Hello,
I have been dipping since age 14 or so. I will turn 49 in September of this year so that's a long time on the can. I did quit about 8 years ago for 262 days but on day 263, I had that "just one dip" and haven't stopped since then.
I was on a road bike ride yesterday morning, doing some threshold training and started thinking how crazy it was that; I was working at 90% of my max, for 1.5 hours and had a dip in my mouth.
I really didn't plan on quitting yesterday but once I got home something was telling me the time was right. My wife and I were headed to her parents house, for her Dad's 87 year B-Day lunch and I told her I had to stop and get Cope. She is used to seeing me get my 4 cans of Cope every 4 days so it was no big deal. She asked me why I wasn't stopping at my regular store as I passed it on the way to Walmart. I told her to hold steady and I would be right back. I ran in, came back with a couple of cans of Smokey Mountain and explained everything to her in the car.
I had my last dip at 11:30am yesterday but I am counting today as day 1 of my quit. Today, I feel pretty bad but I knew I would. I plan on using SM for now and just make it through each day an hour at a time. I'm not sure I can drink anymore water or exercise anymore than I already do.
I am an avid cyclist and spend all my free time on a road or mountain bike. My nutrition is good, my cardio is awesome and I am pretty much a health-nut so I just have to kick this one bad habit and set myself free.
Please excuse any punctuation errors, misspelled words or general poor sentence structure, my brain is not working at all.
Greg