Any Smokeless tobacco users?

I prefer Griz Wintergreen Long cut. I usually get the same, about 5-7 pinchs a tin if i were to guess

 

My dentist also dips and he told me this one day while I was there. He said that if you keep your dip in for less then 15 minutes then you are much less likely to have any serious side effects.

How much I believe of that I dunno but it gives me peace of mind haha but I usually take medium size pinches now cause I used to dip a shit ton and take humongous pinches and keep em in for 45 minutes at a time and I now have rather large intentions in my gums.

 

wait...wut? if im reading what you typed correctly....you dip like a whole can at once

 

just had some skoal cherry.....that shit was disgusting

 

exactly what i thought haha and it burns for some reason

 

worst can I've ever had. I'm a grizzly wintergreen man but the most tasty can I've ever had was skoal vanilla

 

damn that sounds solid. I haven't had skoal in a while but I might have to get a can of vanilla and apple for the super bowl so I can chew my pain away (I'm a Niner fan) lol

 

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i quit....i dunno how but i literally just put the can down and havnt picked it up sense new years.

 

Started dipping snuff when I was 15, quit when I turned 31 in December 2010. Only way I could quit was with Chantix and I still to this day think about throwing in a dip. Seems to be fading very very slowly. Used to dip 1-1.5 cans a day.

 

i still have a small oral fixation but other than that nothing. i really thing exercise had a lot to do with it.

 

Broke down and bought a can the other day. Skoal Extra Crisp blend, just as crappy as I remember.


I miss Citrus pouches more and more everytime I dip.

 

and what is "gator lip"?

 

Kayak = shit


lol i did the same thing...saw it while driving at a gas station and hadnt seen it around my way so i got 2 tins of it...grape and wintergreen i beleive it was...threw a big old pinch in and two minutes in a took it out...

i stick with skoal. im stuck on skoal citrus long cut. and straight long cut....at work i do the skoal crisp blend pouches since they are easily hidden

 

flavor of it has nothing to do with it. it's all about the date (which relates to its moisture) and how long you leave it in.

but yes, sometime's i'll get "gator lip" if the sleeve i bought isn't fresh. but i don't put dips in the front, i go from left to ride side so the other side has time to "recover" lol.

 

"gums get wrinkled" is called keratosis. The result of chew being an irritant to the gums.

I've chewed for a decade or so, anywhere from a dip a day to a few. I used to smoke but I dunno, I don't work in an environment where I can smoke or chew, and smoking just got old after a while. It just trailed off to where I haven't smoked in maybe 6 months.

Years ago I got a white spot on my lip for a few days, and got so paranoid over it I scheduled an appointment with an oral surgeon to look at it. By the time I got in to see the doctor, it had almost gone away. He looked at it and said it was nothing. I told him I was chewing partly to try to stop smoking. The doctor said to me that while he wasn't encouraging me to do either, if he had to advise me, he would definitely say chewing was much, much safer than smoking. He said that when you get oral cancer, it is only local, in the beginning, and it can be fairly easily removed. But if you get lung cancer or esophogeal cancer, the kind most associated with smoking, it's only a matter of time. You will probably die from it.

I've done some amatuer research on it, and chewing actually has a fairly tenuous link to oral cancer. Studies of pro ball players (high percentage of smokeless tobacoo users), or people that live in states with higher-than-average rates of chewing among the population, don't seem to have any greater incidence of oral cancer.

That being said, it's not like it's chewing gum, it can cause problems, and probably contributes to oral cancer.

 

Damnit! This thread always pops up when I'm craving a dip....

Money has been motivation not to recently.

 

want me to send you some? it's really cheap here

but seriously, keep on fighting the good fight. ive been trying to cut back more lately myself. it's not "cool" anymore, it's a chore per se.

 

I took a hockey puck to the mouth in a game on sunday night.. I just about bit through my tongue and lip which really sucked... The worst part was, i couldnt chew for a day and now i have to chew pouches because good ol cope long cut was killing me. This SUCKS!