Well...you could read a million article on or off line about how to relieve stress and not one would talk about spewing brown posionous slime into an empty mountain dew bottle.
You weren't spitting your stress away. All you were doing was relieving the withdrawl pang that was going off in your head, that slowly started to tick the second you spit out your last chew.
You're giving dip too much credit. It cannot relieve stress or make your life any easier. Your an addict. Your addicted brain just THINKS it can. In fact dip only ADDS to the stress of every day life.
Think about it. You just got out of school, your newly engaged, you have a stressful job, and your going to start law school. Add to that, that you constantly have to feed this beast of a time bomb that keeps ticking in your head. What are you feeding it? A posionous DRUG. That's right, nicotine is posionous and a drug. That combo can destroy your gums, decay your teeth to the point of losing them, eat away your inner lip, numb and cut up your tongue, kill your taste buds, increase your blood pressure, drain your pocketbook, and all the while your chances of cancer increase every time you feel that "action" of cracking open a new can, which ultimately can kill you. That's some real stress relief , eh?
Bitch of it is, after reading all that you no doubt still want to put a dip in, because you are an addict. No different than a crack fiend jonsin for a rock, except your rock is a tin of posion weeds in a can.
So how do you right the ship? First off you REALLY have to want to quit, for YOU. Not for your dentist, not your fiance, not for your family, but YOU.
Your first yet most important step now is to join up with a bunch of quitters who are in the same boat as you and post a promise every morning to them and to yourself that you will not use nicotine for the day. Don't worry about tomorrow, next week, next month or even next year. Simply worry about quitting for today.
Go to the top left part of the page and read the welcome center to learn how to post roll.
Along the way you will hit craves, funks, rage, happiness, sadness, fog, confusion, and god knows what else. When you have questions about that shit, come here and we will help you.
Ok. I think I've said too much shit now, but I really want to see you quit and so does everyone else on this site.
Freeing yourself from this NASTY addiction will be one of the most rewarding things you will ever do. The freedom you will feel is unreal. The only regret I have about quitting, is that I didn't do it sooner.
Welcome to ktc. Hope to see you around and involved for a long time to come. If you're really jonsin and your mind can only think about chew, come here and READ EVERYTHING. IT WILL HELP.
Hope I helped. You got this.