60 Hours In............

[Menace]

I have not posted in this thread for a long time but felt it was appropriate on this 1,000 day of quit to revive it for those who may be searching and fighting to quit. This 1,000 days of quit would not be possible without this place called KTC, at least for this schmuck. So really this mark of 1,000 is a testament to the KTC brotherhood/sisterhood that exists here. It is a tough love place for sure and if your feelings get hurt easily it might not be the place for you. But if you want to quit and stay quit the trail has been blazed already, just get on the train.

QLF

[Menace]

Two years into this little adventure so I wanted to post up since its been quite some time since I last wrote in this thread. Any NFG's reading this, I have a piece of advice for you. If you let it, KTC will save your ass! Myself and all of my other brothers and sisters here on KTC are a testament to that. If you think that you have your addiction whipped at any time during in your life once you quit, and I mean anytime in your life, it will come back and bite you in the ass. Two years in and I still have craves, crazy right! It is crazy for sure but you know what. If you are here, participating in KTC, it will keep you quit! This place, posting roll is what keeps it rolling. I don't have any magic suggestions or great wisdom to pass along to anyone except that this damn site works if you follow the plan. Thanks to all of KTC and to my brothers in Feb. Freedom Fighters of Quit!

QLF...................

[Menace]

Thanks everyone for the congrats on the 4th floor. It's been a crazy couple weeks for my family. Felt like this would be good to put here on my intro for future reading and inspiration to stay quit I guess and maybe someone can take something away from it as well. My stepfather of 23 years passed away on December 5th somewhat suddenly at 61 years of age. We had to move him back to Minnesota from Arizona and just buried him the weekend before Christmas. Anyway I say somewhat suddenly because he was having some health issues related to his lungs. He was a life long smoker who about 3 years ago contracted "Valley Fever" (I won't get into what that is, you can google it but it essentially scars your lungs) He also had COPD already as well. He battled Pneumonia continuously the past couple years have its 2,3,4 times a year. He was in the midst of a 2 month long bout when he had a breathing attack and died suddenly. My mother was there and immediately started CPR and called 911 on her cell phone, talking to them on speaker while doing CPR. He never revived.....Anyway the point to this story I guess is that the one thing which seemed to be constant in all this was smoking. He attempted to quit (stopping) several times over the past few years making it maybe 2 months clean but as soon as the Pneumonia subsided and he started to feel a bit better, he started sucking on the cancer stick again and then a short time later he was sick again. I voiced my opinion to him and my mother about this and ultimately he knew there was a correlation, however he was a full blown addict who could not shake the bitch for whatever reason. Cancer was not his official cause of death however you will never convince me otherwise that smoking was not the ultimate cause of his death. So remember the Nic Bitch is a powerful enemy folks who can take your life from you in more ways then one.

[Grizzlyhasclaws]

Nice work gaining the 4th floor today Menace! Merry Christmas! 'oh yeah'

Another stellar quitter here folks! Congrats buddy on 400!

Congrats Menace. Merry Christmas!

[Ginet]

Nice work gaining the 4th floor today Menace! Merry Christmas! 'oh yeah'

Another stellar quitter here folks! Congrats buddy on 400!

[rdad]

Nice work gaining the 4th floor today Menace! Merry Christmas! 'oh yeah'

[Derk40]

Figured since I hit the one year mark today and have not written anything in this intro for a little while I would note the day. Unfortunately my 1 year anniversary is also marked with being home sick so the celebration beer will have to wait till I feel a bit better. For any newbies reading this, it may sound redundant but this place, this system it flat out works if you allow it to. You obviously need the fortitude to start and the mentality to stay the course but the KTC system will show you the way. Just grind out each day, each hour or each minute and it gets easier. I know those first few days, even months seem almost impossible at times and I won't lie the nicotine witch still whispers every once in a while even at a year but KTC will give you the tools to stomp her guts out. Thats all for now and lets quit for another 24 hours!

Congrats on the trip around the Sun!

Congrats Menace. Thanks for being a solid quitter. See you tomorrow for 366.

Nice job, menace. One full lap! That deserves some boobies 'boob'

Thanks all, I felt better today and had a celebration Guinness...... 'no'

Congrats bro. nicely done

Well done Menace!

[CleanFuel]

Figured since I hit the one year mark today and have not written anything in this intro for a little while I would note the day. Unfortunately my 1 year anniversary is also marked with being home sick so the celebration beer will have to wait till I feel a bit better. For any newbies reading this, it may sound redundant but this place, this system it flat out works if you allow it to. You obviously need the fortitude to start and the mentality to stay the course but the KTC system will show you the way. Just grind out each day, each hour or each minute and it gets easier. I know those first few days, even months seem almost impossible at times and I won't lie the nicotine witch still whispers every once in a while even at a year but KTC will give you the tools to stomp her guts out. Thats all for now and lets quit for another 24 hours!

Congrats on the trip around the Sun!

Congrats Menace. Thanks for being a solid quitter. See you tomorrow for 366.

Nice job, menace. One full lap! That deserves some boobies 'boob'

Thanks all, I felt better today and had a celebration Guinness...... 'no'

Congrats bro. nicely done

[Menace]

Figured since I hit the one year mark today and have not written anything in this intro for a little while I would note the day. Unfortunately my 1 year anniversary is also marked with being home sick so the celebration beer will have to wait till I feel a bit better. For any newbies reading this, it may sound redundant but this place, this system it flat out works if you allow it to. You obviously need the fortitude to start and the mentality to stay the course but the KTC system will show you the way. Just grind out each day, each hour or each minute and it gets easier. I know those first few days, even months seem almost impossible at times and I won't lie the nicotine witch still whispers every once in a while even at a year but KTC will give you the tools to stomp her guts out. Thats all for now and lets quit for another 24 hours!

Congrats on the trip around the Sun!

Congrats Menace. Thanks for being a solid quitter. See you tomorrow for 366.

Nice job, menace. One full lap! That deserves some boobies 'boob'

Thanks all, I felt better today and had a celebration Guinness...... 'no'

[Doc Chewfree]

Figured since I hit the one year mark today and have not written anything in this intro for a little while I would note the day. Unfortunately my 1 year anniversary is also marked with being home sick so the celebration beer will have to wait till I feel a bit better. For any newbies reading this, it may sound redundant but this place, this system it flat out works if you allow it to. You obviously need the fortitude to start and the mentality to stay the course but the KTC system will show you the way. Just grind out each day, each hour or each minute and it gets easier. I know those first few days, even months seem almost impossible at times and I won't lie the nicotine witch still whispers every once in a while even at a year but KTC will give you the tools to stomp her guts out. Thats all for now and lets quit for another 24 hours!

Congrats on the trip around the Sun!

Congrats Menace. Thanks for being a solid quitter. See you tomorrow for 366.

Nice job, menace. One full lap! That deserves some boobies 'boob'

[Grizzlyhasclaws]

Figured since I hit the one year mark today and have not written anything in this intro for a little while I would note the day. Unfortunately my 1 year anniversary is also marked with being home sick so the celebration beer will have to wait till I feel a bit better. For any newbies reading this, it may sound redundant but this place, this system it flat out works if you allow it to. You obviously need the fortitude to start and the mentality to stay the course but the KTC system will show you the way. Just grind out each day, each hour or each minute and it gets easier. I know those first few days, even months seem almost impossible at times and I won't lie the nicotine witch still whispers every once in a while even at a year but KTC will give you the tools to stomp her guts out. Thats all for now and lets quit for another 24 hours!

Congrats on the trip around the Sun!

Congrats Menace. Thanks for being a solid quitter. See you tomorrow for 366.

[Dagranger]

Figured since I hit the one year mark today and have not written anything in this intro for a little while I would note the day. Unfortunately my 1 year anniversary is also marked with being home sick so the celebration beer will have to wait till I feel a bit better. For any newbies reading this, it may sound redundant but this place, this system it flat out works if you allow it to. You obviously need the fortitude to start and the mentality to stay the course but the KTC system will show you the way. Just grind out each day, each hour or each minute and it gets easier. I know those first few days, even months seem almost impossible at times and I won't lie the nicotine witch still whispers every once in a while even at a year but KTC will give you the tools to stomp her guts out. Thats all for now and lets quit for another 24 hours!

Congrats on the trip around the Sun!

[Menace]

Figured since I hit the one year mark today and have not written anything in this intro for a little while I would note the day. Unfortunately my 1 year anniversary is also marked with being home sick so the celebration beer will have to wait till I feel a bit better. For any newbies reading this, it may sound redundant but this place, this system it flat out works if you allow it to. You obviously need the fortitude to start and the mentality to stay the course but the KTC system will show you the way. Just grind out each day, each hour or each minute and it gets easier. I know those first few days, even months seem almost impossible at times and I won't lie the nicotine witch still whispers every once in a while even at a year but KTC will give you the tools to stomp her guts out. Thats all for now and lets quit for another 24 hours!

[Menace]

Minute Entry 10/06/14:

Just wanted to write this down for future reference. 320 days in yesterday and last night I had my 5th "dip dream." Entered into that netherworld between sleep and wakefulness and felt like crap for caving. Was trying to figure out how to break the news to KTC land when I fully woke up and realized it was a dream. Relief washed over me and I was thankful for my quit. Crazy thing about the dip dreams for me, is that I didn't even get any during my first 100 days but now I have gotten a few over the last month. I think the nic bitch is starting to panic realizing that this dude is really serious this time around about quitting.....Well she can take a flying f$@k because I am serious and even your dreams will not work...... 'Finger' thats for you US Tobacco! Proud to Quit with my KTC Family Today!

[Menace]

Been craving pretty hard the past couple days so I wanted to log it in here on my intro thread. Can't even believe I am at 280 days and the past 2 days have felt like the first damn week again. I have been sucking on Jolly Ranchers, chewing Juicy Fruit and spitting Pickle Seeds like a mad man the last 2 days at work. Had a hellacious dream last night that I caved and was rolling with a big old cat turd in and smoking cigarettes of all things. Then I had all kinds of feelings of regret and sadness at my weakness. The I was trying to figure out how to crawl back here to KTC and admit the cave but I didn't feel like I was strong enough to do that. It was a crazy dream, vivid! Woke up in a cold sweat, thinking what the hell had I done, throwing away 280 days. Then I realized it was just a damn dream. Anyway I wanted to log this for reference in the future and for all those out there that might be battling the wicked Nicotine Whore. Bottom line is I am still Quit and even though its been a bear lately I have the tools to keep beating her down thanks to KTC.

Hey Menace I'm just a bit ahead of you at 300 and change and I had a really rough patch around 250 to 275 or so. You have the right approach- we have the tools and can slap the bitch back when she shows back up. I thin it's sort of good to get tested now and then - keeps you a little less complacent at least. I don't want to be that guy caving at 800+, and I know you dont either. Let's just keep kicking this thing daily! Sugar free cinnamon candies get me through the tough spots.

Sugar free cinnamon Candies got him thru it...Sugar free cinnamon candies and a lot of cawk

Word is Bruce knows first hand 'winker'

Hang tough Menace. We need ya brother. Shout if you need help.

Thanks Fellas, today was a good day in comparison to the past few so hoping I got past this little funk.

You also came here for help......that is quitting and winning. Tons of hands out there ready to help....grab one....just one....and you be fine man! Fuck you funk. Quit on.

Ginet, I think all I needed was to come on here and write the post to chronicle the event and of course it always helps that a few folks chime in, to give you a little kick in the pants and slap on the back. I just know that this was the worst crave period since the first couple weeks and the slight funk just before the HOF. My resolve was strong yet though and although the couple days seemed to kind of be one continuous crave with much gum, seed eating and jolly ranchers I don't feel I was to the point of having to make phone calls to protect my quit. That said, it sure is nice to know that it is an option if needed. Bottom line still quit today and learned something in the process. 3rd Floor here I come......one step at a time!