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[jtval 0]

i was up to almost 3packs aday when I quit.
I used the patch for about a week...ONLY when the cravings made me kill some one!

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>Are you familliar with that type of 'chewing tobacco'
>that comes in a little pouch that you put in your cheek and suck.

Yeah I know the stuff, I've tried it too but it really wasn't my cup of tea... but I could feel the nicotine buzzing in my head. Strong stuff!

It's pretty popular among young athletes here in Finland(especially hockey and football players), they prefer it to smoking since it doesn't ... damn, have a hole in my vocabulary here... you know, it doesn't make it difficult to breathe.

It's not really sucked(at least not here), but rather placed under your upper lip and left there. The nicotine gets in your blood through your mucus membranes. The more popular type here isn't in pouches either, most people make a small 'cake' from it by using a modified syringe(without the needle of course), and then use that to place the 'cake' under their lip.

If you want someone to stop using chewing tobacco, you should bring them to my former workplace, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. I worked there from 1987 to 1989, and I saw some horrifying pictures of people who developed mouth cancer, mostly from oral tobacco products. It was disgusting, the cancer basically ate away their faces & jaws. Most of them died from it eventually. But before they died they looked worse than anything I've ever seen in gory horror movies. <> If anyone saw what I saw they'd never go near that shit.

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[QuickDraw 0]

I have smoked for 20 years, but i have never inhaled.

We used to have them tobacco pouch chew things over here too once,
they were called "Skol Bandits"

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[GrumpySmurf 0]

Saw the oddest thing this past Labour Day - they banned it in Ottawa, Ontario - but across the river in Hull, Quebec - they didn't. The nature of the people who would go the bars in the Byward Market in Ottawa changed drasticly since I last lived there in '99 - all the 'jeans and t-shirt' crowd (students and blue collar) started going across the river to the bars in Quebec, where as the Yuppie 'see and be seen' crowd stayed in Ottawa - I guess if you don't have to worry about your clothes stinking of smoke, you can dress rather nicely. The bars also changed to reflect this - alot more small high priced martini bars and NuJazz lounges started popping up. Quite a welcome change not having to cough up a lung or two the next morning from all the crud that accumlated the night before.

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I started smoking intermittently when I was 17, and promised myself I'd quit when I turned 30. I put them down for good just after my 29th birthday, and never missed them. I enjoyed smoking very much, but I didn't want it to be a lifelong thing.

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But, anyone here drink the Green Liquid before other then myself?

Not me, if I'm thinking of the same thing, but I saw a discussion of it go by at some point. However, I don't remember if it was this board or another. (I know, not that helpful.)

I find its reintroduction a bit bizarre, considering the history.

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I only smoke when I am on fire.

[ChileRelleno 0]

I smoked for about 13-14 years, started when I was around nine (9) years old. I'd try to quit now and then couple of weeks on up to six (6) months at one point, but I always started again. When I started skydiving I could notice the start of hypoxia at altitude and quit again, about three (3) months later I could really notice the difference, I could hang out at altitude with little effect.

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Congrats. Sounds like you fought a tough battle and won!

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Is there anybody out there who actually quit smoking with help from that stuff? And of course after that quit using the patches/hum/whatever as well?

Yup, I did it with the help of more Nicotene. I stopped on January 2, 2002. I did the patches for about a week, then chewed the gum until the beginning of March and then stopped completely. The gum was cool for me 'cause I used to be a Skoal man for a couple years during my smoking career. I thought it was ok, since I stopped smoking, but I was still using nicotene in just different ways.

It's a little difficult at first, but it you really want to stop...it should be no problem. You hear, me Sebazz ??

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