NvrAlone - An Addicts Intro

[Sean Fiske]

Congratulations NvrAlone on 30 days of no nicotine! That is really awesome.

I used to have to hide receipts from my wife... I just felt ashamed all the time...shame. The part about always checking to see if something is caught between your teeth...it's just so exhausting thinking about it. 240B - when you mention hiding...yeah man - it's the hiding from bosses (except when I was in the Army - no one cared really) - or hiding from colleagues or friends or family...

Some people don't even know this whole other side of me that I've hidden from them for years... It's madness.

Thats another thing too..
Here in California, a can is almost 8.50!!!!
That was a lot of money each week, month..... that I was squirreling away!!!
Friggin Maddness

$8.50...?! In Tennessee you can get a can for under $3.00... Wow.

[240Bravo]

Congrats on 30 Days! I too tried the gum at first and then wanted the monster off my back all together.

It feels great to not have to hide it from anyone. Customers, Bosses, anyone really! Its nice to walk into a meeting and not worry about how long i will be without a dip, or where i can spit, or if its inappropriate to have a spitter on the table.

The freedom is amazing.

Right, huh!
I'm a PM in the construction industry, I would go in to meetings and swallow.
But I know when i was talking or going over drawings with the client..... I know the could smell that shit!!!
It' is sooo cool not having to worry about that stuff.

Another was when the wife would want a random kiss for no reason, and catch me with a small dip...
Don't have to worry about that any more!!!

Free at last!!!!!!!!!

Small world man! I am a PM in the construction industry as well (sub side). I swear on some sites it was basically a way of life. Everyone had a chew in and nobody thought twice when someone spit or put a new one in.

[NvrAlone]

Congratulations NvrAlone on 30 days of no nicotine! That is really awesome.

I used to have to hide receipts from my wife... I just felt ashamed all the time...shame. The part about always checking to see if something is caught between your teeth...it's just so exhausting thinking about it. 240B - when you mention hiding...yeah man - it's the hiding from bosses (except when I was in the Army - no one cared really) - or hiding from colleagues or friends or family...

Some people don't even know this whole other side of me that I've hidden from them for years... It's madness.

Thats another thing too..
Here in California, a can is almost 8.50!!!!
That was a lot of money each week, month..... that I was squirreling away!!!
Friggin Maddness

[NvrAlone]

Congrats on 30 Days! I too tried the gum at first and then wanted the monster off my back all together.

It feels great to not have to hide it from anyone. Customers, Bosses, anyone really! Its nice to walk into a meeting and not worry about how long i will be without a dip, or where i can spit, or if its inappropriate to have a spitter on the table.

The freedom is amazing.

Right, huh!
I'm a PM in the construction industry, I would go in to meetings and swallow.
But I know when i was talking or going over drawings with the client..... I know the could smell that shit!!!
It' is sooo cool not having to worry about that stuff.

Another was when the wife would want a random kiss for no reason, and catch me with a small dip...
Don't have to worry about that any more!!!

Free at last!!!!!!!!!

[Sean Fiske]

Congratulations NvrAlone on 30 days of no nicotine! That is really awesome.

I used to have to hide receipts from my wife... I just felt ashamed all the time...shame. The part about always checking to see if something is caught between your teeth...it's just so exhausting thinking about it. 240B - when you mention hiding...yeah man - it's the hiding from bosses (except when I was in the Army - no one cared really) - or hiding from colleagues or friends or family...

Some people don't even know this whole other side of me that I've hidden from them for years... It's madness.

[240Bravo]

Congrats on 30 Days! I too tried the gum at first and then wanted the monster off my back all together.

It feels great to not have to hide it from anyone. Customers, Bosses, anyone really! Its nice to walk into a meeting and not worry about how long i will be without a dip, or where i can spit, or if its inappropriate to have a spitter on the table.

The freedom is amazing.

[NvrAlone]

My name is Chuck and I am an addictÂ…Â…

Last time I used “drugs” was 1-21-91. I have considered myself clean and drug free all this time. I would go to any lengths to get loaded. Lie, cheat, steal… Whatever! Over the years it got to the point that I really didn’t even enjoy it any more. I was miserable. And yet I continued to do it for years and years. SOUND FAMILIAR???

So all the time that I was “getting clean” off drugs, I used nicotine like a friggin fiend. Either it was smoking or dipping or both. Over the years I had worked myself to a 1 to 1-1/2 cans of Skoal straight long cut a day. Dipped all day long while working and then was “mr. ninja” in the evenings when around the wife and family. Then waiting for them to go to bed so that I could sneak a few night dips before bed.

Just the madness of always hiding, planning, plotting, cleaning up after, did I flush the friggin toilet, Is there any shit between my teeth?.............. and the list goes on and on. Worrying about going on vacation and bringing my shit in a suitcase or thru the airport screeners without the wife knowing. Always schemingÂ…..Like a fiend.
There was/is absolutely no difference (for me) between the dope that I used to put in my body and the nicotine that I did the same with. None. They were both making me do things that I shouldnÂ’t be doing. Things that I didnÂ’t want to do. They were both making my life miserable and unmanageable. I tried some half assed attempts to quit nic that never amounted to anythingÂ… Not even a day

So I made a decision. I was sick and tired. I bought nic patches and stopped dipping for about 6 weeks. With a “friendly nudge” from a few of you guys, I was asked why not just rip the band-aid off??? I did and I have never felt better!!! I now have a new clean date – 5-31-18.

As of today I am 30 days clean/quit, and I am blown away at how good it feels. To not be a slave to the can. I get a lot of cravings - but they go just as quick as they came. Every day I get to experience things without dip and it is fuckin awesome!!! Working without, hiking without, fishing withoutÂ…

A life without dip!!! Who woulda thunk? ONE DAY AT A TIME I WILL STAY QUIT. Thanks to all at KTC

[Landdon]

30 days?  That's awesome!  Keep going strong!  It's all mental at this point!

[Jeff1960]

All sounds familiar.
Getting through airports especially going over sea where Copenhagen isn't sold.  Explaining to customs dude why I have 15+ cans... how awful that was.

[NvrAlone]

My name is Chuck and I am an addict……
Last time I used “drugs” was 1-21-91. I have considered myself clean and drug free all this time. I would go to any lengths to get loaded. Lie, cheat, steal… Whatever!  Over the years it got to the point that I really didn’t even enjoy it any more. I was miserable. And yet I continued to do it for years and years. SOUND FAMILIAR???
So all the time that I was “getting clean” off drugs, I used nicotine like a friggin fiend. Either it was smoking or dipping or both. Over the years I had worked myself to a 1 to 1-1/2 cans of Skoal straight long cut a day. Dipped all day long while working and then was “mr. ninja” in the evenings when around the wife and family. Then waiting for them to go to bed so that I could sneak a few night dips before bed.
Just the madness of always hiding, planning, plotting, cleaning up after, did I flush the friggin toilet, Is there any shit between my teeth?.............. and the  list goes on and on. Worrying about going on vacation and bringing my shit in a suitcase or thru the airport screeners without the wife knowing. Always scheming…..Like a fiend.
There was/is absolutely no difference (for me) between the dope that I used to put in my body and the nicotine that I did the same with. None. They were both making me do things that I shouldn’t be doing. Things that I didn’t want to do. They were both making my life miserable and unmanageable. I tried some half assed attempts to quit nic that never amounted to anything… Not even a day
So I made a decision. I was sick and tired. I bought nic patches and stopped dipping for about 6 weeks. With a “friendly nudge” from a few of you guys, I was asked why not just rip the band-aid off???  I did and I have never felt better!!!  I now have a new clean date – 5-31-18.
As of today I am 30 days clean/quit, and I am blown away at how good it feels. To not be a slave to the can. I get a lot of cravings - but they go just as quick as they came. Every day I get to experience things without dip and it is fuckin awesome!!! Working without, hiking without, fishing without… 
A life without dip!!! Who woulda thunk? ONE DAY AT A TIME I WILL STAY QUIT. Thanks to all at KTC