Not as Smart as I Thought

[ProfessorPinch]

Welcome Mr. White!!!!! 3 years or 30 years it makes no difference, it is still an addiction and can kill you no matter how long you have dipped. Damn smart of you to realize this before it killed you!!!

By the way, can we all agree not to call him MISTER?!?!?!?!?!

Sure, but what about Honky, Cracker, Gringo, Roundeye, Whiteboy, Whitey, or The Man?

[ScooterScum]

Welcome Mr. White!!!!! 3 years or 30 years it makes no difference, it is still an addiction and can kill you no matter how long you have dipped. Damn smart of you to realize this before it killed you!!!

By the way, can we all agree not to call him MISTER?!?!?!?!?!

I don't know F!!!! He sounds more like a Mr. than a Mrs. to me!!!!!!!! :blink:

[GlennFtheKodiak]

Welcome Mr. White!!!!! 3 years or 30 years it makes no difference, it is still an addiction and can kill you no matter how long you have dipped. Damn smart of you to realize this before it killed you!!!

By the way, can we all agree not to call him MISTER?!?!?!?!?!

[ScooterScum]

Welcome Mr. White!!!!! 3 years or 30 years it makes no difference, it is still an addiction and can kill you no matter how long you have dipped. Damn smart of you to realize this before it killed you!!!

[chewie]

Hang in there. There will be at least 2,435 other ridiculous triggers like that, that will come up...

Yep... and 2,435 opportunities for victory over the bitch.

[GlennFtheKodiak]

Quit Day 2 Sunday, May 31
Conscience: Damn I have to go into the office today to get some work done

Subconscious: Oh that wont be so bad, you will be one of the only people in the office since itÃ,’s a weekend, so you can just throw a few dips in and that will make the time fly. Yeahhh that sounds real good. CanÃ,’t wait.

Conscience: NO NO NO- god youÃ,’re an idiot.

Ha, ha Whitey. Day 60 or so for me, and I still struggle with that one. That was always my one reward. "Fuck it at least I can dip all day with my door open at the office since no one will be there...."

I came in Memorial Day, slapped myself silly for thinking that again...

Hang in there. There will be at least 2,435 other ridiculous triggers like that, that will come up...

[Mr. White]

So for no real apparent reason I decided to quit all forms of tobacco at 12am Saturday (May 30). I have pretty much dipped and/or smoked for the last 3 years straight. And when I say straight, I mean that literally. If I wasnÃ,’t sleeping, I was most likely smoking or chewing. And the funny thing is, now that I think of it, I even remember multiple occasions on which I fell asleep with a dip in- so I guess I cant even classify sleep as tobacco free. After reading several posts, I know some of you are probably sitting there thinking; Ã,“this guy only dipped for 3 years, what a bitch.Ã,” But if there is one thing I have learned, itÃ,’s that life moves fast and I donÃ,’t want to wake up 10 years from now with no jaw and subsequently no pussy.

Does everyone remember Ã,“PavlovÃ,’s dogsÃ,” from High School science class? This was the experiment in which Pavlov conditioned dogs to associate the sound of ringing bell with food and therefore they would salivate at the sound. Well over the first 3 days of my quit I realized that I am not much smarter than a dog. It also doesnÃ,’t help me that I have continually turned to dip to make boring/ negative activities more pleasurable. For Example:

Quit Day 2 Sunday, May 31
Conscience: Damn I have to go into the office today to get some work done

Subconscious: Oh that wont be so bad, you will be one of the only people in the office since itÃ,’s a weekend, so you can just throw a few dips in and that will make the time fly. Yeahhh that sounds real good. CanÃ,’t wait.

Conscience: NO NO NO- god youÃ,’re an idiot.

Though I am taking this quit very seriously, I canÃ,’t help but to find humor in it all. Luckily the humor I am finding stems from realizing just how stupid this whole addiction is.

Keep up the good work everyone.

-Mr. White