Update to the below post......I was corrected yesterday afternoon. I am not in fact at day 6, starting over at day 1. This morning May 16th at 0930 has been 24 hours since I have used ANY form of nicotine, no chew, no nicotine gum, no patch....I have not dipped since May 9th, but no nicotine at all for the last 24 hours.
Hello All, I am a new quitter here, I am in the Navy and attended a Tobacco Cessation Class offered by the Navy on 9 May 2013. I had been dipping Kodiak Longcut Wintergreen for a little over 21 years, starting daily from the time I was 18 to present (39). I first had a friend introduce me to straight Beech-Nut long leaf chew when I was either 15 or 16. I remember it like it was yesterday, a friend of mine and me played basketball with this older kid, he had the chew and asked if we wanted to try it. We both did and took a walk around our neighborhood, my friend ended up throwing up and I didn't......I was hooked. I couldn't sleep that night and actually went down the street and took it out of his car that night (it was summer and he left his car window cracked). The longest I have gone yet on any of my quit attempts has been exactly 3 months to the day....on deployment on a submarine (the half way point of the deployment), I started up the day I got home.
So far it has been since the morning of 9 May 2013 when I last dipped, during that class. Now I have been using some nicorette gum that I bought myself, the Navy issues horrible off brand nicorette gum and the Nicoderm CQ patch. I don't want to try the patch and the actual nicorette gum is really pretty good. I also have ordered some Hooch brand non-tobacco, non-nicotine chew, looking forward to trying that out. Main thing is, I don't want to be on the Nicotine gum for any longer than I feel I really need to.
The biggest difference this time is I want to quit, finally, I have told everyone I can think of that I am wanting to quit.....especially my wife, who I have kept it a secret from for a long time, back and forth between telling her I am still dipping and I quit a long time ago, and such.
I will post roll call in my Quit group today, August 2013.....ironically, or not so, my wife's birthday will be 8 August, nearly my 100 day point, when I make it there!
Thanks,
- Chad