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Offline JB65

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #445 on: December 24, 2015, 10:34:00 AM »
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Michael congrats on 3 years 'worship' !!! What a journey it has been for you and the many quitters that you have inspired and guided over this time. Proud to quit with you my friend.
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!
You have inspired so many quits with your wise words Michael. I am proud to stand alongside you every day. Congrats on 3 years, what a huge accomplishment!
You are the man Michael! Can never thank you enough for all your support. What a day!
You Rock. 'dance'
Congrats on three years of verbal whoring and quit!
Congrats my man! Thanks for all of your support! B)B
Man you have helped so many people- you deserve huge thanks and congrats on this milestone! 'boob' 'boob' 'boob'
Well let's see here ,how shall I count the ways! Oh shit , just a great big ole thank you and some 'boob' !
Congratulations! Awesome feat. Thanks for being such a great resource on this site as well. 'oh yeah'

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #444 on: December 23, 2015, 04:19:00 PM »
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Michael congrats on 3 years 'worship' !!! What a journey it has been for you and the many quitters that you have inspired and guided over this time. Proud to quit with you my friend.
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!
You have inspired so many quits with your wise words Michael. I am proud to stand alongside you every day. Congrats on 3 years, what a huge accomplishment!
You are the man Michael! Can never thank you enough for all your support. What a day!
You Rock. 'dance'
Congrats on three years of verbal whoring and quit!
Congrats my man! Thanks for all of your support! B)B
Man you have helped so many people- you deserve huge thanks and congrats on this milestone! 'boob' 'boob' 'boob'
Well let's see here ,how shall I count the ways! Oh shit , just a great big ole thank you and some 'boob' !
Tobacco is so addictive it took me a year after a massive heart attack, in which doctor confirmed caused from dipping to finally put a lid on the bitch! ODAAT EDD

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #443 on: December 23, 2015, 03:56:00 PM »
Better add my congrats here too on three awesome years! Thanks for all you've done for me for through that time.

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #442 on: December 23, 2015, 01:40:00 PM »
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Michael congrats on 3 years 'worship' !!! What a journey it has been for you and the many quitters that you have inspired and guided over this time. Proud to quit with you my friend.
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!
You have inspired so many quits with your wise words Michael. I am proud to stand alongside you every day. Congrats on 3 years, what a huge accomplishment!
You are the man Michael! Can never thank you enough for all your support. What a day!
You Rock. 'dance'
Congrats on three years of verbal whoring and quit!
Congrats my man! Thanks for all of your support! B)B
Man you have helped so many people- you deserve huge thanks and congrats on this milestone! 'boob' 'boob' 'boob'
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Re: Day 16
« Reply #441 on: December 22, 2015, 12:25:00 PM »
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Michael congrats on 3 years 'worship' !!! What a journey it has been for you and the many quitters that you have inspired and guided over this time. Proud to quit with you my friend.
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!
You have inspired so many quits with your wise words Michael. I am proud to stand alongside you every day. Congrats on 3 years, what a huge accomplishment!
You are the man Michael! Can never thank you enough for all your support. What a day!
You Rock. 'dance'
Congrats on three years of verbal whoring and quit!
Congrats my man! Thanks for all of your support! B)B

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #440 on: December 22, 2015, 12:01:00 PM »
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Michael congrats on 3 years 'worship' !!! What a journey it has been for you and the many quitters that you have inspired and guided over this time. Proud to quit with you my friend.
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!
You have inspired so many quits with your wise words Michael. I am proud to stand alongside you every day. Congrats on 3 years, what a huge accomplishment!
You are the man Michael! Can never thank you enough for all your support. What a day!
You Rock. 'dance'
Congrats on three years of verbal whoring and quit!
"If you want to quit then stop talking and just QUIT. If you want to kill yourself a bullet is cheaper and faster than a tin, plus it eliminates my hearing you whine and cry like a bitch."

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #439 on: December 22, 2015, 11:44:00 AM »
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Michael congrats on 3 years 'worship' !!! What a journey it has been for you and the many quitters that you have inspired and guided over this time. Proud to quit with you my friend.
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!
You have inspired so many quits with your wise words Michael. I am proud to stand alongside you every day. Congrats on 3 years, what a huge accomplishment!
You are the man Michael! Can never thank you enough for all your support. What a day!
You Rock. 'dance'
I believe.....

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #438 on: December 22, 2015, 11:35:00 AM »
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Michael congrats on 3 years 'worship' !!! What a journey it has been for you and the many quitters that you have inspired and guided over this time. Proud to quit with you my friend.
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!
You have inspired so many quits with your wise words Michael. I am proud to stand alongside you every day. Congrats on 3 years, what a huge accomplishment!
You are the man Michael! Can never thank you enough for all your support. What a day!

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #437 on: December 22, 2015, 11:04:00 AM »
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Michael congrats on 3 years 'worship' !!! What a journey it has been for you and the many quitters that you have inspired and guided over this time. Proud to quit with you my friend.
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!
You have inspired so many quits with your wise words Michael. I am proud to stand alongside you every day. Congrats on 3 years, what a huge accomplishment!
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Re: Day 16
« Reply #436 on: December 22, 2015, 09:43:00 AM »
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Michael congrats on 3 years 'worship' !!! What a journey it has been for you and the many quitters that you have inspired and guided over this time. Proud to quit with you my friend.
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!
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Re: Day 16
« Reply #435 on: December 22, 2015, 09:14:00 AM »
Michael congrats on 3 years 'worship' !!! What a journey it has been for you and the many quitters that you have inspired and guided over this time. Proud to quit with you my friend.
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Re: Day 16
« Reply #434 on: December 07, 2015, 09:41:00 AM »
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Typed this in another intro, but want to have it here to reference later....

Tonight my wife and I went shopping at a really really nice indoor shopping mall. This place looks like a Christmas explosion happened. Multistory tall wreaths, a big inflatable snow globe you can go in for pictures, all kinds of stupid. There were families with strollers. The women all looked like they were in heaven. The kids eyes didn't know where to stop. Most of the men were even having fun - because their families sure as heck were. Except...

There was this young family - I'm guessing mid 20s. One little boy around three that had arms and legs moving in all directions. Another boy probably around 6. The lady was trying to get them arranged in front of a wreath to get a family picture. The kids were being kids - lots of visual stimulation there and they were hard to corral. The dad was PISSED and was screaming at both kids and her. Loud enough that people were looking at him. He had some serious rage.

The woman was trying hard to get her family arranged. He wasn't helping at all. Yelling, but just standing there. My wife was in a store spending money on something she didn't need, and I just stood there taking it all in...and then, GB, as she is trying to arrange her 2 little boys just so in order to ask a stranger to take a picture of her family to tuck in her Christmas cards next week, this jackass husband pulls out a tin of Copenhagen and shoves his lip full. She said "what are you doing, we are getting a family picture for Christmas"? And he screamed "I having a goddamn dip, it is none of your business! These kids are driving me crazy! Let's get this stupid picture done so I can go home." The picture wasn't taken. She corralled the kids and I saw them moving toward the exit escalator. And she was dabbing her eyes when the husband wasn't looking. Which was the whole time... Because he was in his own selfish little world.
That's an amazing story and observation W2W. You are like the ghost of Christmas past. Reading about that man and his selfishness hit me like a punch in the gut.
That story hit home with me and makes me sad. Brings back memories of worse times when this addiction took center stage. Not anymore. I am so grateful to finally be free.
Oh my I'm glad I don't know that man anymore! Damn near brought tears to my eyes thinking of the selfish son of a bitch I once was! See all he was concerned about was sticking that shit in his mouth and Mother doing her mother things alone! Time to quit being that dumbass and be a man!
What a dick! Man I know I did not give a fuck when I would dip, but never once would I talk like that. Michael you are a better man than I do not think I could keep my words to myself. I often look back at pictures where I had a dip in which was every one but then again I seldom did not have a dip in my mouth. Engagement pictures (dip), Wedding pictures (dip), reception pictures (dip), child birth (dip), coming home (dip), family gathering (big dip), just because (dip)...what an asshole.

I really like the tobacco free me, yeah I am still an asshole but at least I am not a drooling asshole now.

This weekend I went shopping and for the third year of Christmas shopping I did not have to spit into trashcans or the floor. #QUITTER
I have noticed that quitting opens our eyes to others, to our surroundings, and shows us visions of what we were (in part) when we used. It also shows us big time how far we have come in making ourselves a better person.

great vision my friend. and as we move forward this scene can be used as something we do NOT want in our future.

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #433 on: December 07, 2015, 09:28:00 AM »
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Typed this in another intro, but want to have it here to reference later....

Tonight my wife and I went shopping at a really really nice indoor shopping mall. This place looks like a Christmas explosion happened. Multistory tall wreaths, a big inflatable snow globe you can go in for pictures, all kinds of stupid. There were families with strollers. The women all looked like they were in heaven. The kids eyes didn't know where to stop. Most of the men were even having fun - because their families sure as heck were. Except...

There was this young family - I'm guessing mid 20s. One little boy around three that had arms and legs moving in all directions. Another boy probably around 6. The lady was trying to get them arranged in front of a wreath to get a family picture. The kids were being kids - lots of visual stimulation there and they were hard to corral. The dad was PISSED and was screaming at both kids and her. Loud enough that people were looking at him. He had some serious rage.

The woman was trying hard to get her family arranged. He wasn't helping at all. Yelling, but just standing there. My wife was in a store spending money on something she didn't need, and I just stood there taking it all in...and then, GB, as she is trying to arrange her 2 little boys just so in order to ask a stranger to take a picture of her family to tuck in her Christmas cards next week, this jackass husband pulls out a tin of Copenhagen and shoves his lip full. She said "what are you doing, we are getting a family picture for Christmas"? And he screamed "I having a goddamn dip, it is none of your business! These kids are driving me crazy! Let's get this stupid picture done so I can go home." The picture wasn't taken. She corralled the kids and I saw them moving toward the exit escalator. And she was dabbing her eyes when the husband wasn't looking. Which was the whole time... Because he was in his own selfish little world.
That's an amazing story and observation W2W. You are like the ghost of Christmas past. Reading about that man and his selfishness hit me like a punch in the gut.
That story hit home with me and makes me sad. Brings back memories of worse times when this addiction took center stage. Not anymore. I am so grateful to finally be free.
Oh my I'm glad I don't know that man anymore! Damn near brought tears to my eyes thinking of the selfish son of a bitch I once was! See all he was concerned about was sticking that shit in his mouth and Mother doing her mother things alone! Time to quit being that dumbass and be a man!
What a dick! Man I know I did not give a fuck when I would dip, but never once would I talk like that. Michael you are a better man than I do not think I could keep my words to myself. I often look back at pictures where I had a dip in which was every one but then again I seldom did not have a dip in my mouth. Engagement pictures (dip), Wedding pictures (dip), reception pictures (dip), child birth (dip), coming home (dip), family gathering (big dip), just because (dip)...what an asshole.

I really like the tobacco free me, yeah I am still an asshole but at least I am not a drooling asshole now.

This weekend I went shopping and for the third year of Christmas shopping I did not have to spit into trashcans or the floor. #QUITTER
"If you want to quit then stop talking and just QUIT. If you want to kill yourself a bullet is cheaper and faster than a tin, plus it eliminates my hearing you whine and cry like a bitch."

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #432 on: December 06, 2015, 11:19:00 PM »
Interesting observation  story to be sure. Thanks for sharing W2W. That sounds all too familiar, though I never pulled anything quite like that guy, I know there's a few pics of me with a dip in where I shouldn't. Frustrating time of year to be sure, especially with the expectations we all place on ourselves  others. But I really do hope for his sake,  the family's sake, that one Christmas, just maybe this is the story  memory that keeps a potential future quit strong. I think we all hope we were never that dude, most probably weren't that extreme, but also seeing just a bit of ourselves in the story. I can certainly relate to being the guy who might not have noticed tears being dabbed away when I should have.

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Re: Day 16
« Reply #431 on: December 06, 2015, 01:20:00 PM »
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Typed this in another intro, but want to have it here to reference later....

Tonight my wife and I went shopping at a really really nice indoor shopping mall. This place looks like a Christmas explosion happened. Multistory tall wreaths, a big inflatable snow globe you can go in for pictures, all kinds of stupid. There were families with strollers. The women all looked like they were in heaven. The kids eyes didn't know where to stop. Most of the men were even having fun - because their families sure as heck were. Except...

There was this young family - I'm guessing mid 20s. One little boy around three that had arms and legs moving in all directions. Another boy probably around 6. The lady was trying to get them arranged in front of a wreath to get a family picture. The kids were being kids - lots of visual stimulation there and they were hard to corral. The dad was PISSED and was screaming at both kids and her. Loud enough that people were looking at him. He had some serious rage.

The woman was trying hard to get her family arranged. He wasn't helping at all. Yelling, but just standing there. My wife was in a store spending money on something she didn't need, and I just stood there taking it all in...and then, GB, as she is trying to arrange her 2 little boys just so in order to ask a stranger to take a picture of her family to tuck in her Christmas cards next week, this jackass husband pulls out a tin of Copenhagen and shoves his lip full. She said "what are you doing, we are getting a family picture for Christmas"? And he screamed "I having a goddamn dip, it is none of your business! These kids are driving me crazy! Let's get this stupid picture done so I can go home." The picture wasn't taken. She corralled the kids and I saw them moving toward the exit escalator. And she was dabbing her eyes when the husband wasn't looking. Which was the whole time... Because he was in his own selfish little world.
That's an amazing story and observation W2W. You are like the ghost of Christmas past. Reading about that man and his selfishness hit me like a punch in the gut.
That story hit home with me and makes me sad. Brings back memories of worse times when this addiction took center stage. Not anymore. I am so grateful to finally be free.
Oh my I'm glad I don't know that man anymore! Damn near brought tears to my eyes thinking of the selfish son of a bitch I once was! See all he was concerned about was sticking that shit in his mouth and Mother doing her mother things alone! Time to quit being that dumbass and be a man!
Tobacco is so addictive it took me a year after a massive heart attack, in which doctor confirmed caused from dipping to finally put a lid on the bitch! ODAAT EDD