I quite chewing Cope over a year ago now.
That was tough! You think cigarettes are tough to kick? I could put in a big ole' wad of chew just before bed and fall asleep, and at about 3:00am, have to wake up and spit it out. This is where I was in the end. Then in the morning, I'd wait till I had a cup or two of coffee in me, maybe a doughnut or some kind of snack... before I put in that first dip.
If I chewed in the morning on an empty stomach, I'd get such a sickening dizzy buzz, I likened it to a shot of heroin or something. It was a buzz I didn't like. But, doggone it, I deserved that chew. It was the only out I had left.
And it was getting somewhat expensive. Four cans of chew a week cost me from about 15 dollars to as much as 22 dollars. I didn't chew Skoal or the cheap stuff because only Cope wouldn't tear my lip up so much. So that's $60-$84/month. But I still did it.
Finally one day, I had sort of the "urge to quit". You ever get that? The urge to quit? I did and just up and cold turkey'd it. I went down to the store and bought some hard candy and some apples, and diligently and religiously grabbed a piece of candy to pass it and ate those apples and got my calender out and made a mark for every day I didn't chew and after 21 days, I stopped doing that and eventually tapered off the candy. Oh, and drank lots of water.
It was mostly mentally tough. It was just... a tedious hassle to say, "ahhh I just can't do it." Then after a few minutes... the thoughts or urges passed. But often they came... for about 3 weeks. Then from time to time, but in decreased numbers.
I think nicotine is mostly a head game, not much physical suffering. But the mental IS the hard one. Quit coffee sometime. That's excrutiating physical pain for me. Drinking coffee must be like taking aspirin and when you quit, all those little hidden pains in my lower back and legs come to the surface. Maybe it's the liver detoxing. IDK.
But I hope I never take another drag off a cigarette or a dip. What a nasty disgusting habit, the both of them.
Oh, but I'm not judging you all!
That's just for me!