25yr dipper ready to quit

[shstevens]

I also like a good single malt. It is a great idea to put it away for a couple of months. After that, you won't believe how much better the complex tastes are without a dip in your mouth.

Hey redmaster, i didn't think i could quit either. Listen to these guys, they are right. I dipped for 20+years and have now been nic free for 23 days.

The key is you've got to say 'i'm done with dip'. You have to accept you are an addict. After a little while you will realize what a bitch the nic monster is and that you were actually a prisoner. Even though it's been hard, i'm loving being free. That shit controlled my life, way more than i ever realized.

Don't try to think to far ahead, just quit for today. You can do today.

If i can do it you can too.

[ParadigmDawg]

I also like a good single malt. It is a great idea to put it away for a couple of months. After that, you won't believe how much better the complex tastes are without a dip in your mouth.

[CaliforniaSlim]

Where are you Red? Still tapering down? Come on, flush the tin and post roll.
IF you are ready to live a nic free life, then do it. You have some of the finest quitters around posting on your intro. Listen to them.

[syndrome]

hay red man you no what? i like the scotchs to. a good singel malt. but i tell you rite now you best just hide the bottel for bout a month cuz that littel bit a weekness is all your adickt mind needs to pop in a dip. evin if you aint gettin shit faced.

now man i dont no what you did yesterday but man thats past and you dint post up roll. reed up in the welcome center bout postin roll. theres a nice littel pink link up top a the page.

flush your stash and post up roll today. i dont evin care if you had a dip for brekfist cuz you dont get dip for brekfist any more. you make that promiss that your done for the rest a today. and you got your day 1. man some times the fite is 5 minits at a time. i can do any thing assept hold my breth for 5 minits at a time. and so can you.

you no what else? evry mornin i get up and take a piss then brush my teeth. and i ask that guy in the mirrer 'are you gonna dip or quit today?' and i disside i will quit today. i dint disside i will quit for ever cuz thats way to long to think bout. but just like the last 1812 days i got up this mornin and quit. then i posted up roll. now thats one less thing to worry bout today. i can worry bout my job or how im gonna pay for my kids collige or what my collesteral is.

my last thing is man i reckamend them atomick fire balls.

[Evil_Won]

Oh boy....Let's begin:

• You need to quit for YOU not your grandkids or anyone else
• If you still enjoy dipping you will go back to it. Life is about love and pleasure not abstinance, right? Hate it. Hate it with a passion for stealing your time, money, health, and life.
• You didn't quit for a year, you paused for a bit.
• You can never have just one. Why?
• BECAUSE YOU ARE AN ADDICT.
• There is no slowing down, cesation, weening, etc. All that does is prolong the withdrawl effects. If you are an alcoholic that enjoys 120 proof Booker's bourbon, does it do good to switch to 94 proof Marker's Mark?
• Again, YOU'RE AND ADDICT addicted to nicotine. When you accept this you will be ready to quit.

I think you know that you should quit, but "should" won't get you much further than what you have already posted. Do some soul searching. Read the Welcome Center and other forums here.

Last, you mentioned dipping when bored; on my 200 day milestone chip it says, "Caving is not an option...Do something else". You don't need to be 200 days or more quit to put that plan into action. Try it the next time you are bored.

Quitting is hard. Caving is easy. Both are choices. I chose to remain Quit today and I made that proclamation to my KTC family via Roll Call this morning.

[CaliforniaSlim]

I have been dipping for the last 25 years. I love to hunt and fish and I cannot imagine doing either without a dip in my mouth. I also seem to dip whenever I am bored. I quit dipping for a full year about 36 months ago and it was hell at first but I made it. I decided that I could have a dip now and again with my friends and it would not make me start back up. This worked for a few weeks until I started dipping every day once again. Imagine how dissapointed I was to blow it after a full year with no dip.

I dip Copenhagen and it is hard to give up. Last Friday I switched to Skoal Wintergreeon Longcut because it is weaker and I figured it would ease the transition into quitting. I almost feel like I have not taken a dip after the Skoal and I still have an urge for Copenhagen but it seems to satiate my urge to a degree.

I also have almost no hope of quitting if I drink because I always take a dip when enjoying a few scotchs. Hopefully I can overcome this because I like to have a couple of scotchs on the weekend.

That is about it for my story. I hope you all can help me in this endeavor because I feel like I am really pushing my like dipping for all these years and I want to live to see my grandchildren. The real problem I have is that I still really enjoy dip. I am going to pull the plug today as I haven't had any dip thus far. Wish me luck cause I am gonna need it.

A couple things that haven't been hit on yet:
- the whole, "one dip can't hurt" is BS. You learned the hard way. We are addicts. We can't have just one. Know that, and accept it as truth.

-that whole weening thing... also BS. You have an addiction, and you werejust prolonging the withdrawal symptoms. Now that you are good and quit, you can just face them like a man.

-You only think you enjoy dip. This one takes a while to wrap your head around. Dip created withdrawal symptoms when you went without. When you put dip in, those symptoms went away, which feels pleasurable. OVer years, your brain got wired to connect dip with pleasure. IT takes some time, but not as long as you might think, to rewire your brain.

-As has been pointed out... "Try" and "hope" have zero to do with you quitting or staying quit. Just do it. We have all been where you are. We all got help from this place, and accepted the KTC way. We are all still quit.

Now, if you have tossed the last of the dip, go post roll.
Welcome.

[Redmaster]

Thank you all for the feedback. I know you all are right and that I need to wrap my mind around doing instead of trying. I am headed home from work in a few minutes and that is my worst time. I generally get bored before my wife and kids get home and I take a dip. I won't do that today. I bought some altoids and I have been eating them like crazy to keep myself busy. I am also considering going to Wal-Mart and buying some tobacco free dip in case i have to put something in my mouth. Thank you all for the support because I will need it. I wish I would have known about this site when I quit for a year because you all could have smacked me in the head when I decided I could dip again "now and then". I now know that doesn't work and it is all or nothing. I will be here every day and I look forward to getting help from all of you and providing any help I can as well. Thanks.

[kkljinc]

I have been dipping for the last 25 years.  I love to hunt and fish and I cannot imagine doing either without a dip in my mouth.  I also seem to dip whenever I am bored.  I quit dipping for a full year about 36 months ago and it was hell at first but I made it.  I decided that I could have a dip now and again with my friends and it would not make me start back up.  This worked for a few weeks until I started dipping every day once again.  Imagine how dissapointed I was to blow it after a full year with no dip.

I dip Copenhagen and it is hard to give up.  Last Friday I  switched to Skoal Wintergreeon Longcut because it is weaker and I figured it would ease the transition into quitting.  I almost feel like I have not taken a dip after the Skoal and I still have an urge for Copenhagen but it seems to satiate my urge to a degree. 

I also have almost no hope of quitting if I drink because I always take a dip when enjoying a few scotchs.  Hopefully I can overcome this because I like to have a couple of scotchs on the weekend.

That is about it for my story.  I hope you all can help me in this endeavor because I feel like I am really pushing my like dipping for all these years and I want to live to see my grandchildren.  The real problem I have is that I still really enjoy dip.  I am going to pull the plug today as I haven't had any dip thus far.  Wish me luck cause I am gonna need it.

I was prepared to go through the litany of things that need fixing in your thought process, but took a look and saw that SRANS and JLUD are in your intro too. They will set you straight. Listen to them. If they don't, I will come back and fill you in.


I will just say "Welcome". Post roll everyday, first thing. Be active on this site. Read everything.
If you want a number for accountability, PM me.

There is a lot to comment on this. First, I hope you actually sack up and quit. Second, I chewed for 24 years, so, if I can do it you can too.

Your habit is no more special than mine was. I hunt I fish and I golf a lot. I still do all of those things without. nicotine. Why? Because I am quit and I make a promise to quit every damn day.

Your an addict, your addiction is speaking already with the "hope" and I "think" comments. Own your quit. Toss the shit, cold Turkey, and come quit with us. Once you toss it, post roll, and start to read up how we do things around here.

We quit once per day, we get accountable, we get serious, and we fight like hell. When your are ready to do all of those, we will back you like no other.

Jump in the water is fine.

KKLJINC

[Jlud007]

I have been dipping for the last 25 years. I love to hunt and fish and I cannot imagine doing either without a dip in my mouth. I also seem to dip whenever I am bored. I quit dipping for a full year about 36 months ago and it was hell at first but I made it. I decided that I could have a dip now and again with my friends and it would not make me start back up. This worked for a few weeks until I started dipping every day once again. Imagine how dissapointed I was to blow it after a full year with no dip.

I dip Copenhagen and it is hard to give up. Last Friday I switched to Skoal Wintergreeon Longcut because it is weaker and I figured it would ease the transition into quitting. I almost feel like I have not taken a dip after the Skoal and I still have an urge for Copenhagen but it seems to satiate my urge to a degree.

I also have almost no hope of quitting if I drink because I always take a dip when enjoying a few scotchs. Hopefully I can overcome this because I like to have a couple of scotchs on the weekend.

That is about it for my story. I hope you all can help me in this endeavor because I feel like I am really pushing my like dipping for all these years and I want to live to see my grandchildren. The real problem I have is that I still really enjoy dip. I am going to pull the plug today as I haven't had any dip thus far. Wish me luck cause I am gonna need it.

Welcome Redmaster,

First remove the words "try" and "luck" from you vocabulary here, we do not rely on either of those things. We use things like integrity, honor and brotherhood here to stay quit.

I also want to say that I do not believe that you don't want to quit, why switch brands, you stopped for a year at one time, seek out ways to quit on the internet.....these are things that someone that "wants" to quit does, but maybe has not been successful yet. That nicotine monster is still telling you that you can't, so why try....right?

Have I got your attention now? Good, check out the welcome center at the top of the page, it's the pinkish colored link. Read all you can and when your ready post roll with February '14 pre-HOF group. If you need anything at all, check your inbox you'll find a message with my phone number. Please use it, I can't tell you it will be easy, but it is the best decision you'll ever make.

[CaliforniaSlim]

I have been dipping for the last 25 years. I love to hunt and fish and I cannot imagine doing either without a dip in my mouth. I also seem to dip whenever I am bored. I quit dipping for a full year about 36 months ago and it was hell at first but I made it. I decided that I could have a dip now and again with my friends and it would not make me start back up. This worked for a few weeks until I started dipping every day once again. Imagine how dissapointed I was to blow it after a full year with no dip.

I dip Copenhagen and it is hard to give up. Last Friday I switched to Skoal Wintergreeon Longcut because it is weaker and I figured it would ease the transition into quitting. I almost feel like I have not taken a dip after the Skoal and I still have an urge for Copenhagen but it seems to satiate my urge to a degree.

I also have almost no hope of quitting if I drink because I always take a dip when enjoying a few scotchs. Hopefully I can overcome this because I like to have a couple of scotchs on the weekend.

That is about it for my story. I hope you all can help me in this endeavor because I feel like I am really pushing my like dipping for all these years and I want to live to see my grandchildren. The real problem I have is that I still really enjoy dip. I am going to pull the plug today as I haven't had any dip thus far. Wish me luck cause I am gonna need it.

I was prepared to go through the litany of things that need fixing in your thought process, but took a look and saw that SRANS and JLUD are in your intro too. They will set you straight. Listen to them. If they don't, I will come back and fill you in.


I will just say "Welcome". Post roll everyday, first thing. Be active on this site. Read everything.
If you want a number for accountability, PM me.

[Redmaster]

I have been dipping for the last 25 years. I love to hunt and fish and I cannot imagine doing either without a dip in my mouth. I also seem to dip whenever I am bored. I quit dipping for a full year about 36 months ago and it was hell at first but I made it. I decided that I could have a dip now and again with my friends and it would not make me start back up. This worked for a few weeks until I started dipping every day once again. Imagine how dissapointed I was to blow it after a full year with no dip.

I dip Copenhagen and it is hard to give up. Last Friday I switched to Skoal Wintergreeon Longcut because it is weaker and I figured it would ease the transition into quitting. I almost feel like I have not taken a dip after the Skoal and I still have an urge for Copenhagen but it seems to satiate my urge to a degree.

I also have almost no hope of quitting if I drink because I always take a dip when enjoying a few scotchs. Hopefully I can overcome this because I like to have a couple of scotchs on the weekend.

That is about it for my story. I hope you all can help me in this endeavor because I feel like I am really pushing my like dipping for all these years and I want to live to see my grandchildren. The real problem I have is that I still really enjoy dip. I am going to pull the plug today as I haven't had any dip thus far. Wish me luck cause I am gonna need it.