I have been married for almost 14 years and he has been chewing for about 6 years before that.
Every year he says he is going to quit and he doesn't. Our kids beg him several times a week.
He is costing me a lot of money. Has probably wasted over $6,000.
For all I know he has mouth cancer, but will never know because he doesn't get checked out.
Is anyone else have a problem with their husband's chewing?
I need help to get him to stop. Any ideas?

My dh used to. My mom kept sending over pics of people with mouth cancer and his grandfather and father both died of cancer. Eventually he did quit chewing. I'm not sure what eventually made him quit.

Sorry, I can't offer any advice...but I do have to tell you about my Dad. He has chewed forever. My mom hated it and he wasn't allowed to chew in the house. Mom's gone now, and my stepmom hates it too. What does Dad do? He sneaks it. Yep, at 84 he hides his can behind the little door to the gas tank in the car. He goes out to "check the weather" every morning...and sneak a chew. He thinks we don't have a clue.

The moral to this story? Your DH won't quit unless he wants to, and when he's good and ready. Good luck.

My Granny dipped snuff.. my Dad dipped smokeless tobacco, my Ex-SO did too. I grew up with it, so I don't really mind it. I'd rather have that than a man who got sloushy drunk ever night.

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Sorry, nothing personal against anyone's DH's or relatives, but I think that is SO nasty!! I don't think I could kiss my DH knowing he's chewing tobacco....UCK!

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ekk yuck no thankgoodness.

Mine does...probably since high school and he is now 43.

I have no idea how to make him stop and he won't stop until he is ready to anyways.

Nope! I would have never married someone who chewed dip or smoked. I don't think you can get anybody to stop something. They have to make that choice themselves.

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My DH started chewing again. He goes through spirts. I also think it's gross. But I am a smoker, and I'm sure he thinks that gross, but at least I don't have a bottle of my own spit in front of me all the time. EEEWWW

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DH doesn't chew tobacco but he does smoke it. I too would never marry a man that uses tobacco. He didn't, however he started years after we got married. He knows I can't stand it so he doesn't do it around me or the kids. I would be so upset if my kids knew that he was smoking. How do I tell them how wrong it is to smoke and have him doing it?
I can't stand the smell of it when we kiss, can't stand the $ being spent on them and hate the thought of him getting cancer or some other respirtory disease and me and the kids having to watch him suffer through that. Also, I am a nurse and take care of several patients that are suffering now due to smoking throughout their lives. They are all so regretful... it's really sad.
I know it is an addiction... I used to smoke in my 20's and quit. It was SO HARD! But I did it. I just don't get it?

Every once in a while--it is so gross.