My Introduction

[Pre]

Well done, Nitt. Nice job reaching the hall. Many guys stumbled back into the killing arms of the addictive scorpion woman, but you powered through and quit like a BOSS! I'm proud to be in March Rage with you, man.

[Thumblewort]

Nittany Ryan - Day 100 with all the Apes

Congrats man, HOF!
BAQ April Ape support

Freaking awesome!! Way to go!

Nicely done!

Thanks for supporting the goons, and congrats on HOF.

HOF is the shit! Gratz!

[Siggy15]

Nittany Ryan - Day 100 with all the Apes

Congrats man, HOF!
BAQ April Ape support

Freaking awesome!! Way to go!

Nicely done!

Thanks for supporting the goons, and congrats on HOF.

[AppleJack]

Nittany Ryan - Day 100 with all the Apes

Congrats man, HOF!
BAQ April Ape support

Freaking awesome!! Way to go!

Nicely done!

[gargoose]

Nittany Ryan - Day 100 with all the Apes

Congrats man, HOF!
BAQ April Ape support

Freaking awesome!! Way to go!

[Rawls]

Nittany Ryan - Day 100 with all the Apes

Congrats man, HOF!
BAQ April Ape support

Well done brother. You've come along way from that first intro.
I quit with you EDD ODAAT.

[trigerhapy]

Nittany Ryan - Day 100 with all the Apes

Congrats man, HOF!
BAQ April Ape support

[Nittany Ryan]

Thank you guys for all the support.

I am proud to be quit with all of you, one day at time!

[Its_Got2Happen]

Welcome to the site Ryan. Nice intro. Very familiar words. I was you 711 days ago. You can do this if you want to. But you have to be all in man. There is nothing you cannot do without dip.

I quit with you. You need anything, give a shout.

Ryan

[Clb457]

Ryan - I am quit with you today.

[Thumblewort]

Welcome, Day 3 is a bitch, but it gets easier from here!

[lighty7]

Ryan,

That is a good intro and welcome to the site. Get on this site and read as much as you can. You will be astounded how the stories/experiences you read will feel like you are reading about yourself. My quit 213 days ago was "spurred" by a sore in my mouth and a visit to the dentist.

I received some very tough love on here telling me "if" I got a clean bill of health my next move would be stopping at a C store for a tin - unless I was on roll and had made my promise for 24 hours. Well I got the clean bill of health and haven't looked back. I dipped Kodiak for 22 years and it took quitting to realize that every minute of every day was dictated by when I could get my next nicotine fix. We are addicts - but the freedom of not being ruled by this shit is awesome.

Dig in and follow the program - If I can do it, you can too.

Lighty

[BRO24]

keep it going Ryan, I'm with you in this battle!

[Nittany Ryan]

Thanks guys, wake up Day 3 slightly better than Day 2... posting roll now!

[BazookaJoe]

My name is Ryan and it's hard to believe I've dipped for 24 years. Mostly 1 can a day until I quit for 8 months about 2 years ago. About a can every other day since I started back up. I thought I could have one here or there but I can't. When I dip it's freakin' constant, it is always in my lip and I can go nowhere without it. Every pair of pants I own has the dip ring in the back pocket and breathing itself seems like a dip trigger. Most of the time I think I don't even enjoy it anymore apart from that second right before I throw it in my lip and I anticipate the buzz and calm that I no longer get. Other times I can't contemplate life without it. It owns me and I know it and I fucking hate that but apart from that one stint I cave within 24 hours, 48 on rare occasion. I just passed 48 this time and its sucked every bit as bad as I remembered it sucked but I am hanging in!

I was so freaked out 2 years ago when I took a good look at my gums, holy shit! Figured I had to be just about dead and when I broke down and asked my wife to make me a dentist appointment for the first time in 20 years it felt like she wad making a call to the coroner. I got to the office and the guy tells me they're not bad at all, nothing needs to be done, no cavities, no cancer, gums just below normal where I dipped. Couldn't believe it, I felt like Lazarus and I stayed scared and away from it for about 8 months until I started to listen to the voice that told me I can do this another 24 years, it hasn't really hurt me and on and on. Needless to say I picked up where I left off.

I have done absolutely everything with a dip in my lip and not doing those things with a dip is crazy hard but I'm glad I found this site. I'm not a pussy, I will fight this bitch and appreciate y'all's help. How does it work?

First step is learning how to Post Roll. What is Roll, you may ask? Roll is the foundation of KTC. It is your promise to yourself and the rest of us that you will not use nicotine in any form for the day. Why only for the day? Because One Day At A Time (ODAAT) is manageable. Anyone can quit for the day. The next day we wake up and Post Roll again. We do not skip a day. We do not think, well it's ok to dip today cause I didnt post roll. You Post Roll Early and be quit.

Next step is to build yourself a network of quitters. You will be a member of March 2015 Quit Group. That is the month you will hit 100 days, or as we call it, the Hall Of Fame. Keeping in mind that the HOF is only a step in the right direction, it is NOT the destination.

The last step I will bring up is Being Active in this community. Help Others as they will be helping you.

Read EVERYTHING you can on here. Read up in the Welcome Center: forum/55560/

Here is your Quit Group: topic/10761232/202/#new

The Welcome Center will step you through Posting Roll. There are a lot of badass quitters in these halls. You will find some very good friends out there that want nothing more than to see you QUIT.

DO NOT let a clean bill of health from the Dentist keep you from quitting.

Exactly what Raider said. He's a bad ass quitter and knows how to do it. I want to interject one thing...what you did two years ago for 8 months was only practice and it was not a quit, it was a stoppage. This is your quit. Protect it, own it, and do exactly as Raider said...post roll every day and participate in the site. Go to the other quit groups and read some of the posts in there. Update your introduction as often as you feel the need. I quit on August 4th and am now up to 11 pages...I use it to update my current status because a roll post is a promise to your group NOT a status update.

You are welcome here and we want you to stay here and unchain yourself from bondage to the can.