Grizzly,
You sent me an email about wanting a mentor. You need to post roll for 5 straight days, show us you are serious about quitting, and then I will get you a mentor that will keep you on the straight and narrow.....Here's how you win (and thank you for your service sir):
The gameplan is simple. Not easy, but simple. There is a very large and distinct difference between the two. Let me equip you with what you need, and then the rest if up to you:
1) Read
the Welcome Center. This tells you how and why this site works. We do it cold turkey, no patches or gum.
2) Posting roll is the backbone of this site and we take it as seriously as we take cancer. We don't play with it. Roll is your daily promise to both yourself and us that you will stay nicotine free. Do it early everyday. Let me break down those two words. "Early" so that you make your promise and take going back to the can off the table. You do what you need to do to keep your word. "Everyday" means just what it says. EVERYDAY. By missing a day, you open yourself up to not having a promise to keep and also the threat of missing more days. This site is based on accountability.
3) Posting roll has a trick to it.
Click here for a short video that shows you how to do it 100% correctly.
4) Where to post roll: As you should have read in the Welcome Center, 100 days quit is when you hit the Hall of Fame. 100 days from today will put us in the month of
November '12. This section is used for both posting roll and overall chatter.
Hints, tips, tricks, and other thoughts:
Drink as much water as possible. Pure cranberry juice, too. This helps flush your system of the nicotine still left in your body. This will take 72 hours to clear out.
Here's what you can expect on a daily timeline while quitting. Exercise helps too.
Get to know your November quit group. Start to form personal relationships. This sounds odd right now, but after 3 days, I can promise you that this will start to make sense.
Going back to the can after realizing that you are an addict and coming to this website for help is only called one thing: Failure. You have a choice whether or not you are going to fail. Addiction is never cured, only beaten back on a daily basis. This is a war that will never end, for you or me. But I have fought nicotine 123 times on a daily basis, and won each time. I chose not to fail and to trust in my brothers and sisters in quit. If you really and truly want to be quit, then you will do the same.
My name is Mark and I'm glad to be quit with you today. Check your
Inbox (1).
