I have been dipping for the last 25 years. I love to hunt and fish and I cannot imagine doing either without a dip in my mouth. I also seem to dip whenever I am bored. I quit dipping for a full year about 36 months ago and it was hell at first but I made it. I decided that I could have a dip now and again with my friends and it would not make me start back up. This worked for a few weeks until I started dipping every day once again. Imagine how dissapointed I was to blow it after a full year with no dip.
I dip Copenhagen and it is hard to give up. Last Friday I switched to Skoal Wintergreeon Longcut because it is weaker and I figured it would ease the transition into quitting. I almost feel like I have not taken a dip after the Skoal and I still have an urge for Copenhagen but it seems to satiate my urge to a degree.
I also have almost no hope of quitting if I drink because I always take a dip when enjoying a few scotchs. Hopefully I can overcome this because I like to have a couple of scotchs on the weekend.
That is about it for my story. I hope you all can help me in this endeavor because I feel like I am really pushing my like dipping for all these years and I want to live to see my grandchildren. The real problem I have is that I still really enjoy dip. I am going to pull the plug today as I haven't had any dip thus far. Wish me luck cause I am gonna need it.
A couple things that haven't been hit on yet:
- the whole, "one dip can't hurt" is BS. You learned the hard way. We are addicts. We can't have just one. Know that, and accept it as truth.
-that whole weening thing... also BS. You have an addiction, and you werejust prolonging the withdrawal symptoms. Now that you are good and quit, you can just face them like a man.
-You only think you enjoy dip. This one takes a while to wrap your head around. Dip created withdrawal symptoms when you went without. When you put dip in, those symptoms went away, which feels pleasurable. OVer years, your brain got wired to connect dip with pleasure. IT takes some time, but not as long as you might think, to rewire your brain.
-As has been pointed out... "Try" and "hope" have zero to do with you quitting or staying quit. Just do it. We have all been where you are. We all got help from this place, and accepted the KTC way. We are all still quit.
Now, if you have tossed the last of the dip, go post roll.
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