Smokeless Tobacco, Chewing Tobacco

[tonypaladino]

Background: (Skip to the next paragraph for the tobacco question) I am going to be doing a lot of studying tonight and I cannot smoke in my room. Normally I have some Nicorette to get me thrugh it because it is a pain in the ass to step outside all the time. I am out of nicorette and there is no where close to here to buy some.


I picked up a can of Skoal, long cut. I've been using it by putting a glob between my gum and lip sucking at it. Do people actually chew skoal, or is there a different type of tobacco for chewing? I beleive skoal is considered "moist snuff" and not "chewing tobacco", but I might be wrong. Does anyone use smokeless tobacco, and what kind/which way do you use it?

TONY

[SackUp]

Be a man.

Chew it, suck it, swallow it.

Tony,

There's a big difference between Skoal/Cope and real chewing tobacco. Chewing tobacco is like Redman, and comes in big pouches. You throw a huge handful of that crap in and gnaw on it. It doesn't burn like skoal/cope has a tendency to do.

Long cut/mid cut/snuff is, as far as I'm aware, actually cut with pieces of fiberglass in it. You don't even need to bother sucking on it, the nicotine absorbs through your gum/lip and voila, a nicotine buzz. You're not swallowing the spit, right? I assume you've got yourself a bottle, and you're spittin into that, or somesuch. The only time you should really need to manipulate the dip is when you move it around a bit to get the moister stuff from the inside... other than that, throw it in and leave it be.

When I smoked, I dipped when I couldnt smoke, and found the buzz to be a bit much at times. I dipped skoal straight long cut. Couldnt stand snuff, or any of the mid cuts. Bleh. I've since quit.

The only worry about dip is that its remarkably addictive. Moreso than cigarettes. People I've know that had smoked, and then taken up dipping, cautioned against starting, because its harder to quit than smoking is. And, as we've covered in OOT before, smoking is supposedly harder to quit than heroin... or somethin. Tangentially, I found it easier to quit smoking than to quit doing coke. Whatever.

yasher

[dblgutshot]

Just smoke in your room. Use paper towel roll stuffed with bounce sheets. Old school but it really works.

Please elaborate. Never heard of this one before.

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Please elaborate. Never heard of this one before.

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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/thefed/v2...nosmoking.html

[tonypaladino]

Yasher,

Thanks for all the info. It was impossible to get anything on Google as every search brought up 12,000 anti-tobacco sites.

I can't beleive what a nicotine rush it is. I can see how it would be easy to get addicted to this, and I won't allow myself to dip more than a day consecutively.

I'm not sure if I buy the theory that there is fiberglass in it. that seems a lot like the claim that cigarettes are made with embalming fluid.

thanks
TONY

Edit: Thanks to you as well, checkraise

[CheckRaise]

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Yasher,

Thanks for all the info. It was impossible to get anything on Google as every search brought up 12,000 anti-tobacco sites.

I can't beleive what a nicotine rush it is. I can see how it would be easy to get addicted to this, and I won't allow myself to dip more than a day consecutively.

I'm not sure if I buy the theory that there is fiberglass in it. that seems a lot like the claim that cigarettes are made with embalming fluid.

thanks
TONY

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There is fiber glass in there thats why a new chewers lip burns when they have the dip in. Cuts up your mouth and allows the nicotine in. It is quite a buzz for a while but if you ever become a regular chewer it goes away. I can't get a buzz off it anymore.

[Wired Jokers]

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I can't beleive what a nicotine rush it is. I can see how it would be easy to get addicted to this, and I won't allow myself to dip more than a day consecutively.

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Heh. Famous last words. I said the same thing freshman year in college. I started with one chew of Beechnut a day. Then it grew to two. Then during mid-terms and finals, it grew more. Eventually, I was a RedMan dude 3-4 times a day.

I finally broke the habit 2nd year of law school. One of the toughest things I ever did. But, bleeding from your cheeks will put a scare into you, big time. I still hope, 13 years later, that I don't get cancer.

I'm not much for preaching, and everyone makes their own decisions. But I implore you to stop right now before you head down this same path.

[JcTc]

Ugh, I have tried quitting a bunch of times, and after a day or two without it I go out and get another tin of the Grizz. It is extremely easy to get hooked on, and really tough to kick. My advice: Don't start, unless you want to be hooked on cigs AND chew.