Hey Everyone,
I finished my can of Copenhagen today, went to check the mail, and saw that my herbal snuff had arrived. I figured, O.K., no point in going down to the gas station and spending another nine bucks on a tin--I quit today.
I've tried to quit in the past, many times, but have never made it beyond a month. The time I made it a month I was in Ireland, and the stuff is illegal to sell there. If it wasn't, I probably would have failed at quitting just as I have many times before.
Now, however, I'm at a new point in my life. I start medical school in about a week and a half. The question that has been on my mind for some time now is, "How am I going to be an advocate for the health of others if I can't pony up and be an advocate for my own health? I sure as hell can't call myself an advocate for my own health when I'm pinching dips into my lip whenever I can."
If I don't quit now, I'm going to be the guy in the library spitting into a pop can or someone's used paper coffee cup which I pulled out of the trash. Believe it or not, I used to walk around the library for up to a half an hour looking in trash cans for a spitter before I'd sit down to study. I can't believe I did that. I could go on with stories about stuff I did to have a dip, but if you are here, I assume you are familiar with the kind of crap we do in an effort to continue hurting ourselves.
I know the next few weeks are going to be rough for me, but I've dealt with worse. I expect to be back to this site many times over the next few months for support from all of you. In return, I will do the same for the rest of you deciding to beat our disease. Best of luck!
