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Time to get ALL my ducks in a row
Topic Started: Dec 22 2014, 02:02 PM (1,493 Views)
sschumann
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sschewman
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Hello guys and gals. I am a 25 year old male who had his first dip on my 18th birthday (November 29th 2007.) Many of my close friends had been exposed to dip since they were baseball players, so once I turned 18 I decided to buy, and try my first dip: Skoal Vanilla. I was immediately hooked. I think I began dipping around 3 times a week. That soon turned to 5-7 times a week. The drawer in my bathroom at my parents house was filled with empty dip cans.

Since then I have dipped about once a day, sometimes two, but no more than 4. When I drink I binge on dip, basically constantly having one in. I was always the loser at the college parties or bars who had a nasty dip in. It was embarrassing, and turned some girls off, but that wasn't enough motivation to quit.

I was always self conscious about my breath, so I always brush my teeth, or atleast chew some gum, after throwing out a dip.

With all that being said, I will explain the title. I have recently landed a great job, I workout daily and my diet it on point. I brush my teeth 2-3 times a day, floss and take other measures to help with dental health. I am absolutely killing it at life right now! Everything is perfect... Except I still dip.

November marked 7 years of dipping and now it is time to stop!

I quit cold turkey about 3 years ago for 3 months before relapsing, so I will be doing this without the help of any nicotine, or fake chew.
"My glass is usually half full...except when someone pisses in it and tries to pass it off as lemonade." -RTPope
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rdad
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Attention all planets of the solar federation......... I have assumed control.....
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Way to post roll. You've made a great decision to QUIT. Welcome. I'm quitting right beside you today.
ODAAT....Learn It.....Know It.....Live It
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sschumann
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Thanks man!
"My glass is usually half full...except when someone pisses in it and tries to pass it off as lemonade." -RTPope
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Ginet
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Keep quitting one day at a time. It's the only way it works. Thinking about staying quit for months or years is too overwhelming. You will get there.....by adding one day to another. Post roll and keep your word. All of us are addicts. We get it. Come here and rage. Use chat. Ask questions. Here is what helped me the most:
1- do not let anything or anyone get in the way of your quit
2-take nicotine off the table - it's not an option
3- wear great heels - life is short (haha)

Quit hard - quit like a girl
Ginet
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. ~ Chinese Proverb
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. ~ Stephen R. Covey

QD 12/29/13
April 2014 Resolute
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BRO24
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DAMN RIGHT I'M QUIT
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Way to make roll man, I pm'd you. I'm with you today!
Brodie

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MARCH 15 "THE RAGE"

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BRO24
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DAMN RIGHT I'M QUIT
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Ginet
Dec 22 2014, 02:23 PM
Keep quitting one day at a time. It's the only way it works. Thinking about staying quit for months or years is too overwhelming. You will get there.....by adding one day to another. Post roll and keep your word. All of us are addicts. We get it. Come here and rage. Use chat. Ask questions. Here is what helped me the most:
1- do not let anything or anyone get in the way of your quit
2-take nicotine off the table - it's not an option
3- wear great heels - life is short (haha)

Quit hard - quit like a girl
Ginet
I don't think us guys can get away with your 3rd rule... besides I'd break my ankle if i wore those.
Brodie

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MARCH 15 "THE RAGE"

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sschumann
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BRO24
Dec 22 2014, 02:27 PM
Ginet
Dec 22 2014, 02:23 PM
Keep quitting one day at a time. It's the only way it works. Thinking about staying quit for months or years is too overwhelming. You will get there.....by adding one day to another. Post roll and keep your word. All of us are addicts. We get it. Come here and rage. Use chat. Ask questions. Here is what helped me the most:
1- do not let anything or anyone get in the way of your quit
2-take nicotine off the table - it's not an option
3- wear great heels - life is short (haha)

Quit hard - quit like a girl
Ginet
I don't think us guys can get away with your 3rd rule... besides I'd break my ankle if i wore those.
Yeahhh I don't know about that last one either haha but to each their own!
"My glass is usually half full...except when someone pisses in it and tries to pass it off as lemonade." -RTPope
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sschumann
Dec 22 2014, 02:28 PM
BRO24
Dec 22 2014, 02:27 PM
Ginet
Dec 22 2014, 02:23 PM
Keep quitting one day at a time. It's the only way it works. Thinking about staying quit for months or years is too overwhelming. You will get there.....by adding one day to another. Post roll and keep your word. All of us are addicts. We get it. Come here and rage. Use chat. Ask questions. Here is what helped me the most:
1- do not let anything or anyone get in the way of your quit
2-take nicotine off the table - it's not an option
3- wear great heels - life is short (haha)

Quit hard - quit like a girl
Ginet
I don't think us guys can get away with your 3rd rule... besides I'd break my ankle if i wore those.
Yeahhh I don't know about that last one either haha but to each their own!
Shoot, I wear my heels every day...
Yes, we were fucked up then. Now we are quit!
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Welcome schu! A late entry to the March 2015 quit group. I'm proud to be quit with you today. Use everything on this website. There are people here that have been quit much longer than I have who paved the way and it has worked time and time again. Post roll every damn day, read everything on here, and enjoy being nicotine free.
"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." - Bob Feller

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sschumann
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Its an awkwardly shitty feeling to have to post again, in a new HOF month because you couldn't even last one day. I don't even know you all, but I'm embarrassed to have to do that. Here's to never dipping again. April 2015.
"My glass is usually half full...except when someone pisses in it and tries to pass it off as lemonade." -RTPope
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Jacker and Schu I'm new to the site and my quit date was Dec 18th. Looks like we're on this journey together.
"Luctor et Emergo".....which means "Struggle and Emerge"

"tough times never last, tough people do"
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How do I join the March 2015 group?
"Luctor et Emergo".....which means "Struggle and Emerge"

"tough times never last, tough people do"
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Ginet
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sschumann
Dec 23 2014, 11:37 AM
Its an awkwardly shitty feeling to have to post again, in a new HOF month because you couldn't even last one day. I don't even know you all, but I'm embarrassed to have to do that. Here's to never dipping again. April 2015.
What? You caved? Is that what this means? It's awful weak and I don't speak weak.....come again?
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. ~ Chinese Proverb
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. ~ Stephen R. Covey

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April 2014 Resolute
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Ginet
Dec 23 2014, 12:37 PM
sschumann
Dec 23 2014, 11:37 AM
Its an awkwardly shitty feeling to have to post again, in a new HOF month because you couldn't even last one day. I don't even know you all, but I'm embarrassed to have to do that. Here's to never dipping again. April 2015.
What? You caved? Is that what this means? It's awful weak and I don't speak weak.....come again?
Yes, unfortunately
"My glass is usually half full...except when someone pisses in it and tries to pass it off as lemonade." -RTPope
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Everything is perfect, except you still dip, and you have an integrity problem. Full reset, do exactly everything the guys in April are telling you, drink water, don't fucking lie, and you might make a quitter.

Did you go to the Welcome Center and other links on PAGE ONE yet? You signed up, quit with no remorse and no excuses.
Post roll, don't dip. Have to admit, that part was fucking easy this last 123 days. I had no epiphany or grand revelation about quitting, no medical event, no life changes. I knew plenty about nicotine and quitting already before I came here, I knew dipping was the wrong thing and I kept doing it on purpose (for a while I would even say, "Hail, Satan!" when I bought a can - let's be honest about what deliberate evil really is). There was nothing special about 6 Oct 2014, except that I committed to quitting, all the way, in the KTC quit vehicle, with quitters who would never accept the bullshit that I accepted from myself. Like I said, I knew SO MUCH about quitting already; Quitting for me has a lot to do with internal dialogue and narrative. "I" dip - WTF? Cravings - I have none. As a quitter, thoughts about dipping are not my thoughts. When you hear, "Ba dah bop ba bah," is, "I'm lovin' it," your thought? No. Recognizing and reconditioning dipper thoughts is so fucking easy in a place like KTC. Think of the saying, "Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks." What source flows into the heart to fill it to abundance? Sense data, interpreted/associated sense data, stories about identity from the internal narrative, entrainment to those like-hearted, and your own speech feeds back. I am quit. I am quit and I quit forever, today, whatever it takes, no excuses ever, with the SHELL and Mayhem.
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