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Community => Introductions => Topic started by: Howleywood on February 22, 2016, 09:53:00 PM
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Starting my quit again this week, and hoping I have the willpower to stick it out. Began dipping at age 14, and have now been on it for 14 years. Half my existence has revolved around dip! It's the first thing I think about in the morning and the last thing I need before bed. I always try to justify that I'm not addicted to the tobacco, but rather just the oral fixation to help pass the time. Have quit a few times, even been a month clean before, and always get sucked back. I always have a lame excuse for throwing in a lip, like saying it helps my golf game, and I'm right back to where I started.
Reading some of the articles and blogs on this site has been a huge help. Ordered 60 cans of Smokey Mountain and I'm currently on day 5 of being clean. Hopefully this will be my last quit. Thanks to everyone that takes time out of their life to share their successes and failures, has been a real inspiration!
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You got me by three days man. Appreciate your post!
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Welcome to you both. Start posting roll every day here...
topic/11505241/404/#new (http://forum.killthecan.org/topic/11505241/404/#new)
It seems strange but posting a daily promise and keeping that promise is the way to battle your addiction. Plus quitting with others is 1000% better than quitting by yourself and you will also have 1000% better results. :)
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Starting my quit again this week, and hoping I have the willpower to stick it out. Began dipping at age 14, and have now been on it for 14 years. Half my existence has revolved around dip! It's the first thing I think about in the morning and the last thing I need before bed. I always try to justify that I'm not addicted to the tobacco, but rather just the oral fixation to help pass the time. Have quit a few times, even been a month clean before, and always get sucked back. I always have a lame excuse for throwing in a lip, like saying it helps my golf game, and I'm right back to where I started.
Reading some of the articles and blogs on this site has been a huge help. Ordered 60 cans of Smokey Mountain and I'm currently on day 5 of being clean. Hopefully this will be my last quit. Thanks to everyone that takes time out of their life to share their successes and failures, has been a real inspiration!
Congrats on the quit. I'm 44 and dipped for over 30 years so I know what you are talking about. No lie, it will be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life, I know it is for me.
Don't let the nasty Nic Bitch suck you back in, she will whisper in your ear, but you have to ignore her. She is still a sexy Bitch right now, but in time, you will grow to hate her.
I quit with you today.
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Not much else to add but welcome and dive into KTC and invest in your quit
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I also started dipping at 14, and continued for 34 years. I can't count how many partially full cans I tossed beforehand I found this place. The important thing to recognize is that you haven't ever really been quit before, just stopped. The good news is that you can truly become a quitter here.
It's easy to lie and to justify to yourself. It's quite something different to give your word to another person, or better yet a group of people, and then break. That's why posting roll here is so key, early on especially. It provides an anchor for your daily quit.
Get phone numbers of a number of people in your quit group. Get others too, but learn to rely on your quit group. This is Day 409 for me, and I have a couple of guys who have encouraged me every day along the way, with only a few missed days that I think I can count on one hand.
Quitting is a bitch, I mean it really fucking sucks. I've found it to be far more difficult that other shit I quit when I went through drug rehab almost 23 years ago. But everyone here is or has been where you are right now. Don't lose sight of that, and use the collective experience as a resource. I thought about chewing several times a day, every single day, until some time after I hit a year back on January 11. Then at some point - hell, I don't even know exactly when - that stopped. I was sitting right here at my desk and suddenly realized that I hadn't thought about dipping at all for at least a couple days. Don't take that to mean that I think I'm cured - there is no cure for addiction. Just take is for what it is - proof that it does get better.
Here are my digits, if there is ever anything I can do to help you. 832 five four seven 7111.