@jeremybaseball23 here are the answers you gave back in 2015 to the three questions I pm'd you about. What happened to this quit? Did you get cocky again, thinking just one wouldn't hurt, again?
You really need to take your quit more seriously if you want any chance of staying quit. This was 5 1/2 years ago, you were 23 then. Now you are 28 going on 29, has it sunk in yet what a fucked up addiction this is that we all have here? If I start to sound like a mean keyboard warrior, tough shit, suck it up buttercup because you obviously need to hear it. Get your head out of your ass, go post roll in the new
June 2021 Group and keep your promise for 24 hours. Come back tomorrow morning first thing after you wake up and post your promise again and keep that promise for the next 24 hours. Keep doing that every damn day. The next thing you need to do is exchange phone numbers with other quitters. How can you expect us to keep you accountable if we can't get ahold of you. My number is always available for the asking but I damn sure expect yours in return. The added benefit of exchanging phone numbers is now you have instant access to support when you and you're buddy are standing at the 7-11 counter and you are contemplating bumming a pouch out of the can of cat shit he just bought. Instead, you can call a better buddy, one that wants you to live a nicotine free life. I'll be that buddy for you, but you have to take the first step.
So what's it going to be Jeremy or are you going to Quit or are you going to continue to be a slave do a dead weed in a can?
Hi All,
I apologize for my first attempt at answering these three questions yesterday. It was weak and I didn't take the time to really think about my quit. As some of you know I was originally a member of the FEB 2015 Feb Fog Fighters. I made the mistake of thinking I would not be addicted if I had just one pouch of Skoal after being quit for 3 weeks. I will answer the following three questions and post them in this group to try to help you all not make the same mistake as I did. A brief introduction, I am 23 years old and my goal was to originally quit on my 24th birthday which is on September 25th. I decided that if I waited I would never actually quit and I decided to throw out the rest of my tin on September 11th after having walked past the 9/11 memorial to get on the train to take me back home to New Jersey. I want to quit for myself. Every time I use to put in a dip I would feel extreme guilt. I also had anxiety about health issues that dipping could cause me. Also, I became very ashamed and embarrassed that I was still a dipper and work in a professional finance environment. I originally picked up the habit as a college baseball player about 5 years ago.
1.) What happened?
I stopped chewing for about a 3 weeks period. I was very proud of myself. I went out with two buddies of mine who dip. I had a few beers and allowed myself to go to a 7-11 with one of them while they bought a tin of skoal pouches. I then allowed myself to have just one pouch of skoal. I can certainly say that one pouch of skoal was not worth failing myself and everyone on this site.
2.) Why did it happen?
I did not have discipline. I did stray from this site. I became cocky and thought I had already beat the addiction. I thought I could just have one pouch and easily stop again the next day. I want everyone to know that even after you start to overcome the withdrawal symptoms, you are still an addict. If you have just one dip or cigarette you will fall right back into the place you were before you quit. Nicotine tells you lies and plays tricks on you to try to get you to start again. You have to block nicotine completely out.
3.) What are you going to do differently this time?
I will not give in to the addiction. I know am going to crave it when I see my friends doing it, but I have to stand strong that I will not do it. A few minutes of discomfort is better than having to go through these withdrawal symptoms again. No one has ever died from quitting dipping. People have certainly died from continuing to dip. Withdrawal symptoms are temporary, last night I read a bunch of 100 day Hall of Famers posts and have fully come to the realization that withdrawal is temporary. As many of them had dipped 30+ years and were able to make it through the withdrawals. If they can, I certainly can make it as well. What is different about this quit in comparison to last time's stoppage is that I truly have found my reason for quitting. I don't want to be still dipping when I am older. I don't want to be forced to keep buying these stupid little tins of shit just to feel normal everyday. I want to be free.
I am on Day 6 currently and something that has helped me so far is exercise. I have been running every single day since I quit. I am in the process of switching jobs so I actually have two weeks off from work. I have a lot of down time on my hands and it is making the quit tougher. However, it doesn't matter I have to quit dipping. Another lie Nicotine told me was that I have to be busy in order to quit this habit. I know if I waited to when I start my new job, it would be telling me now you are to stressed to quit the addiction. Nicotine has a funny way of trying to convince you, that you can't live without it and that the withdrawal symptoms last forever. I know that it is just the addiction speaking. I want to be free from my addiction and be a happy, healthy 24 year old. I don't want to be 35 years old and still be dipping in my office like some of the guys I work with do. I want to have complete control over my life and be free from nicotine.
