General Discussion - 2016

[outdoortexan]

Well I'll be... good to see you my friend!

I am doing well Chewie. Sad I missed this passed weekends meet though. How about yourself?

ODT!

Damn good to see you brother. Made my day seeing your post pop up on the board today.

sup mtnman, how ya doin

[TheFinnisher]

Hey everyone, I'm brand new to the community here and I quit a week ago today. A week ago I arrived in Finland to visit family and had with me in my carry on what would be my last can of Grizzly. I had been a long cut user for about 5-6 years and started using the pouches instead over the last few months. Had a few pouches left when I arrived at my parents house, and sure enough by the end of my first day there it was all gone. I've been planning this to be my quitting time for awhile now, as chew isn't even available in Finland so I figured even though I might want a new can, it will be impossible to get. I go back home to the US in another couple of weeks, and plan to never buy a can again. The first few days with the physical withdrawal were pretty tough, I actually got a feeling of a really bad cold, but with ibuprofen that initially passed. Now I'm spending lots of time exercising and in the sauna to help out even more, and found this great group while researching how quitting affects others. Looking forward to interacting with all of you!

[Rkymtnman]

Well I'll be... good to see you my friend!

I am doing well Chewie. Sad I missed this passed weekends meet though. How about yourself?

ODT!

Damn good to see you brother. Made my day seeing your post pop up on the board today.

[outdoortexan]

Well I'll be... good to see you my friend!

I am doing well Chewie. Sad I missed this passed weekends meet though. How about yourself?

[chewie]

I haven't been around much in a long time. I let life get in my way. Actually. I let laziness get in the way. I could find other things I thought were more important to do. I could always find an excuse. Today that stops. I really wanted to make the Pa. get together but I had two banquets to attend this weekend. Long story but it just didn't work out.

I am now starting my own business so my time is my time for the first time in a long time. I plan to do some visiting with some of my quit brothers and sisters. I really want to meet up with some who have been here since day one. Some of them I have meet and some I have not. But I have nothing more than FB connections to some of you ( by the way I am Curtis Ansley on facebook). So send me some contact info you bunch of quitters!!

This place is truly a brotherhood but only if you let it. If you are a new quitter or old, I am proud to stand with you in quit.


ODT
'ODT'

Well I'll be... good to see you my friend!

[outdoortexan]

I haven't been around much in a long time. I let life get in my way. Actually. I let laziness get in the way. I could find other things I thought were more important to do. I could always find an excuse. Today that stops. I really wanted to make the Pa. get together but I had two banquets to attend this weekend. Long story but it just didn't work out.

I am now starting my own business so my time is my time for the first time in a long time. I plan to do some visiting with some of my quit brothers and sisters. I really want to meet up with some who have been here since day one. Some of them I have meet and some I have not. But I have nothing more than FB connections to some of you ( by the way I am Curtis Ansley on facebook). So send me some contact info you bunch of quitters!!

This place is truly a brotherhood but only if you let it. If you are a new quitter or old, I am proud to stand with you in quit.


ODT
'ODT'

[RDB]

today is day 6!! i'm 47 and have been chewing since I was 17. I'm using the patch to help this process. Most of the day when i'm working I feel good, here and there the demon tobacco creeps in to my brain. Just trying to stay focused and stay away from gas stations that house chew.

The demon is still creeping into your brain because it is still in your system. The demon is not tobacco, the demon is nicotine. Nicotine is what keeps you addicted to tobacco. I'm glad you're fired up to quit, but if you want to quit, you need to remove the nicotine pacifier. This site makes it possible, you just have to put in the work.

If you bothered to go back to my original posts, you'd see that I started out with nicotine gum. If I could turn the hands of time back, I would go cold turkey. Nicotine replacement is risky. And, you're not quit. It took a while for that to sink in to my thick skull.

Do yourself a favor. Rip the patch off. Throw the rest of them away after destroying them. The freedom on the other side is so worth it.

[KingNothing]

today is day 6!! i'm 47 and have been chewing since I was 17. I'm using the patch to help this process. Most of the day when i'm working I feel good, here and there the demon tobacco creeps in to my brain. Just trying to stay focused and stay away from gas stations that house chew.

The demon is still creeping into your brain because it is still in your system. The demon is not tobacco, the demon is nicotine. Nicotine is what keeps you addicted to tobacco. I'm glad you're fired up to quit, but if you want to quit, you need to remove the nicotine pacifier. This site makes it possible, you just have to put in the work.

[drumandmush]

today is day 6!! i'm 47 and have been chewing since I was 17. I'm using the patch to help this process. Most of the day when i'm working I feel good, here and there the demon tobacco creeps in to my brain. Just trying to stay focused and stay away from gas stations that house chew.

[chewie]

I just quit 4 days ago and my anxiety is so bad I can't even leave my house, worried about cancer but have no symptoms it's like I keep making it up in my head that I have it

Hang in there man... go talk to your doc he may be able to help you with your anxiety issues.

http://www.killthecan.org/anxiety-when- ... th-stress/

[Ethanj12]

I just quit 4 days ago and my anxiety is so bad I can't even leave my house, worried about cancer but have no symptoms it's like I keep making it up in my head that I have it

[MikeA]

Not sure if this is the right place to post but I'll give it a shot here.

I am 5-6 weeks quit, nicotine is out of my system, and I don't feel the need/want to ever dip again.

My problem is I am now "addicted" to fake dip. It was great to help me kick the Skoal, but now I am struggling to give up the Smokey Mountain. Anyone else know this struggle, if so how did you get over it? I'm worried that without the fake stuff, I could relapse to the real shit. Does the oral craving ever lessen?

I'm feeling so good without that poison in my body, I never want to go back there again.

You're in the right place (also feel free to post stuff like this in your home group as other folks are most likely dealing with similar issues).

I was right there with you. After chewing a can / day of Kodiak for the better part of two decades I dove right in to the fake stuff. I chewed at least a can / day of Smokey Mountain for a good 200 + days or so into my quit. I, like you, worried quite a bit about whether or not I was addicted to the fake stuff and if I'd ever be able to put it down.

I resigned myself to the fact that I'd just always chew the fake. I told myself (and I still believe this) that I'd rather chew a can / day of the fake stuff for the rest of my life than to ever have another dip of Kodiak.

And then at around day 220 or so something happened.

I didn't need it any more.

I just sort of stopped using it and stopped needing it. If you're 6 weeks in you're well on your way, but you've got a lot of "first time" triggers yet to deal with. Summer is in full swing and fall is just around the corner. You're going to have to tackle quite a few "firsts" in the next few months. Keep that fake in your tool belt until you get some more legs under your quit.

Long story short... keep doing what you're doing. It's working. There will be a day when you should deal with the oral fixation but A) that's a long way away and B) it'll most likely take care of itself.

Chewie

Very helpful post for me. I went yesterday without fake dip and it was rough. So I was ,right now contemplating whether I should be getting more and possibly feeding that addiction?

I have used both Smoky Mtn and Mint Snuff. I find the Smoky Mtn does a little better job of mimicking real dip but at the price of being kind of nasty. Mint snuff taste good and fresh and pleasant but doesn't provide much burn.
I am going to get more and take your word that this will eventually pass. At about day 90 now I donÂ’t want anything to prolong this agony. Time just does not heal these wounds fast enough. I now have read some horror stories about the hell days 120ish might bring and I hope I can do this. I just wonder sometimes if posting about it daily, using mint snuff, etc. are things that just keep.the dip.at the forefront when I win when it no longer dominates my thoughts. Maybe that isn't possible and it is just this hard. Or I am kind of a wuss. I don't know I am rambling. Off to get some mint snuff now.

I used fake dip for 70-80 days. I never really tried to quit using it, it just happened that I stopped. Didn't even really realize it but one evening I realized I was busy the whole day and never used it.

[Kodiak Quitter]

Not sure if this is the right place to post but I'll give it a shot here.

I am 5-6 weeks quit, nicotine is out of my system, and I don't feel the need/want to ever dip again.

My problem is I am now "addicted" to fake dip. It was great to help me kick the Skoal, but now I am struggling to give up the Smokey Mountain. Anyone else know this struggle, if so how did you get over it? I'm worried that without the fake stuff, I could relapse to the real shit. Does the oral craving ever lessen?

I'm feeling so good without that poison in my body, I never want to go back there again.

You're in the right place (also feel free to post stuff like this in your home group as other folks are most likely dealing with similar issues).

I was right there with you. After chewing a can / day of Kodiak for the better part of two decades I dove right in to the fake stuff. I chewed at least a can / day of Smokey Mountain for a good 200 + days or so into my quit. I, like you, worried quite a bit about whether or not I was addicted to the fake stuff and if I'd ever be able to put it down.

I resigned myself to the fact that I'd just always chew the fake. I told myself (and I still believe this) that I'd rather chew a can / day of the fake stuff for the rest of my life than to ever have another dip of Kodiak.

And then at around day 220 or so something happened.

I didn't need it any more.

I just sort of stopped using it and stopped needing it. If you're 6 weeks in you're well on your way, but you've got a lot of "first time" triggers yet to deal with. Summer is in full swing and fall is just around the corner. You're going to have to tackle quite a few "firsts" in the next few months. Keep that fake in your tool belt until you get some more legs under your quit.

Long story short... keep doing what you're doing. It's working. There will be a day when you should deal with the oral fixation but A) that's a long way away and B) it'll most likely take care of itself.

Chewie

Very helpful post for me. I went yesterday without fake dip and it was rough. So I was ,right now contemplating whether I should be getting more and possibly feeding that addiction?

I have used both Smoky Mtn and Mint Snuff. I find the Smoky Mtn does a little better job of mimicking real dip but at the price of being kind of nasty. Mint snuff taste good and fresh and pleasant but doesn't provide much burn.
I am going to get more and take your word that this will eventually pass. At about day 90 now I donÂ’t want anything to prolong this agony. Time just does not heal these wounds fast enough. I now have read some horror stories about the hell days 120ish might bring and I hope I can do this. I just wonder sometimes if posting about it daily, using mint snuff, etc. are things that just keep.the dip.at the forefront when I win when it no longer dominates my thoughts. Maybe that isn't possible and it is just this hard. Or I am kind of a wuss. I don't know I am rambling. Off to get some mint snuff now.

[Armydan13]

Agree with the above...Smokey Mountain was excellent and helped replace the feeling of dipping. I always have a can lying around the house just in case; however I have been using it less and less as time goes on.

[77Midget]

I'm looking into the fake dip guys and I'm unsure of it, I mean, does it REALLY work? Does it help? I've seen a post about it, that it does but I need to be told myself and about the "firsts" I may encounter, and maybe even the best fake dip for me, I chewed skoal/grizz wintergreen, don't know if they have that flavor anywhere. I'm on NiP the Grip facebook page and there's many people who have great reviews. But I don't know yet.

Definatley use the fake stuff if it helps. Some like it some dont. Like you i dipped Grizz wintergreen and used Smokey Mtn mint. That was the only flavor that didnt taste like absolute shit to me. I went with SM because i could buy it locally. Ironically i had to buy it at the tobacco shop. Nothing like standing in line staring at a wall of chew in full on withdraws on the verge of caving. Looking back it took some serious will power to make it through those days. I used the fake stuff for a few months then went to sunflower seeds and then gum. Now don't really use anything.