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Community => Introductions => Topic started by: AndyCan on December 19, 2018, 11:26:32 AM
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Well, here I am. Ready to quit, tired of pouches running my life and hiding it from family and friends. I’ve quit before numerous times, and started again. Sometimes out of boredom or some excuse I make for myself. I’ve done so fairly easily before, but I have a feeling this time is going to suck big time. I’ve been on and off snuff, pouches or chew for 17 years, and on for the last 3 years. I have seeds and gum, and also just ordered the non-nicotine pouches. Hopefully those will all help. I’ve already got a stomache ache and headache just thinking about quitting.
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Well, here I am. Ready to quit, tired of pouches running my life and hiding it from family and friends. I’ve quit before numerous times, and started again. Sometimes out of boredom or some excuse I make for myself. I’ve done so fairly easily before, but I have a feeling this time is going to suck big time. I’ve been on and off snuff, pouches or chew for 17 years, and on for the last 3 years. I have seeds and gum, and also just ordered the non-nicotine pouches. Hopefully those will all help. I’ve already got a stomache ache and headache just thinking about quitting.
Welcome Andy,
You've made the best decision of your life to quit. Head on over to the March 2019 Quit Group HERE (https://forum.killthecan.org/index.php?topic=793.2100) and post your promise to be nicotine free for today, keep your word and then come back and do it again tomorrow and everyday after.
We post early in the day so nicotine is off the table. Start exchanging digits (phone numbers) with other quitters. These will be your lifeline should you be struggling, they are also to keep you accountable and to build brotherhood.
Check your messages for a PM from me.
Chris
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Well, damn. 441 days it’s been. That is some weird, wild stuff. I’m extremely grateful to be here. Looking forward to my next milestone, but patient. Let the days stack, watch them go high. You’re building a life of quit. You just got started on it late.
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Well, damn. 441 days it’s been. That is some weird, wild stuff. I’m extremely grateful to be here. Looking forward to my next milestone, but patient. Let the days stack, watch them go high. You’re building a life of quit. You just got started on it late.
Keep kicking ass and let those days add up. Proud to quit with you.
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475 days. As weird as it sounds, I’m thankful for the distraction of new living conditions and circumstances brought on by Covid-19 as it relates to my addiction. The distraction with what’s going on in general, of family in your face 100% of the time, of keeping up with friends through FaceTime, of going non-stop with something, anything (work, exercise, parenting, spousing, checking off house to-dos, yardwork, reading, podcasting, etc.)...it’s all weird and it’s not a scenario in which I Or anyone else wants life to go on like for an extended period of time. And, it is terrifyingly and excruciatingly real for some people less fortunate than my family has been so far, that have lost jobs, become ill, or lost someone close to them directly or indirectly related to covid-19. However, I’ve spent very little time thinking about nicotine. And that’s freaking awesome. Times like these will and do force you to consider what is important in life. Nicotine was never important, even during the active use of it. Your brain was trained to think it was though. I don’t expect never to think about it again (I’m not that naive), but I’m enjoying one of the many positive outcomes of this whole global fiasco for the time being. Fuck nicotine, what a worthless waste of time, energy and life.
Upward and onward. Hug your family, facetime your friends and family, get into a routine, take positive steps in your life every day. Leave all the BS behind when we come out of this. No more politics, no more picking sides, no more tearing each other down and fighting about nothing. Pick each other up, be a good neighbor, find community, take care of our planet (it’s literally all we have and is the only reason we are here), and remember that people are good. Change your mindset. Incremental change leads to monumental growth.