Today is day 7 for me. I honestly didn't think that I would make it this long without one. Especially through the hectic holidays. I did though and damn proud. I know that I should have posted this days ago but I wanted to make sure that I wasn't going to let myself nor everyone else down in here, now I know that I won't.
To give you a little background on myself. I'm 31 and live in N.E. Ohio. I smoked for approximately 6 years at 2-3 packs a day. One day my wife said she was going to quit. I was, what the fuck ever. I told her that if she made it 30 days without smoking I would quit too. Well, damn it she did it and I had to hold up my end of the bargain. A few years went by and we began to have some issues. Yeap, you guessed it. I went back to the damn nic. Only this time my poison was the sweet taste of Skoal Straight and Skoal Citrus. I only went through a can maybe once every 3 days or so but that depended on how busy I was. Damn near all of my friends dip but I wanted to quit in the back of my mind. My wife and daughter hate it and think its fucking gross. My breath started to stink and now I have infected wisdom teeth. Their getting pulled Jan. 8th. That should be fun. Anyhow, I'm not entirely sure if that was due to the dip or not but the surgeon stated that it didn't help any. So here I was one slow night at work looking online trying to find some info on quitting. All these fucking sites point you towards all this different shit but none of them want to actually help. Unitil I clicked on the last link that saved my life. You all know it, your reading it now. I read all this stuff on here and I said to myself. I just found another family, fuck this, I quit. These guys will help me if it gets rough. So I damn near glued my ass to this chair and kept reading and reading. You guys never sugar coated anything, and I love you all for that.
Now let me tell you what a big contributing factor was. I was looking at the pics. My heart stopped I swear to god. Now, I've seen alot of shit in my time. Car accidents, suicides, burned bodies (that one is bad though), and the smell of people rotting in their homes for weeks (weeks, not days). I looked at a gentleman that had under went some serious fucking surgery. You know who I'm talking about. If not, find him and tell that S.O.B you love him. I know I do, that guy changed my life forever. I love ya brother. I teared up in sorrow for what he had to go through. Now he's on here helping us all. He didn't have to do that. He took his dread and turned it into something good. I'll say it again I love ya brother for doing this. I also want to thank all of you for your support. Just to name a few are Outdoortexan, Mij, BBJ (Big Brother Jack), Ready, bman and ashley. You all have a place in my heart for eternity. If anyone ever needs anything whether your name is listed or not. Please let me know. I will be there however possible. Thanks for taking the time in reading this and god bless you all.
