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Community => Introductions => Topic started by: Sean1991 on March 04, 2010, 02:04:00 AM
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Hi everyone, I'm Sean, 18 years old from Northern Michigan, Long story as short as possible. My nicotine addiction started when I was 14 and made the awful decision to start smoking, Smoked 2 packs a day for 3 years, Quit smoking to dipping right before my 17th birthday, I figured hey my Grandpa has been dippin for 60+ years, My dad for 30+ and they dont have cancer or any real serious health problems which was really dumb of me to think because once I started researching mouth cancer stories I knew otherwise. Anyways I managed to get my self some dip - Tried a few before settling on Skoal. When I dipped I felt way more likely to get cancer than I ever did with Smoking, The direct contact just felt like I was tearing my mouth apart little by little every day which I ofcourse was. I was more addicted to dip that I was to smoking I think, I was absolutely obsessed with dip. I would do a minimum of one can per day, Most I ever did was 2 cans a day. But anyways I dipped for a year and it got to the point where I was becoming aware that I was not invincible to this stuff, I remember one day watching TV and seeing a guy talking about a mouth disease he got from smokeless tobacco, reading cancer horror stories online and so on. It was things like that that entered my head and no matter how hard I tried those thoughts never left. I would spend 20 minutes each morning in the mirror with a flash light checking for signs of cancer etc... I started to obsess over worrying about cancer and all the risks that come with dip, The day before I quit ... during my routine morning mouth check I noticed a BB sized red sore on my tongue and I thought there was a good chance I had cancer forming so I freaked out and didnt know what to do, It was October 15th and I was very depressed that day. I woke up the next morning and much to my relief it was gone. I told myself I can keep dipping and the next sore may just not go away or I can quit and put all this garbage behind me. I went cold turkey the whole ride through and have not touched the stuff in the near 5 months since - I will never put any form of tobacco in my body again... I have absolutely no desire to. It is not worth it to me at all. I went through hell with my addiction to the point where I could not go anywhere without a dip, there were many situations I couldnt do without a dip in - even down to listening to music and drinking coffee. All I wanted was to feel that pinch between my gum and lip and to be deep in the nicotine fused moment - it was just plain out ridiculious. I find it just awesome that I actually quit, I never thought I would but I did. It took me about 3 weeks til I felt 100% comfortable but it was well worth the suffering.
Anyways, I just found this site a few days ago while browsing the net and felt I had to join because I can relate to everything on here in all ways ! If I had known about this site when I was quitting I would have been on here day and night. I think this website is just awesome and I respect it very much.
All The Best and see ya all around
// Sean
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Hi everyone, I'm Sean, 18 years old from Northern Michigan, Long story as short as possible. My nicotine addiction started when I was 14 and made the awful decision to start smoking, Smoked 2 packs a day for 3 years, Quit smoking to dipping right before my 17th birthday, I figured hey my Grandpa has been dippin for 60+ years, My dad for 30+ and they dont have cancer or any real serious health problems which was really dumb of me to think because once I started researching mouth cancer stories I knew otherwise. Anyways I managed to get my self some dip - Tried a few before settling on Skoal. When I dipped I felt way more likely to get cancer than I ever did with Smoking, The direct contact just felt like I was tearing my mouth apart little by little every day which I ofcourse was. I was more addicted to dip that I was to smoking I think, I was absolutely obsessed with dip. I would do a minimum of one can per day, Most I ever did was 2 cans a day. But anyways I dipped for a year and it got to the point where I was becoming aware that I was not invincible to this stuff, I remember one day watching TV and seeing a guy talking about a mouth disease he got from smokeless tobacco, reading cancer horror stories online and so on. It was things like that that entered my head and no matter how hard I tried those thoughts never left. I would spend 20 minutes each morning in the mirror with a flash light checking for signs of cancer etc... I started to obsess over worrying about cancer and all the risks that come with dip, The day before I quit ... during my routine morning mouth check I noticed a BB sized red sore on my tongue and I thought there was a good chance I had cancer forming so I freaked out and didnt know what to do, It was October 15th and I was very depressed that day. I woke up the next morning and much to my relief it was gone. I told myself I can keep dipping and the next sore may just not go away or I can quit and put all this garbage behind me. I went cold turkey the whole ride through and have not touched the stuff in the near 5 months since - I will never put any form of tobacco in my body again... I have absolutely no desire to. It is not worth it to me at all. I went through hell with my addiction to the point where I could not go anywhere without a dip, there were many situations I couldnt do without a dip in - even down to listening to music and drinking coffee. All I wanted was to feel that pinch between my gum and lip and to be deep in the nicotine fused moment - it was just plain out ridiculious. I find it just awesome that I actually quit, I never thought I would but I did. It took me about 3 weeks til I felt 100% comfortable but it was well worth the suffering.
Anyways, I just found this site a few days ago while browsing the net and felt I had to join because I can relate to everything on here in all ways ! If I had known about this site when I was quitting I would have been on here day and night. I think this website is just awesome and I respect it very much.
All The Best and see ya all around
// Sean
I can't read all that. lol.
Quit now while you are young. Your GF and Father are just lucky, and cancer can pop up any time without warning. but i don't have to preach to you, you know this.
read up, post roll and get to know the guys on this site.
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Hi everyone, I'm Sean, 18 years old from Northern Michigan, Long story as short as possible. My nicotine addiction started when I was 14 and made the awful decision to start smoking, Smoked 2 packs a day for 3 years, Quit smoking to dipping right before my 17th birthday, I figured hey my Grandpa has been dippin for 60+ years, My dad for 30+ and they dont have cancer or any real serious health problems which was really dumb of me to think because once I started researching mouth cancer stories I knew otherwise. Anyways I managed to get my self some dip - Tried a few before settling on Skoal. When I dipped I felt way more likely to get cancer than I ever did with Smoking, The direct contact just felt like I was tearing my mouth apart little by little every day which I ofcourse was. I was more addicted to dip that I was to smoking I think, I was absolutely obsessed with dip. I would do a minimum of one can per day, Most I ever did was 2 cans a day. But anyways I dipped for a year and it got to the point where I was becoming aware that I was not invincible to this stuff, I remember one day watching TV and seeing a guy talking about a mouth disease he got from smokeless tobacco, reading cancer horror stories online and so on. It was things like that that entered my head and no matter how hard I tried those thoughts never left. I would spend 20 minutes each morning in the mirror with a flash light checking for signs of cancer etc... I started to obsess over worrying about cancer and all the risks that come with dip, The day before I quit ... during my routine morning mouth check I noticed a BB sized red sore on my tongue and I thought there was a good chance I had cancer forming so I freaked out and didnt know what to do, It was October 15th and I was very depressed that day. I woke up the next morning and much to my relief it was gone. I told myself I can keep dipping and the next sore may just not go away or I can quit and put all this garbage behind me. I went cold turkey the whole ride through and have not touched the stuff in the near 5 months since - I will never put any form of tobacco in my body again... I have absolutely no desire to. It is not worth it to me at all. I went through hell with my addiction to the point where I could not go anywhere without a dip, there were many situations I couldnt do without a dip in - even down to listening to music and drinking coffee. All I wanted was to feel that pinch between my gum and lip and to be deep in the nicotine fused moment - it was just plain out ridiculious. I find it just awesome that I actually quit, I never thought I would but I did. It took me about 3 weeks til I felt 100% comfortable but it was well worth the suffering.
Anyways, I just found this site a few days ago while browsing the net and felt I had to join because I can relate to everything on here in all ways ! If I had known about this site when I was quitting I would have been on here day and night. I think this website is just awesome and I respect it very much.
All The Best and see ya all around
// Sean
Ok, repeat after me:
1. I will not dip today
2. Dip is never better than no dip
3. I will post roll today and promise to my quit brothers I will not dip today
4. I will keep my word
5. I will use the return key and puctuation to make my post more readable
6. I will repeat 1-6 tomorrow.
Welcome aboard. Happy quitten.
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Hi everyone, I'm Sean, 18 years old from Northern Michigan, Long story as short as possible. My nicotine addiction started when I was 14 and made the awful decision to start smoking, Smoked 2 packs a day for 3 years, Quit smoking to dipping right before my 17th birthday, I figured hey my Grandpa has been dippin for 60+ years, My dad for 30+ and they dont have cancer or any real serious health problems which was really dumb of me to think because once I started researching mouth cancer stories I knew otherwise. Anyways I managed to get my self some dip - Tried a few before settling on Skoal. When I dipped I felt way more likely to get cancer than I ever did with Smoking, The direct contact just felt like I was tearing my mouth apart little by little every day which I ofcourse was. I was more addicted to dip that I was to smoking I think, I was absolutely obsessed with dip. I would do a minimum of one can per day, Most I ever did was 2 cans a day. But anyways I dipped for a year and it got to the point where I was becoming aware that I was not invincible to this stuff, I remember one day watching TV and seeing a guy talking about a mouth disease he got from smokeless tobacco, reading cancer horror stories online and so on. It was things like that that entered my head and no matter how hard I tried those thoughts never left. I would spend 20 minutes each morning in the mirror with a flash light checking for signs of cancer etc... I started to obsess over worrying about cancer and all the risks that come with dip, The day before I quit ... during my routine morning mouth check I noticed a BB sized red sore on my tongue and I thought there was a good chance I had cancer forming so I freaked out and didnt know what to do, It was October 15th and I was very depressed that day. I woke up the next morning and much to my relief it was gone. I told myself I can keep dipping and the next sore may just not go away or I can quit and put all this garbage behind me. I went cold turkey the whole ride through and have not touched the stuff in the near 5 months since - I will never put any form of tobacco in my body again... I have absolutely no desire to. It is not worth it to me at all. I went through hell with my addiction to the point where I could not go anywhere without a dip, there were many situations I couldnt do without a dip in - even down to listening to music and drinking coffee. All I wanted was to feel that pinch between my gum and lip and to be deep in the nicotine fused moment - it was just plain out ridiculious. I find it just awesome that I actually quit, I never thought I would but I did. It took me about 3 weeks til I felt 100% comfortable but it was well worth the suffering.
Anyways, I just found this site a few days ago while browsing the net and felt I had to join because I can relate to everything on here in all ways ! If I had known about this site when I was quitting I would have been on here day and night. I think this website is just awesome and I respect it very much.
All The Best and see ya all around
// Sean
OK, let me see if I got this right. You are 18, and stopped dipping 5 months ago. Congrats, you are one hell of a lot smarter than most of us here. It took me a long time to figure out what you just did.
Five months is a HUGE accomplishment, and you should be proud of yourself.
You're also smart to join up here, because 5 months is not the end of the road. At that point, you can become complacent and start to think that "just one" won't hurt. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "JUST ONE."
You are already a HOFer, and your quit date puts you in the JANUARY (http://forum.killthecan.org/index.php?showtopic=2704) group. Start each day by making a daily promise to not dip there. Then, explore this site, and feel free to post anywhere you like.
Congrats on 141 days of freedom. See you here later to make it 142.
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Thanks for the replies guys,
Sorry about my post being so long, I tend to get carried away when I write.
I'm going to have a look around to figure out how things exactly work here, How to post roll will be my first assignment to go to.
And also, MSHowell I will follow those 6 rules you listed faithfully !
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WD's HOW TO POST ROLL CALL
FOR Newbies!!!
Step 1 - Find the last Roll Call
Step 2 - Hit the "Quote" button in the upper right hand corner.
Step 3 - Click your mouse ANYWHERE in The bottom Box
Step 4 - Hit Ctrl and "A" at the Same time so it looks like THIS
Step 5 - Hit Ctrl and "X" at the same time so there is NOTHING in Either Box
Step 6 - Click your mouse in the TOP BOX
Step 7 - Hit Ctrl and "V" at the same time to Past the info into the top box AND ADD YOUR info to the bottom of the list
Step 8 - Hit ADD REPLY below the bottom box
Step 9 - Go back to the 1st unread post, pat yourself on the back, and have a beer cause you will not be dipping today.
For a graphical representation of these instructions, please visit http://www.killthecan.org/roll/ (http://www.killthecan.org/roll/)
Except you can't have the beer cause you're only 18. 'finger point'
:D
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WD's HOW TO POST ROLL CALL
FOR Newbies!!!
Step 1 - Find the last Roll Call
Step 2 - Hit the "Quote" button in the upper right hand corner.
Step 3 - Click your mouse ANYWHERE in The bottom Box
Step 4 - Hit Ctrl and "A" at the Same time so it looks like THIS
Step 5 - Hit Ctrl and "X" at the same time so there is NOTHING in Either Box
Step 6 - Click your mouse in the TOP BOX
Step 7 - Hit Ctrl and "V" at the same time to Past the info into the top box AND ADD YOUR info to the bottom of the list
Step 8 - Hit ADD REPLY below the bottom box
Step 9 - Go back to the 1st unread post, pat yourself on the back, and have a beer cause you will not be dipping today.
For a graphical representation of these instructions, please visit http://www.killthecan.org/roll/ (http://www.killthecan.org/roll/)
Except you can't have the beer cause you're only 18. 'finger point'
:D
Thanks for the instructional guide, I just posted mine.
I'm starting to get the hang of things and I will be visiting here daily for now on to post my roll and to get to know the community.
Glad to be a member !
- Sean