Answerman’s HOF 100 days quit, a lifetime to go. You know, the second part is the important one: the 100 days is just a number, or a beginning. The lifetime is the future, and that’s the important thing. This has been the second (and last) long quit of my almost 40 years of dipping. The … Read more

Joe’s HOF Speech I began using smokeless tobacco in my early teens, having grown up on a farm and watched both my father and grandfather use tobacco while working with them. Many of the “cool” guys in middle school during the early 80s were starting to use Skoal, so I started dipping snuff to fit … Read more

The mandibular tori in my mouth had been bothering me for some time.  For those unfamiliar, mandibular tori are bony growths on the floor of the mouth, under the tongue.  They grow from each side in the mouth, and mine had gotten so bad that I could barely put my finger behind my bottom front … Read more

I’m willing to bet that a lot of “dippers” who are actively using smokeless tobacco wish they could quit.  Strangely, when I was still dipping, I did not want to quit, but then the day came when I really wanted to be done with smokeless tobacco for good. It is unfortunate that my desire to … Read more

With an internet search it is pretty easy to find the bad things that happen to your body when you ingest nicotine through smokeless tobacco.  I wanted to take a minute and focus on the good things that happen when you quit smokeless tobacco.   Its easy to fall into the trap of “this sucks” when … Read more

  I can’t believe it has been five years honestly. I can easily remember the pain of the first two weeks after quitting. I was a complete zombie mess. I just made it through work each day and afterward just zoned out until bedtime. I had some really bad fog brain, which I have also … Read more