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Pre 405 quitting dip with the plebs

Pre 405 days of quitting dip.

Pre 404. Hell, I'm posting again today bc after talking about that damn caver I just wanted to say: My wife has been a little bitchy lately and I just want to use that as an excuse to QLF all day.

Pre 404 with these badass plebeians.

Pre 404 in the ATL. Quitting dip. All day.

Pre 403 all day.

I. I stayed up late one Friday night in 1998 watching the 1960 Kubrick flick, Spartacus, and chain-dipping Skoal Cherry Long Cut. That's it. That's how I attached my 18-year-old self to the kill weed. I did it because I wanted to--and becase the old man who owned the farm where my buddies and I rode bulls on Sundays didn't allow smoking. It was easy enough to conceal a dip at the farm; in class; at home; in church. There came a time when I owned my addiction. I didn't conceal it at home; at work; at play. I was a dipper and I was okay with the title. II. I woke up on Thursday, December 4, 2014 and didn't put a dip in. I knew that morning that I was finished dipping. I've learned a few things since my quit date, like . . . - I will die one day, but it won't be because I dipped today. - My number of days quit is a unit of measurement that explains, in 24 hour increments, how far away I am from the dipper that I used to be. - I will never dip again. Ever. - Cavers and general dumbfuck tobacco defenders serve one purpose: they downplay the importance of my quit. - Downplaying my quit, and the importance that I place on it, pisses me off because it's mine--not yours. I choose to share my quit openly with my brothers and sisters while quitting beside them each day. - Downplay means to de-emphasize or devalue; to lessen what is important to me. - Integrity matters and should be inextricably tied to your quit. - Not a single quitter here was ever forced to be here. We all choose to quit alongside one another, so if you're going to choose that kind of transparency (and I with you), I fully expect integrity to be at the center of our kinship. It needs to be the foundation. - If you say you won't dip, but then you dip--see bullet points 4 through 6. - I still have victories at 400 days quit. I prefer victories to failures. By reason of deduction, I will remain quit to reap the rewards of being quit. - I will never stop quitting. III. I own my quit. I don't conceal it or apologize for it. It's a protective, loyal beast that I nurture daily. My quit is so real that I've named it "Huck." In my early days quit, my little boy would see me come home sweaty, huffing and puffing from running and doing cardio and ask why. He wouldn't have understood me saying "because it helps my quit," so I told him I was "Taking care of my 'Hulk.'" He pronounced it, "Huck," and so that is its fucking name. My quit doesn't care about anyone except me. QD is like a magnificent dog park--a "quit park" if you will--where we all bring our quits to socialize and examine the health of each one. We take pride in being members of this elite class. Sure, there are other quit parks out there where the quits are emaciated, antisocial bitches living off of the crumbs of mediocrity and the by-product of good intentions; but the champion quits in our yard eat filet and lamb chops 24 hours a day and suckle at the enormous teet of QLF. Have you scrutinzed your quit lately? Is it something that you still want like I want mine? Or are its ribs showing as it hunkers down in the corner of the yard, avoiding the big swinging dicks of the healthy quits? Nurture that sonofabitch and take ownership of it today.

Pre 402. QLF with Mole and Pawg today. @Moleole, keep a lookout for that 60-80 day funk, bro. @Pawghunter, nice job starting week 2 today.

Pre 402. I allowed my addiction to steal 15 years from me. The only reasonable response is spending the rest of my life mercilessly beating the shit out of it and QLF every single day.

Pre 401 with Mole and Pawg today

Pre 401 days.

Pre 400 with Mole and Pawg

Pre 400 days of quit

Pre 399 with Mole and Pawg

Pre 399 days of solid, can-slammin' quit.

Pre 398 with Mole and Pawg all day

Pre 398 QLF

Pre 397. All day.

Pre 397. All day long.

Pre - 396. Quit.

Pre 395

Pre 394 quitting with my boys west of the Eastern time zone momentarily living in the past Edit--Happy New Year, bros.

Pre 393. Quit.

Pre 392 makin' bacon with the Razorbacks

Pre 391