KillTheCan.org Accountability Forum
Community => Introductions => Topic started by: Barton on January 17, 2018, 10:42:00 AM
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Hello everyone, I'm definitely addicted to tobacco and probably about a thousand chemicals on top of the vicious nicotine, I dipped around 15 years religiously. I work at a very physically demanding job and have a physically demanding lifestyle( exercise, work, ranch, farm). One day my wife who never says anything about my chewing, bet me I couldn't go 1 week without a dip...she was so right at first, I had no clue I was so addicted. So I Decided to quit this was about 6 months ago, I set a date, January 1 2018. I started prepping myself, often I wouldn't chew till after I ate lunch, and made little rules like no chew at home or in the car, no chew for at least 2 hours after eating no chew while riding my horse, building fence, etc) I would also spend time trying to convince myself i disliked chew telling myself i have no energy, it's unhealthy, it makes me sick and so on. This went on from September 2017 to December 15 2017. I quit on December 15, I don't think prepping made anything easier, however It did give me more resolve with the initial leap. Today I take it one victory/day at a time, some days I don't notice it others however like today I'm shaky, irritable, and just generally pissed off. For some reason my brain gets trigger happy, making everything relatable to chew...its pure hell. But I'm still here nicotine free. Good luck to everyone who is in my same boat.
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Barton - a month quit on your own is amazing! Congratulations! Well done!
I really suggest you get on over to the March quit group (http://forum.killthecan.org/topic/30404396/) and start posting roll with them. They are a bunch of folks who quit about the same time as you, so they're going through the same stages of quitting. It definitely helps to have a bunch of guys in the same boat as you both for support, and to compare notes with, and that daily promise to not use nicotine is the key part of what makes KTC work.
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I forgot to add I changed my quit date because I felt ready and wanted to be quit. So I quit earlyer than planned.
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Will do thank you for the advice.
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Welcome to KTC Barton. Congratulations on your quit so far. Great Job!! I am a member of the March quit group on day 52 myself. We would love to have you join us. It appears Samrs put a link to our page up for you. Come visit and start posting daily roll with us.
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Welcome Bart! I too am like you in that I quit on my own for the 1st 30 or so days and then I found this place. Not sure if I could have made it 653 days on my own but I do know that being here and part of a group has made that happen. It's the extra layer of accountability that brings us here and the reason so many people just like us have been able to get this done. On top of the accountability there are some pretty cool dudes here too.
Jump in and you will get all the support you will want.