I never got around to introducing myself when I first quit, so I thought IÂ’d throw a little information out there. I had used tobacco, Dip only from the age of 16 until my quit date 11 days prior to my 43rd birthday, about 27 years. IÂ’m married to a retired Dental Hygenist, Imagine the shit she gave me. I have 3 great kids. The oldest my only girl has continued to ask me when I was going to quit putting that stuff in my mouth. I never would commit to quit to her or the rest of my family because I knew that when I quit it had to be for me and the decision had to be mine. While I was looking for info on Smokey Mtn Snuff I stumbled into this site and the rest is history. Dumped my can that same night. Below is some journal entryÂ’s IÂ’ve made since my quit started. -Pat
Quit Log
1. Day one , post roll for the first time. Dumped a whole can, Pista and noonelikesaquitter support.
2. Day two, not bad. Would really like to sleep
3. Day three more of the same. Played some golf beat the crave.
4. Day four. The suck is here, Mouth numb, no taste. More support from noonelikesaquitter, Sap.
5. Day 5. Work is hard. Light headed and dry mouth. Hard to talk to clients for a long time. Still not sleeping well.
6. Day 6. More cravings today. Did some fake stuff, it helped
7. Day 7. Played golf cravings still coming. More fake stuff. Woke up at 3 and posted. Fog seems to be lifting.
8. Day 8. Christmas Eve, played golf, went to in-laws – nice to hang out with the family without a spitter.
9. Day 9 Christmas Day, again another day without a spitter, kids opened presents, wanted to put one in when I was putting together kids toys.
10. Day 10. Shopping with wife. Good day without dip.
11. Day 11 Work all day, no dip
12. Day 12 First full night of sleep. Yea!
13. Day 13, Sleep thing lasted one day. Went Fishing and played poker. Both triggers. The urge is gone. IÂ’m dead fucking tired.
14. Day 26..Sleeping much better. Bought some mint snuff the other day, It sucks getting it out of the can. Not a lot of juice either. Going back to the Smokey Mtn Snuff. I really need to get off the fake stuff too. But still have some cravings and its better than the Nic.
Day 27 First dip dream...I went to the store and bought three cans in the dream. Felt so guilty I actually dumped the cans before I even put one in...crazy dreams.
Day 35..Cold sore in my lower left cheek..WTF. Popped it..now it just needs to stay away.
Day 39. Dentist today...All is well..It was nice to not have him tell me to move the spot I put my dip around more in my mouth. Can't wait for the six month cleaning next to see how much more my gums can improve.
Day 42. Why so much fake the last few days?
Why being quit is good!
DonÂ’t care if the gas station is out of fine cut again
DonÂ’t wonder why there are 30 rolls of Long Cut, zero rolls of Fine Cut, and the Mgr canÂ’t seem to understand how they never have Fine Cut in stock.
No more “Do I have enough to get through the Round? Night? Drive?
DonÂ’t have to explain to customs why I have 10 cans of tobacco for personal use on my 7 day trip out of the country.
My wife will never, ever, take an aspirin, then drink from my spitter to wash it down.
I have saved over $80 in 26 days.
No middle of the night IÂ’m out of dip excuses to run to the store panic attacks.
No more brown specs of crap all over the floor, console, seat of my truck.
