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Community => Introductions => Topic started by: rpd95 on April 07, 2017, 01:03:00 AM
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Here I am at the end of my second day of quitting. I'm 21 years old and have decided to end this addiction before it gets any worse. I started at 15 thinking there's no way that I'll ever actually get addicted, sadly I fell into the trap. I'm quitting because this addiction is no way to live my life. Over the last 9 months I've changed my lifestyle, eating clean nutritional foods, working out six days a week in the gym. Over that time I really showed myself what I could do, I gained 10 pounds of lean muscle and mass going from 154-170 pounds at 5'10. It inspired me to quit dip. I've grown Tired of constantly worrying if I'll get cancer, worrying about every canker sore that shows up in my mouth, taking a dip after every meal, seeing my girlfriend of four years believe in me less and less when I say "I'll quit dip eventually" eventually is NOW.
The struggles I face
- I'm in the military and dipping and smoking has deeply imbedded itself in the military lifestyle. Without it I feel as if I'll be losing a social aspect.
- In the coming years I aspire to be a police officer. This is my career of choice and I love every aspect of it, I've always pictured rolling my beat in my patrol car with a dip in. That vision will have to change.
I know this will not be easy however I know its time to move on. It's funny how nicotine works. After years your mouth hurts and yet you can't stop putting that dip in your mouth. It's like holding your hand on a gas stove after you do it once your mind tells you not to do it again. But you put that dip in your mouth and your mouth begins to hurt. Your brain tells you to stop, but the nicotine yells KEEP GOING. Time to yell back at that nicotine and not become a slave to the tobacco industry
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Here I am at the end of my second day of quitting. I'm 21 years old and have decided to end this addiction before it gets any worse. I started at 15 thinking there's no way that I'll ever actually get addicted, sadly I fell into the trap. I'm quitting because this addiction is no way to live my life. Over the last 9 months I've changed my lifestyle, eating clean nutritional foods, working out six days a week in the gym. Over that time I really showed myself what I could do, I gained 10 pounds of lean muscle and mass going from 154-170 pounds at 5'10. It inspired me to quit dip. I've grown Tired of constantly worrying if I'll get cancer, worrying about every canker sore that shows up in my mouth, taking a dip after every meal, seeing my girlfriend of four years believe in me less and less when I say "I'll quit dip eventually" eventually is NOW.
The struggles I face
- I'm in the military and dipping and smoking has deeply imbedded itself in the military lifestyle. Without it I feel as if I'll be losing a social aspect.
- In the coming years I aspire to be a police officer. This is my career of choice and I love every aspect of it, I've always pictured rolling my beat in my patrol car with a dip in. That vision will have to change.
I know this will not be easy however I know its time to move on. It's funny how nicotine works. After years your mouth hurts and yet you can't stop putting that dip in your mouth. It's like holding your hand on a gas stove after you do it once your mind tells you not to do it again. But you put that dip in your mouth and your mouth begins to hurt. Your brain tells you to stop, but the nicotine yells KEEP GOING. Time to yell back at that nicotine and not become a slave to the tobacco industry
Welcome to KTC! Drink lots of water, exercise even more than you already do, read this site, get to know the quitters in your quit group and on chat. You can do this!
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Here I am at the end of my second day of quitting. I'm 21 years old and have decided to end this addiction before it gets any worse. I started at 15 thinking there's no way that I'll ever actually get addicted, sadly I fell into the trap. I'm quitting because this addiction is no way to live my life. Over the last 9 months I've changed my lifestyle, eating clean nutritional foods, working out six days a week in the gym. Over that time I really showed myself what I could do, I gained 10 pounds of lean muscle and mass going from 154-170 pounds at 5'10. It inspired me to quit dip. I've grown Tired of constantly worrying if I'll get cancer, worrying about every canker sore that shows up in my mouth, taking a dip after every meal, seeing my girlfriend of four years believe in me less and less when I say "I'll quit dip eventually" eventually is NOW.
The struggles I face
- I'm in the military and dipping and smoking has deeply imbedded itself in the military lifestyle. Without it I feel as if I'll be losing a social aspect.
- In the coming years I aspire to be a police officer. This is my career of choice and I love every aspect of it, I've always pictured rolling my beat in my patrol car with a dip in. That vision will have to change.
I know this will not be easy however I know its time to move on. It's funny how nicotine works. After years your mouth hurts and yet you can't stop putting that dip in your mouth. It's like holding your hand on a gas stove after you do it once your mind tells you not to do it again. But you put that dip in your mouth and your mouth begins to hurt. Your brain tells you to stop, but the nicotine yells KEEP GOING. Time to yell back at that nicotine and not become a slave to the tobacco industry
Welcome to KTC! Drink lots of water, exercise even more than you already do, read this site, get to know the quitters in your quit group and on chat. You can do this!
^^^ That's great advice. Drink water and exercise. Google "the effect of aerobic exercise on withdrawal". It won't make the withdrawal go away, but it will take the edge off it for a while. And you'll end up replacing your addiction to nic with something, might as well replace it with something good!
A word warning, you young Quitters face a pitfall some of us older quitters don't face. It'll be tempting a few weeks into this to think "I've got plenty of time to quit later". Don't listen to that lie! I did. Now 30 years and a 1000 quit attempts later, I'm finally putting this behind me, but it so ingrained in everything I do it's much harder.
Welcome to KTC. Embrace the philosophy here, Brother+Accountability=Success (get to know the other Quitters), WUPP(Wake Up Piss Post), EDD(Every Damn Day)
Proud to Quit with you today.
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So young! Please stick to your guns, for the sake of your older self. I'm a gym rat too, so I know the level of self-discipline you're operating at in that regards. Time to apply that same consistency to kicking nic's @ss. I noticed definite strength gains after I quit, probably because I was sleeping/recovering better without the constant stimulant/poison present in my body. And as for worrying about socializing in the military... it's just a total shame that addiction is promoted in the military, really pisses me off. All I can say is be a leader, not a follower.
Post roll, make some friends (ton of military on here... hit up Richard K, he's a lifer and a bad ass quitter), and keep your promise to yourself and your group for 24 hours at a time. Don't end up like the rest of us with decades of dipping to regret and worry about.
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So young! Please stick to your guns, for the sake of your older self. I'm a gym rat too, so I know the level of self-discipline you're operating at in that regards. Time to apply that same consistency to kicking nic's @ss. I noticed definite strength gains after I quit, probably because I was sleeping/recovering better without the constant stimulant/poison present in my body. And as for worrying about socializing in the military... it's just a total shame that addiction is promoted in the military, really pisses me off. All I can say is be a leader, not a follower.
Post roll, make some friends (ton of military on here... hit up Richard K, he's a lifer and a bad ass quitter), and keep your promise to yourself and your group for 24 hours at a time. Don't end up like the rest of us with decades of dipping to regret and worry about.
so young...read my HOF speech...I got totally out maneuvered by the Bitch at your age....also...seek out Jag in OCT 2012 quit group....he's a cop and a badass quitter
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Echoing what others have said. You're significantly smarter than I was at your age....or any age between 12 and 53 for that matter!!! One of these days you'll look back on your life and be supremely glad you quit now instead of being stupid like I was. Proud of you, young man! Keep going, one day after the other. You've got both the discipline and the dedication to get there!