I started because my friends in 8th grade all told me it would feel amazing. It did and I kept doing it. The first 3 times I ever dipped I threw up all over my moms bathroom and I didn't even care. It was an amazing feeling and it justified the aftermath. After that I was totally hooked. I dipped the strongest, most disgusting dip just to get that buzz again. At the time all of my friends dipped Grizzly straight fine cut. Fine cut is the shit that will get all over your tongue if you're inexperienced. It makes you gag and tastes like you just picked up a clump of dirt/cow shit and threw it in your lip. It also gets you the most buzzed for whatever reason. It's messed up, you start to love the awful taste in your mouth. When you don't have a dip in you don't feel normal. You need that taste and buzz but it slowly starts to fade away. I dipped for 7 years before I decided enough was enough. I switched to a vape but I haven't been able to kick the nicotine yet. Hopefully some day I'll have the urge to kick it entirely. I've been through 8 quit attempts but always seem to come back to it for one reason or another. I even bought a can a few weeks ago just out of pure habit but threw it away before I had a dip. I'm well versed in "substances" but nicotine/tobacco is BY FAR the oddest and hardest subatance to quit. There's always an excuse to use again and it's so readily available that you feel like an absolute moron walking out of the store without it. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it extremely hard to quit and it's just as easy to pick up the habit. You're right, it is a filthy habit but you shouldn't condemn people for doing it. The only people that really understand are the people who went through it themselves. It's a weird ass drug, I wouldn't recommend it.