KillTheCan.org Accountability Forum
Community => Introductions => Topic started by: Coach_Davis on December 22, 2015, 12:12:00 AM
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I started chewing tobacco when I was 15 and here I am 9 years later, still chewing at least a can a day. I wish I could say that I dreaded every day of it, but on the contrary. My trusty little sidekick went every where with me. He helped me celebrated the biggest moments of my life, calmed my anxieties in the toughest of times, and made me never feel alone. Hell, I felt naked when I didn't have a lip in. But as much as I wish this could go on forever, it can't. It is slowly killing me from the inside out. Tobacco may not have caused any illnesses in me yet, but I know it is a ticking time bomb. I have to admit though, the threat of disease isn't my main motivator.
Addiction is one of the ugliest characteristics known to man. In essence, it destroys a man's will power. As a coach, how can I preach the development of grit and determination if I can't even implement them myself? Although my players don't know it, I wear the shame of a hypocrite. No more, however. No more will I sneak dips in behind my players backs just so I get a brief endorphin rush. I will no longer succumb to a weak will. Instead, I will practice what I preach.
Today is day three out of infinity and I feel great. True, I can't shake the nagging urge to get a lip. But now I have a much stronger feeling, pride. Proud that this is just the beginning and I will no longer embrace the self fulfilling guilt of an addict. Instead, I will keep advancing myself as a man of character. Goodbye old friend, you will not be missed.
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Awesome stuff coach! Make your daily promise in roll at the link below. We post roll here like a Philadelphia voter - early and often! :D
topic/11424456/167/#new (http://forum.killthecan.org/topic/11424456/167/#new)
Swap some digits with folks in your quit group and help keep them accountable.
I quit with you today!
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Awesome stuff coach! Make your daily promise in roll at the link below. We post roll here like a Philadelphia voter - early and often! :D
topic/11424456/167/#new (http://forum.killthecan.org/topic/11424456/167/#new)
Swap some digits with folks in your quit group and help keep them accountable.
I quit with you today!
Wow.....
Great speach coach! Sounds good. BUT
Post roll..... And we will all follow you.
Time to give up the lie and live the life you were created to live.
This bunch of kids will be just fine...
Dont quit for them....
Quit for you..... If not, you might not get to enjoy the kids.
Leave a legacy!
Time for a new Identity......ODAAT
I quit with you today.
Rawls 400
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I started chewing tobacco when I was 15 and here I am 9 years later, still chewing at least a can a day. I wish I could say that I dreaded every day of it, but on the contrary. My trusty little sidekick went every where with me. He helped me celebrated the biggest moments of my life, calmed my anxieties in the toughest of times, and made me never feel alone. Hell, I felt naked when I didn't have a lip in. But as much as I wish this could go on forever, it can't. It is slowly killing me from the inside out. Tobacco may not have caused any illnesses in me yet, but I know it is a ticking time bomb. I have to admit though, the threat of disease isn't my main motivator.
Addiction is one of the ugliest characteristics known to man. In essence, it destroys a man's will power. As a coach, how can I preach the development of grit and determination if I can't even implement them myself? Although my players don't know it, I wear the shame of a hypocrite. No more, however. No more will I sneak dips in behind my players backs just so I get a brief endorphin rush. I will no longer succumb to a weak will. Instead, I will practice what I preach.
Today is day three out of infinity and I feel great. True, I can't shake the nagging urge to get a lip. But now I have a much stronger feeling, pride. Proud that this is just the beginning and I will no longer embrace the self fulfilling guilt of an addict. Instead, I will keep advancing myself as a man of character. Goodbye old friend, you will not be missed.
Really...
"He" helped you? Your "trusty little sidekick" celebrated the biggest moments in your life, with you?
How?
We're you dipping chemical laced tobacco or jamming a small human being into your lip for 9 years?
Tobacco was never your "friend" and if you think it somehow enhanced your life, you're crazy.
You need to stop glorifying that stuff and come to the realization that it was all one big lie.
Tobacco filled NO void in your life, it only created more. It hooked you and lead you around by the lip to the point you looked at it like an actual person.
Don't feel bad, though...it did the same to me. It wasn't until I quit that I realized how bad it had me fooled and how completely dependant I had become on it. Many times I chose to dip ahead of being with friends or family...don't think it can get much lower than that.
You're I'm for battle, champ. Don't look to infinity, look to simply win the day. Once you do, look to win the next day. Building up some hate as opposed to love for your old "friend" can go along way to help you win the daily battles as well.
Just my 2 cents...
It won't always be easy but it will always be worth it.
Quit on...
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I started chewing tobacco when I was 15 and here I am 9 years later, still chewing at least a can a day. I wish I could say that I dreaded every day of it, but on the contrary. My trusty little sidekick went every where with me. He helped me celebrated the biggest moments of my life, calmed my anxieties in the toughest of times, and made me never feel alone. Hell, I felt naked when I didn't have a lip in. But as much as I wish this could go on forever, it can't. It is slowly killing me from the inside out. Tobacco may not have caused any illnesses in me yet, but I know it is a ticking time bomb. I have to admit though, the threat of disease isn't my main motivator.
Addiction is one of the ugliest characteristics known to man. In essence, it destroys a man's will power. As a coach, how can I preach the development of grit and determination if I can't even implement them myself? Although my players don't know it, I wear the shame of a hypocrite. No more, however. No more will I sneak dips in behind my players backs just so I get a brief endorphin rush. I will no longer succumb to a weak will. Instead, I will practice what I preach.
Today is day three out of infinity and I feel great. True, I can't shake the nagging urge to get a lip. But now I have a much stronger feeling, pride. Proud that this is just the beginning and I will no longer embrace the self fulfilling guilt of an addict. Instead, I will keep advancing myself as a man of character. Goodbye old friend, you will not be missed.
Really...
"He" helped you? Your "trusty little sidekick" celebrated the biggest moments in your life, with you?
How?
We're you dipping chemical laced tobacco or jamming a small human being into your lip for 9 years?
Tobacco was never your "friend" and if you think it somehow enhanced your life, you're crazy.
You need to stop glorifying that stuff and come to the realization that it was all one big lie.
Tobacco filled NO void in your life, it only created more. It hooked you and lead you around by the lip to the point you looked at it like an actual person.
Don't feel bad, though...it did the same to me. It wasn't until I quit that I realized how bad it had me fooled and how completely dependant I had become on it. Many times I chose to dip ahead of being with friends or family...don't think it can get much lower than that.
You're I'm for battle, champ. Don't look to infinity, look to simply win the day. Once you do, look to win the next day. Building up some hate as opposed to love for your old "friend" can go along way to help you win the daily battles as well.
Just my 2 cents...
It won't always be easy but it will always be worth it.
Quit on...
^^^read this over and over and over.
Lots of us posted an intro similar to yours. Nicotine does nothing but take in reality. It gives nothing. It is hated to see that now, but the faster you peel away the web of lies... The sooner you can start healing.
It doesn't take away anxiety -anxiety is driving around at midnight to gas station after gas station because your brand of poison is out.
It doesn't help you celebrate, unless hiding in a toilet with a fat lip getting your fix is your idea of a celebration.
Weclone aboard coach. You are in the right place.
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Great stuff, Coach!
[(No more lies) + (testicular fortitude)] / day = Freedom.
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Gotta learn to hate nicotine in it's many forms, and promise not to use it 24 hours at a time. It works!