General Discussion - 2014

[Wt57]

What's with the cheap look of the site. I like the old headers and look of the sight.

[quitspit]

You're here looking around and reading, wondering, 'Could I actually walk away? Not dip again, forever?'

Forget forever. Those on this site all quit the same; one day (hour, minute, second) at a time. Spit it out - you're quit. Now don't dip for the next second. When you have two, promise to quit for the third and do it. Don't look ahead just quit for the now.

sbtzc 8 years ~ around 2,920 days ~ around 70,080 hours ~ around 4,204,800 minutes ~ around 252,288,000 seconds of freedom,.. one at a time

Good to see you sir! And HUGE congrats on 8 years of freedom!!!

Amen, gents. Thanks for the inspiration.

[Keddy]

WHAT A BARGAIN - only 27 BILLION!!! - Reynolds American buys rival Lorillard for $27B #BigTobacco
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/bus ... /12663291/

'Finger'

God I hate big tobacco ... For this ^^^ as well as the one above it.

Representing THE MOST DESPICABLE FORM OF GREED: Getting rich at the expense of the lives of others!

'Finger'

[chewie]

New Blog Post: Do You Know How Much YouÂ’re Actually Chewing?
http://blog.killthecan.org/2014/07/do-y ... y-chewing/

[Nolaq]

I just saw this:

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/big-lea ... obacco-ban

[rdad]

jtbrown posted this in July 2014. Like he said, you can never have too many of these stories to strengthen our collective quit.

Hey gents. Don't want to bring the mood down, but a local news station published a story about a man that died from the can. I know there are plenty of these floating around here, but as far as I'm concerned there cannot be enough. Another powerful example of what the nic bitch can do to you if you don't take control. Hopefully, this will make your quit stronger like it did mine.

http://www.waff.com/story/25995090/loca ... ign=buffer

Jeez that is so sad. I hate reading this stuff but we have to. I just hope none of us quit too late. Scary. Makes me appreciate the freedom we are winning for ourselves here at KTC. Thank guys!

[Smeds]

WHAT A BARGAIN - only 27 BILLION!!! - Reynolds American buys rival Lorillard for $27B #BigTobacco
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/bus ... /12663291/

'Finger'

God I hate big tobacco ... For this ^^^ as well as the one above it.

[MonsterMedic]

jtbrown posted this in July 2014. Like he said, you can never have too many of these stories to strengthen our collective quit.

Hey gents. Don't want to bring the mood down, but a local news station published a story about a man that died from the can. I know there are plenty of these floating around here, but as far as I'm concerned there cannot be enough. Another powerful example of what the nic bitch can do to you if you don't take control. Hopefully, this will make your quit stronger like it did mine.

http://www.waff.com/story/25995090/loca ... ign=buffer

[chewie]

WHAT A BARGAIN - only 27 BILLION!!! - Reynolds American buys rival Lorillard for $27B #BigTobacco
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/bus ... /12663291/

'Finger'

[chewie]

Not sure the last sentence is the best advice, but the rest of this report is scary.

Keep up the fight!

Hookah: Like Smoking 40 Cigarettes  Kissing Everybody

Mmmmmm... YUMMY!

[Nolaq]

Not sure the last sentence is the best advice, but the rest of this report is scary.

Keep up the fight!

[Diesel2112]

I don't know if this is the place to rant or if I'm cutting into any ongoing conversations but I'm having a rough day.

This is my day 5 today. I felt foggy and sh*tty all day.

I used to dip when I was stressed out and today really tested me.
My house was broken into and my car was stolen early this morning. With just the way I've been feeling over the past five days dealing with the quit (disgruntled, angry, stressed, craving), you couldn't have picked a worst time for something like this to happen.

I thought about dipping a lot today. It's driving me nuts. I won't do it though. I came onto the KoC.org a couple times throughout the day and read some articles and posts and that really helped get me past the urge. Thanks for the inspiration everyone, thanks for giving me a reason not to go back to dipping.

That sucks about your house getting broken in to and your car stolen. I'm truly sorry to hear that.

Gotta ask yourself though, would your house NOT have been broken into if you were still dipping? Nope. Would your car still be here? Nope. If you loaded your lip, would your house magically be normal again and your car suddenly reappear? Nope.

Today would still have sucked, it just would have sucked while you sucked on some poison.

I used to think dip relieved stress. That was a lie. The only thing dip relieved was nicotine withdrawal. It just seemed to relieve stress because when I was stressed, that urge for nicotine magnified 1,000 times over. When I put in a dip, I would say "Ahhhhh" but that wasn't reliefe from the stressful situation, it was relief that I filled my brains need for nicotine. When I spit my dip out , all my problems were still there and needed to be dealt with. Nicotine filled NO voids in my life. It created them.

The body knows how to deal with stress without the help of nicotine. Unfortunately for us nic addicts we got lost along the way and were tricked into thinking we couldn't "deal" without our nic crutch.

It is possible to lose that crutch and "deal" again. I and many here are living proof of that.

It's just going to take awhile. Getting through days like today without your crutch, is one hell of step in the right direction. I know it sucked but It was a victory. Keep stringing victories together and things will get progressively easier.

This site can help you tremendously. Are you posting role? Have you started an intro page? Have you jumped into chat? Their are a lot of people here who can help you. Use them.

Keep grinding. You got this. You need anything, hit me up any time.

Quit on...

Diesel, that's a great way to look at it. I don't really think clearly during stressful situations. Instead of breaking it down like you just did, I would typically just run for a dip.

Love this post Diesel...thank you for the time you take to encourage others with your gift of words.

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[Sage]

I don't know if this is the place to rant or if I'm cutting into any ongoing conversations but I'm having a rough day.

This is my day 5 today. I felt foggy and sh*tty all day.

I used to dip when I was stressed out and today really tested me.
My house was broken into and my car was stolen early this morning. With just the way I've been feeling over the past five days dealing with the quit (disgruntled, angry, stressed, craving), you couldn't have picked a worst time for something like this to happen.

I thought about dipping a lot today. It's driving me nuts. I won't do it though. I came onto the KoC.org a couple times throughout the day and read some articles and posts and that really helped get me past the urge. Thanks for the inspiration everyone, thanks for giving me a reason not to go back to dipping.

That sucks about your house getting broken in to and your car stolen. I'm truly sorry to hear that.

Gotta ask yourself though, would your house NOT have been broken into if you were still dipping? Nope. Would your car still be here? Nope. If you loaded your lip, would your house magically be normal again and your car suddenly reappear? Nope.

Today would still have sucked, it just would have sucked while you sucked on some poison.

I used to think dip relieved stress. That was a lie. The only thing dip relieved was nicotine withdrawal. It just seemed to relieve stress because when I was stressed, that urge for nicotine magnified 1,000 times over. When I put in a dip, I would say "Ahhhhh" but that wasn't reliefe from the stressful situation, it was relief that I filled my brains need for nicotine. When I spit my dip out , all my problems were still there and needed to be dealt with. Nicotine filled NO voids in my life. It created them.

The body knows how to deal with stress without the help of nicotine. Unfortunately for us nic addicts we got lost along the way and were tricked into thinking we couldn't "deal" without our nic crutch.

It is possible to lose that crutch and "deal" again. I and many here are living proof of that.

It's just going to take awhile. Getting through days like today without your crutch, is one hell of step in the right direction. I know it sucked but It was a victory. Keep stringing victories together and things will get progressively easier.

This site can help you tremendously. Are you posting role? Have you started an intro page? Have you jumped into chat? Their are a lot of people here who can help you. Use them.

Keep grinding. You got this. You need anything, hit me up any time.

Quit on...

Diesel, that's a great way to look at it. I don't really think clearly during stressful situations. Instead of breaking it down like you just did, I would typically just run for a dip.

Love this post Diesel...thank you for the time you take to encourage others with your gift of words.

[Grady]

Diesel, thank you for that. That makes perfect sense and it just made my day. No more ahhhhhs and that's okay with me.

[GetOutOfMyWay]

I don't know if this is the place to rant or if I'm cutting into any ongoing conversations but I'm having a rough day.

This is my day 5 today. I felt foggy and sh*tty all day.

I used to dip when I was stressed out and today really tested me.
My house was broken into and my car was stolen early this morning. With just the way I've been feeling over the past five days dealing with the quit (disgruntled, angry, stressed, craving), you couldn't have picked a worst time for something like this to happen.

I thought about dipping a lot today. It's driving me nuts. I won't do it though. I came onto the KoC.org a couple times throughout the day and read some articles and posts and that really helped get me past the urge. Thanks for the inspiration everyone, thanks for giving me a reason not to go back to dipping.

That sucks about your house getting broken in to and your car stolen. I'm truly sorry to hear that.

Gotta ask yourself though, would your house NOT have been broken into if you were still dipping? Nope. Would your car still be here? Nope. If you loaded your lip, would your house magically be normal again and your car suddenly reappear? Nope.

Today would still have sucked, it just would have sucked while you sucked on some poison.

I used to think dip relieved stress. That was a lie. The only thing dip relieved was nicotine withdrawal. It just seemed to relieve stress because when I was stressed, that urge for nicotine magnified 1,000 times over. When I put in a dip, I would say "Ahhhhh" but that wasn't reliefe from the stressful situation, it was relief that I filled my brains need for nicotine. When I spit my dip out , all my problems were still there and needed to be dealt with. Nicotine filled NO voids in my life. It created them.

The body knows how to deal with stress without the help of nicotine. Unfortunately for us nic addicts we got lost along the way and were tricked into thinking we couldn't "deal" without our nic crutch.

It is possible to lose that crutch and "deal" again. I and many here are living proof of that.

It's just going to take awhile. Getting through days like today without your crutch, is one hell of step in the right direction. I know it sucked but It was a victory. Keep stringing victories together and things will get progressively easier.

This site can help you tremendously. Are you posting role? Have you started an intro page? Have you jumped into chat? Their are a lot of people here who can help you. Use them.

Keep grinding. You got this. You need anything, hit me up any time.

Quit on...

Diesel, that's a great way to look at it. I don't really think clearly during stressful situations. Instead of breaking it down like you just did, I would typically just run for a dip.