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Community => Introductions => Topic started by: ZDawg on October 16, 2015, 08:01:00 PM
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Hi All,
I started dipping when I was around 15 while playing baseball and am now 24. I dipped on and off when I first started, but for the past few years I have not taken a break. I sometimes go all day without a dip only to find myself craving one at night. I've really wanted to quit for about a year now, but never made a serious effort like joining this community. I even started to chew nicotine gum only to find my self craving it instead of the dip. I'm really tired of feeling like I'm not in control. Anyways, I look forward to embarking on this journey and am thankful that communities like this exist.
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Hi All,
I started dipping when I was around 15 while playing baseball and am now 24. I dipped on and off when I first started, but for the past few years I have not taken a break. I sometimes go all day without a dip only to find myself craving one at night. I've really wanted to quit for about a year now, but never made a serious effort like joining this community. I even started to chew nicotine gum only to find my self craving it instead of the dip. I'm really tired of feeling like I'm not in control. Anyways, I look forward to embarking on this journey and am thankful that communities like this exist.
Welcome! Way to dive in and post roll right away. Great decision to quit at 24.
A couple thoughts:
1. You are a nicotine addict, just like me and all the quitters here.
2. Quit is simple, but hard. As you note a day without quit can be maddening, sometimes we quit hour by hour or minute by minute. This site has tools to help.
3. Posting roll is your promise to yourself and everyone here that you will not use nicotine in any form for 24 hours. You want to post roll first thing when you wake up every morning. (This helps rewire your brain to "quit" mode from "dip" mode). You will see people get crap about roll, it is important to your success.
4. Exchange digits (via the PM system here) with your fellow quitters, join the groupme for the Jan '16 group -- the Dog House is where they support eachother and build brotherhood. Visit the KTC chat, usually people around to answer questions / share jokes with. (Chat can be quiet on weekends).
5. Read everything on this site, especially the words of wisdom and hall of fame speeches. Getting info us a good way to ride out a crave.
Great start, I quit with you today.
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Hi All,
I started dipping when I was around 15 while playing baseball and am now 24. I dipped on and off when I first started, but for the past few years I have not taken a break. I sometimes go all day without a dip only to find myself craving one at night. I've really wanted to quit for about a year now, but never made a serious effort like joining this community. I even started to chew nicotine gum only to find my self craving it instead of the dip. I'm really tired of feeling like I'm not in control. Anyways, I look forward to embarking on this journey and am thankful that communities like this exist.
Congrats on catching your quit early. Here you have the support you need and if you need assistance anyone will be there for the help you need at any given time. Quit on brother and follow Nomore1959's steps. I quit with you.
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Kudos to you for taking on this beast at an early age. Follow the suggestions above and get involved in your support and you will succeed. Welcome
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I'm a little older than you, but being from your age group I know how hard it is to say no. Hate to break it to you it is hard for any age group that's why I'm proud of you for stepping up.
Let me know if I can help. I suggest you check out words of wisdom and HOF speeches.
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I am only 5 years older but damn jealous of the wisdom you have shown. Congrats on your decision to quit.
Post roll everyday and make that promise to yourself and the brotherhood that you will not use nicotine that day. Keep that promise, wake up and post again.
Drink lots of water, read and post on this site, do whatever it takes to stay nic free.
PM if you ever need anything.
I am proud to quit with you today.
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This will be my third time with the community. I don't remember my old username. My first quit went well for about 6 months; however, I caved when I lost touch with the community and had some health issues. The second time I lasted about 9 months, but quit the forms when I heard some discouraging posts related to other members. I'm not using the following as an excuse, but this is a matter of fact which made it difficult for me to stay to quit... I had some gastrointestinal issues and the nicotine helped relive it. I remember both times I relapsed picking between being miserable with my stomach or dipping again and being miserable. I have since resolved the gastrointestinal issues with a doctor and am hoping to stay quit now. I started dipping when I was around 15 years old and had an on and off again relationship with it until I became an everyday user by my 20's. Lately I have been primarily addicted to nicotine gum. I don't know what to say, part of me is glad I've decided to come back and the other part of me is ashamed I could not stay quit. This time around I'm going to get more involved in the posts and try to find stuff in common with my fellow quitters. I am deeply sorry to all my fellow brothers I let down and promise it will not happen again. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. I know I'm going to get lambasted and deserve it, but please also share advice. I think a big reasons I failed to quit is because I failed to develop real relationships and find commonalities with my fellow quitters. I just really am glad that there is this community because I know it works. I just need to follow advice and give myself to the program.
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This will be my third time with the community. I don't remember my old username. My first quit went well for about 6 months; however, I caved when I lost touch with the community and had some health issues. The second time I lasted about 9 months, but quit the forms when I heard some discouraging posts related to other members. I'm not using the following as an excuse, but this is a matter of fact which made it difficult for me to stay to quit... I had some gastrointestinal issues and the nicotine helped relive it. I remember both times I relapsed picking between being miserable with my stomach or dipping again and being miserable. I have since resolved the gastrointestinal issues with a doctor and am hoping to stay quit now. I started dipping when I was around 15 years old and had an on and off again relationship with it until I became an everyday user by my 20's. Lately I have been primarily addicted to nicotine gum. I don't know what to say, part of me is glad I've decided to come back and the other part of me is ashamed I could not stay quit. This time around I'm going to get more involved in the posts and try to find stuff in common with my fellow quitters. I am deeply sorry to all my fellow brothers I let down and promise it will not happen again. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. I know I'm going to get lambasted and deserve it, but please also share advice. I think a big reasons I failed to quit is because I failed to develop real relationships and find commonalities with my fellow quitters. I just really am glad that there is this community because I know it works. I just need to follow advice and give myself to the program.
1. What happened? I caved. I let down my brothers and this whole community.Shamefully, for the second time.
2. Why did it happen? I got stressed out and had some health issues and took the easy way out. I was ashamed and did not reach out to my fellow brothers to help or for advice. I thought to myself I'll figure this whole thing out later. I didn't truly want to quit.
3. What are you going to do different this time? Get ridiculously involved in the community. And truly give myself to the program. I'm going to reach out to the guys and try to help others who are struggling.
I will try to type more on this tomorrow evening. I've got to go to bed for now.
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This will be my third time with the community. I don't remember my old username. My first quit went well for about 6 months; however, I caved when I lost touch with the community and had some health issues. The second time I lasted about 9 months, but quit the forms when I heard some discouraging posts related to other members. I'm not using the following as an excuse, but this is a matter of fact which made it difficult for me to stay to quit... I had some gastrointestinal issues and the nicotine helped relive it. I remember both times I relapsed picking between being miserable with my stomach or dipping again and being miserable. I have since resolved the gastrointestinal issues with a doctor and am hoping to stay quit now. I started dipping when I was around 15 years old and had an on and off again relationship with it until I became an everyday user by my 20's. Lately I have been primarily addicted to nicotine gum. I don't know what to say, part of me is glad I've decided to come back and the other part of me is ashamed I could not stay quit. This time around I'm going to get more involved in the posts and try to find stuff in common with my fellow quitters. I am deeply sorry to all my fellow brothers I let down and promise it will not happen again. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. I know I'm going to get lambasted and deserve it, but please also share advice. I think a big reasons I failed to quit is because I failed to develop real relationships and find commonalities with my fellow quitters. I just really am glad that there is this community because I know it works. I just need to follow advice and give myself to the program.
1. What happened? I caved. I let down my brothers and this whole community.Shamefully, for the second time.
2. Why did it happen? I got stressed out and had some health issues and took the easy way out. I was ashamed and did not reach out to my fellow brothers to help or for advice. I thought to myself I'll figure this whole thing out later. I didn't truly want to quit.
3. What are you going to do different this time? Get ridiculously involved in the community. And truly give myself to the program. I'm going to reach out to the guys and try to help others who are struggling.
I will try to type more on this tomorrow evening. I've got to go to bed for now.
Big no no with new account. What month and years where you here? Let's get your original username up and running.
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This will be my third time with the community. I don't remember my old username. My first quit went well for about 6 months; however, I caved when I lost touch with the community and had some health issues. The second time I lasted about 9 months, but quit the forms when I heard some discouraging posts related to other members. I'm not using the following as an excuse, but this is a matter of fact which made it difficult for me to stay to quit... I had some gastrointestinal issues and the nicotine helped relive it. I remember both times I relapsed picking between being miserable with my stomach or dipping again and being miserable. I have since resolved the gastrointestinal issues with a doctor and am hoping to stay quit now. I started dipping when I was around 15 years old and had an on and off again relationship with it until I became an everyday user by my 20's. Lately I have been primarily addicted to nicotine gum. I don't know what to say, part of me is glad I've decided to come back and the other part of me is ashamed I could not stay quit. This time around I'm going to get more involved in the posts and try to find stuff in common with my fellow quitters. I am deeply sorry to all my fellow brothers I let down and promise it will not happen again. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. I know I'm going to get lambasted and deserve it, but please also share advice. I think a big reasons I failed to quit is because I failed to develop real relationships and find commonalities with my fellow quitters. I just really am glad that there is this community because I know it works. I just need to follow advice and give myself to the program.
1. What happened? I caved. I let down my brothers and this whole community.Shamefully, for the second time.
2. Why did it happen? I got stressed out and had some health issues and took the easy way out. I was ashamed and did not reach out to my fellow brothers to help or for advice. I thought to myself I'll figure this whole thing out later. I didn't truly want to quit.
3. What are you going to do different this time? Get ridiculously involved in the community. And truly give myself to the program. I'm going to reach out to the guys and try to help others who are struggling.
I will try to type more on this tomorrow evening. I've got to go to bed for now.
Big no no with new account. What month and years where you here? Let's get your original username up and running.
Ready12 was my old username. Anyways, let me know what I need to do in order to change the username.
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This will be my third time with the community. I don't remember my old username. My first quit went well for about 6 months; however, I caved when I lost touch with the community and had some health issues. The second time I lasted about 9 months, but quit the forms when I heard some discouraging posts related to other members. I'm not using the following as an excuse, but this is a matter of fact which made it difficult for me to stay to quit... I had some gastrointestinal issues and the nicotine helped relive it. I remember both times I relapsed picking between being miserable with my stomach or dipping again and being miserable. I have since resolved the gastrointestinal issues with a doctor and am hoping to stay quit now. I started dipping when I was around 15 years old and had an on and off again relationship with it until I became an everyday user by my 20's. Lately I have been primarily addicted to nicotine gum. I don't know what to say, part of me is glad I've decided to come back and the other part of me is ashamed I could not stay quit. This time around I'm going to get more involved in the posts and try to find stuff in common with my fellow quitters. I am deeply sorry to all my fellow brothers I let down and promise it will not happen again. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. I know I'm going to get lambasted and deserve it, but please also share advice. I think a big reasons I failed to quit is because I failed to develop real relationships and find commonalities with my fellow quitters. I just really am glad that there is this community because I know it works. I just need to follow advice and give myself to the program.
1. What happened? I caved. I let down my brothers and this whole community.Shamefully, for the second time.
2. Why did it happen? I got stressed out and had some health issues and took the easy way out. I was ashamed and did not reach out to my fellow brothers to help or for advice. I thought to myself I'll figure this whole thing out later. I didn't truly want to quit.
3. What are you going to do different this time? Get ridiculously involved in the community. And truly give myself to the program. I'm going to reach out to the guys and try to help others who are struggling.
I will try to type more on this tomorrow evening. I've got to go to bed for now.
Big no no with new account. What month and years where you here? Let's get your original username up and running.
Ready12 was my old username. Anyways, let me know what I need to do in order to change the username.
I changed the password to ready12 and sent you a PM. Log in to that account so I can lock this new one.
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This will be my third time with the community. I don't remember my old username. My first quit went well for about 6 months; however, I caved when I lost touch with the community and had some health issues. The second time I lasted about 9 months, but quit the forms when I heard some discouraging posts related to other members. I'm not using the following as an excuse, but this is a matter of fact which made it difficult for me to stay to quit... I had some gastrointestinal issues and the nicotine helped relive it. I remember both times I relapsed picking between being miserable with my stomach or dipping again and being miserable. I have since resolved the gastrointestinal issues with a doctor and am hoping to stay quit now. I started dipping when I was around 15 years old and had an on and off again relationship with it until I became an everyday user by my 20's. Lately I have been primarily addicted to nicotine gum. I don't know what to say, part of me is glad I've decided to come back and the other part of me is ashamed I could not stay quit. This time around I'm going to get more involved in the posts and try to find stuff in common with my fellow quitters. I am deeply sorry to all my fellow brothers I let down and promise it will not happen again. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. I know I'm going to get lambasted and deserve it, but please also share advice. I think a big reasons I failed to quit is because I failed to develop real relationships and find commonalities with my fellow quitters. I just really am glad that there is this community because I know it works. I just need to follow advice and give myself to the program.
1. What happened? I caved. I let down my brothers and this whole community.Shamefully, for the second time.
2. Why did it happen? I got stressed out and had some health issues and took the easy way out. I was ashamed and did not reach out to my fellow brothers to help or for advice. I thought to myself I'll figure this whole thing out later. I didn't truly want to quit.
3. What are you going to do different this time? Get ridiculously involved in the community. And truly give myself to the program. I'm going to reach out to the guys and try to help others who are struggling.
I will try to type more on this tomorrow evening. I've got to go to bed for now.
Big no no with new account. What month and years where you here? Let's get your original username up and running.
Ready12 was my old username. Anyways, let me know what I need to do in order to change the username.
I changed the password to ready12 and sent you a PM. Log in to that account so I can lock this new one.
Thank you
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I have merged your two intros together, so it's all in one place.
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I have merged your two intros together, so it's all in one place.
Thank you.
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I have changed my username from ready12 to zdawg.
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First, change your quit date.
Second, listen to the last couple of things people wrote you in September. Step out of your addict mindset and REALLY read them. I personally love what Palpatine just wrote.
Third, go back to yesterday's pages in September and find what I addressed to you. I'm not being selfish in requesting that. I think my own words resonated with ME and I hope they will with you.
Fourth, we are September brethren now. I'm not going to let you quit again without a fight (nor will you let me) and I'm hoping to push you to understand that these guys, even if you think they're being assholes, are COMPLETELY right. I fucked up and caved just like you. It takes a lot of balls to come back here and admit you need this place. But they're right.
I'll PM you with my number. Don't hesitate to use it. And remember. Quitting will be the most important thing you do today. God bless.
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First, change your quit date.
Second, listen to the last couple of things people wrote you in September. Step out of your addict mindset and REALLY read them. I personally love what Palpatine just wrote.
Third, go back to yesterday's pages in September and find what I addressed to you. I'm not being selfish in requesting that. I think my own words resonated with ME and I hope they will with you.
Fourth, we are September brethren now. I'm not going to let you quit again without a fight (nor will you let me) and I'm hoping to push you to understand that these guys, even if you think they're being assholes, are COMPLETELY right. I fucked up and caved just like you. It takes a lot of balls to come back here and admit you need this place. But they're right.
I'll PM you with my number. Don't hesitate to use it. And remember. Quitting will be the most important thing you do today. God bless.
Thanks dude. Appreciate it!