thank you.. i truley appreciate it. i have always had such drive in everything i've done (athletics, academics,etc) that i beleived my will power was so great that I could never get addicted to ANYTHING. I always responded when asked why i dipped "why not?" Finally i realized that their are a lot more reasons why not to dip then to actually do it. Simply the cost far far outweighs the benefit. At this point I figure I have only done it for a year that quitting will be far easier if I continue along this pass.
There are a lot of people who are backing you up on these forums and in real life.. good luck on your journey. I may not have much expertise in quitting tobacco however.. f you truly want something bad enough in life then you can acheive anything. Good luck
Good job jdg. Welcome to your quit!
One thing though. I hope you don't underestimate how really serious your addiction is. My quit-buddy jaygib catches whiff of the same thing in the air, I think.
We're quitters here, and we don't get a lot of sleep or listen with a lot of patience, so bear with me if I don't see things straight; but if by blind luck I seem to be making sense to you, check this out (as you young guys say):
There's no fundamental difference between you and a 30year dipper with pre-cancerous lesions and a receding gum-line. He thought he was pretty smart to quit long before tobacco really got its claws into him, too - while he was still in control. Nic was glad to let go, and bide his time until he could use those very words to sweet-talk his way back into the old fool's back pocket again years later. That happened again and again, and old snuff-for-brains didn't catch onto Nic's strategem for decades.
You're smarter than that old chucklehead if you've already figured this out:
Nicotine has a zero IQ. It has no smarts at all. It borrows your own brains against you. The smarter you think you are, the more respect you should have for Nicotine's powers over you, because the genius you're up against is YOU. You're addicted to Nicotine, and in the service of that drug YOU are capable of laying brilliant plans against yourself.
I'll try to be clearer: so far you've made a deal with tobacco to go separate ways. It's not a beneficial relationship - smooch - an amicable divorce. But unless the tobacco in your can was different than the one in mine, this is no way to end things. She's a psycho stalker. You have to hate her or she'll think you love her and sooner or later she'll be back. You're gonna need to shoot that bitch.
