About 2 months ago i decided to stop drinking so much Soda. I'm in good shape but one of my two vices was Soda. I drank mountain dew like it was the best thing i could ever drink. The other vice was my ninja dipping. They came hand in hand, dew and dip. I've dipped primarily grizzly products with wintergreen long cut being a particular favorite. As soon as i stopped drinking soda, my other terrible habit didn't seem as appealing.
It all started about 12 years ago when i was 18. At first it was few and far between. For the first few years it was about a can every two weeks, maybe even 3. Towards the end i was up to at least a can a day. After quitting caffeine i decided to give this a go. On 6/16/2014 i decided enough was enough. I'm not entirely sure why, but i'd imagine it had something to do with the great Tony Gwynn dying (as that also happened to be on 6/16) and the fact that i had ran out. Plus i love my parrots and having to scrub my hands for minutes before playing with them was obnoxious to say the least.
I knew it would mainly be about 3-4 days of complete misery but man was i shocked. I've never even attempted to quit before. The first 4 days were absolutely AWFUL! 'zombie' I'm so lucky 6/16 was a Monday and i had 3 days off of work. The first 15 or so were definitely also pretty bad. It's pretty amazing how badly i was trained. Every morning after my quit, and even sometimes during the day i found myself instinctively grabbing for a can in all of my holding spots. Shockingly enough, after the first month or so it has not been that terrible for me to stay clean. But i know it is still lingering inside me. The dip dreams happen about once a week and i've even caught myself asking for a tin at my local pickup spot before.. WITHOUT EVEN REALIZING I ASKED FOR IT! I actually paid for it once before i noticed what i had done!
I'm not worried about how many days i have been clean. Just the fact that i am. One day at a time for the rest of my life.
This website has made this possible for me, even though i had not signed up yet, i've been here almost every single day for at least a few minutes and have read thousands of posts. I'd post roll now, but 2am is almost too late for me to be awake now that I've stopped putting this toxic junk in my mouth. I will certainly try to post roll every day, but it may be hard as this is the first time I've been able to sit down at my PC all day.. and it's not even the same day anymore!
One day everyday.
-Dan