Nothin' like opening a new can.....

[iskibc]

of cope MMMMMMMMMM, cope. That's all. Beer and cope can't be beat!

[meatdrink9]

SWEET!!

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[iskibc]

Originally posted by meatdrink9
SWEET!!

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thanks man, needed that . Today was "National smoke out, chew out, etc." day and didn't think twice 'bout it. Got a good dental plan, so I'm not worried, yet

[truth]

I quit Cope for 3 months this summer. About to give it another go...fackin brutal.

[Blurred Elevens]

I quit all smoking/chewing June 27th 2002. I miss a good nicotine buzz, but oh well...Lip cancer has got to blow pretty hard.

[char]

I quit cope at the end of September. I started smoking within the week. The I quit and started and quit again. So far, so good.

[Crinkle]

I quit smoking almost 2 years ago. I still have an occaisional dip/chew, maybe 3x's a year.

[xboat]

funny you mention this, i was thinking about posting something the other day when i had the first craving in a long time.

i quit chewing Kodiak a year and a half ago, cold turkey. i loved that shit and had chewed for a long time. used to smoke cigs too but gave that up quite a few years ago. things have been good since. i don't think about it much at all and chew gum instead.

i am fucking sooo happy that i quit. at almost $5 a can, the money saved is huge. i've got other addictions to spend that $ on.

the other day, after a year and a half....i had the strongest urge to pick up a can. i thought that was kinda weird because it had been so long. anyways, i'm glad i didn't and i never will. that shit is BAD.

[Benny Profane]

Originally posted by xboat

the other day, after a year and a half....i had the strongest urge to pick up a can. i thought that was kinda weird because it had been so long. anyways, i'm glad i didn't and i never will. that shit is BAD.

16 years for me and cigarettes, but I still get that urge every now and then. Best advise I got from the therapist was NEVER to touch a cigarette again. Now I have to work on that Oxycotin thing.

[The Reverend Floater]

Duck hunting
Upland bird hunting
skiing
fishing
camping

....all a good time for a haagenschlaagen

[phUnk]

Cancer is the shit!

[mildbill.]

dammit i should have brought a tin to work..shit.

activities taht also are a good time for a pinch: sitting at your desk hungover.

[Steven S. Dallas]

Originally posted by xboat
at almost $5 a can, the money saved is huge.

It's about $7 in Mass. Of course, that's no problem for high-rolling suburbanites like Billy boy here.

[The Reverend Floater]

$4 and a little change here in I-da-ho!

[wookalar]

Quitting smoking was so damn hard (9 yrs ago)

Never had a problem putting the can down though. Strange.

[Honc]

Chewing tobakky is the only thing that keeps one sane whilst attending a boarding preperatory school. I find that the early AM lipper in the shower is the one that I really miss.

Other activities that require a can: long distance driving, studying, being drunk.

Tomacco tastes like grandma.

[mildbill.]

Originally posted by Alex P. Keaton
It's about $7 in Mass. Of course, that's no problem for high-rolling suburbanites like Billy boy here.

yeah for me the real expense is getting the stains off my gold teefesses.

[ulty_guy]

Originally posted by Honc
Tomacco tastes like grandma.

[ralph wigam voice] i want more! [/ralph wigam voice]

[CaddyDaddy77]

Never could stomach cope or Kodiak, but their is nothing better than a big ole' chaw of http://www.lilbrown.com/prodpics/levi-chew.jpg or http://www.swedishmatch.se/eng/image...nds/RedMan.jpg

I don't chew all that often, and can't remember the last time I finished a pouch while it was even remotely fresh, but damn I want one when I'm getting on the lift early a.m., working on a hangover!

And agreed, for roadtrips, they are about mandatory.

[xboat]

i always found that chewing and skiing didn't mix too well with me. i would get dehydrated and then the heartburn would kick in.

[Mountain Junkie]

A little story about chewing. Chewing was pretty rampant on my HS soccer team, but my one friend was a fiend. So, one of the players dads bet him $50 if he could quit chewing cold turkey for the length of the soccer season. He agrees, and quits. 3 hours later he is PMS'ing. A day later he is going freaking insane. So, he picks up snuff, and starts snuffing for the remainder of the bet. Gets the $50 bucks, immediately goes out and buys a log.

Last time I saw him he had a chew in. That guy is going to end up on a slide during health class.

[The Reverend Floater]

Originally posted by xboat
i always found that chewing and skiing didn't mix too well with me. i would get dehydrated and then the heartburn would kick in.

Oh the irony.

I was so stoked when I was one of 4 freshman to make the ski team--there were sixty something folks who tried out for 11 spots, and me and Adolf Aller-Busch made it! Our team was consistently one of the top 3 at state and most of the skiers were also varsity football or soccer players, so I figured that the program was to be no different than those--stiff and regimented. How else had we done so well.

The first weekday training day came, and I was nervously sharing a chair with the coach and one of the seniors on the team. We had set a course and had slipped it, and I was terrified that I didn't really belong on such a focused and strong powerhouse of a ski team. Just then my coach turned to the senior and asked, "Hey man. You seen Mr. Copenhaagen around anywhere?" The senior opened his pocket and said "Yeah, we just had a heart-to-heart a minute ago" and handed the coach the can. The coach put in a mongo lipper and then handed me the can. "Take one, stompy (my team nickname due to size 13 feet) and don't tell your fuckin' mother, bitch."

Ever since then, I've skied with a copenhaagen.

[frozenwater]

ah tobacco. I have stupidly sucked back a few cigs in my life. Probably about 3 packs worth over three decades.

I fell asleep with chew in the first time I tried it. After throwing up for hours it became the last.

--Now, I visit my wife where she works in oncology (cancer floor) and see, daily, young kids, 20's 30's dying in horrible pain, faces gone, coughing fighitng for air, with so much morphine in them for pain that it is practically killing them, and yet still they scream.

I see thier kids knowing they are going to be without one of thier parents in a matter of days.

---I don't visit her work much if I don't have to.

You guys enjoy life way to much to be dead. You could feel fine today, cold sore tomorrow, dead 3 months from now.

Try and quit.

[iskibc]

I've tried to quit several times. Most of those times I was good until it came to road trips, drinking, camping, or skiing (that pretty much sums up my lifestyle ). I just couldn't live without a pinch of cope or skoal while driving down the freeway or watching football at a bar. I agree that it's a nasty addiction. If I were to quit I would save $300 a year! That's a pair of used skis, boots, season pass. Damn, gotta kick the habit.

[truth]

Yep...I was all good this summer until I had to drive from Chicago to North Carolina. Gotta get over this shit though. Perhaps tomorrow will be a good day to give her another crack.

iskibc...let's kick this thing...for good.