Hi. I'm here. Day 2. I am stark raving bullshit. Why is my freaking mouth shedding skin like a lizard??
It's because you are healing.
Yup. It starts that quickly.
Many of us have lived for years and years packing that stuff in our lips and never letting that wound become a scab. It feels odd. It itches. It hurts.
We willingly shoved a product in our lip that cut our lips up like that. There has always been a myth about chewing tobacco containing fiberglass to increase its cutting capacity. It's not true, but it's even scarier to realize there isn't a "secret" dangerous item added to our vice. It is what it is.
Welcome to day 2.
Day 2 left me punch drunk by the end of the day. I hated life more than anything else.
It will be over soon though, and it gets better. Way better.
Imagine your quit as a pendulum. You've grabbed you sanity and pulled it far back into the suck territory. As the poison drains from your system, your life gets increasingly worse because your body wants you to give into its withdrawal symptoms. Very shortly, (drink lots of water and work out a lot today...it helps. Immensely.) you will be done with withdrawals. Your life will go from "suck" to "bad" to "ehhh" to "ok" to "fine" to "good" to "great" very, very quickly.
Please, post your roll call promise over in February 13 and keep your word today. Yes, it sucks. But it's a small price to pay for the years of usage. You are quitting for today.
You can do this.
Check your pm's (1).
