KidCornhusker Quit Introduction

[Drewdrew]

First of all, stay quit. It isn't about the trip brah. How much money have you wasted in the past? How many times you bought a soda, just to dump it and spit in it? Do it for the hot wife and the three chillins, if you don't care about you enough to do it for yourself. I "stopped" before too, because it wasn't me making the decision to quit. It wasn't until this time. I am all for you, and know you can do it.

[Southpaw32]

OK so I'm leaving the country on Jan 12 and Southpaw32 is on my ass to get a plan in place since I'll be gone for 3 months. I don't blame him for pushing me, I haven't been very vocal on here: Struggling quite a bit because I was on the Cope for almost 25 years and have been sitting back lurking trying to heed all the advice I can.

But it's time to start posting.

Where I'm going in Brazil, Copenhagen is $28 for a dry, year-old, expired can. I thought that was my reason to quit. That's an insane amount of money that I refused to see myself spending every day. But then was told by Southpaw that he would have gave $100 for one dip on Day 3, so again...not a good reason. Found out on here it's a tool, but not a reason. The reason must be that I want to quit.

So, what I need is emails. I need you guys. International calling is a bitch in that hell-hole, but I'll have wifi. Like I said, I haven't been very vocal, but I've maintained my Quit by heeding the advice on here and understanding it's painful by monitoring my March dude's struggles.

I apologize that I haven't been able to give you much support, let alone any advice. But I can tell by the age groups on here that I'm probably older, been chewing longer, and that obviously makes me weaker...so I'm the last guy you want advice from right now. And a little bit of it is being a pussy: I really don't want to say the wrong thing on here...the backlash is brutal.

But I'm quitting with you Every Damn Day, seriously. So shoot me some emails, PM me all you want, and I promise I'll reply, post, build trust in you guys, and build a relationship with my March Maniacs. No more crickets.

KidC

I wanted to get this in his intro as well. He needs every quitter he can find. Help a new guy out and give him some contact info.

[Luker]

Welcome. Get your head right if you're gonna do this. Don't be a half ass. Make the decision or don't.

You are exactly right and thank you both for setting me straight. I see what you mean about the difference between a "reason" and a "tool".
Since joining this group, taking your 2 points to heart, and reading MANY posts from some of you hard-core motivators, I've honestly made that mental switch to quit "FOR" a lot of reasons, not "BECAUSE" of certain things. I know for a fact that this way of thinking will hold me more accountable and make a person dig deep.

Welcome to March 2015!

[canless2014]

That's Bad Ass Quitter talk right there. Happy Sunday KidCornhusker, I quit with you today!

[KidCornhusker]

Welcome. Get your head right if you're gonna do this. Don't be a half ass. Make the decision or don't.

You are exactly right and thank you both for setting me straight. I see what you mean about the difference between a "reason" and a "tool".
Since joining this group, taking your 2 points to heart, and reading MANY posts from some of you hard-core motivators, I've honestly made that mental switch to quit "FOR" a lot of reasons, not "BECAUSE" of certain things. I know for a fact that this way of thinking will hold me more accountable and make a person dig deep.

[Grizzlyhasclaws]

Welcome. Get your head right if you're gonna do this. Don't be a half ass. Make the decision or don't.

[canless2014]

All right KidCornhusker, I see where you're coming from. A few things.

1. You didn't quit. You've never quit. If you had quit, you wouldn't be going through hell right now because you wouldn't have had tobacco in five years. You stopped. You stopped for a long time, three years, which is longer than I've been quit. If you want to quit, we do it by posting roll and making a promise Every Damn Day that we won't use nicotine during the next 24 hours. Simple as that.

2. If you look at "going to Brazil" as the reason for quitting, it won't work. It might be a TOOL, but it can't be the reason. Because the moment situations change, or the moment you find a place where chewing tobacco isn't as expensive, or the moment you come home, you'll go right back to it. Or you'll take up smoking. Or E-cigs. Or nic patches. You're a nicotine addict — you need to quit because you want to stop being an addict.

Great job making it to Day 6. You really have made it through the chemical dependence, now it is all psychological. Keep drinking water. Think about the ways your life is better. Did your smokin' hot wife know you dipped? If so, think about how much she's going to like knowing there's not dirt in your lip.

Keep posting in this introduction — write about how much this sucks. Yell at me. Yell at all of us. That way, when you're on day 150 coming back from Brazil, and you see how cheap (if you don't count the whole slowly killing you part) tobacco is, you're armed with reasons why you're never going to put that shit in your mouth again.

[KidCornhusker]

So spent the last couple of days trying to wind my way around this site. Absolutely need this site because I have no other ideas to stay accountable.
Started in high school with those bandits, seemed like a cool thing to throw in our tackle boxes when we went fishing. The gal at the gas station we would buy them from accidently handed me a skoal wintergreen long cut instead of the bandit, so I figured what the hell. That was 27 years ago, quickly switched to Copenhagen in college.


Old baseball injury to my face finally finished off some teeth about 5 years ago, so had some work done and quit then for almost 3 years but caved. No support group, no patches or gum,just cold turkey and handled it pretty well. This time....not handling it so well. Quit cold turkey 6 days ago and man it is fucking vicious. Honestly, I'm not even quitting for the right reasons like most of you guys. I've got a smoking hot wife that is all over me, I have 3 young kids that are incredible human beings, a good truck that has one purpose and that's to pull a boat full of poles to the lake, and EVERYTHING to look forward to. You'd think that's enough right there...people that depend on you and love you. Fuck no. I'd still be dipping with all of that to lose. I'm THAT shitty of a person.

The reason I'm quitting is because I'm doing a 3 month stint in Brazil for my job, and on a previous, shorter trip I realized it's VERY difficult and expensive to get a can. And I'd rather detox here (ahead of time) than on the job there with no support of friends and family.

While I was working there this fall for 2 weeks, I wasn't sure of the availability of any kind of nicotine there....I'd heard it was pretty rare, at least in the small town I was going to be living in. It was true: very small percentage of people even smoke cigarettes, much less chew tobacco. So I packed 4-5 cans of Cope in my luggage and it didn't even last me a week and a half. I was in trouble, man!

So funny story, a colleague finally says "Yes, there is a 'Tabacaria' near your apartment". It was awesome. Small little shop about 30x30, one half of it was a fishing tackle store, the other half was tobacco and pipes. Weird, right? So I called up my fishing buddy in the states and say,
"Dude, I've got good news and bad news."
"Oh yeah? What's that?"
"Well, the good news is I found a shop that is 1/2 Cabelas and 1/2 Tobacco Hut"
"And?"
"The bad news is that it's too cold here to fish right now, and a can of expired Copenhagen costs $27 bucks!"
It took me 3 seconds to hand over $75 bucks for 3 cans, just to get me through until my plane left in 5 days.

I bet each of my 3 kids wishes they had an extra $25 from dad to blow during a vacation or something, right? So shitty.
So.....this is it. Quit this Monday, this is Saturday, day 6. It's brutal. Here we go. 'bang head' 'bang head'