Quitting for good

[Grizzly25]

Very disappointing you were one of the first people in our quit group!

I have thought about stopping posting once I got to 1000 days but I have been way to afraid to just stop!

Not because I think oh man as soon as I stop it will be back, but I am afraid of the complacency that ultimately leads to a cave!

Like CBird said "Own It!" Leave no reason for the return to Nicotine, lean on your quit group!

[BazookaJoe]

When I joined OA and AA my sponsor at the time told me I was one teaspoon away from a massive heart attack and one sip away from dying of cirrhosis of the liver. You can say the same about nicotine. We are all one single pinch away losing our faces and dying a painful, cancerous death. Make this one count.

[Steakbomb18]

What the F' dude...you've already been down this road. I just read this brief thread and suggest you re-read what CoachDoc posted to you a couple of years ago AND pour yourself a glass of that kool-aid from CBird's pitcher. So, again, how is this time any different and why should any of us have any inkling of trust that you will actually quit?

If you're serious about this, I expect to see you on roll every day and become active on this site. Otherwise, I'll assume you're just another retread and serial caver. Don't be THAT guy.

[cbird65]

I HATE seeing you post day 1s!!! 'bang head'

How about you start drinking the kool-aide and own it this time.

Your life depends on it, will you do something different to save it and protect your quit?

[TacoMEDIC]

Think I'm posting this in here for Senor Taco and will be posting it over in 2x@'s intro as well.

I've been a medical professional and educator for a long time - corpsman (combat medic) in the Navy serving with the Marine Corps, teacher and dean of students, an emergency room nurse, and a coach. I started taking care of people medically when I was 15 - giving my mother injections of morphine for the pain she had related to her terminal cancer brought on by years of smoking. She died a month after I turned 16...on a Friday night while I was at my high school football game.

So, that means that I have spent more than half of my entire life taking care of others in some form or fashion. Trying to take care of others on here IS what it is about. Sure, I know, I contradict my own words - focus on your own quit first. Well, I am on day 700. I HAVE spent hundreds of days focusing on my quit, learning what parts of my plan work and what needs revision. I know that I am at a point where me being on here HELPING other to quit/stay quit benefits my quit and makes my quit that much stronger.

Watching knuckleheads fight the methods that have worked, that try and make it as if they are the only ones to have ever experienced what they are going through or try to pass themselves off as being abused make it painfully difficult to keep coming in here and reaching out to those that want the help.

Why am I posting this? So that you understand how everything you say and do on here is done in the public forum. That means everything you do and say has the potential of either building your fellow quitters up or tearing them down. Think of it like a big gamne of Jenga. I'm trying to carefully push and pull specific blocks in order to maintain the integrity of this system and some people want to shake the whole table... Each of the quitters on the site is represented by all those individual Jenga blocks...it can be a precarious system...be a block to make the stack rock solid....don't shake the table.

See, rage and funk can still hit you at 700 days...but the trick is learning how to deal with it in a way that isn't reaching for the can or simply walking away from posting roll, talking to your brothers or staying active on the site.

CoachDoc is now stepping off the soapbox and will be trying very hard NOT to step back on until at least the June class......

I hear what you're saying, Coach. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. And thanks in advance for your help throughout the most difficult times of my quit.

[CoachDoc]

Think I'm posting this in here for Senor Taco and will be posting it over in 2x@'s intro as well.

I've been a medical professional and educator for a long time - corpsman (combat medic) in the Navy serving with the Marine Corps, teacher and dean of students, an emergency room nurse, and a coach. I started taking care of people medically when I was 15 - giving my mother injections of morphine for the pain she had related to her terminal cancer brought on by years of smoking. She died a month after I turned 16...on a Friday night while I was at my high school football game.

So, that means that I have spent more than half of my entire life taking care of others in some form or fashion. Trying to take care of others on here IS what it is about. Sure, I know, I contradict my own words - focus on your own quit first. Well, I am on day 700. I HAVE spent hundreds of days focusing on my quit, learning what parts of my plan work and what needs revision. I know that I am at a point where me being on here HELPING other to quit/stay quit benefits my quit and makes my quit that much stronger.

Watching knuckleheads fight the methods that have worked, that try and make it as if they are the only ones to have ever experienced what they are going through or try to pass themselves off as being abused make it painfully difficult to keep coming in here and reaching out to those that want the help.

Why am I posting this? So that you understand how everything you say and do on here is done in the public forum. That means everything you do and say has the potential of either building your fellow quitters up or tearing them down. Think of it like a big gamne of Jenga. I'm trying to carefully push and pull specific blocks in order to maintain the integrity of this system and some people want to shake the whole table... Each of the quitters on the site is represented by all those individual Jenga blocks...it can be a precarious system...be a block to make the stack rock solid....don't shake the table.

See, rage and funk can still hit you at 700 days...but the trick is learning how to deal with it in a way that isn't reaching for the can or simply walking away from posting roll, talking to your brothers or staying active on the site.

CoachDoc is now stepping off the soapbox and will be trying very hard NOT to step back on until at least the June class......

[TacoMEDIC]

Hey everyone.

My name is Matt. I am 24 years old. I have been dipping Grizzly Wintergreen for about 7 years. Dip at least a can a day. Started when I was playing High School ball. I am a Paramedic. Been one for 5 years now. Long, stressful days on an ambulance didn't help this habit. I'm damn sick of it. Have been for a while. I tried quitting several times in the last few months. I set days to quit. Specific dates, wedding day, etc. Get a few days in and cave every time. I think with some support I can finally do this for good. I want to be quit so damn bad. I'm sick of this shit running my life. Just need some help. I hope I can find that here.

Anyways, thanks in advance. Any advice on the quit will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

Threw in my last dip this afternoon. I'm done. Day 0 is today. Day 1 is tomorrow. And so on...

Lets take a walk down memory lane shall we... See the part that I Highlighted? What active steps are you going to take so that you don't fail again?

Here is my plan as of now.

Post roll every day.
Get phone numbers and use them if I feel like I might cave.
Offer my phone number to others.
No drinking (for the whole 100 days for me. Already took it out of my house)
No golf or fishing (should be easy because its winter)
I sent emails to my friends that dip to let them know that I am done. I asked them not to use around me and absolutely never bring me a can.
I stocked up on seeds, gum and Atomic Fire Balls already this morning. (to keep my oral fixation taken care of)

I'll gladly accept any additional advice you have.

If you want to be successful, don't wait until you feel like your going to cave to use your phone numbers. Entrench yourself in this place, attach yourself to people who wont let you fade away again. Make it so that if you don't post before lunch, you hear about it. At least through the worst of it. Other than that, I like your plan, all you have to do now is show us.

I will.

[dippshit]

Hey everyone.

My name is Matt. I am 24 years old. I have been dipping Grizzly Wintergreen for about 7 years. Dip at least a can a day. Started when I was playing High School ball. I am a Paramedic. Been one for 5 years now. Long, stressful days on an ambulance didn't help this habit. I'm damn sick of it. Have been for a while. I tried quitting several times in the last few months. I set days to quit. Specific dates, wedding day, etc. Get a few days in and cave every time. I think with some support I can finally do this for good. I want to be quit so damn bad. I'm sick of this shit running my life. Just need some help. I hope I can find that here.

Anyways, thanks in advance. Any advice on the quit will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

Threw in my last dip this afternoon. I'm done. Day 0 is today. Day 1 is tomorrow. And so on...

Lets take a walk down memory lane shall we... See the part that I Highlighted? What active steps are you going to take so that you don't fail again?

Here is my plan as of now.

Post roll every day.
Get phone numbers and use them if I feel like I might cave.
Offer my phone number to others.
No drinking (for the whole 100 days for me. Already took it out of my house)
No golf or fishing (should be easy because its winter)
I sent emails to my friends that dip to let them know that I am done. I asked them not to use around me and absolutely never bring me a can.
I stocked up on seeds, gum and Atomic Fire Balls already this morning. (to keep my oral fixation taken care of)

I'll gladly accept any additional advice you have.

If you want to be successful, don't wait until you feel like your going to cave to use your phone numbers. Entrench yourself in this place, attach yourself to people who wont let you fade away again. Make it so that if you don't post before lunch, you hear about it. At least through the worst of it. Other than that, I like your plan, all you have to do now is show us.

[TacoMEDIC]

Hey everyone.

My name is Matt. I am 24 years old. I have been dipping Grizzly Wintergreen for about 7 years. Dip at least a can a day. Started when I was playing High School ball. I am a Paramedic. Been one for 5 years now. Long, stressful days on an ambulance didn't help this habit. I'm damn sick of it. Have been for a while. I tried quitting several times in the last few months. I set days to quit. Specific dates, wedding day, etc. Get a few days in and cave every time. I think with some support I can finally do this for good. I want to be quit so damn bad. I'm sick of this shit running my life. Just need some help. I hope I can find that here.

Anyways, thanks in advance. Any advice on the quit will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

Threw in my last dip this afternoon. I'm done. Day 0 is today. Day 1 is tomorrow. And so on...

Lets take a walk down memory lane shall we... See the part that I Highlighted? What active steps are you going to take so that you don't fail again?

Here is my plan as of now.

Post roll every day.
Get phone numbers and use them if I feel like I might cave.
Offer my phone number to others.
No drinking (for the whole 100 days for me. Already took it out of my house)
No golf or fishing (should be easy because its winter)
I sent emails to my friends that dip to let them know that I am done. I asked them not to use around me and absolutely never bring me a can.
I stocked up on seeds, gum and Atomic Fire Balls already this morning. (to keep my oral fixation taken care of)

I'll gladly accept any additional advice you have.

[dippshit]

Hey everyone.

My name is Matt. I am 24 years old. I have been dipping Grizzly Wintergreen for about 7 years. Dip at least a can a day. Started when I was playing High School ball. I am a Paramedic. Been one for 5 years now. Long, stressful days on an ambulance didn't help this habit. I'm damn sick of it. Have been for a while. I tried quitting several times in the last few months. I set days to quit. Specific dates, wedding day, etc. Get a few days in and cave every time. I think with some support I can finally do this for good. I want to be quit so damn bad. I'm sick of this shit running my life. Just need some help. I hope I can find that here.

Anyways, thanks in advance. Any advice on the quit will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

Threw in my last dip this afternoon. I'm done. Day 0 is today. Day 1 is tomorrow. And so on...

Lets take a walk down memory lane shall we... See the part that I Highlighted? What active steps are you going to take so that you don't fail again?

[Ready]

I just got a conditional offer of employment from Customs and Border Patrol! Damn happy about it. Even happier to know that if I get to the academy, I won't be going crazy thinking about when I'll be able to get my next dip. It's a good day to be quit! Thanks everyone for the support!

Matt

It's a good day to be quit indeed. Congrats on the job offer.

[TacoMEDIC]

I just got a conditional offer of employment from Customs and Border Patrol! Damn happy about it. Even happier to know that if I get to the academy, I won't be going crazy thinking about when I'll be able to get my next dip. It's a good day to be quit! Thanks everyone for the support!

Matt

[Souliman]

Nice work bro.

[tillergm]

Probably just got sick. Awesome on a whole week. It only gets easier from here. Keep it up.

[TacoMEDIC]

Week 1 complete! ... No craves today which is a great feeling. I am starting to feel sick though. Actually physically sick. Could it have something to do with going cold turkey after 7 years of what felt like constantly dipping? I feel like my body has been in shock all week and now I am getting sick. Maybe its just coincidence. Thoughts?

Might just be sick.

I figured. I would hate being sick a little less if I knew it was a necessary part of my quit and not just for nothing.