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Quitting is hard, and using smokeless tobacco while trying to quit is common. But don't give up. Your chances of quitting get better each time you try! Larger text size Large text size Regular text size. What Is Smokeless Tobacco?

Smokeless tobacco comes as either snuff or chewing tobacco: Snuff is finer-grain tobacco that sometimes comes in pouches that look like teabags. Chewing tobacco is larger-grain tobacco leaves that are twisted or shredded and come loose in paper packets or small cans. Why Is Smokeless Tobacco Dangerous? If you use smokeless tobacco, these tips can help you quit: Use nicotine gum or a nicotine patch, but only after talking to your doctor about which would work best for you.

I feel rebellious and dirty and unhealthy. Also focused. This stuff is like Adderall. For about half an hour after I put in a dinger, I'm on fire. This morning, I banged out fifty emails.

I'm stuffing in bigger hogs. You can spot the swelling in my cheek, perhaps conveniently foreshadowing the tumor I'll eventually develop. The lumps of tobacco affect my speech. They make me sound—appropriately enough—like I have a Kentucky drawl. The phrase "Nice to see you" comes out "Nahs to shee ya. Today I get cocky. I take a massive wad of some hardcore stuff and soon feel a wave of nausea. I run to the bathroom at work and stand in front of the urinal spitting, moaning, and dry-heaving.

I hear someone open the bathroom door, then shut it without entering. Good call. I have been reading up on the history of my new habit. Native Americans chewed tobacco leaves for centuries. After Columbus, European settlers took to the new drug, with popularity reaching its height in America in the nineteenth century.

In , Charles Dickens visited our shores and was thoroughly grossed out by what he called the torrents of "yellow rain. And in the White House, where the president's inner circle often ignored spittoons and just "bestowed their favors" on the carpet. Smokeless tobacco went into decline for a couple of reasons, including the rise of cigarettes and fear of disease.

Doctors of the day probably incorrectly thought the spit was spreading tuberculosis. But in recent decades, dwindling opportunities for overt manliness have many of us spittin' like there's no tomorrow, and chew remains a force for millions of Americans—a large majority of them male, according to the CDC.

This I could have guessed. My freezer has been filling up with these hockey pucks of tobacco I order online, and the logos are almost comically macho: a grizzly bear, a rifle, a longhorn bull—everything but a scrotum. There's also a subset that seems aimed at teens, with wacky fruit flavors including melon, banana, and coconut.

I try them. They taste like Jolly Ranchers gone bad. The Dip Doctor is not a fan, either. Wherever I go, I take out a tin of dip and offer it to those around me. It seems the hospitable thing to do. Sometimes the tin's appearance elicits moral outrage one friend, the daughter of a dental hygienist, asks, "Are you doing an article on getting gum cancer?

As I leave the party, I offer it to three men on the sidewalk taking a smoke break. They shake their heads, then turn their backs to me. Ostracized by the ostracized. So who are the six million users?

Well, baseball players are the most visible. A major league outfielder agrees to email me to explain the love affair—as long as I don't use his name. Is it a performance enhancer?

Not really. More of a semi-sacred ritual that passes the time, lowers stress, and distracts you. Because baseball, if you hadn't noticed, is really damn slow. That's not to mention a surprising number of finance guys.

As a vice, it's got plenty of advantages. If you're a trader, you don't have to leave your desk and lurk in a doorway with other cigarette-smoking reprobates. You can stay in front of your Bloomberg terminal, spitting into empty soda cans.

He prefers not to use his name, since he's in the closet at both work and home where he keeps the tins hidden in the basement, away from his wife. I justified my habit because I told myself I was doing research.

Max Shea—who works in international equities at Cantor Fitzgerald—tells me he dips when he has to work late nights writing reports. A third tells me, "There are more of us than you think. I live in a small Connecticut town where a lot of people work in finance. And the gas station here has a whole fridge full of smokeless tobacco. I am doing a research project on my family history and go visit a seventy-two-year-old genealogist at her home to discuss the latest findings.

She goes to the kitchen and hands me a glass. It's got a picture of a nineteenth-century rabbi on it—part of a collection, she tells me. Her eyes widen. You shouldn't be spitting on the rabbi. Spitting is the most controversial part of smokeless tobacco. It has a great tobacco taste mixed with a little bit of sweetness, and provides a great nicotine buzz which allows me to use less dip and therefore make a can last longer.

Straight Long Cut also makes for a great beginner's dip, as the long cut is very easy to keep in place without getting bits of tobacco everywhere. What flavor is straight dip? Cope straight is slightly wintergreen so I see what you mean bordering being minty. Still just tastes like sweet smokey tobacco. Everyone hates on skoal but skoal straight is pretty good. Does dip give you a buzz?

It's a smokeless tobacco product, similar to dip or chew. A snus user packs the tobacco into his or her upper lip to get a nicotine buzz on par with that of a cigarette. Unlike dip, you swallow the byproduct rather than spit it out. How much does a roll of Copenhagen straight cost? Do they still make Copenhagen Black? What state has the cheapest dip? The cheapest states are Tennessee and Pennsylvania.

SC is around 2. Which dip has the most nicotine? Skoal Long Cut Wintergreen, a type of moist snuff made by the United States Tobacco Company, had the highest nicotine level of 11 brands analyzed: 3. How long should you keep a dip in? I usually keep it for about 45 minutes.

For me it seems like it's lost all its flavor and is completely spit saturated by then.