You're not dying, unless you're trying to rid yourself of gray hairs, or trying to get the curtains to match the drapes.
You aren't DIEING either because you are quitting dip.
You're LIVING.
I know its tough to hear and believe but dip sucks and is a lie. There is nothing pleasurable about it.
You don't love it and you don't need it. Never have and never did.
You're addicted to it. Ive been quit 375 days and so am I. So is everyone else on this site, even guys quit for multiple years. Their might be a few dick bags who say they'd aren't addicted to it who roll through here from time to time. But they are wrong. We are all addicts. If not we wouldn't be here. We've just chosen to free ourselves from the chains that nicotine shackled on us.
When I say you don't need dip, I don't say it as a rah rah cheerleader. I say it as a scientific fact. How else do you explain how you "survived" in life before you started dipping, or the hundreds of people you know who live happy, productive lives not addicted to nicotine? How do they do it. Are the "special"? Nope. They are normal. WE are the ones who fucked ourselves over by falling victim to nicotine addiction.
You want someone to talk shit to you, I can do it 7 days a week, as I get off on flapping my gums. (They are pink and healthy now too).
You don't need anyone to talk shit to you right now though. You need 2 things.
1.). Keep your mind occupied because dipping is all u can think about.
2.) Get educated. Not on how to post roll (every crouton who come here figures that out) but on how nicotine addiction works, so you can beat its ass.
You can knock both of these 2 things out at the same time by reading.
Reading will keep your mind occupied, but dont fucking read a superman comic book. Read up on your enemy, nicotine.
Read everything on this site for both education and inspiration but also read off this site.
I was recommended a book by skoal monster (long time bad ass quitter) that helped me tremendously. "The easy way to quit smoking by Alan Carr".
It talks about smoking but is a plethora of knowledge on debunking a ton of myths about nicotine. It tells you why it doesn't enhance fun, relax you, help you concentrate, relieve boredom...and more.
It educates you on how after every time you spit out a dip a little clock in your head starts ticking....tick tick tick until finally your brain says "hey asshole, its been like an hour since you poisioned me. Lets do this shit again"
THAT is what addiction is. Learing that the ticking clock is the root of all your problems. That CLOCK is telling you to load up you lip again. That CLOCK is what your relieving. Its not true stress you're relieving, its the stress of that fucking ticking clock. That's what's creating the stress, the boredom, the illusions that dip/nicotine is actually doing anything for you.
Fact of the matter is, it is not.
Dip fills NO voids in your life...it CREATES them.
Dipping is one of the most disgusting addictions a person can indulge in. Freeing yourself from suck nasty ass behavior will be the best and most rewarding things you can do. Stuffing posion in your lip and spitting brown juice into a soda bottle. Who the fuck does that???? Ummm, I did for 15 years. I hid it from my wife too. Lied right to her fucking face, time after time afte time.
Dip made me a bad husband, a bad father, a bad friend...a bad human being. I knew it too...but I still could not stop.
Until I came here.
I came here and got educated and got support. That's an unbeatable combo if you choose to use it.
I know a lot of people will offer you support. This site is the shit for that, and I think you've seen that already.
But DO NOT underestimate the education part. I think it gets overlooked a little bit here.
You have to think of nic as your enemy now. What's the best way to beat an enemy who's been beating your ass for years? You need to get to know your enemy better. How it works, its weak points, its strong points, how others are beating it, what things to look for, what things to ignore, its habbits, its make up, its ingredients, etc...
You also need to learn that quitting it will not be easy or come without a fight.
It will be HARD. When it gets hard, don't go flacid...you go harder. READ, jump in chat, lean on your ktc brothers and sisters, FIGHT. Stay busy and keep moving. A still target is easy to hit. A moving one...not so much.
Okay, I think I've rambled long enough.
Bottom line is, you WILL do this and we WILL help you. It will suck in the beginning but when you make it to the hof, if you don't feel better I will fly to Texas and you can kick me in the junk with pointy cowboy boots.
It won't always be easy , but it will ALWAYS be worth it.
You got this shit.
Diesel2112
