Realized that I never officially introduced myself on this site. I'm currently on day 8 and I'm a transfer from the quitsmokeless website. Still a member there too. I Dipped for about 26 years, ending with a can of Kodiak/day habbit at the end. Finally had enough around last July. Quit with QS group and made it about 183 days. I caved in Juanuary. Not sure exactly why, but I did. I know it was dumb and even knew it at the time. Did it anyway. Spent alot of time trying to analyze why. I think I just got overconfident and caved in a weak time. Made a couple feeble attempts to quit again since then with minimal success. I wasn't really using the site and my brothers for support. On March 9th (wedding anniversary too) I decided to quit again. I'm on day 8 again. Today is a new beginning but it's different this time. Everytime I get a crave, I keep telling myself "I don't do that anymore" and it seems to help. Like so many others have said, dipping is no longer an option, period. Im looking forward to the fog lifting and the craves to subside. I can tell you that it has been much tougher to quit after caving in the past. The dip demon keeps telling me that I'm different than the rest of you and my situation is different so I can go ahead and just dip one more time. Bullshit!
I'm here now in for the fight for the rest of my life. I will win because I don't do that anymore.
By the way, I'm a married father with two boys (5 8). I'm originally from Chicago but I live in central Illinois now. I work full-time with the Army National Guard getting ready for an overseas deployment. Interested in football (die-hard Bears fan), geocaching, and bike riding.
