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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Griffon: [QB] Jordan inquired: "would that be your clergyman brother?" in reference to my struggle with Skoal addiction. Yes, it was me that struggled with addiction during my days as a chef. Thanks be to God I was delivered in an instant after many unsuccessful attempts. My bro' doesn't quite have it right, but I can share the story in the hope it will help some others. First let me say I chewed tobacco for about 20 years. I was addicted at the first plug. By the time I was 15 I chewed a tin a day, spitting into garbage cans and carpet in classrooms. At 19 my girlfriend wanted me to quit so I hid it from her. At work in the kitchen, I spit into the garbage cans until I learned to swallow the spit. I would fill a 2 liter pop bottle with spit during a week at off work time. Now I have to explain a little more. I would have to quit eating during meals to have a dip of skoal and then resume eating. I have times when I ran out of gasoline or went hungry because it was a matter of buying gas or food or tobacco. So when I say I was addicted, I am serious. I tried to quit countless times from the time I was 19 until I was 32. I was absolutely powerless in the face of that craving. But two things happened in 1996 to change the situation. The first was when a friend of the atheist religion, something he as a philosophy major comfortably admitted about atheism, spoke about God in a way that offended me as we sat at the bar after work. I asked him not to do that because I was a Christian and his language offended me. He said, "You sure don't act like one." It deeply convicted me. I knew God was speaking through that friend, who has since become a priest. A few weeks later, addicted as ever, I felt a strong tug on my heart to fast once a week. One day a week I ate or drank nothing from sundown to sundown. I went to Ash Wednesday service and as I was getting in the car I prepared a dip of skoal. Suddenly, I knew the thought in my head was from God saying, "Why are you polluting yourself if I am making you clean." And that time, in that moment, I quit for good. Hard as that week was, I had the strength to overcome. Now over 10 years later, I have never tried again. Like Glassman said, it is tough! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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