I'm certainly not a role model here. Chewed Skoal and Red Man from the time I was 14 until I was 24. Have smoked cigarettes since I was 16. That put's me on 28 years at at least 1 1/2 packs a day.
With a resume like that I realize that I'm nobody to take advice from, but, to ALL the young guys out there that have a habit, please try and kick it now. If I knew 30 years ago that using tobacco to be "cool" would have turned into what it did would have easily swayed me away from it. Peace.