I am 29 and used skoal straight until May 20th of this year. I will let you know how my first season without it goes. I could not quit on my own so on that day when my little girl was born I told her she would never see me dip or smoke. You can't make the first thing you tell your only child a lie. I can guarantee that took care of the cravings that use to do me in. Good luck on quitting boys and as for the topic I do not think it spooks them but maybe on those evenings when they were not moving and they should have been.....Now I know why.