Just woke up. Time for a coffee and some breakfast.
Do you mind if I refer to this as something other than quitting? How about retiring?
Please tell us more about yourself.
How long you dipped. What your poison was. How you tried to quit before. We are here to help. The more you share, the more we can help.
I dipped 30 years, 24/7, business owner, quit May 25, 2012 because I found this site, the brotherhood and the quit tools that work!
The KTC way saved my life.
Cheers and welcome to the best of Your life.
I'm 34. I've been chewing since i was 16. I would chew for baseball and football. I also smoked and chewed form 16-27. Quit smoking at 27. Couldn't kick the chewing habit as easy since I enjoyed it more. Quit chewing for a few months recently but went back. This time will be different. I've been having some troubling throat symptoms the last 5-6 weeks.
I have a pain under my jawline on my left side with pain extending down my neck muscles when I move. I've been to a doctor once and he didnt find anything. Will be going back again next week. I'm pretty worried about it. It's something I've never had before while chewing and it just feel different and bad.
I'm a small business owner as well. I want to be able to enjoy the early retirement I'm setting myself up for. I love living my life more, since I've worked my ass off making it pretty great. I don't want to see all my hard work just be tossed aside and that I never get to my goals because of it.
"as much as I loved chewing" I see so many people make this comment over and over, hell I said it a million times too. You did not love chewing, you loved not going through withdrawal. What is there to love about it? How you spent a ton of money on something that could have gone to your business or something else to better your life? Or did you love that it is slowly breaking your body down and poisoning you? Did you love the way the addiction made you act? did you love the nasty spit cups/bottles, the yellow fingers, the bad breath, the shit in your teeth? Dip did absolutely nothing for you. It lied to you, told you you needed it, and all it did was get you addicted to it so you could spend your money on a slow suicide.
I am not a business owner, but I am a general manager of a successful restaurant. Let me tell you, I would never call it anything but quit. That nasty weed had cost me more than I ever realized. Since I quit, my productivity at work has gone up tenfold, im not feeling like I need to run out for a dip every couple hours, im not splitting my time and energy between the things I have to do and poisonous weed. Open your eyes and realize how much this tin of shit has messed up your life? Loved it, hell no, I hate that I ever touched the stuff.