The Nic Bitch Struck Again

[Nomore1959]

Congrats on the year Ray! Good quit going on!

[Tjschu]

Congrats on 365 DJ!! You are a BAQ

[ChickDip]

Congrats on 1 year quit, whether you celebrate it today or in 2 days, your a Badass CHOP. ??

[Slick]

Yeah Ray,

you posted some knowledge in my my intro... I think you found your calling.

Thank You

Smitty

[ChickDip]

I mentioned the word complacent in my roll post today and then made a post. Well I decided to copy and paste the post here so I didn't forget about it. Also I can come back later and revisit the situation and see if anything has changed.

I mentioned complacency in my post. I could have swore just a week or two ago i was in live chat talking about November 16 getting ready to open. So last night i was in live chat anad someone mentions heading over to December 16 and giving them support. Wait!!! WHAT?????? Hell November just opened you moron! WRONG!!! I went over and looked and sure enough.

Is that complacency on my behalf and forgetting about the site and not supporting or is it just busy life? I know I been busy building and designing websites for clients but I didn't think I was that busy. Kinda makes me feel like shit to be honest. here we have new groups that need all the support they can get and basically I have turned my self in to a ghost poster the last month ... Well couple months I guess.

How does one find the time to balance out the act? It seems as though when I am on site, I don't leave the site. When I'm not on site, man I am REALLY not on site. I struggle to find a balance. I have to live life, but also can not loose track of what has got me the freedom i am enjoying today.

Hmmmm. Am I at a new place in my quit or just thinking way to hard about it? Fellas, that literally shook me up I lost that much track of time on site. I felt like shit.

Anyone else ever hit this point?


Quote comes live to you today via December 15 Disciples Of Quit Thread.

Ray, I hope you know that you really help my quit a lot. I admit, I was a doubter about you when you first showed up in December - I didn't think you'd make it to the next day let alone quit with me every day for almost a year. You are a true BAQ here! :)

I try to balance things here myself and it helps to prioritize.

1) I make sure I post roll first
2) Post roll with the other BAQs who are in my quit web
3) Check out the introductions and post when I think I might have something useful to say that will help that quitter
4) Check out Group Me - still new for me. :P

I'm not in Live Chat that often but I know that you are and I know that Live Chat brings a lot of new quitters into the forum and that is awesome.

All of those things together take up a lot of time. I make sure that I do #1 and usually #2. The rest I try to do when I have time.

You're one heck off a quitter. You've helped me.
I thank you for that and for helping new ones...
So glad you find the time to stay active here, Chop.

[Stranger999]

I mentioned the word complacent in my roll post today and then made a post. Well I decided to copy and paste the post here so I didn't forget about it. Also I can come back later and revisit the situation and see if anything has changed.

I mentioned complacency in my post. I could have swore just a week or two ago i was in live chat talking about November 16 getting ready to open. So last night i was in live chat anad someone mentions heading over to December 16 and giving them support. Wait!!! WHAT?????? Hell November just opened you moron! WRONG!!! I went over and looked and sure enough.

Is that complacency on my behalf and forgetting about the site and not supporting or is it just busy life? I know I been busy building and designing websites for clients but I didn't think I was that busy. Kinda makes me feel like shit to be honest. here we have new groups that need all the support they can get and basically I have turned my self in to a ghost poster the last month ... Well couple months I guess.

How does one find the time to balance out the act? It seems as though when I am on site, I don't leave the site. When I'm not on site, man I am REALLY not on site. I struggle to find a balance. I have to live life, but also can not loose track of what has got me the freedom i am enjoying today.

Hmmmm. Am I at a new place in my quit or just thinking way to hard about it? Fellas, that literally shook me up I lost that much track of time on site. I felt like shit.

Anyone else ever hit this point?


Quote comes live to you today via December 15 Disciples Of Quit Thread.

Ray, I hope you know that you really help my quit a lot. I admit, I was a doubter about you when you first showed up in December - I didn't think you'd make it to the next day let alone quit with me every day for almost a year. You are a true BAQ here! :)

I try to balance things here myself and it helps to prioritize.

1) I make sure I post roll first
2) Post roll with the other BAQs who are in my quit web
3) Check out the introductions and post when I think I might have something useful to say that will help that quitter
4) Check out Group Me - still new for me. :P

I'm not in Live Chat that often but I know that you are and I know that Live Chat brings a lot of new quitters into the forum and that is awesome.

All of those things together take up a lot of time. I make sure that I do #1 and usually #2. The rest I try to do when I have time.

[DjPorkchop]

I mentioned the word complacent in my roll post today and then made a post. Well I decided to copy and paste the post here so I didn't forget about it. Also I can come back later and revisit the situation and see if anything has changed.

I mentioned complacency in my post. I could have swore just a week or two ago i was in live chat talking about November 16 getting ready to open. So last night i was in live chat anad someone mentions heading over to December 16 and giving them support. Wait!!! WHAT?????? Hell November just opened you moron! WRONG!!! I went over and looked and sure enough.

Is that complacency on my behalf and forgetting about the site and not supporting or is it just busy life? I know I been busy building and designing websites for clients but I didn't think I was that busy. Kinda makes me feel like shit to be honest. here we have new groups that need all the support they can get and basically I have turned my self in to a ghost poster the last month ... Well couple months I guess.

How does one find the time to balance out the act? It seems as though when I am on site, I don't leave the site. When I'm not on site, man I am REALLY not on site. I struggle to find a balance. I have to live life, but also can not loose track of what has got me the freedom i am enjoying today.

Hmmmm. Am I at a new place in my quit or just thinking way to hard about it? Fellas, that literally shook me up I lost that much track of time on site. I felt like shit.

Anyone else ever hit this point?


Quote comes live to you today via December 15 Disciples Of Quit Thread.

[DjPorkchop]

I posted a post in October 16 to try and get a little chat going. it failed miserably as no one would post. lol Imagine that BUT what it was was good material.

I often heard folks say to NOT post at night and only in the morning after you wake up...or when ever it is you wake up to start your day, NOT before bed.

So I asked how many folks post after roll is flipped and if so, why. No responses so I replied to my own post, still not takers. here is my post. It is worthy of a quick read. Might be a shade funny but has some valuable info.

No one? Really? C'mon guys..... 'Crazy'

I know one guy who does it. he was the first on on todays quit list.

I am guilty as well. I have done it in the past. What did it do for me? Well it caused major stress and injured dog, pissed off wife, amongst a slew of other stuff.

Why did I do it? I am a late to bed late to rise guy. Sometimes I don't get up until 12 or so and by 1 my phone was going off left and right wanting to know where I was and was I ok. Ah hah!!! I'll be a wise guy and post the night before! That sure solved the phone issues. What damage or other did it do? 'bang head'

Well, I recall once that I did this, I got up that day and minded my own business. Did my thing. Got along with the day. Was outside in the garage when suddenly a crave hit me out of no where. OH SHIT!!! FUck I need to hit the website and do some reading. WAIT!!! FUCK I DIDNT POST ROLL TODAY!!!! So I take off running, get in the house to meet the dog half way, trip over her sending her little ass clean across the room yelping at the top of her lungs because my big ass just steam rolled her AND in the process of that happening, my left knee blows out on me like when my ACL tore and now I am on the ground rolling in severe pain, Wife trying to help me up to bed to check me, Im a VERY big boy so she can't get me up, pissed off at me because I just injured our dog that might now need to go to the vet, and while I am screaming in utter pain, I demand the laptop so I can post roll. Yeah by this time, that crave was a distant memory.

So I get the laptop hurry and log on, go to december 15 and there I am, RIGHT on top of the list! FUCK! All this for nothing. So what did I get out of posting the night before?

1. An injured knee that cost me a $35 deductible at the dr, X-rays at the hospital and the accompanying bill that my insurance won't cover part, a scheduled MRI that I have to pay no less than 40% of out of pocket, a REALLY pissed off wife, and a almost $100 bill at the vet for a dog that I inadvertently kicked in the process of my escapades.

But hey, I was on roll! AND my phone didn't blow up. Life is good!

Smh!!! Lesson learned and a very important one. WUPP EDD!!! Not the night before! Start the day out fresh thinking about your promise you just made to stay quit for today. Don't make it last night and sleep on it. Trust me!

So now that you all know how big of a fuck head I was / am, care to share now?

[DjPorkchop]

Hey Ray - just wanted to tag your intro for a second to thank you for the outstanding job you are doing on the Intros. You've been posting some insane good shit in these parts lately - I mean the kind of stuff that newbies and old dudes alike can really benefit from, and grow from. Thanks for all of your efforts - you are saying good stuff in a way that makes a lot of sense.

Props for all that you do!

Hi Worktowin

Thanks for the kind words. I truly do appreciate it.

Essentially what is up is I got kind of complacent there for a bit. I was posting daily (and still a 100% poster) and doing my thing with Stranger as Feb FUCKERS Conductors and that was it. I had thoughts racing one day and immediately recognized it as stinking thinking (addict thoughts). I have come way to far to give in and MANY people here have free gave to me and invested loads of time in my quit. I can not let anyone down, especially my self.

I went to the intros and started posting because these new guys coming in remind me of where I once was and a place I wish not to be ever again. Feeling alone, scared, foggy, and out right shitty fighting the craves not even day by day. it was minute by minute.

In all of this, I simply am trying to give back what was so freely given to me. I know I have pissed some guys off as my inbox indicates, but they are still here and quit. That is fine by me and exactly what I was after. If they hate me, so be it as long as they are quit. 'Finger' big tobacco and every thing they stand for. And if I say anything at all that helps an old timer here, it humbles me very quickly. I read stories and comments from the old timers (vets ) here and think dang! That is great wisdom! I want that!! Look at that day count!! That is bad ass!! etc etc.

I may slack from day to day here and there, but for the most part, I am going to try and continue on with intros as long as my keyboard has a key stroke left in it.

Take care man and thanks again for the kind words. I truly do appreciate it!

Ray - 308

[worktowin]

Hey Ray - just wanted to tag your intro for a second to thank you for the outstanding job you are doing on the Intros. You've been posting some insane good shit in these parts lately - I mean the kind of stuff that newbies and old dudes alike can really benefit from, and grow from. Thanks for all of your efforts - you are saying good stuff in a way that makes a lot of sense.

Props for all that you do!

[worktowin]

So with all the cavers coming back and joining up in October 16, it got the wife and I talking today. Oh and sorry I'm redundant as I posted this all but very same post in another thread. I just wanted to keep track of it here as well for future reference.

A fella caved with over 700 days quit. My wife asked me in a sort of way I guess what a guy with that many days quit needed to be on a site for anyway and then proceeded to tell me how crazy I was for getting up every day and making sure before I do anything that I get my self on the internet and post a promise to folks whom I really don't know from adam.

This is rather odd feeling to me to have this chat with her as she is a practicing smoker. She has the addict mentality still. She simply does not understand. But I decide to give it a shot anyhow.

Basically I explained to her that I come here daily and make a promise to everyone in my quit group as well as all the supporters of my quit group. I FULLY intend on keeping that promise for today. I'm not worried about tomorrow as it is not here yet and I have no control over it and I could give two shits about yesterday as it is gone and I can't do it over. All I have is today and my word. I have been here 100% for 304 days now. I treasure that. And a few days I WOULD have forgot if not for some brothers in quit that text me or groupme and asked was all ok because I was missing on roll.

The day I miss roll, I am in big trouble. I am an addict. I know how addicts think. I know me REAL well. If I don't promise you and you don't hold me accountable, my mind starts to wander and that is not good. So there for I show up here daily. Crazy as my wife said? Hmmm.

Now the other side of the story. I come here daily to make sure my brothers of quit in December of 15 are on roll. if not I go looking. I do care! We have come way to far together for me to say fuck you guys and flash the deuces sign! no, not how I operate. These guys let me in the group after I came back from a 2014 cave and I promised them daily and they accepted me and held me accountable so i am here to hold them accountable as well. Crazy yet? Hmmm

The moral of my story is no, it is not crazy. I am here because I need to be. I am here because others need me to be. I am hard and firm in most of my posts and come off as a dick. I hate to sound that way but it works. As I have told others recently, I would rather you hate me for the rest of your life, than to love me until the day you die of cancer or nicotine related illness. I get PM's often thanking me for being so up front and honest and keeping folks in check. That kind of makes me feel all fuzzy inside to be honest. I get a buzz from it. I am here every day so I know at the end of the day, I will make it nic free due a promise I made. Without accountability I am nothing. I have and will fail. I have done it all my life, why would now be any different.

So thanks to my Decembros 15 for allowing me to be part of the group and post my promise to them daily. These guys are my lifeline to freedom. And everyone else who has ever posted support for me or sent me a PM offering numbers and support, thank you very much!

I have rambled long enough so I will shut up now. Take care everyone and stay quit EDD!!! QLAMF boys and girls!!

Ray

This is a bad ass post DJ. You get it.

[DjPorkchop]

So with all the cavers coming back and joining up in October 16, it got the wife and I talking today. Oh and sorry I'm redundant as I posted this all but very same post in another thread. I just wanted to keep track of it here as well for future reference.

A fella caved with over 700 days quit. My wife asked me in a sort of way I guess what a guy with that many days quit needed to be on a site for anyway and then proceeded to tell me how crazy I was for getting up every day and making sure before I do anything that I get my self on the internet and post a promise to folks whom I really don't know from adam.

This is rather odd feeling to me to have this chat with her as she is a practicing smoker. She has the addict mentality still. She simply does not understand. But I decide to give it a shot anyhow.

Basically I explained to her that I come here daily and make a promise to everyone in my quit group as well as all the supporters of my quit group. I FULLY intend on keeping that promise for today. I'm not worried about tomorrow as it is not here yet and I have no control over it and I could give two shits about yesterday as it is gone and I can't do it over. All I have is today and my word. I have been here 100% for 304 days now. I treasure that. And a few days I WOULD have forgot if not for some brothers in quit that text me or groupme and asked was all ok because I was missing on roll.

The day I miss roll, I am in big trouble. I am an addict. I know how addicts think. I know me REAL well. If I don't promise you and you don't hold me accountable, my mind starts to wander and that is not good. So there for I show up here daily. Crazy as my wife said? Hmmm.

Now the other side of the story. I come here daily to make sure my brothers of quit in December of 15 are on roll. if not I go looking. I do care! We have come way to far together for me to say fuck you guys and flash the deuces sign! no, not how I operate. These guys let me in the group after I came back from a 2014 cave and I promised them daily and they accepted me and held me accountable so i am here to hold them accountable as well. Crazy yet? Hmmm

The moral of my story is no, it is not crazy. I am here because I need to be. I am here because others need me to be. I am hard and firm in most of my posts and come off as a dick. I hate to sound that way but it works. As I have told others recently, I would rather you hate me for the rest of your life, than to love me until the day you die of cancer or nicotine related illness. I get PM's often thanking me for being so up front and honest and keeping folks in check. That kind of makes me feel all fuzzy inside to be honest. I get a buzz from it. I am here every day so I know at the end of the day, I will make it nic free due a promise I made. Without accountability I am nothing. I have and will fail. I have done it all my life, why would now be any different.

So thanks to my Decembros 15 for allowing me to be part of the group and post my promise to them daily. These guys are my lifeline to freedom. And everyone else who has ever posted support for me or sent me a PM offering numbers and support, thank you very much!

I have rambled long enough so I will shut up now. Take care everyone and stay quit EDD!!! QLAMF boys and girls!!

Ray

[DjPorkchop]

Holy shit have I missed a load of posts! WOW! Thanks for all the kind words over the last few months folks. I genuinely appreciate it from the bottom of my heart! If not for all you bad ass quitters, I am not sure where I would be today. You all rock! I am so glad I came back for the 2nd go around and have stuck with it. I love drinking the Kool-aid daily and pouring glass fulls for others around me.

And to all the assholes over the last 9 months or so that talked shit to me, thank you so much! I understand why. I truly appreciate it. And I MUST give a shout out to old Norm Jr. lol Remember him folks? He texted me every single day and told me good morning and to have a great day no matter what. I know he burnt bridges with loads of folks but he was cool with me.

Chicky, ..... yep! I don't have enough words. It's so hard I'll just say thanks for everything. You have personally helped me more than you will ever know.

Bottom line is, once again, YOU ALL ROCK!!!!! Thanks!

Ray -302 baby!!

P.S. I really wasn't ignoring all the other congrats posts. I went in to a slump for a while and never looked at this thread. Days are getting brighter now and Im pouring kool aid glasses again!

Congrats on the 3rd floor DJ!!!

Thanks Tj! Gotta toss a BIG shoutout to my Decembros!! You guys are freaking awesome and some bad ass quitters!

Way to be Bro. 300 bad ass days kicking ass and taking names. Proud to quit with you!

Thanks J. I really appreciate it bud!

[JGlav]

Holy shit have I missed a load of posts! WOW! Thanks for all the kind words over the last few months folks. I genuinely appreciate it from the bottom of my heart! If not for all you bad ass quitters, I am not sure where I would be today. You all rock! I am so glad I came back for the 2nd go around and have stuck with it. I love drinking the Kool-aid daily and pouring glass fulls for others around me.

And to all the assholes over the last 9 months or so that talked shit to me, thank you so much! I understand why. I truly appreciate it. And I MUST give a shout out to old Norm Jr. lol Remember him folks? He texted me every single day and told me good morning and to have a great day no matter what. I know he burnt bridges with loads of folks but he was cool with me.

Chicky, ..... yep! I don't have enough words. It's so hard I'll just say thanks for everything. You have personally helped me more than you will ever know.

Bottom line is, once again, YOU ALL ROCK!!!!! Thanks!

Ray -302 baby!!

P.S. I really wasn't ignoring all the other congrats posts. I went in to a slump for a while and never looked at this thread. Days are getting brighter now and Im pouring kool aid glasses again!

Congrats on the 3rd floor DJ!!!

Thanks Tj! Gotta toss a BIG shoutout to my Decembros!! You guys are freaking awesome and some bad ass quitters!

Way to be Bro. 300 bad ass days kicking ass and taking names. Proud to quit with you!

[DjPorkchop]

Holy shit have I missed a load of posts! WOW! Thanks for all the kind words over the last few months folks. I genuinely appreciate it from the bottom of my heart! If not for all you bad ass quitters, I am not sure where I would be today. You all rock! I am so glad I came back for the 2nd go around and have stuck with it. I love drinking the Kool-aid daily and pouring glass fulls for others around me.

And to all the assholes over the last 9 months or so that talked shit to me, thank you so much! I understand why. I truly appreciate it. And I MUST give a shout out to old Norm Jr. lol Remember him folks? He texted me every single day and told me good morning and to have a great day no matter what. I know he burnt bridges with loads of folks but he was cool with me.

Chicky, ..... yep! I don't have enough words. It's so hard I'll just say thanks for everything. You have personally helped me more than you will ever know.

Bottom line is, once again, YOU ALL ROCK!!!!! Thanks!

Ray -302 baby!!

P.S. I really wasn't ignoring all the other congrats posts. I went in to a slump for a while and never looked at this thread. Days are getting brighter now and Im pouring kool aid glasses again!

Congrats on the 3rd floor DJ!!!

Thanks Tj! Gotta toss a BIG shoutout to my Decembros!! You guys are freaking awesome and some bad ass quitters!