Thanks Dean. I feel deep down like I still want a dip. As much as I hate nicotine now, I still have this nagging sensation to go buy a can and say fuck it. This is where I win. I've already said "I ain't caving today!" so it's pointless now for me to dwell on it. It's those days in the funk that make me really hate myself for dipping in the first place. There are no take backs, only takeaways. The nic bitch took a lot of my money, time and attention. She'll try and take your life if you let her. Fuck her.
On a side note, I told a random stranger that he was gonna die a horrible fucking death if he keeps dipping that shit. This guy was packing a can, climbing in his truck at the store a couple of weeks ago. He just looked at me like I was a pinko commie fag and drove off. I used to be that guy. Fuck me.
You're at a point now, Miles, where the funks are going to be more difficult. The mind is a strange creature. You hammered through 100 days on spirit alone. You did another 75 out of pride alone. It's very easy to ask yourself "Now what?" Well, homegirl, NOW you notch the days out of a commitment to yourself. Pure balls.
Like you said: "I ain't caving today!" That's going to have to be good enough. It's You versus Nicotine, every day now, for the rest of your life.
I like the story of telling a random stranger that he was gonna die a horrible death if he kept dipping. To make things more interesting, I suggest you just tell the next stranger "You're gonna die a horrible death" for no particular reason...do not specify one.
It's really funny to say such a thing to an ordinary woman in her early 60s as she spills out of her Buick LeSabre to buy scratch tickets at the WaWa. She'll give you a look that exposes a mix of confusion and fear, but also a sort of worship, like she knows you have intimate, perhaps prophetic, knowledge of the future. For that moment, you are the most powerful person she has ever seen.