I started my tobacco use in 2009 when I turned 18. I experimented with dip but found at the time it wasn’t for me. Through friends and pure pressure I tried cigarettes but it never really tripped my trigger. Through more experimenting I found that I loved and enjoyed Camel Snus. November of 2009 I joined the Navy. After getting out of boot camp and going to Pensacola, FL I had a group of buddies that immediately started smoking again out boot camp. For the longest time I stayed strong but finally gave into peer pressure. From then on I started smoking and began enjoying it. Fast forward a year and moving to Virginia, I became a pack a day smoker. I’ve been on two deployments on the USS Enterprise and smoking/dipping became my stress reliever while working on the flight deck. I depended on tobacco and used it all four years in the Navy. My final year in the Navy I finally stopped smoking cigarettes because it made me feel like crap. I substituted my nicotine addiction with dip which ate away at my gums and to this day they still have not grown back. I exited the Navy with an Honorable Discharge in 2013 and was able to quit tobacco for a couple of months until I had finals in college. The stress of finals made me crave tobacco and I finally caved and bought a pack of cigarettes. I immediately regretted the situation because again the cigarettes made me feel like crap so I resorted to dip. It satisfied the need but in my mind I knew this wasn