What To Expect When You Quit Dipping
So you want to quit dipping and you would like to know what to expect when you do. We’re not going to pull any punches around here, it’s tough. That’s why we’re all here. This timeline has been put together over the years with the input of THOUSANDS of quitters. It has been shown to be remarkably accurate from the time you STOP USING NICOTINE.
Days 1 through 3 – Pure hell. You will walk in the fog. Nothing will seem real. Your brain is wondering where the hell its fix is and it is going to punish you until you come up with it. 72 hours, that’s all you need to get the nicotine out of your system. This is where you start to deal with the physical withdrawal associated with quitting dip. Drink lots of water. Read, post, read and post. Don’t take your anger out on your loved ones. We always tell everyone………Make this quit about YOU. If you quit for your wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, kids, mommy or daddy, you will resent them during this period. Quit for yourself and come in here to rant. Yell at us. Bitch at us. We can take it. We’ve been there.
Days 4 through 20 – Here comes the mind games. The nicotine is out of your system now. You will still have some physical things to deal with.
- Cravings
- Irritability
- Insomnia
- Fatigue
- Inability to Concentrate
- Headache
- Sore throat
- Constipation, gas, stomach pain
- Dry mouth
- Sore tongue and/or gums
Yep, you have this to look forward to. Your brain is rewiring itself. It isn’t used to being in an oxygen rich environment. Your body is responding in kind. Everything is a mind game now. All the cravings you have are actually due to triggers. Triggers are events where you are in a situation you would normally dip in. Mowing the grass, playing poker online, playing golf, working on the car………you get the picture. Keep drinking water, use seeds, the fake stuff, whatever you need to keep the dip out of your mouth. Remember, oral fixation is part of our habit, something you will eventually need to break. For now though, use all the tools you have.
Days 20 – 50 – You’re winning. Life isn’t great, but you probably had a couple of nights where you actually got some sleep. You might notice you’re going to bed earlier than you normally do. Not staying up to get in that last dip. You may notice some sores in your mouth. You’re thinking, “great, I quit dipping and now I have cancer.” You almost certainly don’t. Your mouth is healing itself. Tiny ulcers you’ve had for a long time are healing. We recommend you visit your dentist around the 30 day mark. Don’t be a pansy, just do it. He or she will be very supportive and they can explain the sores much better than we can. Don’t let your guard down. Don’t go out drinking with the fellas or the girls. We also recommend that you don’t drink for at least the first 50 days. Drinking is a huge trigger event and it weakens your resolve.
Days 50 – 70 – Cruise control. Life is really good. You still think about it, but this is good stuff here. Some people may suffer anxiety attacks during or a little before this stage. Some doctors say we dipped to relieve anxiety anyway. Some people can push right through this, others need a little help. Talk to your doctor before you quit or immediately after you quit. They will know what to do. Some give Wellbutrin or Lexapro. Lots of people in the support community take or have taken these medicines and can help you with the affects. Don’t wait till you get to this stage of the game to talk to a doctor. You’ll cruise through this stage much easier if you know how to take care of the anxiety or at least know it’s coming.
Days 70 – 90 – Late term craves, the doldrums, the blahs, the blues. Some people end up feeling like they are right back at day 1. The fog, the haze, the craves. It can be a tough time. You need to let people in your group know this is happening. Time to circle the wagons to get through it. It usually only lasts a few days. Fight through this and make sure your order your HOF Knife or Coin. Here are a couple of articles about this time period which we refer to as “The Funk”
Days 90 – HOF – Houston, resume the countdown. Enjoy the hell out of these last 10 days. You will be celebrating with your group as you all enter the HOF. It is a great feeling and an accomplishment you should not take lightly. Do something special for yourself and your family. They put up with your sorry ass for the last 90 days and they deserve something too.
100+ Days – Stay vigilant. Use the tools you have, to continue beating back any cravings or urges. You will still experience dip dreams and longings, but you are fully qualified to beat them down. Continue to post roll with your group. Get into the newer groups and help somebody out. Pass it along. Live the dream.
Day 2 as you call it, I am kinda thankful to see the encouragement from you guys, I gotta say I have had Mild cravings and some big cravings but nothing has bring me down yet. just letting you guys know thanks.
Day 38 with no dip and day 8 without nicotine. My god why do we put ourselves through this. The saying “felt like I got hit by a truck” comes in to play right now. I feel as if this funk or fog will never end and that I’m just going to be like this forever. I will never go back to dipping no matter what but I see why people do go back. Believe me I would much rather just give in and go back to the can bit I look at my 2 year old and realize I’m doing the right thing. I had a thought over the weekend. If this is how bad it is these feelings I’m have how bad would it be if I didn’t quit and wound up with cancer of the mouth or throat. How painful would that be is why I continue to fight this awful battle of addiction. KTC has helped a bunch just to know there are people going through the same pain as me and have experienced it. Just one more day without equals one more day of healthy life.
HANG IN THERE DAVID! Everyone of us that have quit have gone through what you’re dealing with. 8 days without Nicotine will do that to you. You will feel better the longer you go without it. True, some people run back to that habit when the heat gets turned up, but if you want to truly be done with that shit, you have to travel this path and feel the pain….it sure the hell will make you appreciate your quit more, dealing with this.
I for one NEVER want to feel what you’re going through again and it reinforces my quit to see your pain, I’ve been through the same thing my man (many of us have), keep up your fight, you’re doing great!!
-JP
Day 91 fellows. T minus 9………….
Yall stay cool.
By the way fellows, where are yalls HOFs? and where did you go to post it? DO you come here and say this is my HOF or is there a special forum we have to go to?
Up at the top on this page is a tab “Quit Forum”.. Click on it and then on the next page, scroll down about half way, there is a link that says “HOF speeches”…that is the place to write and submit it to the site.
Chewy…if I’m wrong, help a brother out!
-JP
Nope, that’s correct. There is a special thread in the forums for them. That said, not everyone is on the forums. If you’re one of those that’s not and you’d still like to write a speech, you can send it to chewie(AT)killthecan.org and I’ll get it posted.
Thanks Chewie!
Rock and roll brother. I quit with you today and EDD!
Great to see you as well, JayP. I have tremendous admiration for you the way you always help everyone.
I moved from NJ to IOWA last month with my family. It has been very stressful. I was supposed to travel out of country in July but that got delayed. Just 2 months in IOWA. This time I definitely have to travel out of US by Jan 1st week as that is an absolute end day for my current VISA. Sigh… now tired of tis travelling.. want to be at one place at least for few years..
It’s my way to try and give back to the place that helped me. I probably really don’t need to even come here anymore since I’ve decided there is no nicotine for me anymore. But I feel if I can help people here….as others did for me (pay it forward).
I know you said that visa was getting close to be done. I assume it is a work visa? I hear you…traveling is nice, but it sure can get exhausting! Hope you get your wish and settle somewhere soon.
I appreciate your input here, good to some familiar people occasionally!
Good Luck wherever you end up, pop by when you can!!
-JP
Guys,
Work out a lot. Even if you are not able to hit gym. Just walk/jog moderate/ high intensity for 30 mins. Take if from an ex dipper who went through anxiety. The endorphins from work out will get the circulation going and keep you energetic and happy
Thanks
Shiva
Shiva, great seeing you pop back in
I agree with you, working out, particularly, cardio does wonders for anxiety. I dealt with that prior to my quit, then again at my quit. Tough stuff. Fortunately, cardio helped me out immensely.
Good to see u here again, happy holidays.
-JP
DDD
Great to see you there and I am extremely glad you have come this far. But now is the time for you to defocus on your past memories. Sorry couldn’t be online as much as I wish. Hopefully things would be a bit less stressful for me from Jan
Shiva
This is it fellows, I made it to day 90, The last stage before my HOF. Finally, I am there. $495.00 bucks saved. I just might get my coin. Thanks to all that have been reading my journey. I posted every single day on this thread, even if just a line or 2, sometimes more, but I had to, it was a way to keep my quit going. Went through a death in my family, a death of my friend, lost my fiancee, lost a great job opportunity and multiple little things in between, any of these calamities could have sent me back to dipping and somehow I did not cave in, I stayed strong, perhaps because of this site, perhaps because of my strong commitment who knows, but here I am staring at day 100 in 10 days. Jayp, Jeff, shiva, I am almost there guys.
I will be here when you hit that first floor DDD, congrats on 90!!
I purchased my coin too, just felt I wanted one. But seeing you almost to day 100 is more rewarding than any coin! We’ll see you at 100!
-JP
Im 3 days in and im having alot of gas and some body pains but it feels good to know im heading in a healthy path thanks to this site
Benzos work for anxiety but can be very addictive – don’t get another monkey on your back. Take them for a couple days or at a very low dose PRN. They give you a hangover for a few days too, at least for me. The best things for anxiety are some regular taxing workouts and lots of healthy food, gotta recycle all those cells in your body and flush out the toxins. In 6 months you’re literally a new man.
I never had an anxiety attack and never knew what it was until I stopped chewing. I thought i was having a heart attack and ended up going to the doctor, i got checked out and there was nothing really wrong, just high blood pressure. It is hell though, hang in there and ultimately it’s up to you if you want to go to the Doc, he or she may prescribe something for it. The important thing is that you are quit. In time all those things go away.
Day 89 and hanging.
Went to urgent care today the anxiety was more than my wife could bare. My doctor told me to drink as much water as possible. Chewing tobacco constricts the blood vessels in your brain and then when it’s not there the brain needs something healthy to take its place. So if you wanna quit drink a lot of water to help. He put me in some medicine to help with the anxiety hope I don’t have to take it. Thanks for everyone’s comments.
Try taking omega 3 supplements. These have been shown to help with anxiety and depression. I took these early on in my quit and I think they helped. I still take them. I had to take some Xanax now and then also. I’m 6 1/2 months quit and had some anxiety issues 2 weeks ago but they passed. It may take awhile for your brain to recover from that crap. Hang tough.
Day 34 with now chew and day 5 with no nicotine gum and I feel like I’m having anxiety attacks and just feeling like utter dog shit. I don’t know if this is from quiting chew or if something else is wrong. I don’t know what ita like to live without chew after 14 years of doing it. I don’t know if my mind is taking over. I don’t want to dip and don’t really have the desire but this is getting old the way I feel. It’s been 12 days of feeling like this. Has anyone here been through this same stuff or am I in need of real y going to the doctor? Thanks in advance fellas.
David, congrats on 5 days without nicotine. The ultimate reason your feeling the way you do right now is because you’ve decided to go “free” of the chemical nicotine and go to war with your addiction. This is exactly the way you should feel when you’ve gone nicotine free after 5 days,since the brain enjoyed a steady stream of it for 14 years. Unfortunately…that gum “pro-longed” the feelings…that gum continued filling that stream. (notice how the gum didn’t make you feel this way?)
You’re kicking ass, “going through the war” . Good news, it DOES pass. Give it some time…that first week is the worse. It’ll pass the longer you tell those nicotine thirsty, crying receptors in the brain, whose boss. Usually very mild by day 30 free of it.
If it gets too bad for you, let a doctor know what you’re doing. They’ll be on your side with your decision and can also help with the “symptoms” of the quit. Keep the course. If you truly want to be “done” then continue on the path you’re on..we’re here to help. Good luck!
-JP
Day #508/free of that shit. (25 year dipper)
UhhHUM! Day#509…but ya get the gist, I’m done with that shit!
Well the worse part was it was about day 22 when I really starter feeling like crap and I was still on the gum. I stayed ln it for another week and was still feeling like crap. I just never felt like this on chew so I have to believe this is my brain reacting to the 14 yrs of 3,000+ chemicals my brain has been living off of. It’s hard to get my brain to concentrate though. I really do appreciate your reply it means alot. This sucks and glad I have people out there going through the same and are willing to help. Thanks
No problem Dave, come here and post. Reach out to people, this forum is awesome if you use it.
I would think the levels of nicotine are a tidbit higher in the dip than you gum, so it might be the nicotine level is lower than the brain is normally used to.
I used the gum back in the 90’s to quit for about 6 months. I bought one box, mixed it with regular gum until there were about 5peices left. Then I started to use a half peice of the nic gum, then a quarter…then when it was all gone, I chewed only regular gum. I quit the nicotine, but the gum chewing remained. My jaws hurt so F-ing bad from chewing gum all the dam time, but hey, I was free from nicotine. I unfortunately failed and stupidly, went back to dipping 6 months later on a fishing trip, and continued to dip up until 508 days ago.
Why am I sharing this? Because I never felt all those quit symptoms back then…seemed I phased all that chemical (and pain) out, slowly. This time around, 508 day, I just STOPPED…and my brain was screaming uncle..so I feel your pain. Look through this board…there’s alot of pain on here. But if you ask me, which way quitting is more successful?
Obviously the “feeling the pain” way… I appreciate “the war” I went through, wayyyy more and don’t want to go back there ever again.
But I think you may of started feeling bad on the gum becasue the level was lowered and now you’ve really lowered the bar, for that, I commend you!
Keep up the fight!
-JP
What a fucked up day. It was going so well, then, slam my tiny bit of happiness. At least I still am Quit. What a great excuse to throw a big juicy cud of shit in, but i worked too hard to get back up here. Laters quitters.
Day 88
We feel your pain Michael, we all went through it. Myself was a can a day user. But I tell you what, it gets better, this is the roughest part of the quit. OORAH!!
Day 87.
I am doing this for my health. 1 can a day now down to 0. im 4 days in, and am shaking. Staying away from people for the better. I couldnt do this if It werent for seeds, keeping me alive. Staying away from drinking too. Sleeping as much as possible. Jeez this is hard. I wont be controlled by a can.
You’re doing great Michael – HANG IN THERE!!!
Awesome to have you Back Steve.
Anyone who uses smokey mountain, I just saw a 15% off deal if you use code 15thanks before 12/31. Hope you all are doing well in your respective quits. I’m finished with the chemo, we’re onto recovering.
Have a great holidays and I hope to be a regular contributor again soon.
Steve
13+ months quit
Steve! Glad to see you’re doing better and off to recovery. Hope you have a great holiday and that your recovery goes well. Congrats on 13 months too!
-JP
Day #506 free of that bullshit
Day 86
More weird stuff.
I befriended this super bright feller from Sri-Lanka, now they believe in Buddhism, reincarnation and all that stuff. They also have their addictions too including Gat and alcohol. The way he explains it is if you develop addictions with your bodies, they will pass to the real you(whatever that is). so when you die you do not go on to wherever you need to go, rather you stay stuck here, because the addiction is within you and you crave it even after death. So these spirits or ghosts whatever you want to call them want to experience the buzz or high like when they were alive. Sounds crazy right? Anyway, these ghosts get angry or desperate and start doing bad things until they call a shaman or some witch dude that allows them to enter into his body, taste whatever addiction they have in exchange for the ghost to leave people alone. Nutty stuff right? Well, he says that this is common and natural stuff. Now if this guy was not such freaking super smart guy, I would think all of this is hog wash, but whether we believe it or not it doesn’t matter his message is do not develop addictions period. Supernatural stuff? go figure, but what if he is right?
Sorry fellers, must be the fog I am going through making me share all this stuff. but If I write I can keep my mind off the Dip, Thanks for reading. You all stay safe.
Day 85, nothing really to report except this freaking fog that won’t go away or it could be just a damned hangover, but it sucks. I guess 30 something years of shooting that shit straight into your brain will do that to you. It is insane to think about it, the closest route to your brain, which is the most powerful pile of neurons in the world (questionable in our case), It is through our mouths. We enjoy destroying our brains everyday and then long for it when we make a conscious decision to stop destroying it. This supercomputer that is stuffed into our skulls cannot process the fact that the real us is trying to stop it from auto-destroying itself or other organs in our bodies. I know this sounds weird as shit, but if you think about it, it leads to further questions, so which one is it that makes the decisions? the gray matter between our ears or something else? Where does the addiction occur? in our brains or somewhere else? if it is on our brains, then just like a supercomputer can be brought down by malware, so can out brains with an addictive substance, to the point that it reasons ways of continuing it’s own auto-destruction, but what if the brain is just a repository of memories that something else calls from and the addiction passes to it? That is scary stuff. Anyway just rambling, just glad i made it through another day of quit, ya’ll take care.
Some pretty “Deep” stuff there DeepyDeeDont. Would be lying if that last part didn’t catch my imagination about it be a repository of memories…interesting.
You keep chugging along, I specifically remember the Fog coming back near the 100 day mark too. It’ll pass quicker this time, the vanish. Proud of you bro…the first floor of your quit is right around the corner…see you there!
JP
Sorry if this is a repost, had trouble submitting my reply the first time.
Based on animal experiments my own feeling is addictive substances activate the deep limbic brain, the primordial grand central station we refer to as the ol’ CNS. The prefrontal cortex and higher centers know logically “this is bad” but it almost always loses out to the neurons that go way back in the evolutionary process. Either way it’s a hugely complex massive system so that may be oversimplifying a bit.
This is day 7 for me. The first couple days the urges were legit; luckily I didn’t fall to the temptation, but today all of the sudden I was thinking about going to get a tin, and reading all of these comments and the information made me feel a lot better. This is going to be a long battle but I know in the long run I will thank myself.
Another Long Monday, but with the end marks the day 84 of My quit. Chomping away to 100. Stay quit fellers.
After 30+ years of Dipping I am finally getting away from it. I saw the cans behind the counter at the gas station. It kind of felt like seeing an ex-girlfriend, remembering the good times, but also remembering the agony while you were in it. Bitter sweet I guess. Was watching an old cowboy movie and dudes were dipping so deliciously, it all came back to my mind. After the big meal from yesterday, huge craving there, but no cave in. I’ve gone through this before, but this time it is different, the cravings come, but I have no desire to act upon it. It is as though when someone dies, you miss them, but you know there is nothing you can do about it, so you make peace. I think I have made peace, i still might get tempted, but there is nothing i can do about it because I aint going back.
End of Day 82
Dip is kinda like a sweet ex gf lol, one that you knew was no good for you but you dated anyway :/
Proud of you DDD..sounding more like a quitter for life.
DDD. Good job. You are almost there! I for one has been waiting for your HOF for over a year! Glad you made it
Jeff
476
Day 81, this is it fellas, only 19 says until HOF. I am kicking this biocth to the curb. Ya’ll take care.
I’m on day 24 aftwr 14 years of chewing and my brain feels like it is in an absolute fog. I’m finding it hard to leave the house and perform daily duties. Is it just me or is this normal. I’m freaking myself out.
Yep… 100% normal. It’ll take a while but each day it will get a little better and you’ll eventually return to “normal”
Thanksgiving is tomorrow, watch out for those cravings after a huge meal, stay strong people. I am starting day 79.
Im like a week into quitting, under my tongue is sore and a bit red. Is that okay?
I would have a doctor have a look, just to be on the safe side
Another day and another victory against the can. Filthy garbage I wish I’d never started. Day 78
Also don’t forget the motto “this too shall pass” when things are going GOOD!! 😐
Today was a blur to me, I guess Mondays are like that. On December 16th of this year I will complete my 100th day of Quit, the Big HOF is just around the corner. Only 23 days away. And with those words I end day 77 of my quit. You all take care.
81 days for me today. It’s been a struggle the whole time, but a couple of weeks back I got to where I was waking up at around 3 in the morning and only getting broken sleep until I got up around 6. Lack of good sleep led to symptoms that made it seem like week 2 again. My doctor gave me a prescription for Ambien, I’ll give that a try for the next week or two and see if it gets me through this.
Totally normal Bob. Then one day, you realize you actually got a good nights sleep. Hang in there….
this too, shall pass (my motto during the first 100 days)
-JP
When I took Ambien I would wake up in morning and there would be food scattered across the bed, the fridge would be open, and my dad read me the riot act for calling him at 2 in the morning. All of which I have no memory of. Just a possible side effect!
Anybody else experience sore throat 50+ days into a quit?
Damn, I know how it feels to cave jay. It ain’t easy to admit it either, all of us hurt when a brother fails, but guess what? Just like me we have to start again from day one and carry the shame of being a loser because an inanimate object was stronger than us. Good luck.
End of day 75 for me
No Losers here unless you let that stuff win. Quitting is an everyday promise “I’m done with Nicotine”.
25 days left DDD, keep on keeping on.
Jay..gotta agree with Chewie the gum is better than the other chemicals in the tobacco..but Nicotine is nicotine. That’s the goal here and the quit…to be FREE! I wish you luck ditching the addiction.
-JP
Yeah I want to be free from it for good, I need to quit turning to nicotine to relieve stress. Unfortunately it’s the first thing that comes to mind when I’m in a stressful situation, my blood pressure goes up and I immediately think of a dip or a smoke. But, it felt better not having to rely on any of it. Thanks for the support guys. Thanks for the link Chewie.
I caved yesterday..sort of. I bought some 2 mg nicotine gum, 20 pieces. Better than tobacco, but it’s still the oral fixation + nicotine.
Yep. That’s a cave 🙁
How many days clean were you? What happened to lead you to buy the gum?
You’re right… gum is better than tobacco but you gotta kick it to regain that freedom!
A matter of months, I’ve never been one to count the days. Stress brought it on, I wanted the satisfaction of chewing on something with the stress relieving tingle of nicotine, and chose the lesser of two weevils
Check out this page: https://www.killthecan.org/your-quit/smokeless-alternatives/ There’s a SLEW of great fake dips out there that have no nicotine / no tobacco.
It’s my 5th day chew free… I love chewing. But it’s not good..
Thanks Jayp, you always there when we need a helping hand.
Well, I didn’t cave in, grew some bigger balls and fought it off. It was pretty tough, but i did it.
I remember last year when it was around this time in the quit, the same thing was happening, so I have to look out for those triggers this time.
Well, and like you say, continue to fight the mind and convince it that it is over, we cannot go back, there is too much to lose if we do.
I know we all busy, but I wish Sheeva and Jeff would chime in more often, I am almost to the 100 mark like you all and I need yalls encouragement. Right? the Mighty DDD calling out for help, but yeah this time around I want to make it through, even if it’s not all on my own. Thanks. Day 72, Over.
Day 99 here. Had a chat with a guy tonight who is over 5 yrs quit. He said the only thing that helped him was the mantra “not one more”. This has been my rally hymn and motivation cry for 99 days. I will not dip today. Not one more. With you all.
Keep kicking ass DDD! Your doing great
Jeff
472
That chart up there seems right on the money, I am getting bored with my quit and actually thinking about getting some Dip.
I went to the gas station earlier and saw them, right behind the counter, all different colors, shiny, alluring, calling my name.
It took all my strength to not get one. Came to the office and just keep thinking about it.
Huge crave settling in, so I decided to come in here and write it all out, I am hoping it passes as I type this garbage. I am thinking, I went to 2 dentist sessions (uncomfortable rather than painful), I have saved over 300 bucks, and been nicotine free for over 70 days and I feel a little ashamed for wanting to throw it all away, for actually thinking about going back and breaking my word.
I said I was not going to do it anymore, and so it shall be. Gosh, I just wish these craves weren’t so powerful, they don’t happen everyday, but when they do, they pack a punch.
Day 72, but not over yet. need help.
DDD…you got to just tell yourself that “that” part of your life is over. And I don’t mean just saying it to yourself, I mean you need to convince yourself that its truly over. Of course you’re going to have the craves…hell, I had them at where you are and again after the 100 day mark. Just this past Monday i was out on my Afternoon run and as I started this incline, hill on my run, I passed an old broken can of Grizzly. Now…Inwas a Skoal Wintergreen guy, but I immediately could recall the smell and taste of tobacco. 1 year and 130 days into my quit…I STILL would love to pick up that old can and scrape a dip out of it! My words of wisdom…those craves will never go away. They might be a faint whistle across the canyon…but they are very much alive still in me. I have just convinced myself that those days are behind me…and I think that is the “secret” to the quit. First, its motivattion to get yourself the balls to quit, but then its a game of convincing the mind you are committed and there ain’t no way you’re going back. Easier said than done, sure, but if it were easy, we’d all be successful quitters. Hang in there Hombre, you’re kicking ass, DONT CAVE! You’ve worked too hard to give up now.
-JP
Hi its almost two weeks of my quit symptoms are preety cool FOG, SMALL PAIN CHEST SAME AS anxiety EYES PAIN ON TOP AND BURNING DIFFICULTY CONSTRATION SLOW THINKING AND ACTING TROUBLE SLPPE SAME AS INSOMNIA ..preety cool but i think its all because of quitting nicotine + caffeine +anxiety tripple action ..
Zak…all normal..and I agree, it is a combination of all those items you’ve quit. That’s a huge Mountain you’re climbing, I quit alot of things at once myself, and it was tough. Keep grinding!
Day 71 is coming to an end for me. Hang in there quitters.
Day 5 here. I noticed dark spots forming on my lower teeth after about 2 1/2 years of dipping (2 years of which I used a can a day), and it scared me enough to quit. I picked up dipping as a freshman in college as a result of my ADD and inability to focus well. Although I realize that with finals upcoming now probably isn’t the best time to quit, I really feel strongly about putting down the can for good, and I intend to stick to it. However I am really having trouble focusing on my homework and studying, and I really don’t want to see my grades suffer as a result of me quitting a terrible habbit. Has anyone gone though something similar or does anyone have any advice/tips to help focus on homework? Thanks!
I’m doing the same… Quit 3 days ago and have finals next week. My thought is just do all of this at the same time and get it over with. Good luck, we’ll need it.
Day 70, I finally moved to the next step. I am in the Funk it says. Late term craves, the doldrums, the blahs, the blues. 385.00 Bucks saved and not in the coffers of Big tobacco Companies. C’est la guerre, I was your prisoner for 33 years, and 70 days ago i declared my independence.
Great job! I just passed the 24 hour mark and this is absolutely brutal.
Hang in there Matt
Another weekend Comes to an end, Today is day 69 of my quit. You all take care.
Day 68. Been really busy. No time for cravings.
Day 67 and No Dip.
Pardon me, Day 66.
How did you get past day 1 …I’m ready to rip every ones head ofg
The way I quit is cold turkey but whenever I feel the craving I put something in my mouth(har har) like a toothbrush, toothpick, sunflower seeds, a straw from a drink, etc. It really helps and before you know it you haven’t had a dip in like weeks. It’s totally doable.
That’s what I’m doing. Anything but chew. Good luck. 4 days cold turkey
I posted this somewhere else: Let us play Chemistry Shall we?
Formaldehyde: Used to embalm dead bodies
Benzene: Found in gasoline
Polonium 210: Radioactive and very toxic
Vinyl chloride: Used to make pipes
Chromium: Used to make steel
Arsenic: Used in pesticides
Lead: Once used in paint
Cadmium: Used to make batteries
Hydrogen cyanide: Used in chemical weapons
Ammonia: Used in household cleaners
Butane: Used in lighter fluid
Toluene: Found in paint thinners
(Source: Centers for disease control and prevention).
All that stuff is in tobacco commercially available to people, now I am not saying you should Dip, but you should have the right to do it if you want to. BRILLIANT!! This type of logic shines.
-Someone posted that he understood the incredible negative effects of these elements in your body, but his argument was that we shouldn’t tell people what to do for it is the person’s choice to dip or not to dip (sounds Shakespearean).
To him and any other person that defends the freedom to dip I say, read what people in here are saying, they know what they are talking about.
Yesterday I posted about having dip dreams, and today I will tell you guys that I had a couple of panic attacks, complete with rapid heartbeat, high blood pressure, dizziness, the works. Now I read these symptoms before, but really paid no mind since they hadn’t happened to me before, now that they have happened to me, I know what those older quitter brothers were talking about.
So all of the elements and compounds described above do have severe repercussion in the body and they will cause the symptoms described when they leave the body or when the body heals itself. What a trip, if I hadn’t known these things were going to happen when I quit dipping, I probably would have freaked out a hell of a lot, so I am glad I came to this site and got information from other dudes that have gone before me.
When Sir Issac Newton said “We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants…” I even throw the Latin words for it, nanos gigantum humeris insidentes, however you want to say it, this site sure brings much gigantic information and people dynamics for people like me, a beginner, that stand on the shoulder of Giants.
Thank you all that started this site, and for all the guys that take the time and write their experiences in here.
Day 65.
Hey Bill, I am on Day 64 as well. I know what you mean. The cravings come and try to knock you down. For me, they would come throughout the day triggered by anything I used to do in the past. Now ,and I believe this is crazy, but I think the vice has changed its strategy, it does not pop up in small cravings throughout the day, rather it waits and waits until a particular event happens and then it roars into my brain with a mighty craving.
Last night, I was feeling a bit weird, because I was dreaming that I had taken a big ass chunk of tobacco and dipped it with joy. I remember justifying it in my dream by saying, “oh well, just this once, i can scratch this day and continue with the quit”, then I would think, “no I have to start from day 1 again, what a blow to all my quit brothers in the forum this will be”. The dream was so real, until I remembered in my dream that I was asleep and I had not really broke my quit. I was so relieved and actually woke up.
The experience though, was surprisingly accurate, the flavor, the smell, the feel of it between cheek and gums, the high, and the throw up feeling I felt as well. All of these sensory perceptions seem to be saved in our brains forever, Scary.
I had read here, that some people have these dreams, I never did, so I thought that aint real, but it happened to me, so i can vouch for that.
Hopefully in time, just like any other uncomfortable memory, the memory of dipping will be placed in a distant drawer in our brain, but it will always be there as part of our lives. Sucks. I wish I had never had started Dipping.
I am on day 64 and haven’t been on the forum for a while…but I gotta say I am at work and jonesing like a champ right now for some Copenhagen…I am trying to stay strong..
Day 63 and still kicking Ass. It ain’t been easy at times, but somehow I’ve managed to stay quit. Only 37 days to 100, let the countdown begin.
Keep up your fight DDD, you’re doing awesome. I just looked back for my day 63 post, couldn’t find one…I must of not posted for a few days because I found my day 66 post. I printed my first 100 days off so I could reflect on my fight to get through. What I see on day 66 was a realization that I was going to make it to day 100/and beyond. And that the main struggle I had ended around day 40.
I hope things are getting easier for you, I know each of us has our own story. Keep on kicking ass!
-JP
DDD same went for me. I felt better the sooner I left the crutches ; fake dips, gums, mints etc. For some it worked,for me it just kept reminding me of dip. I felt better the sooner I left the fake stuff
It’s the opposite for me, I went cold turkey, at around day 90 I started getting the craves to have something in my lip. Ordered some fake shit and the craves to do the real shit intensified 10 fold. I finished all the fake shit and to start all cold turkey again did not work anymore I had to have the real deal. And so I did. A year later I managed to pry myself away again after a health scare. If the fake dip works for you all then that’s cool. For me. It did not work. So cold turkey it is. Day 61.
Early in the morning, but I couldn’t wait to post DAY 60 for me. 330 Bucks saved in 2 months, but monetary value means nothing compared to the health regained. You all be cool.
August 16, 2014 was my last day as a chewaholic. Never had one dip since. I use Smokey Mountain. Its funny how much the addiction is just having something in your mouth. If I go without the fake stuff for a number of days I start getting that addicted feeling back. It last a few seconds and then fades. No doubts I have gained 5-10 pounds but the reasons I did this were more for myself. If I can’t help myself I fail to help anyone else.
Day 59 -Nothing to report- still quit.