KillTheCan.org Accountability Forum
Community => Introductions => Topic started by: burtonxj on October 06, 2008, 09:28:00 AM
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Day 1 was yesterday..not too bad. It really hit me when i was alone..sitting in my bed. Its a hell of a lot easier when your around people..family, girlfriend etc. I found myself getting pretty depressed. Been chewing a lot of gum which seems to help a bit.
But yeah, Im Ian, 19 years old. Been chewing since mid junior year in highschool till yesterday (sophmore in college). Picked up the habit playing baseball in highschool, i chewed about a tin every 3 days. Quitting for my future..atfirst..i cant say i was 100% into quitting, but after that first day..seeing what that shit did to me..how it made me feel, its outta here.
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Day 1 was yesterday..not too bad. It really hit me when i was alone..sitting in my bed. Its a hell of a lot easier when your around people..family, girlfriend etc. I found myself getting pretty depressed. Been chewing a lot of gum which seems to help a bit.
But yeah, Im Ian, 19 years old. Been chewing since mid junior year in highschool till yesterday (sophmore in college). Picked up the habit playing baseball in highschool, i chewed about a tin every 3 days. Quitting for my future..atfirst..i cant say i was 100% into quitting, but after that first day..seeing what that shit did to me..how it made me feel, its outta here.
Welcome Ian and congrats on a great decision to quit!
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Day 1 was yesterday..not too bad. It really hit me when i was alone..sitting in my bed. Its a hell of a lot easier when your around people..family, girlfriend etc. I found myself getting pretty depressed. Been chewing a lot of gum which seems to help a bit.
But yeah, Im Ian, 19 years old. Been chewing since mid junior year in highschool till yesterday (sophmore in college). Picked up the habit playing baseball in highschool, i chewed about a tin every 3 days. Quitting for my future..atfirst..i cant say i was 100% into quitting, but after that first day..seeing what that shit did to me..how it made me feel, its outta here.
Welcome Ian and congrats on a great decision to quit!
indeed... head over to the january 2009 quit group and say hi and post roll!
damn glad to have you!
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Day 1 was yesterday..not too bad. It really hit me when i was alone..sitting in my bed. Its a hell of a lot easier when your around people..family, girlfriend etc. I found myself getting pretty depressed. Been chewing a lot of gum which seems to help a bit.
But yeah, Im Ian, 19 years old. Been chewing since mid junior year in highschool till yesterday (sophmore in college). Picked up the habit playing baseball in highschool, i chewed about a tin every 3 days. Quitting for my future..atfirst..i cant say i was 100% into quitting, but after that first day..seeing what that shit did to me..how it made me feel, its outta here.
Welcome Ian and congrats on a great decision to quit!
indeed... head over to the january 2009 quit group and say hi and post roll!
damn glad to have you!
Welcome Ian! Stay close to this site and all the brothers/sisters on it. We are all here to help each other get through this and STAY QUIT! Congrats on the decision to save your life......
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Yes congrats!! Use your group, ask questions, get into chat, get phone numbers. Have the wherewithall and guts (or balls if it pleases you) to stay quit. It is a life changing decision that you will never regret!! Always ask questions or ask for help when you need it.
Joe/josiahsdad
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Glad to hear you made the choice. Make that choice every day and tell us about it hear. Looking forward to posting with you.
T2
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Will do man, Been doing alot of firsts without dip lately..drives to work and school..tomorrow will be fishing. And this weekend 4wheeling..i know i can do it. My mom bought me an ass load of gum from costco today..and my girlfriends been pushing me like no other. I find it to be really easy when im around my girl and my family. Shit..me and my brother fight like no other and today i sat down and watched a little tv with him.. quitting this is teaching me alot more than just quitting a bad habit..family bonds..love..yeah mushy mushy but its true.
Yall stay up!
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Will do man, Been doing alot of firsts without dip lately..drives to work and school..tomorrow will be fishing. And this weekend 4wheeling..i know i can do it. My mom bought me an ass load of gum from costco today..and my girlfriends been pushing me like no other. I find it to be really easy when im around my girl and my family. Shit..me and my brother fight like no other and today i sat down and watched a little tv with him.. quitting this is teaching me alot more than just quitting a bad habit..family bonds..love..yeah mushy mushy but its true.
Yall stay up!
As everyone else has said, welcome to the site. I wish I had had the fortitude to want to quit at your age in college. That was about the time i was really getting in to dip and thought it was the best thing going. It took me too many years to finally see otherwise. You are right family bonds do improve when your life is not centered around a stupid can.
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Will do man, Been doing alot of firsts without dip lately..drives to work and school..tomorrow will be fishing. And this weekend 4wheeling..i know i can do it. My mom bought me an ass load of gum from costco today..and my girlfriends been pushing me like no other. I find it to be really easy when im around my girl and my family. Shit..me and my brother fight like no other and today i sat down and watched a little tv with him.. quitting this is teaching me alot more than just quitting a bad habit..family bonds..love..yeah mushy mushy but its true.
Yall stay up!
As everyone else has said, welcome to the site. I wish I had had the fortitude to want to quit at your age in college. That was about the time i was really getting in to dip and thought it was the best thing going. It took me too many years to finally see otherwise. You are right family bonds do improve when your life is not centered around a stupid can.
Welcome and I just wanted to second Kdip - I wish I had the balls to quit at your age. You are REALLY doing yourself a favor by drop-kicking the nicbitch now. Congrats!
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sites been great so far..find my self not wanting to log off at times. Just wanting to keep reading..chat feature is great. i recommend that big time..been on all night. great stress reliever..keeps ya occupied.
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Hey, I'm Ian, 22 years old, from Virginia.
This is my 2nd time back to the site, first attempt got me around the 700ish days mark. Couldnt give you an exact number, but i caved. Peer pressure has always been my worst enemy. One night a buddy offered me a chew, i said why not. Months went by and i would only have one chew a week (whenever i saw this friend). Then one night i got drunk, and went out to buy my own tin and it stuck ever since, i say ive been back doing it around 150 days or so.
I dont know what my plan is, but im back and i'm going to make it stick this time.
I'm not even sure what my old quit group was, but to all of those guys who helped me get through back then, i appoligize.
If anyone can link me to the quit group i belong in, i'd appreciate it.
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Hey, I'm Ian, 22 years old, from Virginia.
This is my 2nd time back to the site, first attempt got me around the 700ish days mark. Couldnt give you an exact number, but i caved. Peer pressure has always been my worst enemy. One night a buddy offered me a chew, i said why not. Months went by and i would only have one chew a week (whenever i saw this friend). Then one night i got drunk, and went out to buy my own tin and it stuck ever since, i say ive been back doing it around 150 days or so.
I dont know what my plan is, but im back and i'm going to make it stick this time.
I'm not even sure what my old quit group was, but to all of those guys who helped me get through back then, i appoligize.
If anyone can link me to the quit group i belong in, i'd appreciate it.
Jeebus....where to start. How about your plan starts with learning about this place and how to navigate it? Maybe learn what it means to get connected to your group (and no I'm not going to show it to you....see step one above). Post roll every damn day, keep your word, and repeat.
Me thinks you've got some searching to do and you best get serious. Connect with your group and be the leader since you've been through it before. Let's see what ya' got.
And for damn sake go find your old group and apologize to them.
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Welcome back. I'm sure we would all like to hear a more detailed quit plan along with your apology. You're 22 years old you were quit for 2 years and caved. You have the opportunity to beat the bitch at a young age. You have the opportunity to not be a slave to the bitch for most of your adult years. Make this your final quit but do it one day at a time and continue to post with your group. I'm just guessing here, but is looks like you posted a little over 200 times, yet you were 700 days quit. You obviously left this site and stopped posting your promise. From everything I've learned in my short quit, we need to post each day and keep our promise that day. Not for only 1 day or only 100 days, but for as long as we want to stay quit, which in my case is forever.
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here's step 1 of your plan:
1. quit being a pussy, man up, and quit letting your friends pressure you into things you don't want to do.
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Step 2: Realize you are an addict, you can never dip again - period. Ever. If you do not internalize and come to grips with this, you will fail.
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Two of the simplest things always end up being the ones that people fuck up and cave on the most, whether you're on day 1 or day 701.
1. YOU ARE A FUCKING ADDICT!! YOU CAN'T HAVE JUST ONE!
2. POST ROLL EVERY FUCKING DAY!!
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3. Maybe you should change your bad influential friends? Fuck man, put on your big boy pants and get to quittin.
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Well Burton, you have certainly confused the piss out of me. I haven't peeped your roll post yet so I'm just going to go ahead and assume that you are still shoveling shit in your lip.
From one young quitter to another, you're the type that gives us young guns a bad rap. You do the sprint to HOF and then figure you got this thing whooped. 700+ days, jesus-tap-dancing-christ. Takes a spineless pussy to cave when a friend simply offers you a dip.
hey, here's an idea...this time around get to know your Quit brothers are and you will never forget which damn group you are in. There's a start. Get your shit together. I don't take to kindly to your willy-nilly tactics.
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Like they said.
Now, go do it.
We're waiting to see a Day 1 post!!
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you quit for 700 days with only 200 plus roll call posts?- no wonder your back, you never learned the secret handshake dummy.
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