Hey guys,
I'm a new member to the forum, however I've looked at the website in the past. I have been Copenhagen dipper on and off for the past 5 years. I quit in the beginning of the year for 4 1/2 months and felt great. However I relapsed and have been on and off again since. The physical withdrawal never bothered me much it's more the mental aspect that's killing me. Things like hunting, driving, and work just don't feel right without it after a while. I work construction and everyone smokes or dips so that's my hardest battle. As I'm at work right now I became disgusted by it while my lip was in and threw the can down a manhole this time I'm hoping for good. I was wondering if anyone out there has any tips or stories of how they powered through until they got to the point of being able to never want to touch it again.
Read around the site, you will find a couple tips in common.
1. You are an addict, you brain is wired to function with nicotine in it. That takes time without nicotine to rewire.
2. As you found after 4 1/2 months stopped (quit is different), nicotine will try to get control of you forever.
3. As you note, lots of triggers (hunting, driving, work, beer, breathing, after meals were mine) to deal with
4. What works is accountability and brotherhood. (Beats the crap out of hope). Be accountable to yourself and everyone here by posting roll first thing in the morning every day. Build up brotherhood by contacting fellow quitters to support you when you hit a crave, or a bad fog, or temptation and stay quit One Day At A Time.
You will find plenty of people who stay quit while surrounded by dippers at work, it can be done.
It's simple to stay quit for today, but very hard to quit -- especially alone.
