Tobacco chew

[homer]

I chewed one time. Put a dip in on a tee box, puked it up when I got to the green. That was about 18 years ago.

[Blazer25]

I tried Red Man twice and I mixed it with Bazooka. I did it that way because the gum held the chaw together.

That's a good way to go. Plus the gum adds good flavor.

 

I dip about a can or so a week. It's a nasty habbit but it sort of comes with being around baseball. I try not to do it at home or away from the ballpark. The problem is, I seem to always be at a ballpark.

[HebrewHammer]

I chewed one time. Put a dip in on a tee box, puked it up when I got to the green. That was about 18 years ago.

Yeah, nicotine can really get you going. It's more powerful than a lot of people realize.

I used to smoke so if I do have a chew (seriously, about once a year) I'll get a buzz but I know how to handle it.

If you've never used tobacco before it's advisable to use a small amount the first time. After awhile the buzz goes away. It doesn't take many weeks of consecutive use for the buzz to go away and the feeling of "normal" to take effect when you use it. This is why I don't advise using it very often.

Tobacco can be a fun treat from time to time, but it's important not to make a habit of it. I'm not a person who thinks it's wrong to use, but you should be responsible when you use it. Find a time and a place for it and that's it.

I'll have a chew if I'm camping and sitting around the fire. I'll smoke a cigarette if I'm in a casino or a strip club. I don't find myself in casino's or strip clubs very often at all. Probably less than campfires. But I don't use tobacco at any other time.

 

[BrewCrewForever]

I like to throw a dip in during softball games. Sometimes if I dont dip maybe some gum with redman. Skoal apple and citrus is good. I never chew just to do it, just during softball.

[Fatter than Joey]

Ah leave it to BF.net to have a topic and everyone say how wrong it is and what they should do.

 

Obviously you are new to the term "everyone", hence its misuse.

 

However, it does give you a little buzz and now with all the flavors actually can be very enjoyable to have while killing time

 

You can't kill time without flavors.

[TooLiveBrew]

or flava(s)

[samwise]

I don't mind a naw once and awhile, when I am working outside or playing ball, it can be satisfying, but I am not an avid user by any means. I grew up in a rural community and hung out/partied with a ton of farm kids who chewed, so I was around it.

 

I remember the first time I did it. I was on a school field trip in 6th grade and we were staying over night at a camp site. One of the 7th graders had some, and was passing it around. I took some stuck it in my lip, thinking it would be like gum, kind of rubbery. Well I was way off and ended up swallowing the whole thing. I was puking for an hour. The teachers and camp people all came to the bunk to find me puking my brains out. I was just a mess, I was super dizzy and my stomach felt terrible. They wanted to send me home but I kind of sucked it up and was able to stay. The next day some 5th grader ratted me out, weak.

[TooLiveBrew]

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"Weeeeak"

 

[brettac1]

I always tried to get into it, but I could never pull it off. Usually I just got sick, so I don't think I've done it in about three years. I have a bunch of friends that do it, even a girl that is a very close friend does sometimes (which to be honest disgusts me).

 

I just stick to the good old cancersticks.

[Brian the Automator]

I tried it once in college and promptly threw up. I'll just stick to the occasional cigarette or cigar.

[gypcasino]

I started dipping after I quit smoking in 1996, Kodiak and Skoal mint. And I occasionally chewed Red Man too. I quit that after probably about a year because I go to the dentist every six months and didn't want them yelling at me about it. I never get a craving for a cigarette but every once awhile I get the urge for a gigantic dip of Kodiak. I could never figure out the attraction to Copenhagen. I had some friends that used it and I found it compeltely disgusting (the taste, yes I know the habit itself is disgusting).

[JimH5]

Ah leave it to BF.net to have a topic and everyone say how wrong it is and what they should do.

 

Geez, vbkooler, the guy asked a question to a group of people on chewing tobacco--you've got to expect at least one person is going to try to steer him in another direction. What's wrong with that?

 

For the record--I was in college when Skoal introduced those little packets, I think they were called Skoal Bandits. It was like a small tea bag, with tobacco inside. Maybe they still sell them. I got a free sample from one of those college giveaway guys--a rather insipid thing now that I think about it--and I tried them for a couple of weeks, and didn't get much of anything from them, other than my lip and gum turning numb.

 

Anyway, now, 25 years later a guy on a message board asks a general question about chewing tobacco and I recommend a healthier lifestyle option instead.

 

And apparently that bothers you.

 

Too bad.

[SenatorShriv]

I used to chew a lot during wrestling season. It made me forget about how hungry I was and the spitting helped me lose water weight. Most of the team chewed at least occasionally. I have a roommate who still chews full time and occasionally I'll bum a dip off him, but I don't chew on a regular basis. I couldn't, it is too expensive and hurts my mouth after I've had more than two within a couple of days.

[HebrewHammer]

What's unhealthy about having some tobacco form time to time? I'd agree it can be used in unhealthy manners and often is, but it's not exclusively an unhealthy thing.

 

Plus, many tobacco users are chastised so much today and they probably get sick of people saying things. Tobacco users get hit harder than almost any other group of people: drinkers, fat people, drug addicts, abusers, lazy people, sex addicts, etc. Some of those are even more unhealthy for a person, such as the fat epidemic we have in America. But fit people such as myself don't constantly approach fat people and offer advice on things they should do instead of eating all the time. If I went around the office and made public my distaste for all the fat women and big gutted men who are drinking soda, eating poor foods and making my health care premiums cost more, I'd be fired. But it's OK for this same fat person to complain about people using chew at work or tell a tobacco user they should quit.

 

I think most daily tobacco users are quite aware of the dangers involved with daily use. It gets real old I'd imagine hearing everyones opinion on what appears to be the one thing that will kill you!

 

Why is it always OK to offer unsolicited advice to tobacco users, but not to the other zillion people with habits just as bad and dangerous?

 

Most people are going to die from heart disease or stroke due to poor diet and hours in front of the TV with the feed bag before any of the second hand smoke they might inhale will get to them. (And don't get me started on the second hand smoke Nazi's out there. Breathing a little smoke isn't going to kill you! Working in a smoky office all day might. We don't have smoky offices anymore!)

 

And I don't even smoke or chew daily or even regularly.

[tommyboy42609]

redman is a whole different type of chew, you can put a huuuuuuuuge dip in compared to normal chew and not even get 1/2 the buzz - also redman tastes like raisins.

 

jimh- yea they still make the bandits but they hardly sell since theres pouches in about every flavor out there

 

i stick to grizzly straight, skoal and cope prices are through the roof. if youre thinking about trying it skoal citrus is the weakest kind ive ever had which is where you would want to start or else you just get sick.

[IslandsAC]

Ugh, the only time I ever got kicked out of a bar (nay, the only time I even got close) was a direct result of my forgetting that an integral part of the 'dipping' process is the act of spitting. Shows how often I've done it. In college it was the thing that my buddies did once every great while on special occasions (just stuck to the pouches), mostly as some type of unspoken brotherly inside joke, but gross. Probably only about 6 or 7 times in all, but it never even gave me a buzz until the last time.

 

One of my favorite memories from college was when one of the music acts that we got to play on campus, a young country singer, had time to kill in the afternoon before his show (which I was coordinating) so he just hung out in my dining room and my roommates and i all sat around the table as he told jokes and talked about the road, through a heaping wad of long cut and between punch-line-indicating spits into his empty wild cherry pepsi bottle. classic.

[JimH5]

What's unhealthy about having some tobacco form time to time? I'd agree it can be used in unhealthy manners and often is, but it's not exclusively an unhealthy thing.

 

The Surgeon General, American Medical Association, American Cancer Society, and every other medical organization recommend not using smokeless tobacco. You can ignore their advice if you want to, but why would you encourage others to do so?

 

Why is it always OK to offer unsolicited advice to tobacco users, but not to the other zillion people with habits just as bad and dangerous?

 

This advice wasn't unsolicited. It was solicited by jaybird at the top of the thread.

 

 

And thanks tommyboy for the info about Skoal Bandits. If I remember right, the sensation was like a badly flavored novocaine that took a few hours to wear off.

[dadofandrew]

I can't believe anyone would ever dream of using a product so universally despised and dare I say, icky. I know of no benefit, unless you enjoy the flavor, I suppose.

[DuWayne Steurer]

Being in construction, I work with a lot of guys that chew. Being outside, the people that chew figure it's ok to spit anywhere. There's not much more disgusting than picking up a plank, or a masonry block, or whatever, and putting your hand on someone else's chew spit.

 

When we had a job up north a bit, I rode with another guy from work to split gas. On any given day, there were 10-15 water bottles full of spit on the floor, along with a paper cup in the cup holder full of spit. Sorry, but that's just gross.

[gypcasino]

I know of no benefit, unless you enjoy the flavor, I suppose.

Or are addicted to nicotine.

[jaybird2001wi]

I chew a pinch once every few months. I just hate the mess after I get done chewing, so I rarely chew to begin with. But one night I was at a bar and had a tin of chew and I made the major mistake of accidently drinking a beer and it got mixed in with my chew and I ended up swallowing the wad by accident. I couldn't get the taste out of my mouth for days.

[pitchleague]

I've never used any tobacco product in my life. Not even the time I was half-passed out on the bar and one of my buddies, who swore up and down that he'd get me to smoke a cigarette in college, tried to stick a cigarette in my mouth and I still pushed the thing away in my stupor. Still damn proud of that!

 

Anyways, my only story with chewing tobacco is the time our HS basketball team was headed to a road game on the bus and the head coach caught one of the bench warmer seniors dipping at the back of the bus. As the coach approached, the kid swallowed the whole dip. The coach knew it and put the kid in the starting lineup. Boy, I don't think I've EVER seen anybody throw up that much in one sitting as that guy did.

 

I am an avid hater of tobacco but I don't hate smokers. In fact, there are times when I've been tempted to try a cigar (cigarettes, no way) but I figure I'd probably cough up a lung on my first inhalation. Maybe somebody could clue me in on that? I see other non-smokers (or at least I think they are) smoking an occasional stogie on the golf course and they seem fine.

[gypcasino]

When you're smoking a cigar you don't inhale. Well, I'm sure some people do but I don't think most do.

[mothershipconnection]

I know of no benefit, unless you enjoy the flavor, I suppose.

 

I say the same thing about mayonnaise and 1,000 calorie drinks.

[Dough73]

How does the whole Redman and gum thing work? Do people actually mix them together and chew it like they would with just gum? What does it taste like?