Hello everyone

[Skoal Monster]

Thank you Roamcountry, Notdeadyet, Mthomas3824, 30yrAddict, carumba10, Eric71, T-cell, Kubrick, Scowick65, CCM, Wedge, for your responses. Here is my background. I've been chewing for 19 years, and tried to quit many times in the past two years. I was unsuccessful, and upon the advice of my doctor started to taper off. I feel great with the reduction, and am looking forward to my quit date.

@CCM - Yes, I am trying to use KTC for being accountable, just like you did. Looking forward to be free shortly.

I chewed for over 22 years and managed to quit with out tapering off. The first week is going to suck no matter what you do my friend.

Stop being a slave to nicotine. Freedom is so much better and today is good day to be free.

Your doctor is a dumbass, more than 90% of all long term successful quits are cold turkey. Tapering off does nothing but keep you in a state of nicotine withdrawl for a longer period of time. This isnt a heroin addiction, you wont die from quitting cold. Tapering = failure more often than not.

[Kubrick]

Thank you Roamcountry, Notdeadyet, Mthomas3824, 30yrAddict, carumba10, Eric71, T-cell, Kubrick, Scowick65, CCM, Wedge, for your responses. Here is my background. I've been chewing for 19 years, and tried to quit many times in the past two years. I was unsuccessful, and upon the advice of my doctor started to taper off. I feel great with the reduction, and am looking forward to my quit date.

@CCM - Yes, I am trying to use KTC for being accountable, just like you did. Looking forward to be free shortly.

I chewed for over 22 years and managed to quit with out tapering off. The first week is going to suck no matter what you do my friend.

Stop being a slave to nicotine. Freedom is so much better and today is good day to be free.

[30isEnuff]

Hi finalquit,
you really need to read:
don't be a pussy

time to Man UP mister. Get your quit on.
Check out the mirror...have you seen the "addict" in there yet????? You know you're an addict, don't you??
You're an addict to nicotine...you can't use a little nicotine and just be a little addict. Your breath still stinks.
You'll swing back and forth driving yourself nutz, just like we all have....check out the mirror, quit lying to yourself, QUIT the tobacco TODAY.
Today is all we have. Tomorrow is not real yet. The past is un-reliveable.
Quitting will never KILL you. Dipping probably WILL.
YOU can do this! I am 72 daze QUIT, 24/7, 30 years of poison. Lucky to be alive. I have had thousands of 1 hour stoppages. Have always wanted to quit.
Told myself for years, "If I win the lottery, quit my job and I can check into a dryout house for 30 days and then I can really quit".
I am still working, I didn't win the lottery, I AM QUIT 72 days, ONE day at a TIME. It is pure weird joy and reality is very stimulating. You see, I had been dipping so long that I don't remember "NOT" dipping. For me, the fog/daze/stupor was normal. I am getting my life back and rewiring. YOU can TOO, if you WANT to. It is your DECISION, not hers, not the doctors, not mommy and daddy, not the kids, not the preacher...it's got to be YOUR decision or forget it, cause it won't last.
Hope to see you quit and using the tools here. 'bang head'

[Roamcountry]

Thank you Roamcountry, Notdeadyet, Mthomas3824, 30yrAddict, carumba10, Eric71, T-cell, Kubrick, Scowick65, CCM, Wedge, for your responses. Here is my background. I've been chewing for 19 years, and tried to quit many times in the past two years. I was unsuccessful, and upon the advice of my doctor started to taper off. I feel great with the reduction, and am looking forward to my quit date.

@CCM - Yes, I am trying to use KTC for being accountable, just like you did. Looking forward to be free shortly.

Get a second opinion. My Doctor loves the concept of cold turkey. He even asked for cards.

I don't know. Its your quit and I can only support you when you do. If you come here, respect the quit. Please do not have any of the cat turd in your mouth.

As an addict myself, I quit many times and was unsuccessful. The difference this time. I didn't quit for guilt, family, job or God. I just hated it and realized it controlled me! I had an a ha moment that I am an addict.

As an addict, my nicotine switch didn't have a dimmer. It was either on or off. So I don't understand the mentality of prolonging nicotine. When you have your final one, you are still going to have triggers and rewire.

Oh well, its your call. I disagree but respect that you quit when you want to. I just ask in return not to poison our sanctuary. Karma, when a thinking about it quitter comes to the site with dip in their mouth, it impacts the karma of quit. Please respect that and never be dipping and spitting while logged in.

Please. PM me when you are nic free and it is day one. I will support you. Until then, I can dance to close to my captor.

Mthomas

I chewed for 25 yrs, tried the taper down method, it really didnt work because I never got to "that" place where it was the last dip......until I took the plunge into KTC. This is a tried and true quit method....no nic.....cold asssss turkey!

[Mthomas3824]

Thank you Roamcountry, Notdeadyet, Mthomas3824, 30yrAddict, carumba10, Eric71, T-cell, Kubrick, Scowick65, CCM, Wedge, for your responses. Here is my background. I've been chewing for 19 years, and tried to quit many times in the past two years. I was unsuccessful, and upon the advice of my doctor started to taper off. I feel great with the reduction, and am looking forward to my quit date.

@CCM - Yes, I am trying to use KTC for being accountable, just like you did. Looking forward to be free shortly.

Get a second opinion. My Doctor loves the concept of cold turkey. He even asked for cards.

I don't know. Its your quit and I can only support you when you do. If you come here, respect the quit. Please do not have any of the cat turd in your mouth.

As an addict myself, I quit many times and was unsuccessful. The difference this time. I didn't quit for guilt, family, job or God. I just hated it and realized it controlled me! I had an a ha moment that I am an addict.

As an addict, my nicotine switch didn't have a dimmer. It was either on or off. So I don't understand the mentality of prolonging nicotine. When you have your final one, you are still going to have triggers and rewire.

Oh well, its your call. I disagree but respect that you quit when you want to. I just ask in return not to poison our sanctuary. Karma, when a thinking about it quitter comes to the site with dip in their mouth, it impacts the karma of quit. Please respect that and never be dipping and spitting while logged in.

Please. PM me when you are nic free and it is day one. I will support you. Until then, I can't dance to close to my captor.

Mthomas

[finalquit]

Thank you Roamcountry, Notdeadyet, Mthomas3824, 30yrAddict, carumba10, Eric71, T-cell, Kubrick, Scowick65, CCM, Wedge, for your responses. Here is my background. I've been chewing for 19 years, and tried to quit many times in the past two years. I was unsuccessful, and upon the advice of my doctor started to taper off. I feel great with the reduction, and am looking forward to my quit date.

@CCM - Yes, I am trying to use KTC for being accountable, just like you did. Looking forward to be free shortly.

[Wedge]

Wedgie says



'troll'

[CCM]

O.K. Mr. Finalquit, so you're going to use the taper-down method? IMO, nothing wrong with that. It's what I did, and it worked just fine. As far as I can tell, no different than using patches, the nic gum, etc... Been quit over 4 1/2 years, thank you very much.

However, I had a plan. Let me explain.

I used this site specifically to help me taper down and keep myself accountable. I set a quit date a month out, stated that quit date in the intro section for everyone to see, filled a freezer full of pre-mixed dipp/fake stuff that brought me down to no nic on my quit date, and then I sent PM's everyday to a few people stating I was on plan and was committed. So I basically laid my ass bare for everyone here to hold me accountable to my quit date - most importantly it was a convenient place to be accountable to myself.

Guess what? I ended up quitting about a week or so earlier than planned. Been quit ever since.

So, you can take others advice and go cold turkey. That works for lots of folks. Or you can do what I did (or you can go to a doc and gets some help). However, regardless of how you choose to quit, you need a plan and you need to hold yourself accountable to quitting and then to remain quit.

This site, and it's many resources, people, methods, stories, distractions etc... can get you to your objective of being nic free for the rest of your life. But YOU have to have a plan (for quitting and staying quit), YOU have to carry it out, and YOU have to hold yourself accountable to it.

If you have been checking out this site for 2 years you would know that by now. I figured it out in less than 2 days and took full advantage of it.

What are going to do?

[Scowick65]

Look at all of the quit sherpas that arrived with sage advice. They are not here to make a buck, they are here to help YOU. YOU can do this. Toss, post, quit. Worry about today only.

You can not buy this kind of help freind. Oh, and when you post, you will be so relieved. A smile will appear on your face. Take the plunge. :)

[Kubrick]

Why wait? Quit right now. Dump your crap and do it. Tomorrow, next month or whatever is not going to come if you keep trying to convince yourself you have some sort of grand taper off plan.

You cannot BS us here because we are all addicts just like you. Your mind games won't work. Only dumping the stuff today, posting roll and embracing the suck of the next few days will actually get you quit.

So are you man enough?

[T-Cell]

I can only echo what everyone else has said. Lurking for 2 years it should be obvious that this is a cold turkey, quit now site. You can quit, toss you cans and post roll. It is that simple. I wish you the best, but will know you are QUIT when you post roll.

[eric71]

I've been reading KillTheCan for about two years now, all the while trying to quit smokeless. A couple of months back, I reduced my intake, and while it was tough going initially, I've been successful in halving my intake. So I'm optimistic that this will be my "final quit". I plan to continue tapering and go smokeless free next month.

Cheers  :)

all the while trying to quit smokeless
So I'm optimistic that this will be my "final quit".
I plan to continue tapering and go smokeless free next month

This just might be the eureka moment this site needs. Noone here has ever tried the taper method....or planned to quit in a few days...months...next year. Talk about thinking outside the box !

You would be the only one here that is optimistic about your future "quit"

You don't "plan" a quit. You either quit, or don't. Addicts plan while the nic bitch laughs.

The quitters here have forged a path for you. Reality based on experience trumps any theory you might have.

someone here has said many a time, "Just quit, there is no try" and after 2 years of lurking here you surely have seen it. Glad you recognize your addiction, now, just kick it to the curb like a $2 whore that finished her job.

[carumba10]

I've been reading KillTheCan for about two years now, all the while trying to quit smokeless. A couple of months back, I reduced my intake, and while it was tough going initially, I've been successful in halving my intake. So I'm optimistic that this will be my "final quit". I plan to continue tapering and go smokeless free next month.

Cheers :)

all the while trying to quit smokeless
So I'm optimistic that this will be my "final quit".
I plan to continue tapering and go smokeless free next month

This just might be the eureka moment this site needs. Noone here has ever tried the taper method....or planned to quit in a few days...months...next year. Talk about thinking outside the box !

You would be the only one here that is optimistic about your future "quit"

You don't "plan" a quit. You either quit, or don't. Addicts plan while the nic bitch laughs.

The quitters here have forged a path for you. Reality based on experience trumps any theory you might have.

[30yraddict]

FinalQuit.

I have some bad news for you. I must have tried the taper method hundreds of times. You are doing this the hard way - unless your goal is to maximize your suffering- in which case carry on. Whenever (if) you decide to actually quit, your withdrawals will be the same as if you had never tapered. Conversely, had you quit two years ago, you would now be long over those withdrawals, had a few more shekels in your savings account, and would know what it is to be free of this insidious addiction.

Dump your shit in the toilet. Post up a day 1 in November, and buckle up for a wild 3 days.

30 year addict - 33 years a slave, 538 days free

[Mthomas3824]

I've been reading KillTheCan for about two years now, all the while trying to quit smokeless. A couple of months back, I reduced my intake, and while it was tough going initially, I've been successful in halving my intake. So I'm optimistic that this will be my "final quit". I plan to continue tapering and go smokeless free next month.

Cheers  :)

Why make such a grand production of a quit day? You have been thinking, planning, "wanting?" to quit. It has taken you two years to slow your intake down.

Why? What does tobacco give you that you really are going to miss? Is the sex really that good? Do you even buzz when you use? What is the point of just humping that can a little bit now? Addicts are so blinded by illusion. Tobacco life is a lie and deception. Don't prolong your quit another second. Live in reality, Live free and learn to control your addiction.

You afraid to fail? Don't be. You have failed for a couple years at least.
You think you will be boring without dip? Go to hell and come back in 100 days and when you reach the HOF, ask yourself if you think you are boring without dip. You don't have a crystal ball to know what life will be like without dip.

I hope I didn't waste sleep feeling like something I write gets through to you. I read that you want to quit. So quit. You don't need a grand plan or even know how. You just have to want this for you.

If you do, trust me and flush your can right now and post day one in November. KTC knows addiction and the plan is simple, safe and effective. You do it and you are quit. I didn't say it was easy. It sucks but is simple. DO IT and experience a new life of freedom from vice and learn how to control your addiction now.