Why I Quit

[Doc468]

Started dipping Copenhagen 27 years ago at age 15 when I was diagnosed with diabetes, insulin and the whole nine yards. Well if you're a kid who's being told that you're going to have to live with this disease for the rest of your life and it's going to affect every decision that you make, you find ways to deal. I fell into dipping... It helped with the stress, it fulfilled those cravings for sugar, it lied and told me that it made me feel better. I've seen another user calling himself a "ninja-dipper", well, that's me. Dipping copenhagen every waking hour.

It's not my decision to quit. My kidney's failed because of the diabetes and I'm on a transplant list for a new one. If my doctors catch me with nicotine in my system, i get kicked off the list (I'm a doctor so yes I understand the physiology). So the choice to quit was easy, it was either quit or die. So I'm quit, and I choose every day to stay quit. The choice was easy, the actual quitting though is a bitch. Day 15 now and the fog is starting to lift.

Doc Welcome and I am glad you found the site!
The backbone of this site is posting roll daily; your quit group is here: topic/30137057/16/
I recommend you read everything you can find on this site, it will help.

Here is a question: when you get a new kidney, will you pop open a tin of cope and start where you left off?

Thanks man, have been posting role. Still trying to figure out how this site works, not a tech guy and have never been in a chat room before.

In answer to your question: Will I start dipping again after my transplant? Hell no! Quit for life.

Just started chewing gum myself today, my daughter left her stash in my car. I hear you about the Ninja Dipper, I swear I had that shit in my mouth all day long tucked to the side and flattened out. Stick some in there and spit about three times and it was on! Hell if you spit you were just playing with it.

Anyway good luck and stay strong. Sure can't afford to be some kind of pussy like a few of the boys in the April group.

I'm interested about the nicotine and transplant. My wife's uncle has the same issue you have and when I saw him last he was smoking like a mad man. Is the nicotine ban universal and how long do you have to be quit to be detected? Just curious.

I'm pretty sure it's universal... They won't perform a transplant if you've got nic in your system, but each transplant center establishes it's own rules. My Transplant Center (University of Washington) is zero tolerance. If I test positive, I'm kicked off the list period.

Nicotine test should be clear in 4-6 days but the transplant people test for COTININE, the metabolic product of nicotine in the liver, and it is detectable in the system for up to 6 weeks.

[Airborne]

Started dipping Copenhagen 27 years ago at age 15 when I was diagnosed with diabetes, insulin and the whole nine yards. Well if you're a kid who's being told that you're going to have to live with this disease for the rest of your life and it's going to affect every decision that you make, you find ways to deal. I fell into dipping... It helped with the stress, it fulfilled those cravings for sugar, it lied and told me that it made me feel better. I've seen another user calling himself a "ninja-dipper", well, that's me. Dipping copenhagen every waking hour.

It's not my decision to quit. My kidney's failed because of the diabetes and I'm on a transplant list for a new one. If my doctors catch me with nicotine in my system, i get kicked off the list (I'm a doctor so yes I understand the physiology). So the choice to quit was easy, it was either quit or die. So I'm quit, and I choose every day to stay quit. The choice was easy, the actual quitting though is a bitch. Day 15 now and the fog is starting to lift.

Doc Welcome and I am glad you found the site!
The backbone of this site is posting roll daily; your quit group is here: topic/30137057/16/
I recommend you read everything you can find on this site, it will help.

Here is a question: when you get a new kidney, will you pop open a tin of cope and start where you left off?

Thanks man, have been posting role. Still trying to figure out how this site works, not a tech guy and have never been in a chat room before.

In answer to your question: Will I start dipping again after my transplant? Hell no! Quit for life.

Just started chewing gum myself today, my daughter left her stash in my car. I hear you about the Ninja Dipper, I swear I had that shit in my mouth all day long tucked to the side and flattened out. Stick some in there and spit about three times and it was on! Hell if you spit you were just playing with it.

Anyway good luck and stay strong. Sure can't afford to be some kind of pussy like a few of the boys in the April group.

I'm interested about the nicotine and transplant. My wife's uncle has the same issue you have and when I saw him last he was smoking like a mad man. Is the nicotine ban universal and how long do you have to be quit to be detected? Just curious.

[Doc468]

Started dipping Copenhagen 27 years ago at age 15 when I was diagnosed with diabetes, insulin and the whole nine yards. Well if you're a kid who's being told that you're going to have to live with this disease for the rest of your life and it's going to affect every decision that you make, you find ways to deal. I fell into dipping... It helped with the stress, it fulfilled those cravings for sugar, it lied and told me that it made me feel better. I've seen another user calling himself a "ninja-dipper", well, that's me. Dipping copenhagen every waking hour.

It's not my decision to quit. My kidney's failed because of the diabetes and I'm on a transplant list for a new one. If my doctors catch me with nicotine in my system, i get kicked off the list (I'm a doctor so yes I understand the physiology). So the choice to quit was easy, it was either quit or die. So I'm quit, and I choose every day to stay quit. The choice was easy, the actual quitting though is a bitch. Day 15 now and the fog is starting to lift.

Doc Welcome and I am glad you found the site!
The backbone of this site is posting roll daily; your quit group is here: topic/30137057/16/
I recommend you read everything you can find on this site, it will help.

Here is a question: when you get a new kidney, will you pop open a tin of cope and start where you left off?

Thanks man, have been posting role. Still trying to figure out how this site works, not a tech guy and have never been in a chat room before.

In answer to your question: Will I start dipping again after my transplant? Hell no! Quit for life.

[Idaho Spuds]

Started dipping Copenhagen 27 years ago at age 15 when I was diagnosed with diabetes, insulin and the whole nine yards. Well if you're a kid who's being told that you're going to have to live with this disease for the rest of your life and it's going to affect every decision that you make, you find ways to deal. I fell into dipping... It helped with the stress, it fulfilled those cravings for sugar, it lied and told me that it made me feel better. I've seen another user calling himself a "ninja-dipper", well, that's me. Dipping copenhagen every waking hour.

It's not my decision to quit. My kidney's failed because of the diabetes and I'm on a transplant list for a new one. If my doctors catch me with nicotine in my system, i get kicked off the list (I'm a doctor so yes I understand the physiology). So the choice to quit was easy, it was either quit or die. So I'm quit, and I choose every day to stay quit. The choice was easy, the actual quitting though is a bitch. Day 15 now and the fog is starting to lift.

Doc Welcome and I am glad you found the site!
The backbone of this site is posting roll daily; your quit group is here: topic/30137057/16/
I recommend you read everything you can find on this site, it will help.

Here is a question: when you get a new kidney, will you pop open a tin of cope and start where you left off?

[Doc468]

Started dipping Copenhagen 27 years ago at age 15 when I was diagnosed with diabetes, insulin and the whole nine yards. Well if you're a kid who's being told that you're going to have to live with this disease for the rest of your life and it's going to affect every decision that you make, you find ways to deal. I fell into dipping... It helped with the stress, it fulfilled those cravings for sugar, it lied and told me that it made me feel better. I've seen another user calling himself a "ninja-dipper", well, that's me. Dipping copenhagen every waking hour.

It's not my decision to quit. My kidney's failed because of the diabetes and I'm on a transplant list for a new one. If my doctors catch me with nicotine in my system, i get kicked off the list (I'm a doctor so yes I understand the physiology). So the choice to quit was easy, it was either quit or die. So I'm quit, and I choose every day to stay quit. The choice was easy, the actual quitting though is a bitch. Day 15 now and the fog is starting to lift.