Dumping the Tin

[Kubiak]

Day 3


I have fought the urge to beat a lady with my lean steak burrito because she took 25 seconds too long in line.  Also noticed that before, while dipping, I oculd never see a sale for tins, and today every brand was on sale.

Did it make me want a lip? Honestly? Not at all!

But it did make me want to snap, lose my cool, and strike a fucker or fifteen.

Keep up the good work brother. One Day at a time, keep an eye on the prize 24 hours of quit. Come back and do it again. Proud to be quit with you. QLF today

Honestly I don't see anything wrong with using your burrito as a weapon. Even just threatening to may resolve a hostile situation. I suggest open carry, not concealed, as you may want to threaten others simply by letting them know you have one.

[jaynellie]

Day 3


I have fought the urge to beat a lady with my lean steak burrito because she took 25 seconds too long in line. Also noticed that before, while dipping, I oculd never see a sale for tins, and today every brand was on sale.

Did it make me want a lip? Honestly? Not at all!

But it did make me want to snap, lose my cool, and strike a fucker or fifteen.

Keep up the good work brother. One Day at a time, keep an eye on the prize 24 hours of quit. Come back and do it again. Proud to be quit with you. QLF today

[YogiBear257]

Day 3


I have fought the urge to beat a lady with my lean steak burrito because she took 25 seconds too long in line. Also noticed that before, while dipping, I oculd never see a sale for tins, and today every brand was on sale.

Did it make me want a lip? Honestly? Not at all!

But it did make me want to snap, lose my cool, and strike a fucker or fifteen.

[YogiBear257]

Day 2.

Not nearly as bad as I expected to wake to. I almost feel I may have psyched myself out by overthinking. I'm just saying No and rolling with it. And rolling that fucking tin out of my life.


Funny though, damn SMokey Mountain is messier than a tin of Cope Southern Blend in the car!

[Its_Got2Happen]

Day 1 into 2 sucked. Horribly. I have never felt aching like that in my jaw. My body/mind knows i'm quiting and is giving me a fuck you bitch.


Well I bought some Smokey Mountain classic to help. Sensation is similiar...ish...but holy hell the smell and taste for the classic is bad. Wowzers.

Everyday is a victory. Keep up the great work man. Pretty soon you will be sailing. Taking your life back from the can is a bitch. But it is worth it. You gotta do the work man. Keep posting roll, and keeping that promise. PM me if you need anything.

[YogiBear257]

Day 1 into 2 sucked. Horribly. I have never felt aching like that in my jaw. My body/mind knows i'm quiting and is giving me a fuck you bitch.


Well I bought some Smokey Mountain classic to help. Sensation is similiar...ish...but holy hell the smell and taste for the classic is bad. Wowzers.

[YogiBear257]

Summers,
I was a drive dipper. I have a decent commute to work (hour plus each way) so it's plenty of time to lip a half or more of a tin.

I'm also cutting back on drinking in order to stop that. In order to slow down drinking I'd convince myself to put down the beers and put in a lip to hold a buzz and not dip so much. Nasty little cycle that is!

Already ordered my replacement mint stuff.

Derek,
Yea I saw this sort of duality here and am kind of ping ponging off of ideas. I ordered replacement mint and had that coupon to get 10% off so just got 10 tins.

Never again will I scrounge dimes from beneath my dip covered floor in order to scavange enough for a tin of Longhorn! Lol...

[SirDerek]

I know this is cold turkey here and this may be the first few days progress of this speaking but...is Jake's or Smokey Mtn seen as a crutch or a tool?

Anything you need so long as it doesn't have nicotine.

I just had lunch and am jonesing, but I ain't gonna do it because that crap ain't going in my mouth again. God is on my side, too, because even if wanted to go out and get my tobacco of choice, I would have to walk about 3 blocks in a 20 mph wind with a snow and rain mix. Talk about help from above (though the old me would be tying my boots right now and justifying how there is nothing wrong with going out in the middle of a horrible winter storm to pay $6 for a product that says "WARNING: This product may cause mouth cancer" on the label in giant letters).

One thing I wanted to note is that I "stopped" once but this time since I am actually quitting I am implementing bigger lifestyle changes - for instance I switched to a diet of oatmeal/fresh juice/a banana for breakfast and I have only had salads for lunch and dinner with a very little bit of cut Korean flavored beef (maybe 2 ounces) last night with dinner. My cravings aren't as bad post-meal after I eat that lighter stuff, but I guarantee you that if I had a big heavy steak or cheeseburger, the craving would be unbearable. I think a lighter, more veggie heavy diet will help cleanse me out faster, too. I used to have like a sausage biscuit for breakfast, a burger for lunch and then steak/pork chops or something heavy for dinner and a lipper just topped off each one of those meals for me - I don't want to have any of those sorts of triggers until I get a few more days in and actually I need to clean up my eating in a major way anyway because my cholesterol is getting too high.

ok in regards to the fake....

you will find 2 paths of thought from the members.

the one is that using the fake resembles the real, and now a days almost seems too real. Those that feel this way quit it all.

then there are those, of which I am a part of, that did believe in using the fake. And to use it in the initial stages to break the hold that the ADDICTION of NICOTENE has on us. Once that is done then we work on getting rid of the HABIT of having something in our lip. Now from my personal experience I used the fake heavily up til about day 70 or so, then it sort of just faded away as now I have a tin that I opened on Jan 7th (I dated it) and it is still 1/4 full. So only use it when the feeling is at its worst.

there is no right thought as both are valid, both ways keep nicotene out of your body. It is a personal decision as either way we all need to be vigilant to be quit.

[SummersEve]

I know this is cold turkey here and this may be the first few days progress of this speaking but...is Jake's or Smokey Mtn seen as a crutch or a tool?

Anything you need so long as it doesn't have nicotine.

I just had lunch and am jonesing, but I ain't gonna do it because that crap ain't going in my mouth again. God is on my side, too, because even if wanted to go out and get my tobacco of choice, I would have to walk about 3 blocks in a 20 mph wind with a snow and rain mix. Talk about help from above (though the old me would be tying my boots right now and justifying how there is nothing wrong with going out in the middle of a horrible winter storm to pay $6 for a product that says "WARNING: This product may cause mouth cancer" on the label in giant letters).

One thing I wanted to note is that I "stopped" once but this time since I am actually quitting I am implementing bigger lifestyle changes - for instance I switched to a diet of oatmeal/fresh juice/a banana for breakfast and I have only had salads for lunch and dinner with a very little bit of cut Korean flavored beef (maybe 2 ounces) last night with dinner. My cravings aren't as bad post-meal after I eat that lighter stuff, but I guarantee you that if I had a big heavy steak or cheeseburger, the craving would be unbearable. I think a lighter, more veggie heavy diet will help cleanse me out faster, too. I used to have like a sausage biscuit for breakfast, a burger for lunch and then steak/pork chops or something heavy for dinner and a lipper just topped off each one of those meals for me - I don't want to have any of those sorts of triggers until I get a few more days in and actually I need to clean up my eating in a major way anyway because my cholesterol is getting too high.

[YogiBear257]

Thanks guys.

Repsonded to the PM then.

I felt confident and ready to kick it. I posted. Felt awesome about it for about 15 minutes then the fidgets and longing starting. I'm not going to do it, I'm going to stick this through but damn...especially the tingle in the base of my jaw


I know this is cold turkey here and this may be the first few days progress of this speaking but...is Jake's or Smokey Mtn seen as a crutch or a tool?

[SirDerek]

welcome Yogi.....and you got mail.

Just remember how much this sucks right now. And let this fuel your desire to quit and to stay quit day after day, just 1 at a time. Don't look to tomorrow, just look for today. And in doing that, make it a successful day and repeat tomorrow.

[iquitchewing]

Hey Yogi welcome aboard! I am quit for 63 days today and want to tell you that you can be quit with the support of this group. I was in the chat room several times a day during the first couple of weeks of my quit. Syill get on about every day. Drinking lots of water, putting some fake chew into my mouth, and keeping my bitching on line as much aas possible has enaabled me and my family to make it through this first nine weeks of quit. I am quitting after 53 years of nicotine. You can be quit now. Nicotine probably gave me bladder cancer. That does not need to happen to you. I am now quit with you for today.

[YogiBear257]

Special thanks to Tool Shed for linking me to over here where I can get the dipper's approach to quitting rather than smoker's.

[YogiBear257]

Hello everyone!



My name is Nick and I'm a recent college grad and been working for about 2 years now. I am addicted to dipping and have been for the last 4 years.



I tried it once while in Jr. High and absolutely hated it. Skoal Cherry. Had me dizzy, I had to be propped up against a tree and I fell up a hill. Was too much and it smelled disgusting and I htought that was that.



When I to college, I became an RA, joined a fraternity, and took extra classes for my Major/Minor. Some family and relationship issues came up and as people are prone to do, I picke dup a habit. Actually two habits. In high school I was a star football athlete but injuries kept me from progressing. I took care of my body and didn't touch things which were harmful to me. In college though, I had let myself go. Fueled by stress, anxiety, paranoia, low self-esteem, I decided to take a lip from a resident. And it was fanfrickentastic. The buzz. The rush. The feeling of the mint in my mouth.



2 years later, nearly half of my fraternity dipped, I noticed an increasing amount of my residents (year to year) dipped and I was able to freely exchange, bum a lip, etc. Originally I was at a tin every two weeks. When Skoal Edge came out I was doing a tin a week. I have hit the point where I am at a tin a day and some days it's two a day. I had slowed my progress a year ago in the summer but during one night of revelry, a friend introduced me to upper liping. The intensity was like a first time buzz all over again and it was absolutely wonderful. So I began the fast track to spending a lot of money, watching my gums recede, and my car and hygiene become a mess.



I spoke with a friend who is a counselor the other day who turned me on to the Maryland helpline and I said enough si enough, I'm doing it. It doesn't do anything for me beside a 20 minute buzz (I alternate brands and cuts so I keep my buzz fresh every week). I stress over finances and here I am blowing through $50+ a month. I'll need a gum graph as soon as I am financially better and it's just a headache I want gone. I am doing a number of things to improve myself and the people who care about me, even the fraternity guys who dip say I need to slow and cut my roll.


Can't wait to share, converse, get to know people, and get to celebrate some fresh gums!

BTW, Eagles fans I share in your pain. Tough Mudders in here, I also share in your pain!

It's my first full day and my lower jaw is aching and I am jonesing like a felon. I know I'm going to say no but damnit! This sucks! Lol

Nick