Comments on: The First Five Days – Part III http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/2009/01/the-first-five-days-part-iii/ Quitting is no longer an option... Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:49:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jerry http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/2009/01/the-first-five-days-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-3754 jerry Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:58:47 +0000 http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/?p=19#comment-3754 Matt, Your right on the nicotine, i cant believe it but thats roughly one can of cope to equal 8 packs of cigs.I have been nursing a can a week and thought i was doing good. good luck to all on one of the most difficult products to give up. Jerry Matt,
Your right on the nicotine, i cant believe it but thats roughly one can of cope to equal 8 packs of cigs.I have been nursing a can a week and thought i was doing good. good luck to all on one of the most difficult products to give up.
Jerry

]]> By: jerry http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/2009/01/the-first-five-days-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-3753 jerry Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:37:27 +0000 http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/?p=19#comment-3753 matt, congrats on quitting, however cope contains an average of 2.5 mgs of nicotine per gram. that is roughly 85 grams per can and not 255. jerry matt,
congrats on quitting, however cope contains an average of 2.5 mgs of nicotine per gram. that is roughly 85 grams per can and not 255.
jerry

]]> By: BK http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/2009/01/the-first-five-days-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-3733 BK Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:57:38 +0000 http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/?p=19#comment-3733 I have dipped cope for 34 years and have been off that stuff for a week now. It feels great. I have been chewing Nicorette 4mg Fruit Chill gum. I can honestly say that I have not had any urges to dip, but have thought about it when I would do something that I would have a dip: ie. getting into the car, doing some work around the house. I had a 2 can a day habit. Like I said, it's been a week, and have been lucky not to experience all the horror stories I have been reading about. Good luck to anyone who's trying to quit. Be strong, you can do it! I have dipped cope for 34 years and have been off that stuff for a week now. It feels great. I have been chewing Nicorette 4mg Fruit Chill gum. I can honestly say that I have not had any urges to dip, but have thought about it when I would do something that I would have a dip: ie. getting into the car, doing some work around the house. I had a 2 can a day habit. Like I said, it’s been a week, and have been lucky not to experience all the horror stories I have been reading about. Good luck to anyone who’s trying to quit. Be strong, you can do it!

]]> By: David Brown http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/2009/01/the-first-five-days-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-3709 David Brown Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:21:53 +0000 http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/?p=19#comment-3709 I have been dipping for 13 years. Started with Levi garret chew. I then went to Cope long cut. When the cope pouches came out I jumped in with those and have been dipping 2 pouches at a time which equates to 2 cans a day. I have been using the Commit Lozenge 4mg for 2 weeks now and I can say i have seen a big difference. I now use 1 can of pouches every 4 days. Not where I need to be but its a great start. Do any of you know the nicotine mg per pouch? I can't seem to find that published. Any help is appreciated. I hope and pray all of you quit. Hard addiction to overcome. I have been dipping for 13 years. Started with Levi garret chew. I then went to Cope long cut. When the cope pouches came out I jumped in with those and have been dipping 2 pouches at a time which equates to 2 cans a day. I have been using the Commit Lozenge 4mg for 2 weeks now and I can say i have seen a big difference. I now use 1 can of pouches every 4 days. Not where I need to be but its a great start. Do any of you know the nicotine mg per pouch? I can’t seem to find that published. Any help is appreciated. I hope and pray all of you quit. Hard addiction to overcome.

]]> By: Ex-Dipper http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/2009/01/the-first-five-days-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-3558 Ex-Dipper Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:21:16 +0000 http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/?p=19#comment-3558 I recently quit dipping (about 3 - 4 months ago). When I quit, I was dipping about a can a day of skoal longcut. What got me to quit, was that I was having some pretty serious anxiety due to being 1k miles from home for over a year for some contract work. The anxiety caused palpitations at night (ie. heart pounding/racing) and that scared me. I thought for sure I'd done permanent damage to my heart with nicotine. I quit immediately and started exercising. After quitting cold turkey, I bought a can and tried it again a week or so later.. my heart started racing, so I immediately spit it out and threw the can away. I haven't had a dip since. I did finally go to the doctor who said my heart was fine and I was just having anxiety, but it was a good three weeks after I quit that I went to the doctor. I figured, it's been three weeks.. no way I'm going back to dipping. These days, I do a lozenge once in awhile to relax.. but I'm off the snuff for good. I read up on the lozenges, and it turns out they don't cause cancer.. so that's a good thing. The nicotine amount is ony 4mg, so it doesn't really make my heart race.. but since I don't do much, it does have the calming effect. Trick is not to do them to often, if you do.. you get used to them and you need more LOL. I recently quit dipping (about 3 – 4 months ago). When I quit, I was dipping about a can a day of skoal longcut. What got me to quit, was that I was having some pretty serious anxiety due to being 1k miles from home for over a year for some contract work. The anxiety caused palpitations at night (ie. heart pounding/racing) and that scared me. I thought for sure I’d done permanent damage to my heart with nicotine. I quit immediately and started exercising. After quitting cold turkey, I bought a can and tried it again a week or so later.. my heart started racing, so I immediately spit it out and threw the can away. I haven’t had a dip since. I did finally go to the doctor who said my heart was fine and I was just having anxiety, but it was a good three weeks after I quit that I went to the doctor. I figured, it’s been three weeks.. no way I’m going back to dipping.

These days, I do a lozenge once in awhile to relax.. but I’m off the snuff for good. I read up on the lozenges, and it turns out they don’t cause cancer.. so that’s a good thing. The nicotine amount is ony 4mg, so it doesn’t really make my heart race.. but since I don’t do much, it does have the calming effect. Trick is not to do them to often, if you do.. you get used to them and you need more LOL.

]]> By: Rob S http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/2009/01/the-first-five-days-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-3431 Rob S Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:58:11 +0000 http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/?p=19#comment-3431 Wow, I think this is the first time I have seen where it is broken down about how much nicotine is in chew. The best I could find was that one chew was equal to 3 cigerattes. I started out cutting down on my copenhagen pouches making myself wait 30 mins until my next chew. Then I made myself chew skoal longcut for and kept cutting down. Finally I went to Redman leaf stuff. The leaf stuff made me so mad I started the patch early and went dipless. I have been dippless for 9 days thus far. I spoke with my doc she put me on Zyban first. This is supposed to help take the edge off the nicotine cravings or crazies. I am on the 21 mg patch. I take it off when I sleep so I do not get all 21 mg. I was a 1-1.5 can of cope pouches a day. I will be off the patch in about 33 days. woot woot Good luck guys and I hope you all are fighting the good fight. Wow,
I think this is the first time I have seen where it is broken down about how much nicotine is in chew. The best I could find was that one chew was equal to 3 cigerattes. I started out cutting down on my copenhagen pouches making myself wait 30 mins until my next chew. Then I made myself chew skoal longcut for and kept cutting down. Finally I went to Redman leaf stuff. The leaf stuff made me so mad I started the patch early and went dipless. I have been dippless for 9 days thus far. I spoke with my doc she put me on Zyban first. This is supposed to help take the edge off the nicotine cravings or crazies. I am on the 21 mg patch. I take it off when I sleep so I do not get all 21 mg. I was a 1-1.5 can of cope pouches a day. I will be off the patch in about 33 days. woot woot Good luck guys and I hope you all are fighting the good fight.

]]> By: george prest http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/2009/01/the-first-five-days-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-3395 george prest Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:03:05 +0000 http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/?p=19#comment-3395 good on all of you. Every attempt at quitting the cope is a victory, so I have heard. I am on day 5, the cold turkey method. It's really rough after relying on cope for the past 44 years. If I stay in the house, I might make it. Soldier on boys good on all of you. Every attempt at quitting the cope is a victory, so I have heard. I am on day 5, the cold turkey method. It’s really rough after relying on cope for the past 44 years. If I stay in the house, I might make it. Soldier on boys

]]> By: Kyle Walter http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/2009/01/the-first-five-days-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-3357 Kyle Walter Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:21:45 +0000 http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/?p=19#comment-3357 congrats man great explenation of why it is so hard to quit. i quit chewing copenhagen 22 hours ago and decided to use the 4mg gum. i chewed a tin a day for the past ten years. your explenation hes shown me why one piece of 4mg gum does nothing for me. i would take a big 3 finger pinch fallowed by a little pinch to top it off. i would get about 5-7 pinches from a can which means i was getting 51-37 mg of nicotine per dip. no wonder i find myself with four 4mg pieces of gum in my mouth still wanting more.thanks man the more i know the harder i can fight this. congrats man great explenation of why it is so hard to quit. i quit chewing copenhagen 22 hours ago and decided to use the 4mg gum. i chewed a tin a day for the past ten years. your explenation hes shown me why one piece of 4mg gum does nothing for me. i would take a big 3 finger pinch fallowed by a little pinch to top it off. i would get about 5-7 pinches from a can which means i was getting 51-37 mg of nicotine per dip. no wonder i find myself with four 4mg pieces of gum in my mouth still wanting more.thanks man the more i know the harder i can fight this.

]]> By: Duder http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/2009/01/the-first-five-days-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-3353 Duder Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:42:10 +0000 http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/?p=19#comment-3353 Wow. This is fantastic information. Thanks man. ps. guys, this may not be kosher, but a pot and nicotine patch combo has seriously helped me (not a patch with both pot and nicotine, which i'm sure there is a market for, but the nicotine patch accompanied by marijuana usage). It helps with the whole "being a bitch" part - which is a very real part of quitting. Wow. This is fantastic information. Thanks man.

ps. guys, this may not be kosher, but a pot and nicotine patch combo has seriously helped me (not a patch with both pot and nicotine, which i’m sure there is a market for, but the nicotine patch accompanied by marijuana usage). It helps with the whole “being a bitch” part – which is a very real part of quitting.

]]> By: Mike http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/2009/01/the-first-five-days-part-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-3307 Mike Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:17:34 +0000 http://www.addictedtosnuff.com/?p=19#comment-3307 Christopher and Murphy, Hope all is going will with your efforts to give up the dip.... I am on day 12 after 40+ years of dipping 'hagen. I am trying the nicotine gum approach. Like you Christopher, I was dipping about 1/2 can per day and am chewing 15-20 pieces a day and hoping to cut that back even more in the next few days... I really comment you Murphy. I can't do the cold-turkey method. My biggest problem besides poor sleeping is I keep biting my darn cheeks and tongue... retarded gum chewer... lol Best of Luck Gents, Mike Christopher and Murphy,

Hope all is going will with your efforts to give up the dip…. I am on day 12 after 40+ years of dipping ‘hagen. I am trying the nicotine gum approach. Like you Christopher, I was dipping about 1/2 can per day and am chewing 15-20 pieces a day and hoping to cut that back even more in the next few days… I really comment you Murphy. I can’t do the cold-turkey method. My biggest problem besides poor sleeping is I keep biting my darn cheeks and tongue… retarded gum chewer… lol

Best of Luck Gents,

Mike

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