - I will pass $100 saved tomorrow morning.
Reason #4 - I can go to bed early. No longer have to wait for the wife to go to bed to sneak that final dip of the day.
Reason #5 - I no longer feel guilty for being less of a man and sneaking away from my wife, children, friends, or work in order to get my fix.
reason #7 - my dick grew 2 inches . . . in circumference!!
Seriously - I've probably saved $100 in gas so far by not taking the long way home, the long way to work, sitting in the parking lot, catching a light on purpose, etc., so I could savor the dip a little longer.
Reason #8 - My fingers are actually skin colored now, and are not tobacco stained. Wow, you mean my thumb shouldn't be brown in color?
Reason #9. Not watching my daughter watch my chew and try to emulate me. She is two and likes to take drinks and 'spit' it out.
#10 I've probably saved a ton on my water bill from not flushing 5 dips a day down the toilet and rinsing out my mouth.
#11 TWS (tobacco withdrawal symptoms) Now I have something to help me hold my own against PMS. Life is good.
#12 I think as our group seems to have math problems...Not having to worry about how to clean up the spilled spit can off of the white carpet.
#13Having clean nails without cope stuck under them
Reason #14: Planning on what to use your HOF coin for. I plan on using the coin to hold down my poker cards while playing TX Hold 'Em. I know it's cheesy, but at least it isn't a fossil...lol
[*]It will get better everyday. Here are some of the good times I remember abought dipping.
1. Feeling of panic when you run out and forgot your wallet.
2. Spilling your dip bottle.
3.Drinking your own or someone elses spit from a beer can.
4.Yelling at wife or child cause you aint had your chew yet.
5.Spitting on the side of your new truck.
6.sh@tty breath,stained teeth, sore gums.
7.spending around $5 bucks a day to be happy.
8. Having to talk to some one and having a chew in and trying not to spit.
9. Trying to hide your dip so people won't see it
10. Getting sting when you put in your contacts in the morning
11. The pillow on your bed looks like someone shit on it because you cant fall asleep without a big fat lipper in.
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Already the excuses I had for continuing to dip for all those years don't make sense anymore, even to me. I hope they don't ever start making sense again. Powerful stuff that "smokeless tobacco"1) Joshua, my son and Noemi my wife
2) too expensive
3) gums are receding
4) semi-permanent brown under index finger nail
5) a clean car
6) whiter teeth
7)not spilling juice or tobacco in car or all over me
8) not organizing my day or travels around tobacco
9) not lying just to go out and get a new can
10) not get cancer
BTW, I've seen a lot of these posts about what you don't miss about dipping. Here is my top ten things I don't miss about dipping:
10. Cancer causing shit in my lip.
9. Hillbilly looking teeth full of dip.
8. Spit cup/bottle in every car and a couple of rooms in the house.
7. Holding baby with left hand just so I could handle the spitter with the right.
6. Late night mad dashes to the 24 hour convenience store cause "I aint gonna make it til mornin without my dip."
5. Having to turn down sample little bites of summer sausage while at the grocery store.
4. Trying to spit in a soda can while driving 80 miles per hour down the interstate. Seriously, that shit was hard, I never could spit in a soda can!
3. Dashing into wal mart for a quick item, then standing in line filling up with spit at the cash register.
2. Money, money, money.
1. Gettin' the shit in your eyes, cause you know it burns like the devil.
Why I will succeed -
I want to quit
My wife wants me to quit
My five kids need me to quit
I don't want it to control my life
I don't want to die
I am tired of this habit & embarrassed that i do it.
List of things that people associate with chewing:
1.) teeth missing
2.) trailer house
3.) brown drool
4.) pickup trucks
5.) guns
6.) gun racks
7.) baseball
8.) BEER
9.) Dry cleaning/truck cleaning
10.) I.Q. of 33
1) I passed a hospital on the freeway (one I usually pass every week or so) and I realized that when I was dipping the thought of visiting that hospital and getting treated for cancer always flashed briefly through my head. Now as I passed I felt a bit more free.
2) I used to stay up an hour or so later than the wife, this is the time I would go downstairs, goof off on my PC and dip. Because of this I never brushed my teeth until I got back upstairs the second time. Last night, I brushed my teeth before I went down.
3) (And this one is the best!) I used to have a little hesitation when kissing my wife as I would think "When was the last time I dipped? Do I need to rinse my mouth out again?, etc...) Now there is no hesitation.
Day 21 and man I really miss dipping. I mean it I miss it so much.
I miss driving to an out of the way store so no one you know will see you buying it and doing this everyday. I miss that.
I going to miss knowing that the people who do see me buying are wondering what the fuck a man in his forties is doing buying that, you would think he would know better. I’m going to miss that.
I’m going to miss spending $63 a week on cope and $5.00 a week on gum, that’s $68.00 a week, I’m going to miss that.
I am going to miss chewing 2 Rolaids after every meal so I can ward off the heartburn I know I will get from my beloved cope, I’m going to miss that.
I am going to miss the late nights staying up or trying to stay up to get that last dip in and sometimes falling asleep with that dip in, I’m going to miss that.
I miss spending so much time in the bathroom, I miss that.
I miss telling my kids I need to go to the store by myself because they would be bored and then missing out on time I could have spent with them, I’m going miss that.
I’m going to miss not spending time with my kids so I can dip, yes, I’ll miss that.
I’m going to miss the stress of hiding spit bottles, tins and making sure no one finds them, I’m going to miss that.
I’m going to miss being unsociable to my neighbors when I’m outside because I have a dip in, so instead of them knowing me as an addict they know me as a stuckup asshole. I’m going to miss that.
I’m going miss bleeding gums, sore cheeks, rotten breath, I going to miss all of that.
I’m going to miss running out to my car every time me and the wife go somewhere to make sure all the remnants of cope are brushed off the seat. I’m going to miss that.
I’m going to miss being somewhere where I can’t dip and stressing out after 3 or 4 hours and start taking it out on my wife or anyone else. I’m going to miss that.
I’m going to miss working so much at night just so I can dip, I’m going to miss that.
Man, there are so many things I am going to miss about my beloved Cope, what are you going to miss?
Day 21 - COPEHATER
Originally posted by Skycast:
I like being able to keep a $20 in my pocket for almost two weeks!
When my wife needed some cash, I was SO reluctant to give it up. That's the longest I've had money in my pocket in forever.
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Originally posted by cowgirl3:
I like not feeling like an addict.
I like feeling equal to all the other sports mom.
I like my white teeth!
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Originally posted by lawen4cer:
I like that I can give my dad a note this year for christmas that says I have quit.
I like that I dont have to stay out of the house or leave a party early just so I can have one.
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Originally posted by ken4852:
I like that I can drink from a soda can and know that there is only soda in it.
I like not having little pieces of brown shit all over my house and car.
I like not having to check my teeth before I go into work.
I like not feeling like a total loser because the convenience store clerk knows what I'm coming in to buy.
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Originally posted by KenAustinTx:
Having a terrible time of it for the past 48 hours so I thought I'd review what has improved about my life since I quit.
I like that I can laugh without breaking off into a coughing fit.
I like that I can hit the high notes again. Me and Steve Perry are like this.
I like that there are NO dip cups in the house that I work my ass off to pay mortguage on.
I like that there are no dip cups to quickly empty and hide when someone wants to ride in my truck with me to lunch.
I like that there are no brown stains on my fingers.
I like that I get to bed at a reasonable hour now.
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Originally posted by CelticsFanGrizzlyHater:
my reasons for quitting
-having random pains in your mouth and not knowing whether or not it could be serious
-knocking over a solo cop filled with dip spit on my printer in my dorm room and having to take apart the entire printer cleaning it piece by piece.
-$$$$
-hiding my addiction from my whole family
-taking out your tin in front of your friends and have them tell you how gross that is time after time and just going "ugh...yeah"
-waking up in the morning and having to have a dip
-"recycling" dip that you just used because you know you can't get a tin the next day
-dipping in front of women and looking like a complete DIPshit
-accidently swallowing a chunk of dip and throwing up
-spilling my tin and cleaning up every shard of dip and putting back it the tin like I had just dropped a can full of diamonds
-going to different stores not near me fearing I might be seen by someone who knows me that would tell my parents I dip
-knowing the store clerk by name and having him have my 2 cans of grizzly ready right when I walked in the store
-clogging my sink pipes and cleaning them out finding chunks of dip all up and down the pipes
-having a huge brown dip stain on my carpet and lying to everyone about why it was really there
-getting a few of my friends more addicted to dip than I am
-thinking about dip constantly
-deciding to spend the night in my dorm when I all I really wanted to do was just pack a fat lip by myself
-having a girl over and having her find my stash of empty dip cans and then having her run out of the room and tell me she never wants to talk to me again
-dipping gives you cancer
-dipping blows your money
-dipping is s stupid
-after a long time dipping doesn't make you happy as it once did before
-the smell of dip gets to you after a while
-i got sick of dip
1) Carrying a spit cup in airplanes and trying not to crush or spill that damn thing when changing planes
2) Smelling that damn spit cup after it has sat in the truck for a couple of days in the Texas heat.
3) Having to buy a $1.50 foutain drink -- just so I can dump the contents and have a spit cup.
4) Spending more money on Cope than I do on season football tickets.
5) Wondering about that small white thing growing on my lip.
6) Having to move the dip to my top lip -- the bottom one burns from time to time for some reason.
Diggin through garbage cans at sporting events so you wouldn't have to buy a pop just to spit in.
Telling your kids you were taking them to 7-11 to buy THEM a "treat".
Falling asleep with dip in your mouth.
Opening and closing the same drawers more than once looking for the stash.
Interrupting time with the kids to go spit in the sink.
We got a million of 'em!
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Originally posted by vedder15:
List off stupid things I was enslaved to do when I was a dipper.
Cleaned freinds smelly rooms in college dorms for $3 so I could get my next fix.
Scrapped up a spilled can from a dark gravel alley, ended up chewing stones and skoal.
Hauled my 1 year old daughter down to work, in the freezing cold, to retrieve a forgotten can.
Tried dipping cigerette butts when nothing else was around.
I'm sure I could think of more if this drug didn't have my head in a fog.
HOW DUMB WERE WE.....
My Reasons to Quit
1) I feel like a pathetic liar
2) I’m sick of smiling with my lips closed
3) I’m sick of my breath smelling like I swallowed a rotting horse carcass
4) I’m sick of running around my apt looking for tins and spitters to hide whenever someone is coming to my place
5) I’m sick of feeling weak
6) I’m sick of opting to be the quiet, unfriendly guy for the sake of concealing my habit.
7) The effects of mouth cancer may be the single most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen
8) I’m sick of giving myself oral examinations
9) I’d like to re-establish a relationship with my dentist
10) I have no memory of what a healthy lifestyle feels like…I want to know.
11) I met the most amazing woman I’ve ever known and I’ve been lying to her for two and a half years
12) I want to regain my self esteem
13) I have too much to live for
Citizen Robespierre -- I hate flying (read: I am scared of flying) so I always had to fly both drunk and with a fatty in. So I'd pack a fatty before takeoff, but especially with the nerves and all the liquid (booze), I'd produce a lot of saliva. So, before we even would level off and get drink service, my mouth would be fit to bursting with brown, viscous juice (I've never been able to "gut" the stuff). So, being a veritable pig, I would simply spit on the carpet of the plane, or else spit on the wall under the window if I had a window seat.
ccmackin - I'm sick of the bad breath, the sore gums, the constant worry of impending death, the piles of brown, smelly kleenex in my car, the cups full of chew spit in my cup holder (how fricking nasty is that---it's like we're jaded to the point where we don't even realize how socially unacceptable that is!), the random, stinking cups around the house, the grit under my fingernails, the feeling of a dry, scratchy throat w/no way to swallow, the clogged up bathroom sink with clumps of black chaw flowing out when I plunge it, the constant throwing away of cans (only to dig through the garbage the next day to salvage a dip).....
I want you to sit back and relax. You've done a wonderful job quitting, and now you are doubting that. Let's think this over. Did you enjoy:
(1) always having chew stuck in your teeth?
(2) Smelly breath and hands
(3) Worrying if that stuff you were putting in your mouth was killing you?
(4) Needing to drive to the gas station at 3 in the morning if you were out of chew
(5) Not being able to go on a date without those hot flashes of addiction forcing you to try and chew
(6) Higher insurance premiums
(7) Those snide looks people gave you when they realized you were an addict
(8) Falling asleep with a fatty in and waking up trying not to puke
(9) Hating yourself a little more each day whenever you put a chew in
(10) Being over 60 days away from where you are now.
1. Sitting at my desk and somebody came up to talk to me while I had a gallon of spit in my mouth.
2. Scared of dying/face removal
3. inside of my lips feeling like minkey brains the morning after cause they were so wrinkled.
4. couldn't sit through meetings or normal duties entailed with my course of employment without getting foggy headed about half way through.
5. not being able to kiss my wife or child caus eof thelump of shiz I had in my mouth.