I quit last night 10/29/2012 @ 10:09PM. I've been dipping since 1987. I have been dipping more than a can a day, and also going to sleep with a dip. I finally hit rock bottom, my father passed away this year and it was hard on my son. My son looked at me and said He didnt want me to die and that dipping would kill me.
So with the help of this site I WILL quit.
Pssst.
Bucket...I want to tell you a secret, man.
YOU ARE QUIT!
Welcome to day 2 of your quit. It's going to suck today, but it will get better. I (and everybody else here) will walk this path with you today if you can commit to our simple plan:
(1) Promise you won't use nicotine today. (I don't care about tomorrow. I don't care how many times you failed in the past. Today is all I care about.)
(2) Keep your word. Use the site's tools. Make some friends. Lean on them when you need to. Read everything you can here. In fact, tell us what is great about quitting and what downright sucks.
(3) Repeat these steps tomorrow.
It's simple, but sometimes it's not easy.
Take a look up top and find the salmon colored WELCOME CENTER in the black bar. Read that over and see what we do, why we do it, and how we do it. Go make your promise in February 2013 and be the badass you want to be.
Your rock bottom is quite similar to mine. My mother passed away a few years ago, and I stopped because she asked me to beforehand. I did for a while and picked it right back up because I never truly quit for me. Once the emotion of the "quit" settled, I no longer actively pursued being quit. I was simply not using, and I ended up failing then. I've come back since then and now realize that this quit is for me, and as much as I despise that memory of my 8 year old packing a can of beef jerky, this quit is not about him. He benefits, but he is not the driving force: I am.