Here's another one I tried a while back with some success. When you decide to quit, it can't be like, "Well, I think I'm gonna quit today." You need to mark it on the calendar and make a big deal of it. Try to taper down before your quit day.
Try reducing the times you dip by one each day until you're down to three a day.
Do three a day for two days.
Then two a day for two days.
Then one a day for two to three days.
If you want to go cold turkey, good luck with that.
Then on your quit day, plan a funeral for your habit. Plan a little speech, curse the evil leaf and all of its vile ways. Damn it to hell. Gather some friends maybe and bury that last can in the back yard with a shovel. (You may want to actually empty the can first if you're a real fiend- you guys know what I mean) Release some doves or fire a gun in the air if you're really badass.
The bigger deal you make out of quitting, the more pressure you'll put on yourself to not re-engage the habit. When you can tie quitting to a particular event, (ie burying the can), you can fall back on that moment when the craving hits you.
Full Version: Bury the habit - Literally
QUOTE (MintGrizzly_Addict @ Oct 3 2008, 11:12 PM) 
Here's another one I tried a while back with some success. When you decide to quit, it can't be like, "Well, I think I'm gonna quit today." You need to mark it on the calendar and make a big deal of it. Try to taper down before your quit day.
Try reducing the times you dip by one each day until you're down to three a day.
Do three a day for two days.
Then two a day for two days.
Then one a day for two to three days.
If you want to go cold turkey, good luck with that.
Then on your quit day, plan a funeral for your habit. Plan a little speech, curse the evil leaf and all of its vile ways. Damn it to hell. Gather some friends maybe and bury that last can in the back yard with a shovel. (You may want to actually empty the can first if you're a real fiend- you guys know what I mean) Release some doves or fire a gun in the air if you're really badass.
The bigger deal you make out of quitting, the more pressure you'll put on yourself to not re-engage the habit. When you can tie quitting to a particular event, (ie burying the can), you can fall back on that moment when the craving hits you.
Try reducing the times you dip by one each day until you're down to three a day.
Do three a day for two days.
Then two a day for two days.
Then one a day for two to three days.
If you want to go cold turkey, good luck with that.
Then on your quit day, plan a funeral for your habit. Plan a little speech, curse the evil leaf and all of its vile ways. Damn it to hell. Gather some friends maybe and bury that last can in the back yard with a shovel. (You may want to actually empty the can first if you're a real fiend- you guys know what I mean) Release some doves or fire a gun in the air if you're really badass.
The bigger deal you make out of quitting, the more pressure you'll put on yourself to not re-engage the habit. When you can tie quitting to a particular event, (ie burying the can), you can fall back on that moment when the craving hits you.
As crazy as some things sound... There may actually be something to "making a big deal out of it" - I don't know about the funeral part, but I actually made sure that when I threw my can away this time, I threw it away with only 4 taken from the can. It was still heavy. It still had lots and lots of lip packing tastiness in it. I let it go. It may actually have some mental aspect.
QUOTE (Ohioman1972 @ Mar 24 2009, 08:00 PM)
QUOTE (MintGrizzly_Addict @ Oct 3 2008, 11:12 PM)
Here's another one I tried a while back with some success. When you decide to quit, it can't be like, "Well, I think I'm gonna quit today." You need to mark it on the calendar and make a big deal of it. Try to taper down before your quit day.
Try reducing the times you dip by one each day until you're down to three a day.
Do three a day for two days.
Then two a day for two days.
Then one a day for two to three days.
If you want to go cold turkey, good luck with that.
Then on your quit day, plan a funeral for your habit. Plan a little speech, curse the evil leaf and all of its vile ways. Damn it to hell. Gather some friends maybe and bury that last can in the back yard with a shovel. (You may want to actually empty the can first if you're a real fiend- you guys know what I mean) Release some doves or fire a gun in the air if you're really badass.
The bigger deal you make out of quitting, the more pressure you'll put on yourself to not re-engage the habit. When you can tie quitting to a particular event, (ie burying the can), you can fall back on that moment when the craving hits you.
Try reducing the times you dip by one each day until you're down to three a day.
Do three a day for two days.
Then two a day for two days.
Then one a day for two to three days.
If you want to go cold turkey, good luck with that.
Then on your quit day, plan a funeral for your habit. Plan a little speech, curse the evil leaf and all of its vile ways. Damn it to hell. Gather some friends maybe and bury that last can in the back yard with a shovel. (You may want to actually empty the can first if you're a real fiend- you guys know what I mean) Release some doves or fire a gun in the air if you're really badass.
The bigger deal you make out of quitting, the more pressure you'll put on yourself to not re-engage the habit. When you can tie quitting to a particular event, (ie burying the can), you can fall back on that moment when the craving hits you.
As crazy as some things sound... There may actually be something to "making a big deal out of it" - I don't know about the funeral part, but I actually made sure that when I threw my can away this time, I threw it away with only 4 taken from the can. It was still heavy. It still had lots and lots of lip packing tastiness in it. I let it go. It may actually have some mental aspect.
Yeah, i know exactly what you mean... when i quit, i had a fresh can of grizzly mint (my personal favorite) with maybe 2 dips out of it... thats about 3/4 of a can left, and what i did to throw it away was that i physically dumped it out into the trash can, and then threw the can away. it was like throwing the nic bitch down the stairs, and then kicking her while she's on the landing...
QUOTE (MintGrizzly_Addict @ Oct 3 2008, 11:12 PM)
The bigger deal you make out of quitting, the more pressure you'll put on yourself to not re-engage the habit. When you can tie quitting to a particular event, (ie burying the can), you can fall back on that moment when the craving hits you.
Guys, I have to disagree about the pressure thing. I've seen too many men make too many big promises to themselves, families and others, only to cave or backslide or slip or whatever you want to call it. It's demoralizing and it does nothing to help. As addicts, many of us find that our will power is strong, but it has nothing to do with staying quit. There is a type of insanity that comes with addiction that will find its way around, under, over or through the strongest "will power" on earth. When that happens, we feel like less than real men. It ain't true.
My experience has been that those who quit humbly and quietly have as good or better chances of making it than those who broadcast it to the world. Hell, That added pressure alone would crack me up! If it works for you, great. I'd rather slip in under the radar and get it done. I don't bring it up at home anymore, and I only mentioned it earlier in my quit because the wife needed to know when I was having cravings so she wouldn't pick up the phone and have me hauled away in a straight jacket.
QUOTE (SerenityMan @ Mar 26 2009, 10:36 AM)
QUOTE (MintGrizzly_Addict @ Oct 3 2008, 11:12 PM)
The bigger deal you make out of quitting, the more pressure you'll put on yourself to not re-engage the habit. When you can tie quitting to a particular event, (ie burying the can), you can fall back on that moment when the craving hits you.
Guys, I have to disagree about the pressure thing. I've seen too many men make too many big promises to themselves, families and others, only to cave or backslide or slip or whatever you want to call it. It's demoralizing and it does nothing to help. As addicts, many of us find that our will power is strong, but it has nothing to do with staying quit. There is a type of insanity that comes with addiction that will find its way around, under, over or through the strongest "will power" on earth. When that happens, we feel like less than real men. It ain't true.
My experience has been that those who quit humbly and quietly have as good or better chances of making it than those who broadcast it to the world. Hell, That added pressure alone would crack me up! If it works for you, great. I'd rather slip in under the radar and get it done. I don't bring it up at home anymore, and I only mentioned it earlier in my quit because the wife needed to know when I was having cravings so she wouldn't pick up the phone and have me hauled away in a straight jacket.
I agree. I have tried quiting by anouncing it to the world and came to regret it. My recent quit (109 days dip free) was not mentioned to antone. It took the added preasure to quit away and took that one added stress out of the equation. At least thats how it worked in my mind.
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