It is day 4 of the quit and I am feeling worse than yesterday. javascript:emoticon("'zombie'")
I woke up this morning with the crave in my head and soaked in night sweat. my neck and head ache and i have put on 10 pounds over the last few days with all the salty snacks and water and soda and everything else I am taking to kill the crave and stay quit.
But none of that matters because it is simply proof of how desparate the nic bitch really is. I know that I will feel a million times better when I reach the HOF, and I stick with it. When these days of pain are over I want to remember them firmly in my head I want to remember the night sweats and the body ache and everything else so I wont find myself on day 1 again.
I am thankful to my brothers who are quit with me today and those that have and will quit.
You're doing great man! Keep it up! Have you tried some fake chew or coffee grounds to take the edge off? That helped me from gaining too much weight. I haven't checked my weight yet though, I'm scared to lol.
On a completely side and random note, this little zombie over here is dancing to the beat of my music that I have on right now. Slightly weird.
I havent tried the fake stuff yet .. I would like something to make it easier but I dont want to keep in the habit of putting something in my lip ya know .. Im kinda torn .. and I have no idea where to get it locally aside from walmart and thats kinda out of the way for me .. i will check fred meyers later when i go to lunch ..
That is awesome that the zom-b is groovin to your tunes .. I was listening to Harry Belafonte and for some reason it made perfect sense to have it there explaining my mood ..
I hear ya. I had an "substitute addiction" thread I created because I was worried about being addicted to coffee grounds (which is what I'm using now). From what I've read, eventually the substitute addictions just "go away" one day. Sometimes at day 50 and sometimes at day 200. I've already gone hours without it on a couple of occasions so that has eased my fears somewhat.
That being said, if you can do it without having anything in the lip, more power to you. I think that's awesome. Kicking it all to the curb in one fell swoop.
We're all familiar with the Tyrannosaurus Rex and his small, visceral arms.
The T-Rex is thought to once have sported arms that were were (in size) comparable to its frame. However, through years and years of evolution, the T-Rex's arms shrunk through evolution. The T-Rex became more and more reliant on his giant steel trap mouth to clench things that his arms became useless.
Yet, they hung there on his chest like a limp dick. (Which is ironic as masterbation would be impossible with those little thing and I would be a raging asshole of epic proportions as well...)
As quitters, we will always have the albotross of use attached to us. Be it our addiction, or that pocket in our lips that doesn't quite heal back, we will always carry these like small, visceral arms.
If I was a sex starved T-Rex, I'd be out fucking random trees or something. Fuck raging around about why I can't listen to the Devinyl's without screaming and eating a random species. I'd find something that would get me (off) through the day. I'd fuck a turtle. Those basterds are slow, and worse case scenerio, I'd rub against the shell enough to get off and still win.
Do whatever you have to do to stay quit today!Fake stuff can help you out when you are in dire need of a placebo. That is all it is. It is like gum, seeds, etc. but it gives you the mental pleasure of packing the can and putting one in. It fulfills your menal need, but it does nothing for your physical side. It does not exercise your addiction.
I used it up until the 130s. And then I stopped.
Stopping its use is nothing like quitting nicotine. There are no physical withdrawals, and it's more like an uncomfortable empty feeling in your mouth. You are probably feeling much worse right now.
I used it because it satisfied the mental aspect of my addiction. I put off dealing with that until later when I was much more comfortable in my quit. If you don't feel strong enough to battle the physical and mental side of your addiction simultaneously, then by all means use the fake.
