Welcome Couch! If you're serious about quitting you're definitely in the right place. Here at KTC we quit like fuck a day at a time, together.
You're story is almost exactly mine. I stopped chewing on my own and failed, when I started again I thought I would turn to Skoal mint bandits, they'll be less harmful for me. An addicts insane mind. I've been free from the bondage of alcohol for 520 days. I regularly attend meetings, meet with my sponsor, and do whatever I'm told to do in order to maintain my sobriety. It's not much different here. The road to recovery on KTC is a little different but the concepts are the same. You'll regularly visit the forums, meet up with us (live chat, PMs, texts, phone calls) and surrender to nic as you did alcohol. My definition of surrendering is to do it someone elses way, the KTC way in this case. Our best thinking and doing it our way is what got us to AA and to KTC. So listen to what we have to say, and just simply do it. Stop fighting, the battle is over, freedom from nic is here for you to take.
Here's how I did it:
Read over the welcome center:
forum/55560/Post roll everyday, early in the morning (no excuses here), wake up early and do it. Your quit group will be September. That's your promise to us and to yourself that you're going to stay quit for the day (24 hours). Honesty is everything, to us and to yourself.
There's even a video in the "How to Post ROLL CALL", click the "PC How to post roll" link.
Start gathering phone numbers and build your web of accountability. We will hold you accountable for your quit, and we expect you to hold us accountable as well. Actually text and/or call those numbers you get in good and bad times. Build your brotherhood.
Live Chat is a good place to connect, get numbers, shoot the shit...
Lastly, start drinking a shit load of water. Every time you walk by the pisser you should have to use it. It'll be about 3 days before the nic flushes out of your system. It's going to be a shitty 3 days too. Remember these 3 days of withdraw and how terrible they are. Keep telling yourself you will never have to do this again.
Get yourself some seeds, candy, gum, whatever eases you. Fake dip can help too.
http://www.killthecan.org/your-quit/smo ... ernatives/Smokey Mountain is prolly most common. Most walmarts, or grocery stores have it behind the glass where the other cans of poison are.
If you can promise to keep the poison out of your face today I'll be happy to quit with you.
Send me a PM if you want a phone number to start your web.
