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I Quit
Topic Started: Jul 26 2010, 03:49 PM (648 Views)
chewie87
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Hello everyone. I've been visiting the forum for last few days. So I just decided to stop in and introduce myself. I'm Jay, 22 year old from India. I started smokeless 6 years back. Later I got addicted to alcohol and smoking. I even used to abuse sleeping pills and cough and cold syrups ( stopped it 2 years back ). The only thing I did not try is drugs. It all started in college when some seniors told me that spitting brown on the roads makes you feel macho (??). I am not blaming them, I am more responsible for what I'm today.
Well its my 8th day without smokeless today. Now I know - I can live without tobacco. First day was hardest of all. My cheeks and tongue had sores. ( I quit smokeless now I have symptoms of cancer ??) But it disappeared on the third day. There are some triggers when it craves like hell - after tea, evenings and while working / studying late nights. Chewing gum seems to be the best alternative for smokeless.
This is tougher than I thought but I won't let anyone get behind the wheel & take control of my life.
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chewie87
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Thanks for warm welcome. I am not going to dip again though! Its day 9. I'm going to college. Hope everything goes fine.
PS - My life is a sewer.
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cmay1
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chewie87
Jul 27, 2010, 12:11 am
Thanks for warm welcome. I am not going to dip again though! Its day 9. I'm going to college. Hope everything goes fine.
PS - My life is a sewer.

I'm fairly new here, but congrats on day 9 - you need to go over to the October 2010 PreHOF group and post roll - let me know if you need to know how to do it.

I want that last sentence on a t-shirt:

"P.S. - My life is a sewer."

That is awesome.

It seems tough now, but I'm finding that my life is getting better and better the more accountable I become to myself and those around me, because I'm becoming a better person. I don't have to lie, hide, I'm not embarrassed and ashamed, and I don't feel guilty all the time. The loss of these things tend to brighten your day, even when you don't have a nicotine crutch.

Keep up the quit -
"So if EVERYTHING was a trigger then nothing is really a 'trigger'" - MikeA


"panting like a fatopotomus" - Greg5280

"...and then at last my addict friend, you'll see what you've forsaken, when 100 speak the truth, and yet you disagree, then maybe you're mistaken." - SkoalMonster
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cmay1 wrote: It seems tough now, but I'm finding that my life is getting better and better the more accountable I become to myself and those around me, because I'm becoming a better person. I don't have to lie, hide, I'm not embarrassed and ashamed, and I don't feel guilty all the time. The loss of these things tend to brighten your day, even when you don't have a nicotine crutch.


Damn! You know, you are so right. I haven't felt this good about myself in a very long time. I don't hide anything anymore, no guilty feelings hounding me day and night.

Do I want to feel like that again? Fuck No! I am staying quit!

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Why the name chewie???
Caving is not an option, Do something else.

Burn your boats!

"This takes commitment, effort, accountibility and to be honest....blood, guts and nuts." - redtrain14

"Hey, snowflake, don't take a seat in the life raft if you are not serious about saving your life." - Scowick65

"Now I can walk through walls and my quit can talk to god. That's right. Crazy voodoo magic quit." - Souliman

Nicotine doesn't give two shits about your strategery, and that's just a fact. Only strategy that works is promise not to use nicotine first thing every morning, keep that promise all day, rinse, repeat. - teamgreen
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chewie87
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Ready, In the name of my past habit. I used to chew tobacco, now I have mint and gums.
Cmay, lucky you are. I feel guilty for past 6 years I wasted down in the gutter. Some of my friends show off their sports cars, boast about MNC jobs and 6-7 figure salary packages. I feel guilty because I was better scorer than them in highschools.I'm the lazy bast*rd who hasn't yet completed graduation.
I keep telling myself " I am a different person NOW. " But why this has to be f*cking me ?
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cmay1
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chewie87
Jul 29, 2010, 8:40 pm
Ready, In the name of my past habit. I used to chew tobacco, now I have mint and gums.
Cmay, lucky you are. I feel guilty for past 6 years I wasted down in the gutter. Some of my friends show off their sports cars, boast about MNC jobs and 6-7 figure salary packages. I feel guilty because I was better scorer than them in highschools.I'm the lazy bast*rd who hasn't yet completed graduation.
I keep telling myself " I am a different person NOW. " But why this has to be f*cking me ?

Chewie87 -

You need to post roll in your Oct. Quit group - Go to the Welcome page and get directions.
"So if EVERYTHING was a trigger then nothing is really a 'trigger'" - MikeA


"panting like a fatopotomus" - Greg5280

"...and then at last my addict friend, you'll see what you've forsaken, when 100 speak the truth, and yet you disagree, then maybe you're mistaken." - SkoalMonster
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