General Discussion - 2015

[chewie]

Great Scott! ItÃ,’s Time To Quit Dipping!
http://www.killthecan.org/great-scott-i ... t-dipping/

[Cope30]

Hey everyone my name is Alex been dipping and smoking for around 13 years mostly dipping the last 7 years Kodiak wintergreen 1 + tin a day just quit October 1 2015 very hard and still is found this site thought it would help

Good deal Alex. You did a helluva a job on your own getting here.

Support is available. The baseline is to connect with your 100 day quit group--it's a group that will hit 100 days around the same time. This is your group.

topic/11341759/100/

Everyday you come here and commit to your quit for that day in that group.

There is chat, people exchange numbers and talk in the phone, etc. there is a HUGE experience base here to help you understand you are not alone. Read up.

Also, post in introductions.

I quit with you today.

Hang with it and don't cave, I dipped a can a day also of that poison (Cope wintergreen) so we know what you are getting ready to go through, think about this and do some research, a can of dip is equal in nicotine to 4 packs of cigarettes!
This site will help you get there day by day. You will fee like you are going crazy at times and you have problems that no one else has, but we are or have been there at some point!. IT HELPS keep you sane.
Stay strong, NIC is a bitch.

[Nomore1959]

I quit and started the patch around August 3rd. Stopped using the patch August 16th. For the past couple days j just feel cloudy, dazed, anxious at times and extremely tired during the day. Is that normal?

Glad you took the plunge to a true quit.

What you are feeling is normal in my experience. at 70+ days I still have moments where things aren't quite normal.

Check out the site and get to know what's happening here. You've come a long ways on your own, but this site can help you stick with the quit.

Looks like you signed up years ago but never posted? Never followed through? Now would be a good time to post in introductions and tell your story.

Welcome to KTC. Proud to quit with you today.

Thanks! Appreciate the encouragement, I just wanted to make sure that was normal. I'd love to get involved more as I've been eyeballing the site for quite a while now. Just didn't have the balls to say enough is enough until this year.

Well, you've quit. You broke the ice and posted here. So run with it and join an appropriate quit group.. Dec?

[JoshuaPinkFloyd]

I quit and started the patch around August 3rd. Stopped using the patch August 16th. For the past couple days j just feel cloudy, dazed, anxious at times and extremely tired during the day. Is that normal?

Glad you took the plunge to a true quit.

What you are feeling is normal in my experience. at 70+ days I still have moments where things aren't quite normal.

Check out the site and get to know what's happening here. You've come a long ways on your own, but this site can help you stick with the quit.

Looks like you signed up years ago but never posted? Never followed through? Now would be a good time to post in introductions and tell your story.

Welcome to KTC. Proud to quit with you today.

Thanks! Appreciate the encouragement, I just wanted to make sure that was normal. I'd love to get involved more as I've been eyeballing the site for quite a while now. Just didn't have the balls to say enough is enough until this year.

[Mike23mx]

I quit and started the patch around August 3rd. Stopped using the patch August 16th. For the past couple days j just feel cloudy, dazed, anxious at times and extremely tired during the day. Is that normal?

Glad you took the plunge to a true quit.

What you are feeling is normal in my experience. at 70+ days I still have moments where things aren't quite normal.

Check out the site and get to know what's happening here. You've come a long ways on your own, but this site can help you stick with the quit.

Looks like you signed up years ago but never posted? Never followed through? Now would be a good time to post in introductions and tell your story.

Welcome to KTC. Proud to quit with you today.

[JoshuaPinkFloyd]

I quit and started the patch around August 3rd. Stopped using the patch August 16th. For the past couple days j just feel cloudy, dazed, anxious at times and extremely tired during the day. Is that normal?

[KingNothing]

We're ALL nicotine addicts on this site. Me, Mike, EVERYONE.

Me too man. It's a lot better being a former user addict than a current user addict. Either way you're an addict, but the former you're actually doing something about it. Jump in here Alex, it'll be worth it.

[JB65]

This site will help Alex...as long as you are jumping in with both feet. Post in your January group. Great bunch of newbie quitters in there . Great discussions going in in there today about people who are committed and successful in their quit and others who let their guard down after they figured they were cured.....

We're ALL nicotine addicts on this site. Me, Mike, EVERYONE.

Join in and set yourself free from the chains that nicotine ties us down with.

You CAN do it. Read all over this site. Drink a ton of water. Get seeds, fake chew, whatever you need to stay quit.

Proud to be quit with you today!

[Mike23mx]

Hey everyone my name is Alex been dipping and smoking for around 13 years mostly dipping the last 7 years Kodiak wintergreen 1 + tin a day just quit October 1 2015 very hard and still is found this site thought it would help

Good deal Alex. You did a helluva a job on your own getting here.

Support is available. The baseline is to connect with your 100 day quit group--it's a group that will hit 100 days around the same time. This is your group.

topic/11341759/100/

Everyday you come here and commit to your quit for that day in that group.

There is chat, people exchange numbers and talk in the phone, etc. there is a HUGE experience base here to help you understand you are not alone. Read up.

Also, post in introductions.

I quit with you today.

[Amr]

Hey everyone my name is Alex been dipping and smoking for around 13 years mostly dipping the last 7 years Kodiak wintergreen 1 + tin a day just quit October 1 2015 very hard and still is found this site thought it would help

[Nomore1959]

Everybody's quit is a bit different. I encourage each of you to post roll daily with the January 2016 quit group, aka the DOGs. (you will all get to 100 days quit in January). A daily promise to yourself and all here that you will not use nicotine for one day. Plus the amount of support that group is building for each other is amazing.

bluecow, your symptoms do not sound out of bounds, though perhaps more severe than many experience. Bad ass start to your quit, stick with it, it gets much better.

mniba, two weeks alone is a bad ass start... might be a good idea to build a support group as nicotine will never give up trying to get you back.

[mniba1]

I have not experienced the severity of issues you are going through. I chewed for 30+yrs, can a day and tomorrow will be 2 weeks quit cold turkey. Lots of anxiety, hunger, diet, sleep issues, dizziness, etc. I recommend a ton of exercise and sweating and drink a ton of water. Also started a separate "no chew" account at the bank that gets $40/week.

[bluecow19]

I'm currently on my 4th day quit after 10 years of 1-1.5 cans a day. I've been using seeds and gum to help with the cravings and everything was going fine untill last night when I was laying in bed. The withdrawls hit me bad and I started to get cold sweats, stomach pain, and nausia. After about an our my stomach dropped and I ran to the bathroom. I was up all night with diahrea and vomiting. Has anyone had withdrawls this bad to where you are projectile vomiting? I havnt had to puke today but I'm still pretty dizzy and the diahrea is still there.

[jbp770]

20 years old and have been dipping for 6 years now. It's amazing what a 14 year old thinks is cool. I'm on day three and I feel like crap. I can't sleep and I can't focus. Someone just tell me this gets easier because I'm about to lose it.

So I have learned that Nicotine is a real bitch. What it does is make you feel like you are stressing out because you want Nicotine. You get the Nicotine and it just makes you stress out later when you are done. The fact is you were never stressing in the first place. Nicotine creates the problem you are trying to solve and the only solution is to say fuck Nicotine. Chew gum, seeds, whatever just not Nic! You got this. You are more powerful than Nicotine!

[datsunking1]

Cope30, yes. At 65 days I'm still challenged with different symptoms. Just less often, less severe. Definitely better than day 30 for sure.

Mike,

Well at least I'm not the only one still going nuts.
Thanks for your input, that's why I love this site, someone has already been there to explain the steps as we quitters go along.

Exactly. Yesterday was ok, but last night I hit a bought of anger and frustration. Has to isolate myself.

Is that dip? Maybe. Maybe not. We all got addicted because there was a gap in our lives. A struggle that we felt dip (or drink or drugs) helped us with. Now we have to deal with that shit standing on our own. Glad I've got my brothers and sisters at KTC to back me up and hold me accountable.

Yeah the anxiety is killer, I never had anything wrong until I quit.

It's getting better, but the way I look at it, is that I pummeled myself for a year and a half with this shit....and I'm paying the price to correct it.