flamingdog

I honestly don't know anyone who does this. I'm amazed there are so many who do. It's a disgusting thought, and this is coming from a smoker.

gorilla

smoking ruins your lungs, you can live with dentures but you cant live without lungs. Ive been dippin for about 3 years now. I love it, i have a dip every other day or so. I used to dip all the time, i went through 2 cans of Cope in less then a week. Everyone has their own bad habits and tobacco is no different. and, Skoal offers many new flavors that taste great. to all you people that think that dip is an unforgivable social sin, try it. Try either apple, peach, or frost blend.. they taste GREAT and the buzz is amazing.

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majik_6

I'm from rural West Virginia, so I know QUITE a few people that dip from all walks of life.

I don't really dip anymore, but I did for quite some time. I tried it, mostly because I was curious as to why in the hell people would even do it (I thought it was pretty nasty). Once I found out that it could give me a buzz again (I was pretty jaded, being a smoker) I decided to do it every now-and-then when I was around a certain crowd or wasn't able to smoke. Once I moved back in with my parents, it became a lot more often, since I wasn't able to get out to smoke as often as I'd like. I ended up moving entirely to snuff for a few months, but I've since quit.

Honestly, it's a bad choice. It can fuck up your teeth, your gums, your health...hell, it can even kill you. But I'll be damned if that cherry long-cut Skoal isn't one of the most delicious things I ever tried.

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ronan

well, as an australian, i believe i can safely say, hardly anyone in australia does this... i barely know what you guys are talking about.. i mean, i've seen those football coaches etc. do it in american movies, oh and, bills brother in kill bill 2 does it i believe... but apart from that.. nothing.. i mean, i'm not even sure if you can buy it over here.. Sounds like a very weird and disgusting habit... but, its got to have a positive side to it? i mean, you're not inhaling smoke...

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skinnymofo

the spit should be clear not brown if its snuff/long cut.
i do it every once in a while when i get a free half can from skoal at local concerts.
i dont see how its any more disgusting than smoking really.
elitism in the tobacco ranks?
the buzz (which is why you people started tobacco in the first place right?)
is way better than a cig as you can actually feel it.

edit- i didnt realize this was yet another bumped super old thread.

Kubz18

i dip as well but on a very unfrequent basis, i only do it at work beacuse overnights at a job is very boring, and i hate smoking.

plus i am surrounded by many people that chew so it is very accepted in my workplace

my firends i live with chew as well but they chew 10-15 more times a day than me and leave there bottles everywhere, i usually get stuck cleaning them up

but i will be quitting, i have decreaseed my usage massively over the last few months,

i knew it was time to quit when i realized i dont get that much of a buzz anymore from it,
now its just a bad habit

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billege

I'd like to offer you a small bit of perspective that may help you, it did me.

I started smoking at 20, and I'm not regularly smoking now at 27. It took me from 25/most of 26 to stop.

I don't "socially smoke" or "smoke when I drink" like 1000 "light" smokers qualify their "not smoking/quitting" with. However, today I had one. Bummed of a pal, first one in.....5 weeks? Something like that. Before that I don't think I had one for 8 weeks. You get the idea.

My reasoning (and my point):

I did not quit smoking. I am not a non-smoker. I’m a smoker who is not smoking.

I hope that doesn’t sound stupid, but I’m trying to differentiate between “quitting” a problem, and dealing with one.

I am still a smoker. I still want smokes. I still crave them. But, it’s not a daily or even weekly thing.

Every once in a great while, I even indulge. Sometimes, it’s not cool because I’ll find myself going from 1…to 1 a day for a week. That is lessening a lot with time, thank goodness. The last time was when my sister, a smoker, stayed with us for a week. My dumb ass smoked at least one a day with her that week. The next week really sucked, but I never bought a pack; and, didn’t bum one.

Alcoholics have the right idea when they admit it's an addiction. Alcoholics’ first step is to admit an addiction, and then they come to terms with having that addiction as part of them.

It’s not something you “quit,” and I don’t think “quitting” is a good thing for smokers either. You don’t quit your addiction. You can stop indulging it on a regular basis though. It’s a real bitch, but you can do it.

Just don’t think you’re going to “quit.” It’s the wrong frame of mind. You can stop, but you can’t quit. The addiction will still be there, and it doesn’t quit. You deal with it, and choose to stop indulging it.


Now, because I’m sooo far off topic (though they’re related!!) allow me to say that dip, dipping, is just freakin disgusting. I know how gross smoking is. Dipping takes that to the next level. It’s just…nasty.

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katie_ann1031

My brother does it. He never did before he went into the army. I guess there is a lot of peer pressure for "dipping" in the army.

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Grasshopper Green

Hubby dipped for years while in the Marines. He started because it would help him stay awake during overnight training/guard duty, and since everyone else in the Corps either smokes or dips (well, almost everyone it seems), and he was always being offered dip or smokes, he took up dipping (he hates smoking, go figure). He quit about a year ago and I'm very proud, I know it's a hard habit to break.

As for it being disgusting...it's not really worse than smoking...neither are pleasant. It really doesn't stink though, unless you don't get rid of your spit container immediately...now THAT is disgusting.

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laconic1

I tried it once at a Skoal booth at a drag race. They gave me a sample of their light, minty fresh, candied up version of tobacco. It was absolutely the nastiest thing I have ever been around in my life. I can't even imagine how disgusting the harder stuff is. I don't know how someone could use that crap long enough to get addicted. Also I had a roommate in college that dipped and the nasty bastard and his friends would spit into beer bottles and leave the uncapped beer bottles laying around where they invevitably got knocked over and leaked on the carpet. I had to pay part of the cost of replacing that carpet.