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Community => Introductions => Topic started by: Redmonster on October 14, 2014, 12:39:00 PM
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Hi everyone.
My name is Patrick and I just quit chewing tobacco for good as of yesterday, October 13 @ 9pm. I'm 23 years old and have been chewing for *exactly* five years as of yesterday. I left the service a year ago and figured that this deadly habit would kind of slowly disappear because civilians don't chew tobacco --- or so I thought. This is my third attempt at quitting. The very first time I quit tobacco one of my friends was killed about 7 days into the quit. The second time, unfortunately I made it 4 days and the same circumstances occurred.
This is my first day without chewing tobacco and I work from home. Thankfully, my company has a brand new empty office with wifi in it that I'm locking myself in right now. I believe if my loving wife tried to baby me even a single time about my cravings I'd probably blow my lid. So far I have found that I can't read worth a damn and I'm sweating balls right now. The only thing that has helped (oddly enough) is rinsing my mouth out with that brown bottle of bubbly water that kids put on their cuts (I really can't focus right now).
Has anyone else experienced a weird dull ache in their jaw ? It feels kind of like if you were to bite down on something as hard as you can and your jaw gets sore from it. Bite down on a shirt or something and let me know if you had that feeling when you quit.
The reason I'm quitting is because while I was driving down the road one day I felt a bubble on the inside of my cheek, kind of where the dead skin is from me chewing on it all the time.As I put my tongue on it I realized that it was a perfect circle and felt really weird. So I bit it and next thing you know, blood came out of it. It didn't hurt before or after popping it, yet it looked like a blood blister. It healed and hasn't returned, but fast forward a couple of weeks and now I have a sore of some sort on a bottom molar in the back left of my mouth that hurts pretty bad. I'm tired of having tobacco in my teeth, my teeth turning yellow and thinking that I'm dying every time something odd pops up in my mouth. I don't believe I have been dipping long enough to have developed anything cancerous. My Grand father (dad side) smoked for 30 years, my father chewed for 8, my mother still smokes and is going on 35 years of it. Grand father/mother (mother side) have smoked for 45 years. The only cancer in my family has been skin cancer and I would like to not be the first occurrence of it. Sorry for the long intro, this is what is keeping me from buying a tin right now.
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Hi Patrick. We post our user names to a roll call here, your group in the Janaury 2015 group, here. topic/10564902/243/ (http://forum.killthecan.org/topic/10564902/243/)
Yes, I still have dull jaw pain after half a year quit, part of the deal. As for the blood thing, I'd get to a dentist or doctor ASAP.
My question to you is, if you get a clean bill of health, will you stay quit? If you receive other bad news, will you stay quit? I am tryuly sorry for your losses, but a problem plus nicotine is 2 problems. Think about it, post roll, and get to know some January folks.
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Welcome Patrick,
I would like to second the statement about the nic bitch being an extra problem. Dipping will never solve anything and you have to want to do this. Not just because you are scared that there might be something wrong. The early part of your quit will suck. A lot. You need to remember what it feels like so you don't cave later as it will be a reminder to you of just how hard those first few days were. Get phone numbers, lots of them. Make sure to use them as needed to keep the bitch out of your system. Lastly, try not to rage at your wife, she doesn't know what you are going through. You decided to dip so you have to suffer the consequences like the rest of us when it comes time to quit. Come here and rage at us on the forum or in chat. We can take it. We love the rage because that means there is healing going on.
Quit on brother
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Hi Patrick. We post our user names to a roll call here, your group in the Janaury 2015 group, here. topic/10564902/243/ (http://forum.killthecan.org/topic/10564902/243/)
Yes, I still have dull jaw pain after half a year quit, part of the deal. As for the blood thing, I'd get to a dentist or doctor ASAP.
My question to you is, if you get a clean bill of health, will you stay quit? If you receive other bad news, will you stay quit? I am tryuly sorry for your losses, but a problem plus nicotine is 2 problems. Think about it, post roll, and get to know some January folks.
Go to Jan, most current page, all the way to the bottom and look for the most current roll post.
Close to top, instructions are in green. There's also a short video if you prefer.
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Hi Patrick. We post our user names to a roll call here, your group in the Janaury 2015 group, here. topic/10564902/243/ (http://forum.killthecan.org/topic/10564902/243/)
Yes, I still have dull jaw pain after half a year quit, part of the deal. As for the blood thing, I'd get to a dentist or doctor ASAP.
My question to you is, if you get a clean bill of health, will you stay quit? If you receive other bad news, will you stay quit? I am tryuly sorry for your losses, but a problem plus nicotine is 2 problems. Think about it, post roll, and get to know some January folks.
A few days after it healed I had my Doctor give me a mouth exam.... twice. She said everything looked fine. So I have a clean bill of health right now and I'm still going through with it.
As for staying quit after hearing bad news -- I don't see a reason that I would go back. The first two times I really didn't care if I quit or not, it was just kind of a spur of the moment thing.
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Hi Patrick. We post our user names to a roll call here, your group in the Janaury 2015 group, here. topic/10564902/243/ (http://forum.killthecan.org/topic/10564902/243/)
Yes, I still have dull jaw pain after half a year quit, part of the deal. As for the blood thing, I'd get to a dentist or doctor ASAP.
My question to you is, if you get a clean bill of health, will you stay quit? If you receive other bad news, will you stay quit? I am tryuly sorry for your losses, but a problem plus nicotine is 2 problems. Think about it, post roll, and get to know some January folks.
A few days after it healed I had my Doctor give me a mouth exam.... twice. She said everything looked fine. So I have a clean bill of health right now and I'm still going through with it.
As for staying quit after hearing bad news -- I don't see a reason that I would go back. The first two times I really didn't care if I quit or not, it was just kind of a spur of the moment thing.
Ok then, post roll and get to quitting.........
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Hi Patrick. We post our user names to a roll call here, your group in the Janaury 2015 group, here. topic/10564902/243/ (http://forum.killthecan.org/topic/10564902/243/)
Yes, I still have dull jaw pain after half a year quit, part of the deal. As for the blood thing, I'd get to a dentist or doctor ASAP.
My question to you is, if you get a clean bill of health, will you stay quit? If you receive other bad news, will you stay quit? I am tryuly sorry for your losses, but a problem plus nicotine is 2 problems. Think about it, post roll, and get to know some January folks.
A few days after it healed I had my Doctor give me a mouth exam.... twice. She said everything looked fine. So I have a clean bill of health right now and I'm still going through with it.
As for staying quit after hearing bad news -- I don't see a reason that I would go back. The first two times I really didn't care if I quit or not, it was just kind of a spur of the moment thing.
Ok then, post roll and get to quitting.........
Post roll in January! be quick cause January is closing soon!
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Redmonster - No roll post, WTF? Live or die, your call.
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Redmonster - No roll post, WTF? Live or die, your call.
He chose poorly.
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Redmonster - No roll post, WTF? Live or die, your call.
He chose poorly.
Jesus how many people have to tell him to get his ass on roll and doesn't do it
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Hey Patrick. Looks like we're on the same roll. Great to have you on board. I'm two days in so I can't tell you much that you don't already know but I will tell you that I've been dipping about as long as you've been alive and this is the best I've ever felt about quitting. Stay with me and we'll get each other thru it. See you on the roll brother. Glad to be quitting with you.
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Redmonster - No roll post, WTF? Live or die, your call.
He chose poorly.
Jesus how many people have to tell him to get his ass on roll and doesn't do it
Cut him some slack guys. He's prolly still trying to figure out how to do it. It took me a couple of days to figure it out too.
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Redmonster - No roll post, WTF? Live or die, your call.
He chose poorly.
Jesus how many people have to tell him to get his ass on roll and doesn't do it
Cut him some slack guys. He's prolly still trying to figure out how to do it. It took me a couple of days to figure it out too.
you can still post though..even if you fuck up it's still a +1
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Redmonster - No roll post, WTF? Live or die, your call.
He chose poorly.
I didn't choose poorly. I work 60 hours a week and have 24 college credits this semester on top of quitting this shit. I posted roll call last night but it seems the browser must not have accepted it. Calm the fuck down.
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Redmonster - No roll post, WTF? Live or die, your call.
He chose poorly.
I didn't choose poorly. I work 60 hours a week and have 24 college credits this semester on top of quitting this shit. I posted roll call last night but it seems the browser must not have accepted it. Calm the fuck down.
that has happened to me once before, I noticed the browser wouldn't take my post. But, there are other ways. You could call or text someone in your Jan group or a vet. either way the recipe for success is to weave a web of accountability you cant get away from. Lots of the guys/gals on this site have very busy lifestyles as well. I travel a lot with my job, and when I travel I call a bro. its less weird than you think. try it out, you might be surprised. Quit with you today
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Redmonster - No roll post, WTF? Live or die, your call.
He chose poorly.
I didn't choose poorly. I work 60 hours a week and have 24 college credits this semester on top of quitting this shit. I posted roll call last night but it seems the browser must not have accepted it. Calm the fuck down.
that has happened to me once before, I noticed the browser wouldn't take my post. But, there are other ways. You could call or text someone in your Jan group or a vet. either way the recipe for success is to weave a web of accountability you cant get away from. Lots of the guys/gals on this site have very busy lifestyles as well. I travel a lot with my job, and when I travel I call a bro. its less weird than you think. try it out, you might be surprised. Quit with you today
I appreciate the support. This is my second day with no nicotine and I woke up feeling amazing. It wasn't until after I ate lunch twenty minutes ago that I started getting that familiar feeling in my stomach/chest area, so I hop on here in moments of weakness. Combine that and the cancer Youtube videos and I immediately remember why I quit.
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Redmonster - No roll post, WTF? Live or die, your call.
He chose poorly.
I didn't choose poorly. I work 60 hours a week and have 24 college credits this semester on top of quitting this shit. I posted roll call last night but it seems the browser must not have accepted it. Calm the fuck down.
that has happened to me once before, I noticed the browser wouldn't take my post. But, there are other ways. You could call or text someone in your Jan group or a vet. either way the recipe for success is to weave a web of accountability you cant get away from. Lots of the guys/gals on this site have very busy lifestyles as well. I travel a lot with my job, and when I travel I call a bro. its less weird than you think. try it out, you might be surprised. Quit with you today
I appreciate the support. This is my second day with no nicotine and I woke up feeling amazing. It wasn't until after I ate lunch twenty minutes ago that I started getting that familiar feeling in my stomach/chest area, so I hop on here in moments of weakness. Combine that and the cancer Youtube videos and I immediately remember why I quit.
have you been to chat yet?if not check it out, it was a lifesaver for me early
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I enjoyed the chat earlier during my lunch time. It definitely filled the time that I would ordinarily be sitting with a chew in. Instead of sitting there struggling with it I was able to take my mind off of it entirely.
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You're not on roll today. WTF?
Post roll every day. No days off. Post early, when you first get up. No other way to do it.