Day 1

[gungaro]

First off, congrats on your decision to quit. That is a big first step, but it's also just a step. I know you are still a young kid, but AppleJack is correct in that you really need to get mentally prepared and quit for yourself.
I know it was probably just a phrase, but not using tobacco and using your brain and own intelligence to cope with life is better than coping with nicotine.
You are still young, but nic owned me for decades. If you want to quit, it has to be about you. Also read the site, and lean on others during your quit. Post roll every day in you quit group. It's a promise to yourself and others that you will quit that day, nothing more. It's a great way to have accountability. Exchange numbers with some other quitters and be there for each other.

Stick with it it will be worth it.

Joe (gungaro)

[AppleJack]

I want to first start off by saying this sucks and I'm super pissed off because I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee chewing but I know I need to quit. There is nothing better to coping with life than a nice big pinch in between my lip but this has to stop.

The smell of bs in ths initial post is overwhelming but I'm only gonna lift these 2 sentences out to prove my point...

Your mindset needs to take a drastic turn before you fail miserably. You're still lovin' on the drug that has you addicted. How can that possibly turn into a success for you? Do you enjoy being a slave to a weed... to a chemical? Do you enjoy pissing your money away? Do you enjoy paying UST to slowly kill/poison/disfigure you?

Look, man... nothing about dip does anything you think it does. It owns you. How does that feel?

Spend more time here....soak up the wisdom. Soak up the truth. You need it...

[Bigmike33]

Hey everyone thanks for reading,

I want to first start off by saying this sucks and I'm super pissed off because I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee chewing but I know I need to quit. There is nothing better to coping with life than a nice big pinch in between my lip but this has to stop. I've noticed that I have some jaw pain and my anxiety is at an all time high. I feel like I've had a real wakeup call this weekend and eventually my actions will have some negative outcomes if I continue down this path. Over the weekend I also realized that I just flat out can't drink, as a side note, I went 100 days without drinking this year just becasue, broke the spell and then went another 20 before drinking on friday. Needless to say I got super wasted and it was like nothing has changed lol. I know what it takes to be successful and quit drinking for 100 days but I also know that chewing will be another animal, it's crazy how addictive this stuff is. Anyways thanks for listening to my rant/introduction. I'm still trying to figure out this site so if anyone could help me with directions around here that would be great!

As for my plan on how I'm going to quit, it goes like this:

My first minor goal is to make it 2 days without it.
Then 3
Then 4
Then 5
Then 7(there's something about all these days that feel like major milestones lol, except 6, I think 6 is a stupid sounding number compared to 3,4,5,7)
then 10,14,17,21,25,30,50,60,75,85,90,99,100,125

I'll be dealing with cravings by meditating, chewing gum, and using herbal snuff for the first couple of weeks.

One of my motivations to quit is to be able to tell my mom that her son hasn't chewed in a week on Mother's Day(May 8) and every year be able to tell her that I haven't chewed in x years

Lastly, if I fail I'll give my friend $100 (that's a lot to a college kid)

The countdown to 100 begins,

Cheers,

bigmike