Way harder than I imagined

[Souliman]

Hell I know I'm addicted! I've got craves, I'm grouchy, every thing I do seems to be a trigger. I want to eat everything in sight. Which really pisses me off cause I just lost 30 lbs and don't want to put it back on. I've just got to make it through today. If I make it through today, I can make it tomorrow!

Just today brother. Just today.

You make that decision tomorrow when the alarm goes off and you sprint to the computer to post roll saying "I quit"...first thing. Set the table right for the day and we'll all be here. Ready to fight along side you.

[tazmed]

I appologize if I came off a little irritable in my opening post. I have been having a mother of a day so far. I'm fortunate to have many supporters arround me all day. This is one of the hardest things I have done in life so far. I can remember the dip that got me hooked. I was in AIT, the instructor had the AC set on what must have been 50 degrees and to top it off he sounded just like Charlie Brown's teacher. All the while the other Instructors were cruising the classroom just waiting for someone to nod off. I was just about to do a face plant on my desk when my buddy kicked me in the shin and passed me a skoal bandit under the table. I had dips here and there before that, but I knew after that one I was hooked. I used those little suckers to get me through many a boring lecture or to relax when everthing went kaotic. It's just so tough finding a bad memory related to dipping. This would be so much easier if there was something that I hated about this habit, other than the fact that it's hard as hell to quit.

Here's some things to hate:

You put a poison in your body consciously. That poison causes cancer and can do so after a single exposure. Some stuffy turd in a pink shirt with puppies on it who probably got a ride to work today in a limo profited off of you and I. The poison's only goal was to induce withdrawal every time you stopped using. You go look at Capt. Kylos introduction and learn the story of Randy if you need more things to hate.

I'm not one to tell you quit this way or quit that way. But if some fucker was trying to kill me daily and I finally got wise to it, I'd have plenty of hate brewing and a seething need for vengeance which I do. You got to check all those good memories at the door. This isn't some memory of Jenny the prom queen you popped in high school. This is your life and you have to fight for it.

And one more thing...a habit is leaving the toilet seat up. You and me and the rest of these folks are addicts. That's the framework we need to work in.

Listen to Soul...he's my spiritual quit guru. It sounds like you're on the right track, just keep that +1 in mind. Take your quit 1 day at a time, 1 hour at a time, or 1 minute at a time...whatever it takes.

Just remember this one little thing: Tobacco is the only product on earth that, if used as directed, will kill you . Hate that! 'archer'

[Parputt]

Hell I know I'm addicted! I've got craves, I'm grouchy, every thing I do seems to be a trigger. I want to eat everything in sight. Which really pisses me off cause I just lost 30 lbs and don't want to put it back on. I've just got to make it through today. If I make it through today, I can make it tomorrow!

That is indeed all you have to do. One day at a time. Hell, one hour at a time if you have too. Forever is a long damn time, just go a little at a time and you can do this.

[ccstreetbob]

Hell I know I'm addicted! I've got craves, I'm grouchy, every thing I do seems to be a trigger. I want to eat everything in sight. Which really pisses me off cause I just lost 30 lbs and don't want to put it back on. I've just got to make it through today. If I make it through today, I can make it tomorrow!

[Souliman]

I appologize if I came off a little irritable in my opening post. I have been having a mother of a day so far. I'm fortunate to have many supporters arround me all day. This is one of the hardest things I have done in life so far. I can remember the dip that got me hooked. I was in AIT, the instructor had the AC set on what must have been 50 degrees and to top it off he sounded just like Charlie Brown's teacher. All the while the other Instructors were cruising the classroom just waiting for someone to nod off. I was just about to do a face plant on my desk when my buddy kicked me in the shin and passed me a skoal bandit under the table. I had dips here and there before that, but I knew after that one I was hooked. I used those little suckers to get me through many a boring lecture or to relax when everthing went kaotic. It's just so tough finding a bad memory related to dipping. This would be so much easier if there was something that I hated about this habit, other than the fact that it's hard as hell to quit.

Here's some things to hate:

You put a poison in your body consciously. That poison causes cancer and can do so after a single exposure. Some stuffy turd in a pink shirt with puppies on it who probably got a ride to work today in a limo profited off of you and I. The poison's only goal was to induce withdrawal every time you stopped using. You go look at Capt. Kylos introduction and learn the story of Randy if you need more things to hate.

I'm not one to tell you quit this way or quit that way. But if some fucker was trying to kill me daily and I finally got wise to it, I'd have plenty of hate brewing and a seething need for vengeance which I do. You got to check all those good memories at the door. This isn't some memory of Jenny the prom queen you popped in high school. This is your life and you have to fight for it.

And one more thing...a habit is leaving the toilet seat up. You and me and the rest of these folks are addicts. That's the framework we need to work in.

[ccstreetbob]

I appologize if I came off a little irritable in my opening post. I have been having a mother of a day so far. I'm fortunate to have many supporters arround me all day. This is one of the hardest things I have done in life so far. I can remember the dip that got me hooked. I was in AIT, the instructor had the AC set on what must have been 50 degrees and to top it off he sounded just like Charlie Brown's teacher. All the while the other Instructors were cruising the classroom just waiting for someone to nod off. I was just about to do a face plant on my desk when my buddy kicked me in the shin and passed me a skoal bandit under the table. I had dips here and there before that, but I knew after that one I was hooked. I used those little suckers to get me through many a boring lecture or to relax when everthing went kaotic. It's just so tough finding a bad memory related to dipping. This would be so much easier if there was something that I hated about this habit, other than the fact that it's hard as hell to quit.

[Copehater]

We quit one day at a time and it is hard. We go to chat to rant at our new found internet friends so we do not yell or rant at our wives or loved ones.

Come to chat - night, day - whenever - yell at me, yell at someone else - save the family


Copehater - here to help

[pokerleader]

cc I think it would be a good day for you to post roll and QUIT with us today. No nic is a great thing.

[ccstreetbob]

I know that any sort of nicotine is not going to help me quit. In order for you to quit you have to be done with it. And I am done with it. I came on to this web site looking for some sort of substitute, a non tobacco dip. The more I think about it, I don't think that having a dip of any kind is going to help me quit.

[pokerleader]

Its always good to rant and bitch on here. Just glad you said you are doing it for you and not anyone else. Just remember to read everything on here it really does help. There are things here you should have your wife read also. Just glad to be QUIT with you today ccstreetbob.

[Scowick65]

I knew that I needed to quit. I just enjoyed my dip so much. I always reasoned that it's something I did and it doesn't affect anyone but me. No second hand smoke to irriate others, and I can dip and drive, it's not like it affects my performance as a person. As a matter of fact, I know that it has allowed me not to physicaly harm many individuals. It has now been 2 1/2 days since I had a pinch. My poor wife, she is the one who issued the ultimatum for me to stop or she was going back to smoking after 10yrs of being tobacco free, has received the brunt of my mood swings. It's only seems fair since she started this. Actually, I really feel bad for how I have acted in the past 48 hours. I do want to quit. I want to quit for me. It just took something as drastic as my wife pulling an electronic cigarette out of her purse and offering it to me in the waiting room of the hospital they had just admitted my father into. She had been planning for days to give it to me to help me quit. She thought she was being "sweet" offering it to me at the hospital since they have "no tobacco use allowed" posted everywhere in the hospital. I'm sure I was not as rational as I could of been at that point in time because I wanted to know why she had it in her purse since it has been 10 yrs since she smoked. Bless her heart. She just looked me in the eye and said she felt like it. And since it doesn't give off any second hand smoke it shouldn't bother anyone else. Besides, she's a grown woman and can do whatever she wants to. I called BS and she said that she had not used it, but thought if I thought she was, it might be enough to make me quit. Sorry for the rant. So far all I can say is thank god for sunflower seeds.

No nic. Period.

Whether nicotine dependency was established and/or maintained by being chewed, smoked, drank, snuffed, sprayed, swallowed, sucked, licked or patched, in the end there is only one way out - no nicotine today.

You should join us. Post roll with us and quit 1 day at a time.

[ccstreetbob]

I knew that I needed to quit. I just enjoyed my dip so much. I always reasoned that it's something I did and it doesn't affect anyone but me. No second hand smoke to irriate others, and I can dip and drive, it's not like it affects my performance as a person. As a matter of fact, I know that it has allowed me not to physicaly harm many individuals. It has now been 2 1/2 days since I had a pinch. My poor wife, she is the one who issued the ultimatum for me to stop or she was going back to smoking after 10yrs of being tobacco free, has received the brunt of my mood swings. It's only seems fair since she started this. Actually, I really feel bad for how I have acted in the past 48 hours. I do want to quit. I want to quit for me. It just took something as drastic as my wife pulling an electronic cigarette out of her purse and offering it to me in the waiting room of the hospital they had just admitted my father into. She had been planning for days to give it to me to help me quit. She thought she was being "sweet" offering it to me at the hospital since they have "no tobacco use allowed" posted everywhere in the hospital. I'm sure I was not as rational as I could of been at that point in time because I wanted to know why she had it in her purse since it has been 10 yrs since she smoked. Bless her heart. She just looked me in the eye and said she felt like it. And since it doesn't give off any second hand smoke it shouldn't bother anyone else. Besides, she's a grown woman and can do whatever she wants to. I called BS and she said that she had not used it, but thought if I thought she was, it might be enough to make me quit. Sorry for the rant. So far all I can say is thank god for sunflower seeds.