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[Its_Got2Happen]

Nicely dine IL. We have to quit on the good days and the bad. Use those good days to polish the armor and sharpen the sword.
Keep at it man. Forget about all that luck and hope. And forget about try. Once you get all that bullshit out of the equation, only one thing remains. Quit. You can do this. It is a mindset.

[ILquitter]

Thanks applejack. I got through it, and today is better. It still feels harder than the last week has, so you may have a point. I'm upping my workouts, and water, that has helped some.

[AppleJack]

Ok so I'm 15 days quit. Haven't really had a hint of a craving for nearly a week, and suddenly tonight it hit me like a ton of bricks. WTF is going on, I feel like I'm on day 2 all of a sudden. I'm staying strong, but shit I thought i was past this crap

There will pro'ly be variations on a theme in the answers to follow... Here's my 2 cents...

I think at the beginning of a quit, when someone has jumped all in, there is an adrenaline that fuels you for a pretty short spurt. For me it was right around 2 weeks too. At that point you move past the initial momentum and enter into a stage of really having to working on your quit. It's upping your mental game, solidifying your involvement, and working through, and rewiring from, the damage that nicotine did to you. It's a natural phase bro. Use it. It'll make you stronger... Trust me.

Look at how far you've come... It's a huge win. Grit through it and chalk up another one.
That... Is true badass.

[ILquitter]

Ok so I'm 15 days quit. Haven't really had a hint of a craving for nearly a week, and suddenly tonight it hit me like a ton of bricks. WTF is going on, I feel like I'm on day 2 all of a sudden. I'm staying strong, but shit I thought i was past this crap

[Thumblewort]

I think I screwed up roll call again, Sorry to my group, I'll get it eventually

Keep posting and keep quitting. You're doing great. Congrats on saving your own life.

Fucking up roll is a rite of passage, you'll get it. Happy Turkey Day!

[Grizzlyhasclaws]

I think I screwed up roll call again, Sorry to my group, I'll get it eventually

Keep posting and keep quitting. You're doing great. Congrats on saving your own life.

[ILquitter]

I think I screwed up roll call again, Sorry to my group, I'll get it eventually

[Thumblewort]

Thanks for the support guys. I am 1000% committed. I had a friend ask me recently, "How would you feel about your son calling another man "daddy"" and that really struck me more than anything else. I'm his daddy and no one else. I'll be damned if I'm gonna let some silly dirt that I put in my lip, take me away from my son. Screw That!!

Now that ^^^^ is the truth brother, I can read that all day long.

[ILquitter]

Thanks for the support guys. I am 1000% committed. I had a friend ask me recently, "How would you feel about your son calling another man "daddy"" and that really struck me more than anything else. I'm his daddy and no one else. I'll be damned if I'm gonna let some silly dirt that I put in my lip, take me away from my son. Screw That!!

[traumagnet]

Welcome IL ... I see you attempted posting roll, good on ya. Don't let it frustrate you (although a common reaction in the beginning). The only fuck-up is not being on roll at all. Keep plugging away, you'll get it. Smart decision to take the week off work, way to 1,000% commit! It'll be a tough week, but we're here to help you through it.

I'll suggest some good reading (click on them, they're hyperlinks):

KTC's Welcome Center

How to Post Roll Call

Read as much as you can on this site. Also, visit here: http://www.killthecan.org/ for some additional great material to use as tools in building your quit.

Keep kicking ass bro, days 3-5 are tough ones. Power through them, continue to post roll, make the battle just one day or one hour at a time ... and the fog will lift, I promise. Quitting with you today!

Read up. Make friends. Build accountability here, and you'll save your life. That empty feeling, like something is missing, is something most all of us have felt. That's her, whispering in your ear, trying to make you think that you "need" nicotine.

The funny thing about nicotine is it creates the stress that it seemingly relieves. It tricks your mind into thinking that stuffing your lip will somehow make your day better, reduce stress, take the edge off, etc. It's a wicked, dirty little trick. Thinking that the presence of a substance will alleviate the desire that its absence (and prior presence) created in the first place. FU Big Tobacco for playing you (and me) for a fool.

Keep digging in and like the others have mentioned remove the words luck and hope from the vocab they don't exist for you. From what I have read it sounds like you are off to a good start got yourself locked in a little box away from nagging on your family good keep that up. If you need to rage come here and do it we have all been through it we get it your family did nothing to you accept be your family so if you are starting to rage you know what to do.

Keep away from booze, booze has wrecked many a quit get some numbers in your phone and a bail out plan for the holiday in a few days. Turkey booze and ut oh what how am I gonna do this wo a dip... you do it by racing here and posting and there will be addicts on their way to help you. Don't reach for that can it is not an option. GET NUMBERS!!!! that is the beginning of your tool kit. If you need one PM me if I cant get to your I know may others who can.
Trauma Out
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[BG]

Welcome IL ... I see you attempted posting roll, good on ya. Don't let it frustrate you (although a common reaction in the beginning). The only fuck-up is not being on roll at all. Keep plugging away, you'll get it. Smart decision to take the week off work, way to 1,000% commit! It'll be a tough week, but we're here to help you through it.

I'll suggest some good reading (click on them, they're hyperlinks):

KTC's Welcome Center

How to Post Roll Call

Read as much as you can on this site. Also, visit here: http://www.killthecan.org/ for some additional great material to use as tools in building your quit.

Keep kicking ass bro, days 3-5 are tough ones. Power through them, continue to post roll, make the battle just one day or one hour at a time ... and the fog will lift, I promise. Quitting with you today!

Read up. Make friends. Build accountability here, and you'll save your life. That empty feeling, like something is missing, is something most all of us have felt. That's her, whispering in your ear, trying to make you think that you "need" nicotine.

The funny thing about nicotine is it creates the stress that it seemingly relieves. It tricks your mind into thinking that stuffing your lip will somehow make your day better, reduce stress, take the edge off, etc. It's a wicked, dirty little trick. Thinking that the presence of a substance will alleviate the desire that its absence (and prior presence) created in the first place. FU Big Tobacco for playing you (and me) for a fool.

[Smeds]

Welcome IL ... I see you attempted posting roll, good on ya. Don't let it frustrate you (although a common reaction in the beginning). The only fuck-up is not being on roll at all. Keep plugging away, you'll get it. Smart decision to take the week off work, way to 1,000% commit! It'll be a tough week, but we're here to help you through it.

I'll suggest some good reading (click on them, they're hyperlinks):

KTC's Welcome Center

How to Post Roll Call

Read as much as you can on this site. Also, visit here: http://www.killthecan.org/ for some additional great material to use as tools in building your quit.

Keep kicking ass bro, days 3-5 are tough ones. Power through them, continue to post roll, make the battle just one day or one hour at a time ... and the fog will lift, I promise. Quitting with you today!

[Nolaq]

Hi everyone,

So I found this site after I started my quit. I am about 86 hours, or 3.5 days into it. I am holding strong but man do I feel weird. It's a feeling like I'm forgetting something....strange, and kinda twitchy. Last night I stalked around my house for hours stopping by our room to tell my wife, "something isn't right hon" as I checked and rechecked all the doors for the 50th time. Everything was fine, i think it was just me that "wasn't right" :).

Also, I can't sleep, even with ambien. It's a good thing I took the week off work. In any case im feeling crappy but I'm feeling proud of myself, and my wife has told me several times she is proud of me, which helps a bit. I'm using coffee grounds mixed with honey as a dip substitute, it helps a bit. Thinking of trying smokey mountain that I found on this site. Wish I'd known about it before I started. After meals is the worst.

Anyway good luck to everyone Who is starting a quit soon. And keep strong to everyone who is in the middle of a quit. I know you can do it! I talked to a guy today who told me he was 24 years clean off dip. It gave me so much hope!

I guess I never said much about me. Here it is: 8 years a smoker , then 8 years a dipper, grizzly wintergreen mostly, Copenhagen and Kodak as my side treats. Started out with just a couple lips a day to help quit smoking, you all know how that goes, soon I was up over a can a day. Since then I've gotten married, bought a house, and had a baby, all of which were supposed to be quitting points. Never happened. Not even close.

Then....my brother-in-law told me he quit after 25 years . And that got the ball rolling in my head. I took a week off work, asked my wife to take my son and stay her parents for a weekend., and off I went. Almost at 4 days Clean.

So far the worst parts are after meals, and driving.

Good luck all

Welcome to the best decision you every made, Quitter!

One thing - you gotta shake this mindest of 'luck'. There is no luck involved in this. This is 100% a conscious decision we make every day here. We Post Roll with our quit groups, and give our WORD that we will not use for today, and today only. Then, we keep our word. Then we repeat.

The only luck that is here at all, is you are lucky you found this site, and even that isn't luck. There's a shit ton of work that has gone on here, and continues to go on here so that KTC can reach guys like you, and help show you the way to Quit.

Read everything you can here. Don't hesitate to reach out if you need anything.

You can do this. I'm nothing special. If I can, you can.

[ILquitter]

Hi everyone,

So I found this site after I started my quit. I am about 86 hours, or 3.5 days into it. I am holding strong but man do I feel weird. It's a feeling like I'm forgetting something....strange, and kinda twitchy. Last night I stalked around my house for hours stopping by our room to tell my wife, "something isn't right hon" as I checked and rechecked all the doors for the 50th time. Everything was fine, i think it was just me that "wasn't right" :).

Also, I can't sleep, even with ambien. It's a good thing I took the week off work. In any case im feeling crappy but I'm feeling proud of myself, and my wife has told me several times she is proud of me, which helps a bit. I'm using coffee grounds mixed with honey as a dip substitute, it helps a bit. Thinking of trying smokey mountain that I found on this site. Wish I'd known about it before I started. After meals is the worst.

Anyway good luck to everyone Who is starting a quit soon. And keep strong to everyone who is in the middle of a quit. I know you can do it! I talked to a guy today who told me he was 24 years clean off dip. It gave me so much hope!

I guess I never said much about me. Here it is: 8 years a smoker , then 8 years a dipper, grizzly wintergreen mostly, Copenhagen and Kodak as my side treats. Started out with just a couple lips a day to help quit smoking, you all know how that goes, soon I was up over a can a day. Since then I've gotten married, bought a house, and had a baby, all of which were supposed to be quitting points. Never happened. Not even close.

Then....my brother-in-law told me he quit after 25 years . And that got the ball rolling in my head. I took a week off work, asked my wife to take my son and stay her parents for a weekend., and off I went. Almost at 4 days Clean.

So far the worst parts are after meals, and driving.

Good luck all

[30yraddict]

Hi everyone,

So I found this site after I started my quit. I am about 86 hours, or 3.5 days into it. I am holding strong but man do I feel weird. It's a feeling like I'm forgetting something....strange, and kinda twitchy. Last night I stalked around my house for hours stopping by our room to tell my wife, "something isn't right hon" as I checked and rechecked all the doors for the 50th time. Everything was fine, i think it was just me that "wasn't right" :).

Also, I can't sleep, even with ambien. It's a good thing I took the week off work. In any case im feeling crappy but I'm feeling proud of myself, and my wife has told me several times she is proud of me, which helps a bit. I'm using coffee grounds mixed with honey as a dip substitute, it helps a bit. Thinking of trying smokey mountain that I found on this site. Wish I'd known about it before I started. After meals is the worst.

Anyway good luck to everyone Who is starting a quit soon. And keep strong to everyone who is in the middle of a quit. I know you can do it! I talked to a guy today who told me he was 24 years clean off dip. It gave me so much hope!

Welcome ILquitter!

You can do this, friend- no hope or luck involved. The program here starts with a simple promise that we call roll call. This promise is your solemn word not to use nicotine for just today... Don't worry about more than today, we simply repeat the process when tomorrow comes. Visit the welcome center found here to read about roll call and how to do it.

next, make your way to the quit groups section of the forum and post your very first promise in the March 2015 quit group (this is where you will make 100 days- or HOF, that will happen in March)

Welcome aboard, holler if you need anything.

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