Hi my name is Chris
Note: my user name isnt meant in any means to be inappropriate. its just kind of something that stuck with me back from when I played world of warcraft.Â
Heres something I could use some council for. Ive been dipping for 5 years and Im 19 going on 20. I left my can in the truck tonight so I decided (blank) it. ill just leave it in there. I dont feel like walking outside right now. Which led to an idea sparking in my head, hey?! why not quit? By the way I have seen this site before I actually signed up so I decided to go ahead and try my hand over here at the forums.
Anyway: It seems like every time I've tried to quit I end up going like 2 days and cant take it any more. It would be nice if i had 3 or 4 days in a row just to sit and do nothing but the stress of work tends to drive me over the edge and I have to go buy that can that I promise myself ill quit on. happens about a month or so at a time. Thats why its kind of driving me to desperation because I decided I need to seek council.
The sad part is the fact that I keep getting in this cycle where I decide Ill quit but then just kinda give up on it. The second day really kills me and I work a full 7 days a week so theres really no time for me to sit and relax.
Cancer is also pretty prominent in my families genes and I dont want to be any part of that either.
If anyone can shed some light on my issues or help me figure some stuff out I'd be amazed because im trying to make a conscious effort here to quit or at least reduce my use for right now. i am at 1/2 can a day. i did get it down from can a day by the way (baby steps) it took me quite a while.
Im also to open starting up on using "fake" snuff products so i can still get the oral fixation or whatever the hell its called. if anyone could or would chime in on their use of such things please do.
Thanks again for reading this. i know its pretty long and definitely un organized. i hope to hear back from some folks.
Quitting chewing tobacco is the best decision I have ever made. This shit is controlling you. I used to misplace my car keys, wallet, iPod, ect, but I ALWAYS knew where my tin was. That is a joke. A drug should never be that important to you. I used to go out of my way to accommodate my addiction. I hid it from loved ones. I spent my hard earned money. I let it dictate my interactions with people. It literally controlled my life more than I did. Now that is pathetic.
In regards to you hitting day 2 and then giving up, that is nicotine telling your body that you need it to function. Guess what? You fucking don't need it man. It is a crutch. If you quit and stay quit, you will be amazed at how capable you really are to rely on yourself rather than a damn leaf.
Around day 2 when it starts getting hard is when you have to fight back the hardest. There are countless quitters on this website that will tell you that it is a nightmare those first few day/weeks, but it WILL get easier. The bottom line is, you have to feel like shit for a while before it gets better, but it really will get better, I promise you that. It will be hard. It makes sense because nothing good in life comes easy. You have to work for it, you have to want it. You have to wake up every day and tell yourself that there is now way that you are using nicotine today. That was the old you. That was something you used to do. That is why we post roll.
BY posting roll every day, we give our word to people that we have never met that we will not use nicotine in any form for that whole day.
Read about why we post roll here :
index.php?showtopic=120Read about how to post your roll each day here:
index.php?showtopic=50I suggest that you go out to your trunk and dump that cancer causing plant into the toilet and post your Day 1 here in the June 2012 quit group:
index.php?showtopic=6044Let me tell you one more thing, there will never be a better time to take your life back then right now. There will ALWAYS be some sort of excuse that will cause you to delay quitting. I just bought this can, so I might as well finish it, I will quit after my birthday, I will quit after finals because I need it to deal with the stress, I have too much going on in my life right now to stop using, my friend just passed away and I need my chew to deal. There will never be a perfect time to quit. You just have to fucking do it. Period. No more excuses. Start being the one that is in control of your life again. We are all here to help you brother, but you have got to want it.
Now, dump that can out, post that Day 1 in June and change your life. Let's fucking do this!
-Tyler (Tsmith17)
P.S. - If you have any questions, you can send me or anyone on this site a personal message. I KNOW that we will help you. You can also talk about what is going on in your quit in your June 2012 quit group and in this introduction thread you created. Stay quit brother.
