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Community => Introductions => Topic started by: The Finn on May 01, 2011, 11:16:00 AM
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I should begin by commenting on how riveting the other stories here have been since I started reading them yesterday. It's given me additional motivation for sure.........
I have dipped for exactly ten years now. Unlike many, I didn't even start until my 30's. A guy at work had a can of Cope snuff, the kind my grandfather dipped and that held so many childhood memories for me..........not sure why, but I guess I was feeling nostalgic that day; took my first dip, and now here I am ten years later.
Along the way, I've made the obligatory attempts at quitting. One year in, I gave it up cold turkey, and made it 31 days. I got weak one stressful day at work, and BAM......back at it.
On another occasion, I decided to enlist the help of the Nicorette gum, and that worked for six months! Awesome! Except I didn't bother to monitor my gum intake, so I got equally addicted to that.
So in the ensuing years I have developed the habit of not only a can of Grizzly long cut straight a day, I also chew 8-10 pieces of the 4mg Nicorette gum as well. No half-measures here!
This latest attempt at quitting is now in its 20th day. Part of it is prompted by a new relationship that means a lot to me....it's not that she has demaned I quit; hell, she hasn't even asked me to. I just want to be there for her later in life, and there suddenly seemed a bit of urgency that hadn't been there for previous attempts. Also, the ten-year mark seemed like a big, fat, even, scary number. Just a good time to pack it in.
So..........this time I'm monitoring the Nicorette, and have allowed only one piece every four to five waking hours, and have cut back to the 2mg dosage in the past few days. They've been a tough few days, I have to say, my body and mind are rebelling, but I've maintained. I even still have an unopened "brick" of five cans, still wrapped in the plastic sleeve from the factory, sitting in the freezer. I want them there, not as a place to fall should I get weak, but to remind me of the danger that is never too far away. I've been there before, I know it's not over after just a few short weeks.
Best of luck to you all in losing it for good!
-The Finn
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Finn,
I am glad you have the desire to quit. I tried to quit many times. Trying doesn't work. It's time to quit. It's time to say enough of this addiction that is so devastating to so many. It is time to stop supporting the pusher who is keeping you addicted. It's time to stop fearing cancer. It's time to go cold turkey. Get rid of the gum, the sleeve, anything with nicotine in it. Decide that you are quit, not trying to, you are quit. Post day 1 in the August Quit group. That's a promise to all of us that you will not use nicotine for today. That's all we focus on- quit for one day. Tomorrow wake up and post roll, your promise for tomorrow. We quit one day at a time.
30.
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I should begin by commenting on how riveting the other stories here have been since I started reading them yesterday. It's given me additional motivation for sure.........
I have dipped for exactly ten years now. Unlike many, I didn't even start until my 30's. A guy at work had a can of Cope snuff, the kind my grandfather dipped and that held so many childhood memories for me..........not sure why, but I guess I was feeling nostalgic that day; took my first dip, and now here I am ten years later.
Along the way, I've made the obligatory attempts at quitting. One year in, I gave it up cold turkey, and made it 31 days. I got weak one stressful day at work, and BAM......back at it.
On another occasion, I decided to enlist the help of the Nicorette gum, and that worked for six months! Awesome! Except I didn't bother to monitor my gum intake, so I got equally addicted to that.
So in the ensuing years I have developed the habit of not only a can of Grizzly long cut straight a day, I also chew 8-10 pieces of the 4mg Nicorette gum as well. No half-measures here!
This latest attempt at quitting is now in its 20th day. Part of it is prompted by a new relationship that means a lot to me....it's not that she has demaned I quit; hell, she hasn't even asked me to. I just want to be there for her later in life, and there suddenly seemed a bit of urgency that hadn't been there for previous attempts. Also, the ten-year mark seemed like a big, fat, even, scary number. Just a good time to pack it in.
So..........this time I'm monitoring the Nicorette, and have allowed only one piece every four to five waking hours, and have cut back to the 2mg dosage in the past few days. They've been a tough few days, I have to say, my body and mind are rebelling, but I've maintained. I even still have an unopened "brick" of five cans, still wrapped in the plastic sleeve from the factory, sitting in the freezer. I want them there, not as a place to fall should I get weak, but to remind me of the danger that is never too far away. I've been there before, I know it's not over after just a few short weeks.
Best of luck to you all in losing it for good!
-The Finn
Welcome to the site. Looks like you've got everything figured out.
And best of luck to you sir!
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Oh, and here's some light reading for you....Scroll down a bit to the paragraph about my brother.
index.php?showtopic=4385 (http://forum.killthecan.org/index.php?showtopic=4385)
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Oh, and here's some light reading for you....Scroll down a bit to the paragraph about my brother.
index.php?showtopic=4385 (http://forum.killthecan.org/index.php?showtopic=4385)
Thanks for that, man; yeah, that's one of the topics I've been reading since signing up yesterday.
It's a terrible thing, this addiction...........
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I should begin by commenting on how riveting the other stories here have been since I started reading them yesterday. It's given me additional motivation for sure.........
I have dipped for exactly ten years now. Unlike many, I didn't even start until my 30's. A guy at work had a can of Cope snuff, the kind my grandfather dipped and that held so many childhood memories for me..........not sure why, but I guess I was feeling nostalgic that day; took my first dip, and now here I am ten years later.
Along the way, I've made the obligatory attempts at quitting. One year in, I gave it up cold turkey, and made it 31 days. I got weak one stressful day at work, and BAM......back at it.
On another occasion, I decided to enlist the help of the Nicorette gum, and that worked for six months! Awesome! Except I didn't bother to monitor my gum intake, so I got equally addicted to that.
So in the ensuing years I have developed the habit of not only a can of Grizzly long cut straight a day, I also chew 8-10 pieces of the 4mg Nicorette gum as well. No half-measures here!
This latest attempt at quitting is now in its 20th day. Part of it is prompted by a new relationship that means a lot to me....it's not that she has demaned I quit; hell, she hasn't even asked me to. I just want to be there for her later in life, and there suddenly seemed a bit of urgency that hadn't been there for previous attempts. Also, the ten-year mark seemed like a big, fat, even, scary number. Just a good time to pack it in.
So..........this time I'm monitoring the Nicorette, and have allowed only one piece every four to five waking hours, and have cut back to the 2mg dosage in the past few days. They've been a tough few days, I have to say, my body and mind are rebelling, but I've maintained. I even still have an unopened "brick" of five cans, still wrapped in the plastic sleeve from the factory, sitting in the freezer. I want them there, not as a place to fall should I get weak, but to remind me of the danger that is never too far away. I've been there before, I know it's not over after just a few short weeks.
Best of luck to you all in losing it for good!
-The Finn
Welcome to the site. Looks like you've got everything figured out.
And best of luck to you sir!
See sarc above by Smokey..^^..
I don't know where to start.
Ditch the nic gum, ditch the cans in the freezer, post day one. Keep your word. Check your (Inbox 1) upper right corner of your screen. Know what it means to post roll before you do it.
P.S. If you are using any nicotine, you are not quit.
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Glad you're here Finn and hope you intend to stick around. Are you really serious about quitting or just serious about showing how hard you're willing to try?
3 weeks without dip is awesome and you can probably tell some of those close to you what an huge step you're taking. So well done I know it ain't easy to walk away from that grizzly bear. But are you serious?
Because you're still feeding the nicotine addiction and more alarmingly (in my unsolicited opinion) you're keeping your drug of choice close by. Everytime you go into the freezer for a popsicle you see what you really want, you're prefered nicotine delivery vehicle. The griz is just in timeout. When you run out of gum or just for kicks and grins you're gonna pack a big fat liper. I certainly searched around and random in the past couple of months looking for a hidden can that wasn't there at times.
If I'm at home right now it would be 5 minutes at minimum before I could drive to the gas station, buy the can and throw some in. If it were in the freezer I'd have a dip buzz starting in under a minute. With the former I have 500% greater chance to get my willpower under control and not waste the quit I've worked hard for. I know I'd have failed under those circumstances.
Get serious about your quit and your life
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Take the cans out of the freezer and flush them. Keeping them that close by as a reminder is the wrong thing to do.
You will have enough reminders when you try to "completely" quit nicotine.
Put down the can and the gum and get on with your QUIT!
If your subject is the way you feel, you need to read the stories. We do not try here, we quit.
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First, great choice! But this is a no nic site...that means no gum. Besides, pills and patches are for pussies...you're a bad ass quitter.
Get the right mindset..nic was killing you!!! F the nic bitch. I like your quit plan aside from the gum. I quit previously lots of times over 20 years (even at the 10 yr mark). But what has made the difference this time is the support from the folks on this site. That is the key...giving your word and keeping it all day.
So, man up, flush the gum and the can and start living nic free!