Why should you reach beyond 100?
Early in my quit I foresaw I would hit 100 days and then eventually I would no longer need KTC. Than again I was a helmet wearing, fog headed idiot then too. I started slow adding about a quit group a day that I would post roll with. I didn't just randomly pick groups to quit with. I started by using those other group post as my way to thank other quitters for helping me along the way. First it was the 2013 groups and then it branched into the other years all through using the site, meeting people in chat or using the phone numbers exchanged.
I have to say though why continuing to post beyond my 100th day is important to me and why I think all of you newbies should think it through:
A - I know my ass could not have made it past the first month without posting daily, or at least sending a text to ask another quitter to post for me. But that is OK, when you hit 100 days you are cured. WRONG! I still get cravings, I still get urges some days suck but I have more good days than I do bad ones.
B - So you posted roll daily and then hit your HOF and faded away, no one else should be affected. WAY WRONG! If you are one of the first people to hit the HOF there are 30 more days of quitters behind you waiting to do the same. If you watched your group dwindle from 100 to half that in less than 20 days would you lack some motivation? Did you make any new friends that faded, would your family leave you, did you leave a soldier behind?
C - All of those other quitters that post with your group daily, why do they do that? Have you ever looked through the older groups and see how many of them are less than 10 posters? See they feel and have felt it too. Perhaps they post with your group because they want to inspire, they want to let you know they care, they hate seeing people cave. Hell perhaps some of them are just bored assholes that have nothing better to do but stcnk their nose into your business. "How dare them, stick their noses into your group...we are the (insert any Pre-HOF quit group name here) and they don't know us"...I call BULLSHIT! They do know you, they were you. It may have been a month ago or 10 years ago but yeah they get it. They want to help you and in turn most of them have learned that when they help one quitter at a time that is now one more person that will help keep them accountable too.
D - Posting roll after you hit your HOF if your daily chance to brag to everyone that you hit 100 days and you quit cold fucking turkey. Look at the percentages of people that actually hit that mark, you should be proud, be loud about it too for your own sake.
E - So you have continued to post and you see some of your group dropping off. Now this is a great chance for you to save a life and possibly even your own some day. Send them a text, not being an asshole but congratulating them on their day count, perhaps poking them to say hey bud...you still quit? Trust me it works. They are thankful to you and let's be honest that is one of your brothers or sisters.
Look at some of the recent cavers, and what happened to them. They fucked up and did the minimums and then faded, where are they now? "Back in the SUCK?"
When you get a chance to tell someone thank you or I am sorry do it. When you fuck up and all of us do as we are human, own up to your brothers and sisters. No matter what group you are in you are a KTC quitter until you are not. That is what the brotherhood is all about. Families are full of various age groups, some crazies, some assholes, some outspoken individuals, some inseparable friends, and all other kinds of people. However, no matter what when you are open and honest with them and with yourself this family will fight for you and with you.
I choose to fight with all of you today! Be prepared though, you pick on my brothers or sisters and I will be ready and willing to fight to keep the sanctity of my family together. I now see that I owe my new life to KTC, so...thank you Veterans, Newbies, brothers and sisters.
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