MOMENTS OF WEAKNESS
I am an addict which means I am weak. Although I am weak as an individual, I gain strength from other quitters. I gain strength from quitters that I have never met in person, and probably will never meet in person. None of that matters. We all fight the same fight on a daily basis.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
The first time in 50 days that I had experienced a crave. I was coaching my travel baseball team in our first full tournament of the summer season. The game was going well until the 5th inning when the wheels fell off and we gave up a handful of runs on errors and walks. Coaching is hard enough, but watching your team literally give the game away is almost too much to bear at times. I take pride in coaching my team so I take losses very personally. This one hurt. We had a break between games and I took off in my car looking for something to eat. I had an extreme moment of weakness. I felt embarrassed over the loss and the Nic Bitch took that opportunity to turn up the volume in my head. "Just one pinch Coach," she whispered in my ear. Then a bit louder, "C'mon Coach, just one will make you feel better." Then even louder, "You're assistant coach has a can in his pocket, all you need to do is ask for one." About then I got a text from a fellow member of the QLF Crew, RenegadeMMA. He usually just asks me to post roll for him since he doesn't own a computer, but this time he texted me something else. I looked at my phone and read his text, "Do you ever use fake chew? If so you should try Oregon Mint Snuff."
Now over the past few weeks I've made an effort to cut back on the amount of fake chew I'd been shoving in my lip. One reason was my concerns regarding the sugar in most fake chews and I was just tired of feeling the urge to put something in my lip. I had a can of Jake's Mint Chew, but that stuff just isn't that good, IMO. So I'm driving down the road and I see a Smoker Friendly. They usually carry Smokey Mtn so I stopped in for a can. Come to find out they also carried Oregon Mint Snuff. What makes this really interesting is that I've never been in a store that carried Oregon Mint Snuff in my area. Yet I was 45 minutes away from where I live and they had it in stock. The crave subsided just as quickly as it came and I went back to the fields for our second game that day. When I got home that night, I told my wife these exact words, "Without KTC, I would have caved today."
Her response was, "Good, I'm glad I found that site for you."
Me too honey, me too.....
WE Quit Like Fuck