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Community => Introductions => Topic started by: toddfw2003 on June 08, 2017, 11:09:00 PM
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I have only been dipping for about two year full time. I was a part time dipper most of my life. would dip here and there. two years ago I quit smoking and started dipping. I have a dip in my mouth all day long. a few days ago i noticed a round white patch on my gum. ive read the 3 out of 4 dippers get this. Scared me enough that I quit. Picked up a can off baccoff and some nicotine gum
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I have only been dipping for about two year full time. I was a part time dipper most of my life. would dip here and there. two years ago I quit smoking and started dipping. I have a dip in my mouth all day long. a few days ago i noticed a round white patch on my gum. ive read the 3 out of 4 dippers get this. Scared me enough that I quit. Picked up a can off baccoff and some nicotine gum
Ooooh.
So close yet...
This is a nicotine free forum and method, dude. Tobacco isn't what you're addicted to... it's nicotine.
Flush that asinine gum down the toilet and Quit for real... Cold Turkey.
That's how we do here... you ready?
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Im a professional baseball player. I cant quit nicotine during the season. I have quit before and it made me super tired for about a month
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Im a professional baseball player. I cant quit nicotine during the season. I have quit before and it made me super tired for about a month
And to quote AppleJack, "So close yet...."
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Im a professional baseball player. I cant quit nicotine during the season. I have quit before and it made me super tired for about a month
Bullshit.
You're making excuses to feed your addiction because you're an addict... like we all are.
How does it feel to be owned? To be controlled by a substance?
Until you actually sac up and Quit ALL forms of nicotine, this isn't the place for you. We will NOT excuse that weak sauce because of your lame "need" in season.
Now... when you're ready to get pissed at the slavery you're subjecting yourself to... we'll do this with you and offer support like you've never seen. For real.
Save your life dude... sac up and own the decision to Quit.
No. More. Excuses.
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But if you look at a cautionary tale, he's probably right to wait until September or so. His job is at stake.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/8490 ... ng-tobacco (http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/8490251/josh-hamilton-waited-quit-chewing-tobacco)
But then again....
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/curt- ... nger-self/ (https://www.theplayerstribune.com/curt-schilling-letter-to-my-younger-self/)
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Im a professional baseball player. I cant quit nicotine during the season. I have quit before and it made me super tired for about a month
I'm a professional accountant, and I quit during tax season. It's been 3 years and I have read all of the excuses new quitters come up with, and sorry, you are 0 for 1. Go Tigers!
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Im a professional baseball player. I cant quit nicotine during the season. I have quit before and it made me super tired for about a month
^^This actually made me laugh out loud. "I cant.....I have quit..." Bahahahah or Jalalalala depending on where your from. You'll keep suckin that turd Todd. There is always an excuse not to quit. It just that none of them are good.
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Im a professional baseball player. I cant quit nicotine during the season. I have quit before and it made me super tired for about a month
Hey Todd. I see you joined in January. You've been thinking about this for a while.
As the commercial says - Just do it.
Toss the gum and quit.
You've probably got better support (physically) than most people here. Getting through the first week or two is like getting through the flu. Sucks, but it's doable. Drink lots of water and keep active (hey! you're probably already doing that!), watch your vitamins and eat right, and you're 90% of the way to beating the physical side of the addiction. The rest is mental.
Do it, man. Quit. We'd all love to see you post roll in the September quit group (http://forum.killthecan.org/topic/30249720).
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Hey dude, active dude army officer. Dip was and is a lifeline during some brutally long hours in the woods under a ruck and fighting load. I get truly get it, you view it as a means to a more important end. That approach killed my quit 2x at the military academy I went to for college, and I'd say about 4x until now during my active duty career.
However that's bullshit. If we're doing science here as you seem to be, and you care about performance, the detrimental effects to blood flow and performance make the trade off of "staying awake" instead of. "quitting dipping" a dumb decision. If you're truly a professional athlete, I'd gander you can stay awake for a 4 hour baseball game w/o dip if I can do an 10 hour patrol without it. As far as the performance during withdrawal, I do PT twice a day, I've felt like shit for a week during workouts but it's stopped so that's your time frame you'd be looking at.
Secondly, I've tried the nicotine gum about 4 times for I'd say a total of about 20 months. You may be different, but i just got addicted to it. I said I needed it "for my job, for this field exercise, for this..." and I just fucking plowed right through it (which is not how it's supposed to be used). And eventually, I'd have (big training exercise whatever, you'll have championship game whatever) and be like ok I've been good about dip, I'll drop off the wagon buy a few logs, if I haven't dipped in 5 months, this is ok. It's just a cycle and cycle and cycle.
All in all, That white patch will prob go away, most of the time it's not cancer. I dipped for 9 years since I was 17-ish and briefly stopped early on for a similar reason. And you will prob start dipping again because it goes away and you still have the nicotine in your system from the gum. But, you've caught the quitting bug, enjoy ccycling through it for a very long time if you're taking the nicorette approach. I can say that with certainty bc you and I both had similar approaches and reasons for dipping, which, unwrapped, is reaosns for nicotine.
Overall, I'm about to be Day 7 here, and have proceed further in this process than I ever did over like 18 months and some serious $ of fucking nicorette. I encourage you to consider that dude
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Im a professional baseball player. I cant quit nicotine during the season. I have quit before and it made me super tired for about a month
Hey Todd. I see you joined in January. You've been thinking about this for a while.
As the commercial says - Just do it.
Toss the gum and quit.
You've probably got better support (physically) than most people here. Getting through the first week or two is like getting through the flu. Sucks, but it's doable. Drink lots of water and keep active (hey! you're probably already doing that!), watch your vitamins and eat right, and you're 90% of the way to beating the physical side of the addiction. The rest is mental.
Do it, man. Quit. We'd all love to see you post roll in the September quit group (http://forum.killthecan.org/topic/30249720).
Just to give you some perspective, I'm on the doorstep of bankruptcy, and my wife doesn't act like she wants a whole lot to do with me other than a paycheck. I'm on the verge of losing my job. You think you have stress? You're a professional baseball player, dude. Please don't tell me about stress. In the midst of all my stress, I managed to let go of this addiction. You can do it too. I'd venture to guess, also you'll probably be a better baseball player because of it.
As Samrs pointed out - just do it. Toss the nicotine. Nicotine gum won't help you near as much as the daily support you get from the brotherhood here. Samrs and I talk every morning, and just the brief discussion that I have with him on a daily basis gives me the strength I need to make it through the day.
Stop being a pussy, and man up. You can do this. We believe in you.