Hey All,
My name is Rob, been dipping for 7 years, and today is my quit date! 'Finger' I'm pretty excited, but I know the temptations that come along with being an addict will make it tough. I'm a cold turkey type of guy, so that's the way it's gonna be. Also, I wanted to say something about a comment that I've seen some of you 'vets' make on newcomers' intros when they make a quit date instead of quitting right here, right now, since it directly applies to me and I don't feel like getting bagged on. Although I agree that that is the best option, as there's no better time than the present, I'm guilty of making a quit date, and I think a real man should have the integrity and willpower to hold himself to that and overcome the horrible addiction that is telling him that he needs to be a slave to the can (yes, I know you might say that is easier said than done, but I'm about to do it after being smokeless tobacco's personal bitch on a daily basis for 7 years, so you can too). Like most of you, I told myself I would quit SEVERAL times in the past. However, I would just tell people, such as family, that at the time, but I never REALLY wanted to quit, and so I wouldn't. But a couple weeks ago, I got this strong feeling inside that it was really time. It was time to end this love/hate relationship with my beloved can and quit for myself. Anyways, so I was looking around the interwebs recently about side effects of quitting or something rather, and the very first link I clicked brought me to this site. I was very impressed with it, and it intrigued me that so many people were united right here in this one place by the common goal of quitting this addiction. I started browsing around and reading some of the stories posted by members here, and scanned through posts. I did that here and there for a couple days, but then I started feeling guilty. I felt that I should be quit too if I should have the privilege of reading about what other people have gone and are currently going through, when I hadn't even officially started my quit path yet. I decided that I would quit for sure on the last day of the month, and would say on record that the very first time that I will have gone without a chew in my lip for more than a 24 hour period in the last 7 years of my life would occur 01 OCT 2014 (my b-day is in October and I like the month in general, as there are alot of memories connected to it that have personal value to me, and I figured I would add one more memory, the day I killed the can). So the time is here and I've come to make my intro post and will figure things out here in a bit, and post my roll. Also I can start going through the contents of the site again guilt-free! ;) Again, I want to reiterate how great I find the idea of this site, and give a shout-out to the site administrators and everyone who continually posts on here to keep the site alive and going by sharing their stories and experiences with the goal of helping out that next quit brother. Good job everyone. Nice to be quit with you all, and I hope ya'll make it. Good luck! (oh, and P.S., I didn't expect the intro to keep running as long as it did, so sorry about that :D )
---KickinTheCan
