My Introduction

[Raider]

My name is Ryan and it's hard to believe I've dipped for 24 years. Mostly 1 can a day until I quit for 8 months about 2 years ago. About a can every other day since I started back up. I thought I could have one here or there but I can't. When I dip it's freakin' constant, it is always in my lip and I can go nowhere without it. Every pair of pants I own has the dip ring in the back pocket and breathing itself seems like a dip trigger. Most of the time I think I don't even enjoy it anymore apart from that second right before I throw it in my lip and I anticipate the buzz and calm that I no longer get. Other times I can't contemplate life without it. It owns me and I know it and I fucking hate that but apart from that one stint I cave within 24 hours, 48 on rare occasion. I just passed 48 this time and its sucked every bit as bad as I remembered it sucked but I am hanging in!

I was so freaked out 2 years ago when I took a good look at my gums, holy shit! Figured I had to be just about dead and when I broke down and asked my wife to make me a dentist appointment for the first time in 20 years it felt like she wad making a call to the coroner. I got to the office and the guy tells me they're not bad at all, nothing needs to be done, no cavities, no cancer, gums just below normal where I dipped. Couldn't believe it, I felt like Lazarus and I stayed scared and away from it for about 8 months until I started to listen to the voice that told me I can do this another 24 years, it hasn't really hurt me and on and on. Needless to say I picked up where I left off.

I have done absolutely everything with a dip in my lip and not doing those things with a dip is crazy hard but I'm glad I found this site. I'm not a pussy, I will fight this bitch and appreciate y'all's help. How does it work?

First step is learning how to Post Roll. What is Roll, you may ask? Roll is the foundation of KTC. It is your promise to yourself and the rest of us that you will not use nicotine in any form for the day. Why only for the day? Because One Day At A Time (ODAAT) is manageable. Anyone can quit for the day. The next day we wake up and Post Roll again. We do not skip a day. We do not think, well it's ok to dip today cause I didnt post roll. You Post Roll Early and be quit.

Next step is to build yourself a network of quitters. You will be a member of March 2015 Quit Group. That is the month you will hit 100 days, or as we call it, the Hall Of Fame. Keeping in mind that the HOF is only a step in the right direction, it is NOT the destination.

The last step I will bring up is Being Active in this community. Help Others as they will be helping you.

Read EVERYTHING you can on here. Read up in the Welcome Center: forum/55560/

Here is your Quit Group: topic/10761232/202/#new

The Welcome Center will step you through Posting Roll. There are a lot of badass quitters in these halls. You will find some very good friends out there that want nothing more than to see you QUIT.

DO NOT let a clean bill of health from the Dentist keep you from quitting.

[Nittany Ryan]

My name is Ryan and it's hard to believe I've dipped for 24 years. Mostly 1 can a day until I quit for 8 months about 2 years ago. About a can every other day since I started back up. I thought I could have one here or there but I can't. When I dip it's freakin' constant, it is always in my lip and I can go nowhere without it. Every pair of pants I own has the dip ring in the back pocket and breathing itself seems like a dip trigger. Most of the time I think I don't even enjoy it anymore apart from that second right before I throw it in my lip and I anticipate the buzz and calm that I no longer get. Other times I can't contemplate life without it. It owns me and I know it and I fucking hate that but apart from that one stint I cave within 24 hours, 48 on rare occasion. I just passed 48 this time and its sucked every bit as bad as I remembered it sucked but I am hanging in!

I was so freaked out 2 years ago when I took a good look at my gums, holy shit! Figured I had to be just about dead and when I broke down and asked my wife to make me a dentist appointment for the first time in 20 years it felt like she wad making a call to the coroner. I got to the office and the guy tells me they're not bad at all, nothing needs to be done, no cavities, no cancer, gums just below normal where I dipped. Couldn't believe it, I felt like Lazarus and I stayed scared and away from it for about 8 months until I started to listen to the voice that told me I can do this another 24 years, it hasn't really hurt me and on and on. Needless to say I picked up where I left off.

I have done absolutely everything with a dip in my lip and not doing those things with a dip is crazy hard but I'm glad I found this site. I'm not a pussy, I will fight this bitch and appreciate y'all's help. How does it work?