I am 29, I had a dip in from 12 or 13 until 6 months ago. I played baseball through college so dip was a way of life. Skoal straight longcut, 2 cans a day for the last 10 or so years...before that it was whatever I could afford or someone would buy for me (underage). I personally consider myself a mans man and have a very head strong personality. It took the birth of my daughter to make me quit. I told her a few hours after she was born that she would never see her daddy dip...I went outside, put the last half can in my mouth and spit skoal with my buddy until I was spitting dust. Threw the can away and that was it. I cannot let the first thing my daughter and I talked about in this world become a lie. I tried everything under the sun and even quit for weeks and even a month or 2 but the cravings were what got me. I finally added up what 4+ dollars a can, twice a day cost me and the prize in the end was to potentially get cancer.

The stories moral is everyone is jumping on BC because he has an elitist attitude toward quitting dipping...let me tell you I would be the 1st guy to tell him to F' off ina heart beat over 6 months ago, but I feel so good to have finally kicked the habit that I am in agreement with him. Remember I was the I'll quit when I want to, gotta die of aomething...blah blah blah. Only a few in this world really spend that much money on some thing that unhealthy and have NO regrets what so ever. If you want to dip that is the privlage of spending your money freely in the greatest country in the world, but when and only when you quit will you see where BC is coming from and I bet the ranch you agree 100% as well at that time.

To save my mini hijack, It effects your hunt 100% of the time, you gotta move or make some kind of noise to spit[:-]Even if you swallow I do not think you can get the pinch in your mouth without moving.