I am here because I am looking for support to quit. I have quit many times before and stayed off the can for over 3 years at one point. I have been a dipper since about 1996 off and on. I am now committed to quit b/c I am getting the lap band surgery and my surgeon (also a former dipper) really urged me to quit. It was nice to have such a good conversation with someone who really understood me. I also am a female, so it's always been hard for me to be open with my doctors that I dip. I am trying to use the nicorette gum, but it's not helping a whole lot. But I am committed to killing the can once and for all... 'Remshot'
Hi Tre. Get rid of your nicorette, or you won't get a lot of help here. Everyone here will tell you that you can't kill the can and get cozy with nicotine.
Scared? Embrace that. Embrace every foggy, achy, hungry, craving, angry second of the next couple of weeks. If you try to avoid it, you'll never be quit - simple as that. That "SUCK" is your body and mind fighting to break free from the poison. You have to WANT that.
For that time, the nicotine is going to torture you. Do not give in to the enemy. It's going to hurt. Physically at first. Mentally later. But you'll be with a bunch of people who are going through exactly the same thing. And after that there's not a thing that nicotine can do to hurt you, ever again, because you'll be really and truly quit every day.
But you haven't even started until the nicotine is gone. Do that. Mark that day on your calendar as Day One. Then go to June 2011's quit group and post your Day One in roll call. That's when people will start to suspect that you're serious, and you'll start getting the help you need.
Still "committed"?
