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[Notdeadyet]

I took my first dip in 1983. It was summertime and me and a buddy would go to the convenience mart and buy snuff. We were 13. But, for me I think it started long before that. My grandparents smoked Pall Mall like they were going out of style. My dad smoked Marlboro Red's before I was born and until I was about 12. In the 5th grade, the older kids in the neighborhood would have me steal a pack of smokes and we would go to the woods to smoke.

Fast forward to HS and college. I dipped on and off. Nothing regular, but it was setting me up for a big fail as a young adult. In 1994, as a 25 year old Division I basketball coach, I started what would be a can-a-day lethal habit. I was the low man on the totem pole and the stuff definitely rolled down hill. I was typically pretty stressed out/anxious before games. We were about to play at my Alma mater and I wanted everything to be perfect before the game. One of our other assistant coaches (and a big-time Copenhagen user) tossed me his can. I didn't hesitate. After all, I had experimented as a kid. Well, this time was different; this time I was hooked.

I dipped a can a day from 1994 to 2004. I found quitsmokeless.org after searching around on the internet one night. My father in law, a life long educator and former dipper, had recently told me about a colleague that had to have half his face/jaw removed due to dipping. That prompted me to try to find a way to quit. I got on QS and posted and posted and posted some more. I lasted 3 years....3 YEARS QUIT!!!

Then, 1-1-08, I bit from the forbidden fruit. I smelled it. I dipped it. I was hooked again. After a 3 year quit?!?!?!? Pitiful.

Why did I fail? Because I stopped posting. I'm convinced of this.

So, I dipped. Big deal right. I made it from '94 to '04. I'll just keep dipping. Everybody does it, right. That's a bunch of BS. Everybody doesn't do it. I quit again for a year from '10-'11. Then, in a moment of weakness, I caved again.

Both caves involved alcohol and the absence of QS or KTC.

A friend of mine introduced me to KTC. I hope I am here to stay. I am a HS basketball coach and I have an opportunity to help shape the lives of young men every year. I want to be the coach that DOESN'T use tobacco.

There is no hope in quitting. You either understand that you are a nicotine addict and can never ingest nicotine in any form again, or you keep failing. Freedom or slavery - you choose. You must burn the bridge.

[pavetheway]

Frighttrain:

This is tremendously difficult to say with your avatar, but welcome. That being said, you need to have your game plan in place right now. During the first quarter of a district game is not the time to teach your kids how to break a 1-3-1 3/4 trap, you practice that before the game. So....Hook em, what is your plan?

Here are my suggestions:

• Post Roll Daily and Keep Promise - given
• No alcohol. Period
• Become the "Phone Book de November". Start by contacting at least one of your quit brothers daily and giving out your phone number. Most will trade numbers with you. Then you can start texting your fellow quitters daily as well, and, help "release the AWOL hounds" if/when there is a no show.
• Change Avatar.

Now is the time. Do it for you. Be the leader your soul knows you are - without some cancer bitch holding your hand and infecting the souls of our kids. Be brave.

Vadge 208.

Addendum: maybe your avatar would look better upside-down?

I don't know Vadge. I thought the Texas mascot had a powercat involved in it somewhere. :dunno:

[ERDVM]

Frighttrain:

This is tremendously difficult to say with your avatar, but welcome. That being said, you need to have your game plan in place right now. During the first quarter of a district game is not the time to teach your kids how to break a 1-3-1 3/4 trap, you practice that before the game. So....Hook em, what is your plan?

Here are my suggestions:

• Post Roll Daily and Keep Promise - given
• No alcohol. Period
• Become the "Phone Book de November". Start by contacting at least one of your quit brothers daily and giving out your phone number. Most will trade numbers with you. Then you can start texting your fellow quitters daily as well, and, help "release the AWOL hounds" if/when there is a no show.
• Change Avatar.

Now is the time. Do it for you. Be the leader your soul knows you are - without some cancer bitch holding your hand and infecting the souls of our kids. Be brave.

Vadge 208.

Addendum: maybe your avatar would look better upside-down?

[kana]

FreightTrain.. our stories are very similar. Glad to quit with you. remember you can NEVER have just one. it won't work, you're an addict. I'm an addict. That's why I say to myself every morning never again....

[brinkhoffs52]

Welcome aboard. Today is my Day 1, and I have no intention of turning back.

Let's make this happen together!

[miles]

I took my first dip in 1983. It was summertime and me and a buddy would go to the convenience mart and buy snuff. We were 13. But, for me I think it started long before that. My grandparents smoked Pall Mall like they were going out of style. My dad smoked Marlboro Red's before I was born and until I was about 12. In the 5th grade, the older kids in the neighborhood would have me steal a pack of smokes and we would go to the woods to smoke.

Fast forward to HS and college. I dipped on and off. Nothing regular, but it was setting me up for a big fail as a young adult. In 1994, as a 25 year old Division I basketball coach, I started what would be a can-a-day lethal habit. I was the low man on the totem pole and the stuff definitely rolled down hill. I was typically pretty stressed out/anxious before games. We were about to play at my Alma mater and I wanted everything to be perfect before the game. One of our other assistant coaches (and a big-time Copenhagen user) tossed me his can. I didn't hesitate. After all, I had experimented as a kid. Well, this time was different; this time I was hooked.

I dipped a can a day from 1994 to 2004. I found quitsmokeless.org after searching around on the internet one night. My father in law, a life long educator and former dipper, had recently told me about a colleague that had to have half his face/jaw removed due to dipping. That prompted me to try to find a way to quit. I got on QS and posted and posted and posted some more. I lasted 3 years....3 YEARS QUIT!!!

Then, 1-1-08, I bit from the forbidden fruit. I smelled it. I dipped it. I was hooked again. After a 3 year quit?!?!?!? Pitiful.

Why did I fail? Because I stopped posting. I'm convinced of this.

So, I dipped. Big deal right. I made it from '94 to '04. I'll just keep dipping. Everybody does it, right. That's a bunch of BS. Everybody doesn't do it. I quit again for a year from '10-'11. Then, in a moment of weakness, I caved again.

Both caves involved alcohol and the absence of QS or KTC.

A friend of mine introduced me to KTC. I hope I am here to stay. I am a HS basketball coach and I have an opportunity to help shape the lives of young men every year. I want to be the coach that DOESN'T use tobacco.

Welcome.

You know what to expect from the nic bitch and you know what we will expect from you.

Daily accountability will definitely keep you quit.

Check out the Welcome Center link and post with November 2012.

You are only as good as your word.

You CAN do this! You stopped for three years, how about let's quit for today.

See you in Nov 2012.

[FreightTrain]

I took my first dip in 1983. It was summertime and me and a buddy would go to the convenience mart and buy snuff. We were 13. But, for me I think it started long before that. My grandparents smoked Pall Mall like they were going out of style. My dad smoked Marlboro Red's before I was born and until I was about 12. In the 5th grade, the older kids in the neighborhood would have me steal a pack of smokes and we would go to the woods to smoke.

Fast forward to HS and college. I dipped on and off. Nothing regular, but it was setting me up for a big fail as a young adult. In 1994, as a 25 year old Division I basketball coach, I started what would be a can-a-day lethal habit. I was the low man on the totem pole and the stuff definitely rolled down hill. I was typically pretty stressed out/anxious before games. We were about to play at my Alma mater and I wanted everything to be perfect before the game. One of our other assistant coaches (and a big-time Copenhagen user) tossed me his can. I didn't hesitate. After all, I had experimented as a kid. Well, this time was different; this time I was hooked.

I dipped a can a day from 1994 to 2004. I found quitsmokeless.org after searching around on the internet one night. My father in law, a life long educator and former dipper, had recently told me about a colleague that had to have half his face/jaw removed due to dipping. That prompted me to try to find a way to quit. I got on QS and posted and posted and posted some more. I lasted 3 years....3 YEARS QUIT!!!

Then, 1-1-08, I bit from the forbidden fruit. I smelled it. I dipped it. I was hooked again. After a 3 year quit?!?!?!? Pitiful.

Why did I fail? Because I stopped posting. I'm convinced of this.

So, I dipped. Big deal right. I made it from '94 to '04. I'll just keep dipping. Everybody does it, right. That's a bunch of BS. Everybody doesn't do it. I quit again for a year from '10-'11. Then, in a moment of weakness, I caved again.

Both caves involved alcohol and the absence of QS or KTC.

A friend of mine introduced me to KTC. I hope I am here to stay. I am a HS basketball coach and I have an opportunity to help shape the lives of young men every year. I want to be the coach that DOESN'T use tobacco.