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Community => Introductions => Topic started by: KillianMac on July 26, 2012, 09:17:00 PM
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My name is Jason and I am 41 years old and have had a 1 can a day habit since I was 14. I have never really attempted to quit but, am a RN and now the effects dip can have and want to get healthy. My quit date is 7/22/12. I am currently using the Nicoderm CQ 21mg patches and things have not been to bad. If I get the urge I have been trying beef jerky to have something to suck on. Without the patch is a different story. I get flustered, agitated, irritable etc.. I really want this out of my life and hope that I am on the right track. Thanks for listening.
*EDIT* just read the welcome section and realize now that using the nicoderm patch precludes me from being quit. I am still determined. I am glad I got through just not having that shit in my mouth all the time. I will however continue to read and not post till I get completely off the patch and on with the quit. That stuff will never touch my lips again after 27 years.
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Dump the Nic patches. This is a nicotine cessation site. Quit the Nic. Quit like fuck. Go to the Welcome Center and learn about posting roll.
Coach Steve - 198
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My name is Jason and I am 41 years old and have had a 1 can a day habit since I was 14. I have never really attempted to quit but, am a RN and now the effects dip can have and want to get healthy. My quit date is 7/22/12. I am currently using the Nicoderm CQ 21mg patches and things have not been to bad. If I get the urge I have been trying beef jerky to have something to suck on. Without the patch is a different story. I get flustered, agitated, irritable etc.. I really want this out of my life and hope that I am on the right track. Thanks for listening.
You are not dipping and that is great, you really want it and that is key to being quit. However we are cold turkey here, no nicotine whatsoever. No patch, no gum, no cigar, no depository, nothing. Read the welcome center and when you take off the patch post your day one, you will be in the November 12 quit group. Go cold turkey we will be here
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The battle here is nicotine. You cannot be clean until you stop ingesting it. You CAN dump the patch. You CAN be free from this addiction, thousands of us do it daily.
Toss the patches, post your promise, and let's get you quit.
We will be here.....choice is yours.
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Lets take some time, I am gonna throw some things at ya, you toss em around, and lets look at this from a logical standpoint.
The more you poke around this site, the more you should come to understand that you are an addict. An addict addicted to nicotine. You are not addicted to smokeless tobacco. That said, you need to wrap your mind around the fact that your can a day habit isn't a habit in the slightest, it is you feeding your addiction the chemicals it tells you that you need. You are still feeding your addiction those chemicals when you slap that patch on.
Being an RN, I hope you would understand the difference between a cure and merely relieving symptoms. Because that is all your doing, relieving symptoms and not even getting close to the actual problem, your nicotine addiction.
Would you give a recovering alcoholic coming off of a bender and going through withdrawal a glass of wine before bed to help them sleep? No. Because one glass is gonna turn into 2 bottles, him closing down a bar and you bailing his ass outta county the next morning.
So why on earth would you use the chemical you are dependent on to quit that same chemical? Because your an addict, and your still listening to your addiction.
When your ready to be free, grab your balls, plug your little nose, flush your patches and jump in the water.
Because thats how we do things around here, we actually do them.
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Lets take some time, I am gonna throw some things at ya, you toss em around, and lets look at this from a logical standpoint.
The more you poke around this site, the more you should come to understand that you are an addict. An addict addicted to nicotine. You are not addicted to smokeless tobacco. That said, you need to wrap your mind around the fact that your can a day habit isn't a habit in the slightest, it is you feeding your addiction the chemicals it tells you that you need. You are still feeding your addiction those chemicals when you slap that patch on.
Being an RN, I hope you would understand the difference between a cure and merely relieving symptoms. Because that is all your doing, relieving symptoms and not even getting close to the actual problem, your nicotine addiction.
Would you give a recovering alcoholic coming off of a bender and going through withdrawal a glass of wine before bed to help them sleep? No. Because one glass is gonna turn into 2 bottles, him closing down a bar and you bailing his ass outta county the next morning.
So why on earth would you use the chemical you are dependent on to quit that same chemical? Because your an addict, and your still listening to your addiction.
When your ready to be free, grab your balls, plug your little nose, flush your patches and jump in the water.
Because thats how we do things around here, we actually do them.
Brilliant dippshit......simply brilliant.....The only thing I would change is "flush your patches" to "flush your patches and panties"
I started with the gum for 2 days before I found KTC......flushed it all.....LOVE those first 3 days.....
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Lets take some time, I am gonna throw some things at ya, you toss em around, and lets look at this from a logical standpoint.
The more you poke around this site, the more you should come to understand that you are an addict. An addict addicted to nicotine. You are not addicted to smokeless tobacco. That said, you need to wrap your mind around the fact that your can a day habit isn't a habit in the slightest, it is you feeding your addiction the chemicals it tells you that you need. You are still feeding your addiction those chemicals when you slap that patch on.
Being an RN, I hope you would understand the difference between a cure and merely relieving symptoms. Because that is all your doing, relieving symptoms and not even getting close to the actual problem, your nicotine addiction.
Would you give a recovering alcoholic coming off of a bender and going through withdrawal a glass of wine before bed to help them sleep? No. Because one glass is gonna turn into 2 bottles, him closing down a bar and you bailing his ass outta county the next morning.
So why on earth would you use the chemical you are dependent on to quit that same chemical? Because your an addict, and your still listening to your addiction.
When your ready to be free, grab your balls, plug your little nose, flush your patches and jump in the water.
Because thats how we do things around here, we actually do them.
Good stuff dip, Man up and do it, it the only way!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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My name is Jason and I am 41 years old and have had a 1 can a day habit since I was 14. I have never really attempted to quit but, am a RN and now the effects dip can have and want to get healthy. My quit date is 7/22/12. I am currently using the Nicoderm CQ 21mg patches and things have not been to bad. If I get the urge I have been trying beef jerky to have something to suck on. Without the patch is a different story. I get flustered, agitated, irritable etc.. I really want this out of my life and hope that I am on the right track. Thanks for listening.
*EDIT* just read the welcome section and realize now that using the nicoderm patch precludes me from being quit. I am still determined. I am glad I got through just not having that shit in my mouth all the time. I will however continue to read and not post till I get completely off the patch and on with the quit. That stuff will never touch my lips again after 27 years.
No post, no activity since this post...
Lots of good words being wasted on your ass. Get back here and get you quit going now.
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My name is Jason and I am 41 years old and have had a 1 can a day habit since I was 14. I have never really attempted to quit but, am a RN and now the effects dip can have and want to get healthy. My quit date is 7/22/12. I am currently using the Nicoderm CQ 21mg patches and things have not been to bad. If I get the urge I have been trying beef jerky to have something to suck on. Without the patch is a different story. I get flustered, agitated, irritable etc.. I really want this out of my life and hope that I am on the right track. Thanks for listening.
*EDIT* just read the welcome section and realize now that using the nicoderm patch precludes me from being quit. I am still determined. I am glad I got through just not having that shit in my mouth all the time. I will however continue to read and not post till I get completely off the patch and on with the quit. That stuff will never touch my lips again after 27 years.
No post, no activity since this post...
Lots of good words being wasted on your ass. Get back here and get you quit going now.
Show us you are serious and flush all that shit including the nic candy NOW!
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My name is Jason and I am 41 years old and have had a 1 can a day habit since I was 14. I have never really attempted to quit but, am a RN and now the effects dip can have and want to get healthy. My quit date is 7/22/12. I am currently using the Nicoderm CQ 21mg patches and things have not been to bad. If I get the urge I have been trying beef jerky to have something to suck on. Without the patch is a different story. I get flustered, agitated, irritable etc.. I really want this out of my life and hope that I am on the right track. Thanks for listening.
*EDIT* just read the welcome section and realize now that using the nicoderm patch precludes me from being quit. I am still determined. I am glad I got through just not having that shit in my mouth all the time. I will however continue to read and not post till I get completely off the patch and on with the quit. That stuff will never touch my lips again after 27 years.
No post, no activity since this post...
Lots of good words being wasted on your ass. Get back here and get you quit going now.
Agree with Bruce, great quitters giving great advice to a
guy not listening. Wasted effort, he's probably scared to take off
the patch anyway. It's his security blanket.
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My name is Jason and I am 41 years old and have had a 1 can a day habit since I was 14. I have never really attempted to quit but, am a RN and now the effects dip can have and want to get healthy. My quit date is 7/22/12. I am currently using the Nicoderm CQ 21mg patches and things have not been to bad. If I get the urge I have been trying beef jerky to have something to suck on. Without the patch is a different story. I get flustered, agitated, irritable etc.. I really want this out of my life and hope that I am on the right track. Thanks for listening.
*EDIT* just read the welcome section and realize now that using the nicoderm patch precludes me from being quit. I am still determined. I am glad I got through just not having that shit in my mouth all the time. I will however continue to read and not post till I get completely off the patch and on with the quit. That stuff will never touch my lips again after 27 years.
Jason... Rip the patch off and post roll buddy! We all quit cold turkey... I know you can do it!
Swede - day 46!
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I share everyone's thoughts on 'cold turkey only'.
I went the nicotine replacement route a few times - it doesn't work.
All it did was let my mouth heal up a bit and then I could get back on with my habit. I usually did both - gum and snuff or patches and snuff.
When I was really serious and I used the patches or the gum exclusively and refused to buy a can, I felt worse for longer periods of time trying to lower my intake.
By trying to gradually lower your nicotine intake with nicotine replacement you are simply spreading out your withdrawal over a longer period of time.
Trust me - cold turkey is the easiest way to quit. Clench your teeth and tighten your fists thru the withdrawal and things gradually get easier - then it's all a mind game.
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Lose the security blanket, embrace the suck. Never forget how much it hurts to rip the claws of addiction from your body. That way you'll never invite that suffering back in. We earn our freedom everyday. Lose that liar you have stuck to your arm and join us here, best decision you will ever make.
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Gotta give props to you guys that put so much effort into the folks that wander in here, seems nearly everytime I try to help someone through their intro thread they just post once and never to be seen again. So thanks to you guys (off the top of my head souli, Greg, sco, and countless others) who don't give up so you are here when a real quitter comes along.