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[Greg5280]

Welcome to the site ! Best decision you will ever make. You have already received plenty of good advice. I will just add:

Stay close to the site and read everything you can. Everything you could possibly imagine thinking or feeling is talked about here in vivid detail. Understand what posting roll means and do it every day... without fail.

The methods here work !! Thousands of us are clean today becuase of this site.

STAY QUIT
Greg

[T-Cell]

hey everyone,

dipped for the past 4 years but finally deciding to give up the chew- never wanted to get addicted in the first place and always told myself it was temporary. i picked it up when we had to do it for fraternity pledging, and i basically got myself addicted on purpose so i wouldn't have to puke every time we had to do a bunch of physical shit with a dip in. i've seen it in my family (my dad gave me my first chew when i was 7 to teach me a lesson- i can still remember puking on the kitchen floor), and swore i'd never get addicted, but i ended up being the worst one in a fraternity full of "derelicts." basically i'm just ready to take control again and stop "ninja dipping" on the shitter...i'm sure you all know how easy it is to become a slave to this stuff. couldn't sleep last night and finally decided to join the september class at 3 in the morning- glad i did

i've had a lot of day 1's this past week...i tried to taper off to every other day but the second day would just be me ripping an entire can- but it just felt right to pull the trigger today and go balls out. i quit for a couple months a year or two ago but stupidly returned when i broke up with a gf- i know i can do it though. thing is for some reason today the Suck has been freaking awful- i might go through an entire bag of jim beamers by tonight.

Couple of questions for some of the vets...1) is weight gain automatic when you're quitting? is it due to metabolic slowing or just your body taking in more food to replace your addiction?

2) i've never used fake dip before, but it seems like a good way to avoid a total meltdown- like use in an absolute emergency if my nerves are shot on top of the stress that quitting is already gonna bring. is it ok to use that and still post roll call? i know everyone wants to just go cold turkey here and the accountability is what's going to help me the most so i don't want to violate that just to get the "sensation" of dipping again

thanks,

backontrack

Welcome to your freedom, backontrack! Great choice to quit and come quit here at KTC. WT is right on for both comments. A lot of addicts do gain weight early in their quit, probably just from shoving anything in the piehole to feed the oral fixation. For me I leveled out and had it back off by the time I hit 100 days.
Plenty of people here use fake. So long as there is no nicotine, feel free.
Most importantly, post roll, read, make quit pals here. Be accountable to yourself and your quit brothers.
PM me if I can assist you with your quit.

[Wt57]

Backontrack. deciding to quit is a monumental decision and I applaud you. 1st weight gain, I know that alot of quitters gain weight rather it is by replacing dip for food or what it is I don't know. As for me I maintained my fat self right where I was when I quit. Now I'm working on that along with my quit.
Fake dip, Some people use it some don't. As long as it contains no nicotine it is fine. When I first quit I used smokey mt more than I had been using Cope. Then after about 50 days I started noticing that I was hardly using it at all, now at day 75 I have gone days without any. Sometimes when I get hit by a big bad ass crave I go for my arsenal of fake.
Even though its been almost 40 yrs I still remember pukeing several times when I first started. Souldn't that have been a sign that it wasn't a good thing to be doing? Look in your inbox I'm dropping you another message.

[backontrack]

hey everyone,

dipped for the past 4 years but finally deciding to give up the chew- never wanted to get addicted in the first place and always told myself it was temporary. i picked it up when we had to do it for fraternity pledging, and i basically got myself addicted on purpose so i wouldn't have to puke every time we had to do a bunch of physical shit with a dip in. i've seen it in my family (my dad gave me my first chew when i was 7 to teach me a lesson- i can still remember puking on the kitchen floor), and swore i'd never get addicted, but i ended up being the worst one in a fraternity full of "derelicts." basically i'm just ready to take control again and stop "ninja dipping" on the shitter...i'm sure you all know how easy it is to become a slave to this stuff. couldn't sleep last night and finally decided to join the september class at 3 in the morning- glad i did

i've had a lot of day 1's this past week...i tried to taper off to every other day but the second day would just be me ripping an entire can- but it just felt right to pull the trigger today and go balls out. i quit for a couple months a year or two ago but stupidly returned when i broke up with a gf- i know i can do it though. thing is for some reason today the Suck has been freaking awful- i might go through an entire bag of jim beamers by tonight.

Couple of questions for some of the vets...1) is weight gain automatic when you're quitting? is it due to metabolic slowing or just your body taking in more food to replace your addiction?

2) i've never used fake dip before, but it seems like a good way to avoid a total meltdown- like use in an absolute emergency if my nerves are shot on top of the stress that quitting is already gonna bring. is it ok to use that and still post roll call? i know everyone wants to just go cold turkey here and the accountability is what's going to help me the most so i don't want to violate that just to get the "sensation" of dipping again

thanks,

backontrack