Day 454
Do any of you remember the villain Bizarro? The mirrored opposite of Superman? Well, this week it seems like a hell of a lot of brothers are taking the Bizarro approach to the Kill The Can quit system!
June 2014 seems to be another stop on a series of stops some of these serial stoppers are taking. Brothers from 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 all coming back to June. Why did they fail? Well, the 3 questions are always answered a little differently. By the way, don't take this entry in my intro as an answer any of these questions, because I haven't caved! But I do know why every single one of them failed. So I will answer for them...
Answer:Â They stopped posting.
I have, for 454 days, read every new intro post on this board. And well over 1,000 quitters have joined the ranks in the days since I joined. Only three caved after posting. Those 3 men had no integrity - they came back and left very quickly after coming back - these halls are not lined with men that lack integrity. I don't even count those three sociopaths in this lineup, but that still leaves an awful lot of cavers. What about them? EVERY. SINGLE. ONE... stopped posting. They got comfortable. They got busy. Who knows, who cares why.... they just stopped.Â
Many of us spend thousands upon thousands of dollars on insurance products every year. Insurance for our cars, our boats, our motorcycles, our eyes... teeth... lives... houses.... cats.... dogs.... 15 seconds a day is all that it takes to insure your quit. You post your promise. You keep your word (unless you are a sociopath.) Free insurance? What fucking moron would pass up a free insurance policy that pays you back every day you use it? Look around... lots of morons abound these days...
Bruce, BigWhiteBeast, DCHogs, MCarmo, Syndrome (who can't spell worth a shit LOL) and many, many others don't spend as much time on this board as they do because they are bored or have nothing else to do. They do it to pay it forward, and to insure their quit! Follow their lead, and success is guaranteed!
While I'm on the subject, I've seen a lot of kinda sappy "life is sure tough and it seems like nicotine might make it better but I know it won't so I'm not gonna cave" BS lately. Here are some of the "great" memories of nicotine that I have:
--gave me anxiety every time I went to the dentist
--was a key factor in a series of very serious health problems I have overcome
--took away at least an hour a day from my beautiful wife (ninja master here)
--probably ran up my water bill by $2,000 over 25 years since I took so many long showers to hide my addiction
--stole around forty thousand dollars (like smashing a new Lexus into a brick wall) from me
--gave me a fog that took away over a month of my life memories when I quit
--night sweats
--dip dreams
--remember the stomach problems for 30 after quitting??? Good memories there...
I could keep typing this list all day long. Nicotine didn't do one goddamn good thing for me, and... it didn't for you either. We are all different, but we are all alike. Next time one of you wants to romanticize nicotine or talk about caving, contact me and I'll beat some sense into you. It doesn't make you do yard work better, it doesn't make you hunt better, it doesn't do one positive good thing. Not one, and every single one of us knows it.
In case I wasn't clear earlier, I will close with this... you wanna quit? Post roll every day. NOT every day to 100. NOT every day until your group all hits 100. Not to 200. Not to 500. Not to 1000. Post roll every damn day! Take the time to care about yourself, your family, and your quit family. Its bad enough to take a shit on yourself by caving... but to shit on your entire group.... man that isn't what brotherhood is about.
Enough ranting for today. Quit on.
Great post. Thanks to you and all the vets who are setting a great example for those of us who are new to this.
Brilliant post. Read it if you want a quit-boost!
This is the coolest thing I have read here in a while worktowin! THANK YOU! The prescription for success is so simple! The failures do not want freedom bad enough. JUNE! Protect your quits! ;Ironman:
Omg another bad ass rant. I am loving this site tonight. Now,,,,,,, what should I do with this hard on you guys gave me lol.
