I quit chewing after watching a good friend go through gum cancer. They had to give him radiation treatments. His tongue and throat swelled up and he couldn't eat so they inserted a feeding tube into his stomach and he was on a liquid diet for eight weeks. He lost about 50 lbs. The radiation cooked his vocal cords and when he finally could talk he sounded like Mickey Mouse. That lasted for months. He finally got over it all but it definitely was difficult for him and his family. Ref the cigarettes. JWalker is right. You just have to be more stubborn. I have mine down to one a day usually, sometimes I'll skip a few days, sometimes when I'm camping or in the woods all day might have two. Its still smoking, I know, but at my age its not like its going to cut short my long and promising life anyway.