Tobacco chew

[gypcasino]

I vaguely remember seeing video of baseball players taking a wad of tobacco and wrapping gum around it. I don't think they chewed it per se, just held it in their cheek just like if you normally would. I think the gum was used to hold the wad together.

[PlayerHader]

Mayonnaise and even 1000 calorie drinks at least provide energy. Maybe inefficient energy, bue energy nonetheless.

[brettac1]

So does nicotine when you are addicted to it.

[mothershipconnection]

Nicotine mimics acetylcholine and aids in memory function.

[milwaukeesportsfan]

A lot of people use nicotine to try to relax and relieve stress. I'm not defending it, but it definitely does help relieve stress. It's also something to do to help fight off boredom.

 

On a side note, it really bugs me that the people that I work with that are smokers can take like five or ten smoke breaks a day and still get paid for it. I will never, never understand why we have a room inside our building specifically there for employees to sit and smoke cigarettes. Boggles the mind.

[DuWayne Steurer]

One of the chewers that I work with recently had a very minor health issue that forced him to quit chewing, cold turkey. For the last 2 months, (I'll be blunt here), he's pretty much been a complete $+#!. That's a cool side effect of nicotine addiction.

 

Oh wait.

That's a cool side effect of nicotine addiction.

[bigredrobbo]

Aside from the obvious cancer-eating-away-at-your-face kinda deal, you hafta love the spit bottle!

 

Yum!

[mothershipconnection]

That's a cool side effect of nicotine addiction.

 

Sam's club has packs of 200 pieces of nicotine gum for $42. That's the route I'll go next time I attempt to quit.

[DuWayne Steurer]

That's a cool side effect of nicotine addiction.

 

Sam's club has packs of 200 pieces of nicotine gum for $42. That's the route I'll go next time I attempt to quit.

Good luck man. While I denounce the use of nicotine, I know it's a terrible monkey to try to get off your back. I've been trying to get 2 family members to quit smoking, literally for years. While I don't partake, I know that the addiction is a terrible one.

 

[burniebrewer]

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?

When I did it, I just kind of chewed the two together into a ball and then lodged it in my cheek. I'd switch sides from time to time and give it a quick chew from time to time. It tastes like bubble gum and tobacco.http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/laugh.gif There's really no other way to describe it.

There was also a Red Man "plug". I believe that was a hard packed leaf tobacco that you would also chew into a wad, but I think it took more effort than the quickly forming loose leaf Red Man.

 

I probably know a lot more about this than I should and I learned a lot of it by hanging around a Land O Lakes baseball team between the ages of 10-13.

[burniebrewer]

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

No way would I inhale cigars.

 

[TooLiveBrew]

On a trip to Europe as an 18-y-o, I brought back some cigars from some Caribbean country(...) for my buddies and me. Since I didn't know to not really inhale a cigar, I learned the hard way that it means you get to puke on your friend's bushes in his yard! Ick!

[bretsky07]

It's been a few years for me (mostly senior year in high school, sophomore year in college), but I usually had a nice trifecta going: whiskey, chew, cigarette (preferably unfiltered). I only did it a few times, and I haven't chewed in the last 3 or 4 years, but I figured if I was going to poison myself, might as well do it right.

 

I can't believe how anti-tobacco I was earlier in high school. Now I figure everyone knows it's poison, do it if you want to, just don't second-hand me, or your kids, to death please.

[DSFastball55]

I play fastpitch softball and I hit better with a dip in. I had three hits earlier tonight in fact using Grizzly Mint. It works kinda like the cream I think lol. I chew pretty often, have been for about ten years. I quit about six months ago cold turkey but fell back into it during some stressful times a couple months ago. It really wasn't that hard to quit for me, I just always kept gum and sunflower seeds nearby for a couple weeks. I promised myself I would quit again, for good this time, as soon as softball season is over (after this weekend).

[PeaveyFury]

Now I figure everyone knows it's poison, do it if you want to, just don't second-hand me, or your kids, to death please.

I guess that's how I feel as well, but knowing how short life is in and of itself makes me think that doing something that consciously shortens it considerably (and/or makes you feel like crap more in the long run) is the epitome of mystifying.

[Blazer25]

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?

Step 1: Chew the gum until soft. Big league chew or bubble-yum works best.

Step 2: Take the wad of Redman/Levi Garrett/ etc and wrap the chewed gum around it.

Step 3: Resume chewing

Step 4: Spit

Step 5: Repeat

 

The idea is that it sort of keeps the leaf tobacco together while you chew it. It also prevents you from swallowing your wad while doing activity, thus the reason many MLBers do it.

 

It takes like tobacco mixed with gum...that's the only way I can describe it.

[danzig6767]

I tried chew once when i was maybe 13.Something made me laugh that i forget now and i swallowed the spit and some chew,this got me sick to my stomach and then some yacking.That was my first and last time using it,seems a gross habit to me.

 

BTW,this summer i was at a picnic and a guy i didnt know was chewing and he had this spit can.Watching him do this was nasty,but he did have a cute girlfriend.Made me wonder how girls deal with boyfriends who chew alot,spitting brown slime all over the place.

[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.

 

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.

Using it daily is definitely hazardous. Using once a year or whatever isn't at all. There's nothing wrong with using something like that very sparingly. Of course, a lot of people have been brainwashed to believe the sight of tobacco will kill you and your children.

I'm not encouraging people to do anything. People can make up their own mids about things. They don't need people telling them obvious things, like eating fast food everyday and drinking soda without exercising will make a fat person with an extremely increased risk of heart disease and about 100 other ailments.

The surgeon general and every other medical institution recommends not eating fatty foods and to exercise, but most people don't. A lot of these same people chastise daily and non-habitual tobacco users.

 

If I'm camping and I have a wad of tobacco one night for the heck of it, it's annoying to hear someone say "That stuff will kill you!". Really? Thanks for sharing the obvious. But I don't use it in a way that will kill me. If using tobacco very sparingly will increase your risk for anything we need to begin an eradication of the plant immediately because it's more dangerous than cyanide (actually, that's a byproduct of smoking tobacco!).

 

Like anything, used in moderation isn't necessarily bad for you. I like to live a little and moderately use a lot of things at the right time and place. Including bad foods, which I rail against.

 

[brewers19]

According to the CDC, smokeless tobacco contains 28 different carcinogens. Even when used sparingly, it increases one's risk of developing oral cancer. Sure, the risk varies depending on usage, but no amount (regardless of how small) should be considered completely harmless.

[HebrewHammer]

Obviously the CDC has an agenda. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

Eating a Big Mac once a year will "technically" increase your risk of heart disease I guess. Taking a dip once a year will technically increase your risk of getting cancer I guess.

 

These are numbers are that are so inconsequential it's irrelevant t even debate it. If someone wants to believe you're hurting yourself by using something in extreme moderation, then go for it. Don't use it. I don't believe having it in that context is putting me at any more real risk for anything.

 

If I get mouth or throat cancer because of those10 times I chewed over the last 12 years, so be it. It only means God really hates me.

[brettac1]

I guess that's how I feel as well, but knowing how short life is in and of itself makes me think that doing something that consciously shortens it considerably (and/or makes you feel like crap more in the long run) is the epitome of mystifying.

 

The fact that I have zero idea how short or long my life is going to be makes me feel that if I want to smoke during it because I enjoy it, then I will. I feel the same way about other people, whatever makes you happy, go to town. Because you have zero idea how long this thing will last or how long you will be able to do the things you want to do - non-smokers get t-boned by semis at interesections just as often as smokers do.

[PeaveyFury]

non-smokers get t-boned by semis at interesections just as often as smokers do.

 

That may be true, but I'm absolutely certain that smokers die of lung cancer a heck of a lot more often than non-smokers get t-boned by semis.

[brewers19]

For me, cancer just seems like such an absolutely miserable way to go, so much that I just can't really imagine why someone would want to increase their chances of it in return for a short-lived buzz.

[brettac1]

That may be true, but I'm absolutely certain that smokers die of lung cancer a heck of a lot more often than non-smokers get t-boned by semis.

 

Right you are. But like I said, there's no guarantee that any smoker is going to see the day when they get cancer, because you can very easily die from any number of things. Living in fear of getting cancer is as miserable as getting it.

 

It really isn't as though every single person who smokes is going to get cancer. It's like an 8% chance that a smoker is going to get lung cancer. Genetics probably play as great a role in whether you get cancer or not as smoking does (LUNG cancer, you are right about, but cancer is pretty much cancer).

[Principessa21]

I tried chew once when i was maybe 13.Something made me laugh that i forget now and i swallowed the spit and some chew,this got me sick to my stomach and then some yacking.That was my first and last time using it,seems a gross habit to me.

 

BTW,this summer i was at a picnic and a guy i didnt know was chewing and he had this spit can.Watching him do this was nasty,but he did have a cute girlfriend.Made me wonder how girls deal with boyfriends who chew alot,spitting brown slime all over the place.

I'm glad you said this because I completely agree. I find the habit disgusting. In my first post I was going to say "jaybird2001wi, aren't you the one who posted about finding a nice girl? Well if you still do, I wouldn't start this habit." But maybe it's a cultural thing, because where I'm from most people don't chew.