Kalan: A recent quitter

[Diesel2112]

I appreciate that Diesel . I will continue to keep my progress updated on here. I'm here because I'm committing to quitting. Tomorrow I will have made it a week tobacco free and I am very proud of that. Quit on

Sounds good, brah. But celebrate one week when it's one week. For today...just worry about TODAY.

Quit on...

[RoyalCowboy7]

I appreciate that Diesel . I will continue to keep my progress updated on here. I'm here because I'm committing to quitting. Tomorrow I will have made it a week tobacco free and I am very proud of that. Quit on

[brettlees]

You have some of the best helping you here- consider yourself lucky! I agree with them all-- no need to repeat. But i want to throw in my support. There's a link to an article in my signature area, below. Check that out to learn some more about the addiction. I hated nicotine and big tobacco so much more after reading, and learning now how the stuff works will help you fight, short and long term. Glad to quit with you and all your kick-ass supporters here today!

[Diesel2112]

Hey man, as long as you keep the real stuff our your lip, that's all that matters.

I was simply trying to give you something to lookout and be on your toes for.

Typically nicotine is the driving force of why we all became addicted to dipping. When I read some of what you're putting out there, I have some concern, but as long as you're quit that's that matters.

If anything changes and you fins other difficulties, I/we are here for you.

Keep up the updated on your intro. It's good to read about positive progress.

Quit on...

[RoyalCowboy7]

Thank you rdad I appreciate the support and advice. I appreciate yours as well Thumblewort because like you said we may have to agree to disagree but as long as we aren't using we are staying true to our promise

[RoyalCowboy7]

I am here to be a committed quitter. There is no perfect method for quitting but as long as we don't return to using the devil in the tin then we are accomplishing our goals regardless of how you went tobacco free. I have chose to kill the can and am proud of it

[rdad]

Just want to throw in my support and my $0.02 if that's ok. For me I know the oral fixation I had was my brain asoociating the locations I dipped and the act of dipping with the act of feeding my brain the nicotine it was craving. I did not use the fake chew but there are a lot of guys here that swear by it. I do agree with Thumblewort that if you can develop a true understanding and hatred for nictotine for the poison it is, that will only make your quit stronger. As a new quitter do whatever you have to do to not put nicotine in your body. Give your mind a chance to heal all the damaged receptors. That can take awhile. Stay quit at all cost and wait for all the goodness. its unbelievable how great freedom is.

[Thumblewort]

We can agree to disagree then. As long as you don't use nicotine today, and I don't use nicotine today we have honored our promise to each other.

[RoyalCowboy7]

I leave it there because it makes me feel accomplished when I look at it and remains empty and there is no urge to go purchase a new can. You use this as your method but I'm not always where I have internet connection to use KTC. It makes me feel good knowing that I don't have to have tobacco and is a reminder that the date on that can was the day I chose to live free and that was the greatest can ever because it was me deciding I didn't need tobacco anymore. We all will have different methods and as of right now this is working for me. I have made the decision to quit at a young age so I ask that instead of knit picking my methods and support me in our shared quest to be committed quitters. For me I am a product of my environment as a cowboy/baseball player and naturally picked up dipping. I no longer want to use tobacco but I will use the alternative dips to help me make this quit stick and hopefully in the process the ole boys I'm with on a regular basis will join me in quitting. For me to quit is to win even if I have to use fake dip because fake dip is better then ever returning to using the devil inside the can of tobacco.

[Thumblewort]

double post

[Thumblewort]

How are you to know if I'm ready Thumblewort? I made up my mind and joined this site to help find a support group and am looking for anything tht will help me make this successful as possible. If I'm not honest and deny that I love dipping how is that in any way gonna help me find tips when all anyone can seem to do is bitch about my honesty. I need support and ideas to help me get through this battle not a bunch of grown men passing judgement on whether I am ready quit. I came here for help and all it seems I am getting is judgement about my honesty. So my question is are you guys here to help a young man quit or tell me the methods I'm using suck and that I'm not ready?

It's my opinion putting an empty can of chew on your dashboard is a horrible idea, it is telling me you don't think of yourself as a addict yet.

If I told you I am an heroin addict who is quit for today, yet I have an empty syringe taped to my dashboard, would you think that is a good idea?

Cowboy, are you a nicotine addict?

[RoyalCowboy7]

How are you to know if I'm ready Thumblewort? I made up my mind and joined this site to help find a support group and am looking for anything tht will help me make this successful as possible. If I'm not honest and deny that I love dipping how is that in any way gonna help me find tips when all anyone can seem to do is bitch about my honesty. I need support and ideas to help me get through this battle not a bunch of grown men passing judgement on whether I am ready quit. I came here for help and all it seems I am getting is judgement about my honesty. So my question is are you guys here to help a young man quit or tell me the methods I'm using suck and that I'm not ready?

[Thumblewort]

One other question I had was did anyone have something that served as a reminder that they can do without tobacco? I know for me after I poured out my can of Copenhagen last week that I wrote on the can last dip ever and the date and leave the empty can in my truck as a reminder that I've gone with an empty can of tobacco since June 18 and that I don't need to go buy a new one.

I use this site as a reminder of poisoning myself for 16 -17 years. I hope something clicks with you soon, because your obsession with reminders and love of spitting tells me you aren't ready for this. This is your life dude, not a game.

[RoyalCowboy7]

One other question I had was did anyone have something that served as a reminder that they can do without tobacco? I know for me after I poured out my can of Copenhagen last week that I wrote on the can last dip ever and the date and leave the empty can in my truck as a reminder that I've gone with an empty can of tobacco since June 18 and that I don't need to go buy a new one.

[RoyalCowboy7]

Thumblewort I appreciate that. On a side not does anyone have any thoughts on what to do with money saved from not dipping? I have a buddy Travis who has been tobacco free for a year and said he put it aside to get something nice at the end of the month. I was wondering if anyone else had any thoughts on this