Cigarettes, Dipping/chewing Tobacco

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#1 The Gigglah

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Posted 18 June 2009 - 06:13 PM

I quit smoking about a 2 months ago, and like many others am having a hell of a time. Whenever I'm out at a bar/ show or at a friends house and anyone lights up a smoke I usually pop in a Camel snus or a skoal dip pouch instead of bumming a smoke. Every once in a while, I'll get a stomach cramp but not sure if it's from food that I had earlier or from the tobacco. Anyone know if chewing/dipping tobacco has Gluten?

#2 PattyBoots

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Posted 18 June 2009 - 07:28 PM

Here's the rub (LOL) - you're not doing yourself any favors because you're still using tobacco.

I've buried both parents and an aunt due to lung cancer/celiac in the last 3 years, and I'm a 7-year-quit-smoker, but I'm still no Nicotine Nazi - if you want to smoke, smoke. If you don't, don't. But IMHO you're just prolonging the agony of quitting by using the "smokeless" tobacco.

No judgment, it's just to me like an alcoholic saying, well, I'm going to quit drinking bourbon, and since all my friends are drinking bourbon, I'm just gonna drink a beer.

#3 brigala

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Posted 18 June 2009 - 07:31 PM

The Gigglah, on Jun 18 2009, 07:13 PM, said:

I don't know, but according to their website, Nicorette is Gluten-Free. Maybe that would be a better route for you as you are trying to quit.

Good luck. I've never smoked, but my husband did for many years. He quit before I met him, but he says it was REALLY HARD -- and SO worth it. He quit a couple of times before it "stuck," but once he'd really really quit for good and stuck with it for a year, the cravings went away and it hasn't tempted him since. That was about 36 years ago if I am doing my math right (before I was born -- yeah, stick with it and someday you too can have a much younger wife.

) (Just kidding, and no offense to the current wife if there is one).

gluten-free since mid-2007.
"Official" diagnosis is IBS & "Fibromyalgia-like symptoms" -- which have disappeared with the gluten-free diet. Mom & Sister have since been diagnosed Celiac through blood/biopsy tests.
Allergic to walnuts, pecans, and dates. Trouble with soy in high concentrations. OAS to many other raw fruits and vegetables. Occasional bouts of lactose intolerance, but usually dairy is ok unless I've been recently glutened.

#4 The Gigglah

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Posted 18 June 2009 - 08:28 PM

Thanks for the replies Patty and Brigala. It's funny how when you are younger and start an addiction like nicotine you really don't think too much about it. Then you hit 30 and relize how fast life goes by, and how fragile life is, that it really kicks you in the butt. I think I may stop tobacco tommorrow and get some Nicorette. I do have a much younger gal(haha) 8 years younger, and the mouth tobacco grosses her out. Thanks!