Not so SLICK

[Slick]

I understand and thank you. sincerely.

I feel guilty for that I should have been paying it forward this whole time. Helping others in their quit is important. I still post roll everyday but, it is to God and country.

This website was the vehicle that helped me along the way and I am thankful for that. I spread the good word to the young bucks and my dentist every chance I get. So, you are welcome for the foot traffic (if that helps anything). :shrug:



To the one's who care I threw out an update.... I do not book faces or tweets, but I got a couple text messages from my fellow can killers asking if I was still quit........ and the answer was HELL YEAH!, I am never going back because I was ready and I wanted the QUIT for me. If any of you have doubts about quitting, then you are not ready to quit. It is that simple. I do not doubt myself. I trust myself to make the right decision in life and you should too.

[AppleJack]

Still alive and doing well.

coming up on day 365!! 1 year tobacco free.

A lot has changed.. I now wear mouth guards at night when I sleep so I do not grind my teeth down to nubs.

I am 222 lbs. Having a hard time dropping the weight.

I eat like a race horse.... shit like an elephant.

I have to learn some good eating habits or I am going to stroke out from french fries and hoagies.

but that is all a mind set as well... I figure, one thing at a time for now.

The train horn is still making people jump 3 feet off the ground.. but when I am having a bad day, that thing just brings a giant grin to my face.

I do think about going back to chewing from time to time. but it passes rather quickly when I look at my girls.

I still have the smokey mountain chew but I barely ever use it. if I do, my stomach produces so much acid, I end up with heart burn.
I know chewing for 25 years jacked something up... so I hope I reversed the process, but when i throw that fake dip in, it solves nothing.


I pray you all stay strong.... I thank God, that i found this site and it did save my life... no doubt.

It's outstanding that you're still quit... good on ya.

It may seem a little counterproductive to read you the riot act so... I'll do it softly.

We don't really care for status updates here... it's not Facebook. We connect daily and stay involved because over the years we've proven that we are ALL shining examples of how miserably we failed at managing our addiction alone. Not posting roll for months at a time is a tried and true recipe for disaster. Case in point... we just had a cat in July '14 cave after 1,100+ days.

Addiction is never cured...

Post roll, brother. It literally takes all of, what?... 20 seconds?

Small price to pay for the freedom you found here. Ask me how I know...

AJ... 1,491 days

[Slick]

Still alive and doing well.

coming up on day 365!! 1 year tobacco free.

A lot has changed.. I now wear mouth guards at night when I sleep so I do not grind my teeth down to nubs.

I am 222 lbs. Having a hard time dropping the weight.

I eat like a race horse.... shit like an elephant.

I have to learn some good eating habits or I am going to stroke out from french fries and hoagies.

but that is all a mind set as well... I figure, one thing at a time for now.

The train horn is still making people jump 3 feet off the ground.. but when I am having a bad day, that thing just brings a giant grin to my face.

I do think about going back to chewing from time to time. but it passes rather quickly when I look at my girls.

I still have the smokey mountain chew but I barely ever use it. if I do, my stomach produces so much acid, I end up with heart burn.
I know chewing for 25 years jacked something up... so I hope I reversed the process, but when i throw that fake dip in, it solves nothing.


I pray you all stay strong.... I thank God, that i found this site and it did save my life... no doubt.

[Stranger999]

Well, the new job has really helped the elbow problem. My elbow no longer bothers me during the week... only the weekends when i m doing house/yard work. I am pushing paperwork now-a-days. Nothing labor intensive about that... no more lifting dead weight (ha ha, pun intended).

I have about 40 cans of fake dip.. both Smokey Mt and Eat-mint.com... the eat mint pouches are really nice during the work day... but as soon as work is out and I hear that whistle like Fred Flintstones I am fingering banging that Smokey Mnt peach. (I really enjoy all that Molasses). total spit-ability. and the first 2 spits out the truck window are totally awesome.... chics at the red light are like... ewwww!... I just grin and lick my lips... (I am sick in the head)...

I hope around day 200 I burn out of this oral fixation and I can just walk away from eating mint all day long.

I swear... until day 90... I was just eating more food.... at day 90 I was going to crack... I made the mad dash to get Smokey Mt at WierdO-mart and dumped half the can in my mouth as I exited the store. (I have no clue what set me off like that)... I been fake dippin it everyday since.

I am not seeing guys in my group cave... 1 reached out to me and said that after hitting 100, he felt like it fizzled out. I think the bar needs raised to more like 365 instead of 100 days of quit. just my .02 .. I do not like seeing the guys who fought for the first 100 with me, bail out... it is bothersome.

happy weekend fellas

Slick Smitty

The bar should always be tomorrow! ;)

I've never used fake chew and grossing out the girls at the red light would be a downer for me. LOL.

Congratulations on the new job Slick and I am looking forward to seeing you on the site well past your day 200! :)

[Slick]

Well, the new job has really helped the elbow problem. My elbow no longer bothers me during the week... only the weekends when i m doing house/yard work. I am pushing paperwork now-a-days. Nothing labor intensive about that... no more lifting dead weight (ha ha, pun intended).

I have about 40 cans of fake dip.. both Smokey Mt and Eat-mint.com... the eat mint pouches are really nice during the work day... but as soon as work is out and I hear that whistle like Fred Flintstones I am fingering banging that Smokey Mnt peach. (I really enjoy all that Molasses). total spit-ability. and the first 2 spits out the truck window are totally awesome.... chics at the red light are like... ewwww!... I just grin and lick my lips... (I am sick in the head)...

I hope around day 200 I burn out of this oral fixation and I can just walk away from eating mint all day long.

I swear... until day 90... I was just eating more food.... at day 90 I was going to crack... I made the mad dash to get Smokey Mt at WierdO-mart and dumped half the can in my mouth as I exited the store. (I have no clue what set me off like that)... I been fake dippin it everyday since.

I am not seeing guys in my group cave... 1 reached out to me and said that after hitting 100, he felt like it fizzled out. I think the bar needs raised to more like 365 instead of 100 days of quit. just my .02 .. I do not like seeing the guys who fought for the first 100 with me, bail out... it is bothersome.

happy weekend fellas

Slick Smitty

[FISHFLORIDA]

Slick Smitty is sticking around. Paying it forward from here on out.


Thank you for the supportive words. Honestly, could not have done it without each and everyone of you.

Glad to see you're staying past 100. Saw that post earlier about maybe not stayin'. Paying it forward really helps your own quit. On a health note: I got a shot in my elbow for tennis elbow. It worked. Got the shot and kept it in a sling for a week so I wouldn't use it. Healed. Can I gat an amen!!! I sympathize.

[ChickDip]

Happy HOF day Slick! Lots of hard work and struggle, but you know it's worth it - keep it up man!

What PKY said!! Awesome to see you hit triple digits, take a minute to enjoy, but remember this struggle is NOT over. Stay close to the site, stay close to your quit brothers and sisters.....don't EVER think you've got this licked; complacency kills quits. Proud of you, Smitty!

Happy HOF slick!

[Slick]

Slick Smitty is sticking around. Paying it forward from here on out.


Thank you for the supportive words. Honestly, could not have done it without each and everyone of you.

[CavMan83]

Happy HOF day Slick! Lots of hard work and struggle, but you know it's worth it - keep it up man!

What PKY said!! Awesome to see you hit triple digits, take a minute to enjoy, but remember this struggle is NOT over. Stay close to the site, stay close to your quit brothers and sisters.....don't EVER think you've got this licked; complacency kills quits. Proud of you, Smitty!

[pky1520]

Happy HOF day Slick! Lots of hard work and struggle, but you know it's worth it - keep it up man!

[Slick]

:D :D Thanks for the replies.
These stories etch memories into my brain that I can totally relate to. Almost like then I saw another person using Copenhagen or carrying a can. I know it sounds silly.... but it was "Okay" for me to use too since they were doing it too. sounds childish.. right?.. but it is so wacked... my brain still fights me... I still can taste metal in my mouth and I get the urge to use when I am here.... If I do not think about it.. it goes away.



147.7 dBs.... if you are not careful, chances are you can get someone to stroke out if you pull the tether. I love them... such stress relief! Did you ever go shooting to relieve stress?... run a brick of ammo thru a firearm? .. this is just like that.

[CavMan83]

Smitty!

Congrats on the near-HOF experience!! :D Seriously, I've enjoyed watching you get through this with grit, determination, resolve, and COMMITMENT. That last word is capitalized because I read with some concern your comment about not sure if you'll continue to post after 100.

Bottom line, obviously, is that is your decision. But stop and consider my personal example. In 1993, I thought I had "quit" this insidious addiction. I went 15 months without nicotine. I was "cured". Then I went fishing with a buddy on Logan Martin. He had a dip in. In my mind, I figured I could have one and go on about my life. WRONG. On the way home I stopped at a C-store, bought a can of Cope, and right back to it like I never even put it down. That cost me ANOTHER 20 YEARS of slavery to a dead weed in a can. Now keep in mind, this was in the days before forums and the interwebs got all popular like now. But I guarantee you, had there been a KTC, had I been posting, there's no way in hell I would have turned on that promise to my quit brothers and sisters. I know this place works, and YOU know this place works. So like the lady a couple posts above me said, why screw with something if you know it works?

I hope your train horns are like 115db....some assholes need that gentle coaxing to wake the "f" up when they're on the road!! :D

[Cope30]

Congrats Slick, stick with KTC and you will make it, I did and I went crazy for a while, but you can do this.
I quit with you today.

[Ginet]

Hi Slick. Nice work...reaching your first huge milestone of 100 days is HUGE!! I want to urge you to keep posting after day 100. Nothing has ever worked before, so why would you stop doing something that definitely works! Life will still happen, and having that promise each morning will definitely help you maintain your quit. I don't want you to think that reaching day 100 means that you are cured. I don't even want you to think of it as a pathway to being cured. We will always be addicts. The only thing that keeps me clean today is the promise I made. Yes, you may feel more confident today than you did before, but addiction is a strong and crazy thing that will creep up on you even when you think you've got this under control. I don't want you to ever have to go through day number one again, or beat yourself up for giving in to your addiction on a day you stopped posting. I'd it works why change it?

[Stranger999]

Well, I am almost at day 100.
I can say that I do not fell any different but that would be cheating myself.

I finally got the news from my doc. She said my levels are all normal.. I do not have elevated cholesterol.

Been hitting the gym.. feels great to have my power back. I am not 100% yet but I was hoping to go back stronger... in time.. just not right this instance.

I still have the urge to chew snuff but it is not mind numbing like it once was. I can finally handle those urges and fend them off with some chewing gum.

I do not know if I will continue to post after day 100, but I think it is rather important to stay on top of posting and making that promise. Funny how those couple typed letters and numbers each day set your brain on the right track to success.

p.s. I got some train horns on my truck. oh my, they feel so good since I have road rage. sons a bishes drive off the road. If someone shoots me, you will know why. 'winker'

Slick, Great work! I just read through your intro from the beginning and it is great to see how far we have all progressed in our quits.
Keep up your guard and in my experience your quit will go through some funks and up and downs, but stay strong and keep doing what you are doing.
Congrats on the 100 (soon)
Idaho Spuds

Keep it up Slick! I've enjoyed following your intro - you and your brothers will be aboard the HOF train soon enough!

Actively quitting is the only way to do it I think. Otherwise we will always think that we can just "try one taste" again with no consequences. When I joined this site I didn't really understand what being an addict meant. I didn't really understand why I always failed before.

There was an introduction thread here months ago from someone who had quit 10 years, had a dip with some buddies on a hunting trip and bought a can on the way home, then struggled to get rid of it. That thread really blew me away! We could all drift and think it's over, but it never really is and that's because we are all addicts.