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Offline Gernjer

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Re: Day One
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2014, 06:27:00 PM »
Okay, so this is where we start. Today isn't Day 1 because I'm on patches and lolypops. Day 1 is tomorrow. I had my last chew yesterday and went with the artificial supplements today. The easy excuse to go this route is that nicotine isn't what kills you, it's the delivery systems. It's a lame excuse and I won't use it. I've been through 2 boot camps and 24 years in the military. Nicotine can only win if I surrender. It's a hell of an opponent, though. Starting tomorrow, all the toys get flushed and I enter the fog.

Thanks for your answers. Only people who know what this is like can help. I'm glad I've found the right warriors to surround me and keep me from shooting myself in the foot.

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Re: Day One
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2014, 05:45:00 PM »
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First of all we do it completely nic free. No patches, lollypops, injections, or any other form of nic is allowed. Take them fukers off and trash em along with the lollypops and any other snuff you have lying around.

We do this cold turkey with accountability, brotherhood, balls, and strength.

You can do this.
Read everything you can, start with the welcome center and post roll. Follow up with reading HOF speeches, intros and words of wisdom. Like Raz said flush everything. An antidote for Jim Jones koolaid wouldn't have been cherry instead of grape koolaid.
Its a damn shame you / we ever put the poison in our pie hole. It smells like cow crap. It looks like dirt. It has the taste of death. The shame is after we begin use we fall in love with something that is so disgusting. Take your life back, because right now you belong to the poison. If you don't mind i would like to talk to your master for just a minute.

If you do to bad, its apparent your not in control of anything.

Poison i hate you. I hate that you controlled me for years. I hope my friend learns the truth before its to late. I hope he sees that he loves you more than his family, friends and self. I hope after these few words he posts roll and begins this battle for his life.

As you were. Your move!
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Re: Day One
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2014, 05:37:00 PM »
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First of all we do it completely nic free. No patches, lollypops, injections, or any other form of nic is allowed. Take them fukers off and trash em along with the lollypops and any other snuff you have lying around.

We do this cold turkey with accountability, brotherhood, balls, and strength.

You can do this.
Read everything you can, start with the welcome center and post roll. Follow up with reading HOF speeches, intros and words of wisdom. Like Raz said flush everything. An antidote for Jim Jones koolaid wouldn't have been cherry instead of grape koolaid.
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Re: Day One
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2014, 05:31:00 PM »
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First of all we do it completely nic free. No patches, lollypops, injections, or any other form of nic is allowed. Take them fukers off and trash em along with the lollypops and any other snuff you have lying around.

We do this cold turkey with accountability, brotherhood, balls, and strength.

You can do this.
X 1,000,000

There may be other programs out there that say "stepping down is good", but we are not one of them.

Think about it: You are not quitting the drug. You are administering the drug via patch instead of orally. And you are paying a premium to do so! Quitting has two parts: physical dependency and oral fixation. The physical dependency is over 3-7 days from the last time you administer the drug. It sucks, but "stepping down" is prolonging this step indefinitely until you finally do quit. Here's the worse part: You'll have to go through withdrawal the whole time on the patch, and you will go hardcore once you quit that. 'bang head'

The oral fixation aspect of the quit is much easier to deal with. Grab some seeds, gum, herbal snuff (nicotine free dip like Smokey Mountain Snuff or Hooch), cherry pits, etc. and stuff those in your lip. Hell, some people break teabags.

The key is that you want to be quit. Once you quit, we can help you more. Quitting is a decision backed up by action. You can do this because we did too. Thousands others have as well.

You ready to go man?
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Re: Day One
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2014, 04:47:00 PM »
First of all we do it completely nic free. No patches, lollypops, injections, or any other form of nic is allowed. Take them fukers off and trash em along with the lollypops and any other snuff you have lying around.

We do this cold turkey with accountability, brotherhood, balls, and strength.

You can do this.
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Day One
« on: January 04, 2014, 04:17:00 PM »
Hi,

I was introduced to Copenhagen by my best friend in August, 1982. Since that day, I've dipped about a can a day. I've tried to quit several times and you obviously know how it went. I've lived the fog, even got clear of it once, then fell off the wagon later on. Truth is, I have never "wanted" to quit, because I love the feeling I get from Copenhagen and also enjoy the flavor. It's a damn shame it has to be dangerous, but it is, and I have a wife and daughter.

I'm a closet dipper. I'm a manager in a business environment, and no one is the wiser. I only dip in private, so I have had no one to discuss it with. So, why now?

About 10 days ago, I started getting some pain in the lymph nodes in my neck, and in the muscles along the back of my neck, down into my back. I went to the doc and she said it's muscular because the symptoms for the nodes and the muscles started at the same time, yet they have no relation to one another. Lymph node swelling is common from injury (strain), according to the internet. So, I am on the "scared straight" program. It got too real to fast, and denial is no longer an option for me.

I need some advice. I've tried patches and lozenges in the past and I have them in the cabinet today. I have a patch on now (21mg) and I take a 2mg lozenge every couple hours. I'm convinced that Copenhagen delivers at least that much nicotine in a single dip, so I figured "stepping it down" might make things easier. On the other hand, it seems illogical because I'm delaying the break-through point. I'd appreciate anyone's input on that. Also, does it even count to say I'm nicotine-free if I'm on a patch? That doesn't seem honest, but I'm new here.

So here I am, day one, January 4th, 2014. I'm not looking forward to the office environment, trying to act cool around executives and engineers all day, but I paved this road and I'll drive the damned thing. Thanks for being out there.

Gernjer
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