Hello Out There

[miles]

You rock tinman!

Lean on your quit Bro's!

We've all been there!

Keep up the good quit Amigo!

[Greg5280]

Day 11 - Start to struggle mentally here in past pauses.....FU Nic Bitch!!

Stay strong tinman!!

Stay focused and keep your eye on the quit prize brother!

I know that this time can and is always trying on the nerves and patience but power thru and great times are ahead on the other side!

PM me if you need help brother!

Listen to Grizz. He got me through a lot of land mines and addicted mind thinking.

Man Tinman, if I could take all the pain, all the hurt, the fog, and the funks away from you. I wouldn't!!!

There is too much to gain from the pain. There is so much knowledge, strength and understanding when you fight through it. You get stronger every time you triumph over temptations, triggers etc.

If I could take the suck away from you, I would do you a dis-service. It would be like helping a butterfly out of its cocoon. The butterfly dies because it isn't strong enough to fly.

This is all exercise. Embrace the suck. Triumph. You will feel like shit but you can't tell me it doesn't feel fun to succeed in controlling our addiction.

Keep your focus in perspective. You only worry about getting through today. Put all your might, mind and energy into today. Don't worry about preserving your stamina for tomorrow. Just focus on balls to the wall quit today. Overcome and triumph just today.

If tomorrow comes, repeat. Soon you will look back and love the suck! My first victories over true, real crossroads to cave or quit...I became stronger in my resolve. I never want to go back but I am so glad for the foundation of my quit.

Stay the course, follow your vets, and repeat every day you wake. You are going to look in the mirror soon and think, "Wow, the burden of quit is light. The burden of being a user is too heavy." Then kicking the nic bithces ass is fun! All the sudden the success of your quit bleeds into every facet of your life! I gave up lying and deception for living and loving. It is sweet!

Stay strong. Nicotine fixes nothing !!

Remember every miserable second of how you feel. Think to yourself what kind of shit can do that to your mind and body! Nicotine is deadly!!

Your mind is going to tell you all kinds of shit to try and get a fix from you. Understand what it going on and fight through it.

Keep fighting! It is worth it!!

Stay quit
Greg

[Mthomas3824]

Day 11 - Start to struggle mentally here in past pauses.....FU Nic Bitch!!

Stay strong tinman!!

Stay focused and keep your eye on the quit prize brother!

I know that this time can and is always trying on the nerves and patience but power thru and great times are ahead on the other side!

PM me if you need help brother!

Listen to Grizz. He got me through a lot of land mines and addicted mind thinking.

Man Tinman, if I could take all the pain, all the hurt, the fog, and the funks away from you. I wouldn't!!!

There is too much to gain from the pain. There is so much knowledge, strength and understanding when you fight through it. You get stronger every time you triumph over temptations, triggers etc.

If I could take the suck away from you, I would do you a dis-service. It would be like helping a butterfly out of its cocoon. The butterfly dies because it isn't strong enough to fly.

This is all exercise. Embrace the suck. Triumph. You will feel like shit but you can't tell me it doesn't feel fun to succeed in controlling our addiction.

Keep your focus in perspective. You only worry about getting through today. Put all your might, mind and energy into today. Don't worry about preserving your stamina for tomorrow. Just focus on balls to the wall quit today. Overcome and triumph just today.

If tomorrow comes, repeat. Soon you will look back and love the suck! My first victories over true, real crossroads to cave or quit...I became stronger in my resolve. I never want to go back but I am so glad for the foundation of my quit.

Stay the course, follow your vets, and repeat every day you wake. You are going to look in the mirror soon and think, "Wow, the burden of quit is light. The burden of being a user is too heavy." Then kicking the nic bithces ass is fun! All the sudden the success of your quit bleeds into every facet of your life! I gave up lying and deception for living and loving. It is sweet!

[Grizzly25]

Day 11 - Start to struggle mentally here in past pauses.....FU Nic Bitch!!

Stay strong tinman!!

Stay focused and keep your eye on the quit prize brother!

I know that this time can and is always trying on the nerves and patience but power thru and great times are ahead on the other side!

PM me if you need help brother!

[JohnK]

So listen to this, and it is not to get any sympathy......

My close friend passed away this morning at 44 yrs old after a three year battle w throat cancer. Now, this guy was a lifetime non-chewer / non smoker. He just got a swollen gland one day and got the shit...This good guy ALWAYS busted my balls daily about quitting chewing, how it will fuck you up before and after he got sick, and I said "yeah, I know" , looked the other way and packed in another chew. This would occur daily, over and over and over. What an addicted a-hole I am.

Now with feeling pretty down and 11 days into my quit, I say what the fuck, is it time to cave and have a chew? What would my friend's teenage kids think about that when I see them later?

What a disgusting thought..................

Please join me in qutting this shit for another day.....

Thanks all.

Damn brother I hate to hear that. The non dipper gets the cancer. Thats just a warning to all of us that at anytime any one of us can get an illness that can kill us. Why would anyone want to do anything that increases the chances of it happening to ourselves? Because we are addicts but not idiots stay quit brother. I'm quit with you.

[kostcoguy]

Sorry to hear about your loss man. I am quit with you today.

[tinman]

So listen to this, and it is not to get any sympathy......

My close friend passed away this morning at 44 yrs old after a three year battle w throat cancer. Now, this guy was a lifetime non-chewer / non smoker. He just got a swollen gland one day and got the shit...This good guy ALWAYS busted my balls daily about quitting chewing, how it will fuck you up before and after he got sick, and I said "yeah, I know" , looked the other way and packed in another chew. This would occur daily, over and over and over. What an addicted a-hole I am.

Now with feeling pretty down and 11 days into my quit, I say what the fuck, is it time to cave and have a chew? What would my friend's teenage kids think about that when I see them later?

What a disgusting thought..................

Please join me in qutting this shit for another day.....

Thanks all.

[tinman]

Day 11 - Start to struggle mentally here in past pauses.....FU Nic Bitch!!

[Bean]

Give it a week or so. You might even develope a sore throat or sores because you're quit. I didn't, but i read about that happening in the Welcome Center Link.

Then go to dentist. Tell him you used to dip...like he didn't know already, right? I guarantee he knows...but still, tell him.

[tinman]

Bean - read the story - Holy Shit - got to me too....I even broke down and showed it to the wife, who really didnt know how much I would chew (nor the headache to quit)....

After reading a story like that, how do you know if your mouth if f@#$ed? I am hesitant to go to a dentist, much less anyone else who would perform deeper inspections on the ol pie hole....I have been nervous for years...

[tinman]

Man - you guys are good...V glad I decided to Quit and Post....MThomas - read some of your sports talk-sports nut here - I love thinking about how I am currently 10-0. Gives me more strength to throw the bitch off my back.

Thanks for the support fellas!!!!!!!!!!!

Keeping on Quittin On................................

[Bean]

I was right there with you...dipping for 20 years, kids started to ask what I was "eating," I wanted to quit, I was sick of being an addict, etc.

You can't change the past. What's done is done. The future isn't here yet...so you can't change that. But you sure as shit can change what you do today.

Click on the killthecan.org page above and read the Tom and Jenny Kern story in the bottom right hand corner. (I recommend this to anyone...especially those with kids). Holy shit, that story gets me!

See, tobacco's victims aren't the guy in the ground. The victim is the child you took to hockey try-outs....the one who makes the first line but has nobody to share it with, the one you drove 3 hours for each way and who is dying to to tell you about what went right and what went wrong on the ice that day. The one who looks up to you....even while you looked back at him and said, "hold on...this shit in my lip is more important than anything else, including my relationship with you."

HOLY SHIT, right? But that is addiction. When you see it for what it is, it isn't so hard to deal with a craves every once in a while, huh?

GREAT CHOICE, BROTHER!!! YOU CAN DO THIS!!! PM me if you need anything. Stay strong, stay quit, brother!

[p23]

Exact word I was using just the other day to describe how I felt about myself looking back on my addiction. "Pathetic" I don't want to feel that way about myself ever again and I'm sure you don't either.

Stay Strong.

[Mthomas3824]

Found this site - on day 10 and I am grateful...Signed into Roll (I think)....Twenty years of Skoal / Cope and Grizzly of 1 to 2 cans per day....

Just up and quit as I was tired of the bullshit, and the dirty looks I would get from the wife and kid....and whoever else didnt chew for that matter....

I would throw in a dip, have shit on my chin - my boy would ask whats that on your lip and I would say "dont know, must be dirt or something" - How Pathetic of an Addict am I....No need to answer...I F*^%ing think I know.....

Just finished driving 3 hours each way to Delware (Twice) this weekend for kid's hockey tryouts and I was eating the Frickin bag (plastic and all) of sunflower seeds trying to maintain composure!!!! Still quit and will be for the rest of today....

Welcome Tinman!

I had a similar experience. I paused many times with tobacco but never truly quit. I once quit for my religion and caved. I quit many times for my wife and caved. When my kids had an intervention, I felt like shit and quit. Then caved.

It wasn't until March 14th, 2012 that I chose to be late for work, pulled over and bought a can of skoal. I put a dip in my mouth and that was all I worried about until I got my fix.

I stared at that can and realized that I loved that can more than my God, my wife, my kids and my own life. If I was asked what was most important to me, I never would have said tobacco. If you looked at my behavior, Tobacco was a god to me.

So there I am looking at that can and realizing for the first time that I hate it. I hate how it makes me feel, I hate that it controlled my actions and goals. I realized I was in bondage to a vice....A ha! This is what it feels like to be addicted. Even if you want to, you can't leave it alone.

I panicked. I am a disgusting addict. I want to quit but I can't. How do I do it? So with a dip in my mouth, I got on line and found KTC. Went into chat. Without a plan, I was talked into divorcing my mistress. I was scared. I didn't want to fail anymore.

I have been educated and now can report that with KTC, I am undefeated with the evil nicotine addiction. I am 97 days quit, including alcohol and I love it!!!

Quitting is hell but if you want to quit because you want to quit...you came to the right place to be successful. Many people started where you are today and will guide you through all the symptoms. Trust the vets and be humble. If they tell you to do something, follow them with exactness and the quit will become easy and you will enjoy your new found freedom from vice.

Glad to have another quitter going on a journey to hell. Just keep walking and you will walk out of hell too.

[JohnK]

Found this site - on day 10 and I am grateful...Signed into Roll (I think)....Twenty years of Skoal / Cope and Grizzly of 1 to 2 cans per day....

Just up and quit as I was tired of the bullshit, and the dirty looks I would get from the wife and kid....and whoever else didnt chew for that matter....

I would throw in a dip, have shit on my chin - my boy would ask whats that on your lip and I would say "dont know, must be dirt or something" - How Pathetic of an Addict am I....No need to answer...I F*^%ing think I know.....

Just finished driving 3 hours each way to Delware (Twice) this weekend for kid's hockey tryouts and I was eating the Frickin bag (plastic and all) of sunflower seeds trying to maintain composure!!!! Still quit and will be for the rest of today....

Hey man its great to have you. This place is full of tools that will help you stay quit. Its not easy but it can be done. Send me a message if you need anything.