My introduction

[Dr. Bruce Banner]

Another question for people in general:

I know that nicotine is supposedly really bad for circulation, but has anyone else had issues with their arms falling asleep when they sleep?  I've had this happen to me for the past two years, and I'm just wondering if this is something that might go away now that I've quite dipping.......

Just some thoughts on that, if anyone knows about that aspect of the recovery process I'd be very grateful.

Interesting you mention this. This used to happen to me all the time. I always thought it was the way I slept. I can't say that my arms have fallen asleep on me in two years or better. I'm only one quitter.....interesting anyway.

That shit happened to me as well... I would fall asleep wih a dip in and wake up feeling like I was drowning. My arms were asleep, up to my shoulders, barely able to move my neck...then I would panic and dribble shit all over my pillow trying to roll over. I thought it was just the way I slept, but now that I think about it, that only happened the last two years of my can and half a day habit/

one of the reasons I quit, was, I was tired of buying new pillow cases...but now I don't have the tingles in the arms or the feeling of drowning... I won't say they immediatedly went away after I quit. I know that they don't occur anymore!

keep up the good work!

[tony]

hey just joking around some. It is amazing what we do with the crap to make up for what we missed. Having the raw lip and chain dippin still. Glad to be quit with you Andrew. Keep up the good work. Glad to be quit with Tony to but where is his intro?

Working on fixing my intro, its lost somewhere in the april thread. I'll make up a new one to add in here. Lol I think recycling to make it last longer when you didnt have access to fresh dip was the worst indicator about the level the addiction had been taken to. I redipped through NTC.

[sapperred1]

hey just joking around some. It is amazing what we do with the crap to make up for what we missed. Having the raw lip and chain dippin still. Glad to be quit with you Andrew. Keep up the good work. Glad to be quit with Tony to but where is his intro?

[tony]

Remember Andrew Infantry leads the way on lanes Engineer's have cleared. The lane is clear for your quit. :P

Thought I missed that sapper jab didn't you? Hahahaha

Now what gave you the idea that I was infantry? I'm actually not....but I have served in units alongside 19Ds, 11Bs, 19Ks, 11Cs, and 13Fs.....

You mean you falsely used the Ranger Tab :wacko:

I am still having sleep problems. At least I have not had any dreams for awhile. I am starting to think that guys like us might be high strung and the nic would mellow us. Now without this downer in our system we are going 100 mph all the time. That is how I feel anyway. I do know one thing for sure we can and will do this. Stay strong

Hey now. I earned that Ranger Tab. What are you trying to say?

Actually, Ranger School was the longest time I didn't have nicotine in my system...and I snuck a dip while I was there a couple times...the day I graduated I sat in my car and dipped almost two complete tins and then went out and smoked a pack of cigarettes. Talk about an addiction. I'm ready to be done with that!!!

When I was in AIT, we started getting passes. Thats where I first got hooked on this damn dip (smoked and quit before I left for basic). We'd either take our chances at buying it as one of the gas stations on post or at the PX, then when our pass was about over, try and find some creative place to stash it for when we would get our next pass a week later. Always got stolen somehow by other privates roaming around the post on pass. Eventually, being the entrepreneur that I am, I rented out a PO box in the PX and used it to store my dip, my buddies dip, some other guys cans (at a rental fee of course) and shit like gum and a porno mag. Lady caught me one time stuffing my PO box full of all this contraband and I turned around and was like..is it alright to put this in here? She was like..you know noone uses those more mail, long as you pay each month. Thought that was hilarious at the time.

I continued with it because I thought it would be useful to life in the military and relieve stress. Honestly, I think it just creates more. Went to NTC last august, I paid out a chunk of change to take 5 rolls with me. Lot of guys ran out while they were there, they werent trying to quit lol it was hellish.

[andrew]

Remember Andrew Infantry leads the way on lanes Engineer's have cleared. The lane is clear for your quit. :P

Thought I missed that sapper jab didn't you? Hahahaha

Now what gave you the idea that I was infantry? I'm actually not....but I have served in units alongside 19Ds, 11Bs, 19Ks, 11Cs, and 13Fs.....

You mean you falsely used the Ranger Tab :wacko:

I am still having sleep problems. At least I have not had any dreams for awhile. I am starting to think that guys like us might be high strung and the nic would mellow us. Now without this downer in our system we are going 100 mph all the time. That is how I feel anyway. I do know one thing for sure we can and will do this. Stay strong

Hey now. I earned that Ranger Tab. What are you trying to say?

Actually, Ranger School was the longest time I didn't have nicotine in my system...and I snuck a dip while I was there a couple times...the day I graduated I sat in my car and dipped almost two complete tins and then went out and smoked a pack of cigarettes. Talk about an addiction. I'm ready to be done with that!!!

[sapperred1]

Remember Andrew Infantry leads the way on lanes Engineer's have cleared. The lane is clear for your quit. :P

Thought I missed that sapper jab didn't you? Hahahaha

Now what gave you the idea that I was infantry? I'm actually not....but I have served in units alongside 19Ds, 11Bs, 19Ks, 11Cs, and 13Fs.....

You mean you falsely used the Ranger Tab :wacko:

I am still having sleep problems. At least I have not had any dreams for awhile. I am starting to think that guys like us might be high strung and the nic would mellow us. Now without this downer in our system we are going 100 mph all the time. That is how I feel anyway. I do know one thing for sure we can and will do this. Stay strong

[tony]

Thanks, I appreciate it, even if it comes from a guy with "sapper" in his name. 

Hahaha..good to see a fellow service member quitting. I'm in day 4 of my quit, supposed to be deploying later this year and I'd like to be quit before I get over there. Can't imagine quitting in the middle of a tour like you are. And I don't have sapper in my screenname, but I'm a 12B. Suppose I should've been more original with my sn like sapperred hah.

[andrew]

Remember Andrew Infantry leads the way on lanes Engineer's have cleared. The lane is clear for your quit. :P

Thought I missed that sapper jab didn't you? Hahahaha

Now what gave you the idea that I was infantry? I'm actually not....but I have served in units alongside 19Ds, 11Bs, 19Ks, 11Cs, and 13Fs.....





Last night I couldn't fall asleep for the longest time, I just felt like I had so much stress/anxiety built up in my chest. Not a great feeling at all. I tried turning on music, I even tried listening to one of those "nature sounds" discs that I had downloaded a while ago. None of it worked....no nic dreams last night, and I didn't wake up in the middle of the night...but I didn't get half as much sleep as I would have liked. Oh well. Today's still a great day to quit. No cravings today, this is probably the longest I've gone in the past few weeks without really having any bad cravings. Yesterday and the day before were bad, but I made it. I'll make it today too.....and so will you, just stick with me!

[sapperred1]

Remember Andrew Infantry leads the way on lanes Engineer's have cleared. The lane is clear for your quit. :P

Thought I missed that sapper jab didn't you? Hahahaha

[xrmattaz]

I stay quit with Andrew.

[andrew]

No nic dream last night. I have to admit, even though that dream stressed me out two nights ago, I was impressed that even my subconscious was fighting the nicotine. I know that means I'm headed in the right direction, and I have the support of a lot of you to thank. So thank you all, everyone who has supported me thus far. I'm going to stick with this 100%, and you can too....just stay with me! We'll beat this shit!

[G]

The dreams definitely started.....

Last night was the second night that I had to suffer through a dip dream. This time I was at a supermarket, and I just wanted to get out of there before I started getting an urge to buy a roll of dip. I kept trying to grab cans of food, but everything looked like dip...the whole store, every single shelf, was stocked with rolls of dip. I finally managed to grab a gatorade and some gum and was at the register when someone cut in front of me and I was left standing there next to a rack of check-out dip. I was going nuts, and I was running from register to register trying to get out of the store.....

I hope this doesn't last long, I felt like crap when I woke up.


(edit)

Broke down and bought some seeds today. I don't usually go to the store for any reason, but I was craving HARD today. I have avoided the store for many reasons, but mostly because behind the checkout is a giant wall of rolls and rolls of dip and snuff...all tax free, of course. I have to walk past it to get out the door. So I grabbed my seeds and got out of there as fast as I could, the person who checked me out probably was wondering why I was sweating so profusely...but I made it. I'm glad I got the seeds, I needed something other than gum to help with the cravings.

I bought seeds today too. The lady behind the counter said: "It looks like you're looking for something else." I told her just the seeds as I was looking at the wall behind her. My brand was there. Fortunately, like you, I don't do that shit anymore. I reminded myself that I had posted roll (gave my solemn vow) and got the hell out of there.

I'm at day 10. At about day 5 or 6, I had a dream that I was on my annual golf trip around buddies who dip. I dreamed that I threw in a fatty after convincing myself that I had this whole nicotine thing whooped. The dream ended as I was buying a can on the drive back from the beach. Seemed so real. I was furious with myself. Just shows how much control the bitch gets over our lives.

[Parputt]

I just started having trouble sleeping after my 4th day. Figured that would have come and gone by now. Not looking forward to the dreams at all. Hopefully I can skip those. Congrats on your 2 weeks Andrew.

[Greg5280]

Congrats! Two weeks is huge. I also had a dip dream last night...I'm at 129 days. I woke up totally depressed because I was sure I had caved...I even pictured the can in my hand in my back yard.

When I realized it was all just a dream, I was obviously relieved, but also amazed. That was a HUGE mind-fuck...I didn't even have any triggers other than watching football yesterday.

Anyway, stay strong.

The dip dreams are the bithes way of trying to convince you one more time that you need her. Your subconscious is starting to heal also.

My dip dreams changed to smoke dreams ?!?! 'Crazy'

STAY QUIT

[Bean]

Congrats! Two weeks is huge. I also had a dip dream last night...I'm at 129 days. I woke up totally depressed because I was sure I had caved...I even pictured the can in my hand in my back yard.

When I realized it was all just a dream, I was obviously relieved, but also amazed. That was a HUGE mind-fuck...I didn't even have any triggers other than watching football yesterday.

Anyway, stay strong.