Hi Folks,
My name is Mark.. Forum handle is "Romandog", a nickname I got when I was in the Navy years back. 49 years old, I'm a programmer database admin at a hospital in Illinois. Started using Skoal when I was 18.. Just like most folks here, I had "tried" to quit nicotine "hundreds of times". Tried all of the ways to get off this stuff.. Patches, gum, mint snuff, herbal snuff..
I'm convinced the only way for me to beat this is to just "embrace the suck" and go "cold turkey."
Wasn't planning on quitting this morning.. Just found this site "by accident" (via God's providence).
After reading a number of the posts I knew I had no excuse. Today is the day.. I felt that if I put it off, even one more day, I would never get off of it.
So, yes, I feel like dog meat. Yes, my head hurts, no, I can't think, yes, I'm agitated figiting constantly today.
But if you folks can take this nicotine slave master on and beat him, and keep beating him.. Every day.. And make it stick..
Then I know he can be beat and by God's grace I'll beat him too...
I hate the way this sucks... But I like the way this sucks too. And I wish it would suck more.. Because I know this means my body is healing..
And I've go not room to complain anyway. No one forced that first chew in my mouth so long ago. I did it to myself.
Thanks for "going before" and showing me the way.
Mark
(Romandog)