My number is in your message box......upper right hand corner.....dial it, text it.....just use it. Think I don't get it? Think I won't understand how hard it is? I've used almost as long as you've been alive. I live with an active user. Nothing gets in the way of my quit. You can have my number. I will help you. You just need to use it.
So I just sent you this email.... I wanted to put it here so you could have it to refer back to.... If you don't want it here, tell me and I can make it go "poof".
Ms. Britt,
Please excuse me if this seems a bit direct (that's just my nature). By way of introduction, my name is Joel. I am a reformed Copenhagen addict of nearly FORTY Years. I am writing to tell you that you CAN quit dipping. I know because I did. Twice, actually, but that's another story. I also want you to know that I know how you feel, like you're about to DIE if you don't get a dip. I know because I lived through it. I also want you to know that those feelings don't last forever. They gradually subside. I don't know if they ever completely go away, but they get to the point where you can deal with them a whole lot easier.
You see, for as long as you've been dipping, you've been bathing your brain in a nicotine bath; if you're an average dipper, you've been ingesting enough of that poison to kill a small rodent on a daily basis. Nicotine is more addictive than cocaine, and your brain built up additional dopamine receptors to take up all that drug. When you stop, you're actually starving those dopamine receptors. Think of them as crazed demonic beasts running around in your head, jumping up and down on every last nerve while they are frantically looking for their next "fix". That's why the craves are so horrible and terrible and you feel like you're going to die. But trust me. You won't die. I have searched the internet extensively and cannot find a single documented medical case where nicotine withdrawal has ever actually killed anyone. It is just really, really uncomfortable (but you already knew that!!)
I'm not a psychology major, but I do know there is something about promising what are (at first) a complete group of strangers that you won't use nicotine that day (if you are a person of integrity and your word actually matters to you), but it does have a profound effect on keeping you quit. And those strangers? Well, you get to know them and share contact info and texts, and emails, and believe it or not, but they become an extended family of sorts. MUCH MORE than your so-called "Facebook Friends". The reason? That common bond, (the brotherhood) that you are ALL kicking nicotine's ass TOGETHER.
So, come on back. Get in a routine where you wake up, post roll, then go about your life. This place works; if you don't want to believe me, ask ANY of the thousands of folks that post their daily quit count here. They'll tell you it works. Because it does. The ball is now squarely in your court, young lady. I'm hoping you make the right decision.
Respectfully,
JDW
AKA CavMan83
[edit....and oh BTW, that Bad--Ass Lady of Quit I quoted when replying in your intro? She was the VERY FIRST person in KTC who texted me when my quit was in it's infancy. I never did tell her how much that impressed me and how sometimes I think of her as my big sister in quit!!! Love you lots, Ms. G!] :wub:
