So I'm right in the middle of day 3 of this quit. I like to think of it as my final quit. I've started the quit may times over the last 38 years of chewing and what is different this time is me. Every time I have tried to quit in the past, I didn't really want to quit. I loved my snuff. Oh it was the greatest thing ever. Sure I know the dangers, but I didn't care. I tried to quit for my wife. I've tried to quit just because I knew I should. But I never really deep down wanted to quit.
Now I'm just tired of it. Do I think I'm going to miss it. Yeah, probably badly at times, but I am determined to do this. I even went with a different strategy this time. Every other time I quit, I waited until I was done with a can then quit. Not this time. I quit with half a can left and I have carried it every day. By doing this, I can tell myself that the choice not to chew is my choice, not for lack of having any. So far this has worked well for me. Normally I am not someone to be near while quitting, or just out for 30 minutes, but this time is different. Everyone says quitting is 95% mental and I know I can kick it this go round, cause my mind is finally right
Great job on making it 3 days. That's awesome. Now...Dump the rest of that shit down the toilet. You may think it is keeping that half can is helping you but as soon as you have a bad day, I guarantee having that half can so close is going to put you back at day 1. So before you rear any further... Dump that shit in the toilet. I'll wait ................................................................................................ ................................................................................................................ ................................................................................................ ..................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................. ..................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................... ................................................................. okay, did you flush it, yes, good. Now we can get down to it.
First, welcome to KTC. This forum works best if you follow the one simple rule, post Roll every morning in your quit group. This is you promising to not to use nicotine for 24 hours (1 day). It's simple but its hard. Your quit group can be found here:
topic/30471996/357/#newEvery morning when you get up, you take a piss and then you make your promise to yourself and all the other quitters in your group, then you repeat the next day and so on. It would do you good to get to know some of the other members in your group and exchange phone numbers as this adds an extra layer of accountability.
You will be surprised how strong of an influence that promise is. I have dreamt that I was chewing and I woke up feeling completely horrible because I thought I welched on my promise to not use nicotine.
If you want to keep half a can of something in your pocket get a can of Smokey Mountain Herbal Snuff (no tobacco and no nicotine) and put that in your pocket.
So anyway, if you want my digits just PM me and I will be happy to oblige.
Hope to see you posting roll,
Chris