Hello, I am new and dont really understand how this site works. I could use a little direction on where to go and how to navigate this site. Anyway.. A guy I work with had most of his tonque removed last week in a 13 hour surgery at 38 years old...So after nearly 20 years of chewing I have decided to quit. I am still tapering off at this point but have reduced my chewing by nearly 90%. Any words of wisdom????
Welcome. We don't taper off here. We don't hope, try or think about quitting.
WE QUIT PERIOD!!!
The only thing you are doing is prolonging the inevitable and torturing yourself. It takes three days for the nicotine to get out of your system once you quit. Then it becomes mental. In no time you will look back and want to kick yourself right in the a@@ for torturing yourself by tapering off. I say this, because I was you 389 days ago. How stupid I was. You can't beat this poison by trying to trick it. You must take it completely out of the equation.
Lets get some quit on my friend. Go to the welcome center at the top left. Begin reading how and why we post roll. Pay particular attention to why. Begin reading everything you can on this site. Begin learning your addiction/nicotine. Learn your enemy it knows you.
You want your life back your going to have to take the plunge my friend. No more games. There is nothing to fear. The water is fine. Jump the hell in, what you got to lose?
I look at it this way, if you taper and 1 of your 10% dips is the one that puts you in a position for tongue removal, well then probably should have cut the cord 100%. And so you have it, the KTC creed. No nicotine, read up and learn to post roll, get active, and build support using this thread.
srans is a stud badass quitter and has given you all the direction you need. Suck it all in and read these stories. You will soon learn that, maybe, for the first time in your life there are others out there just like you. Addicts who engaged in pathetic addictive behavior to feed the nic bitch addiction. Get ready to embrace the next 72 hours of no nicotine, it's going to joyfully suck ass. You'll love the notion of being quitÂ…I'm telling you to also love the notion of how bad this sucks now and the promise to yourself never to go through it again. In 3 days, you will be able to look at yourself with different eyes, those of a quitter rather than those of an addict. Quit hard brother.