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Good morning EXers on day 26!!!!!

Pops
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‎05-15-2018 08:39 AM

Good morning EXers!  I hope all is well with my family here...I sure am happy to have been able to pocket my pride and not worry quite so much about what you thought of me, and decided to come back to the fold....Thanks for all of the support that I have received since I've returned.

I am always sickened when I see another tobacco addict (either formerly, or still addicted) talk down or harshley to another addict that has faltered.  But for the grace of God...there go I.....

So...it's back to work, and another day has begun....time to earn the donuts!

Pops w/26 Days of Freedom...Woo Hoo!!!!  

Enjoy your day......

Wow!  Let me tell you guys something....now that it is almost 7 in the evening....today has been one heck of a doosie to stay focused in....My addict mind has been beating on me continually for the last two hours...!!!!! I know that I am not to act on the thought...instead, I am looking to see how my life has been greatly enhanced from not smoking, and to appreciate that I am now 26 (soon to be 27 days free from the last drag of nicotine.....).  But let me tell you...the addict is a stubborn sob @ times....;-(!!!!  I know that my stature here has been severly hit by my last relapse, and I really do NOT want to fail here....so I will just continue to do what all of us do....NOT SMOKE NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!!! Darn this is simply brutal right now.....  Oh well....this too shall pass...(it better pass soon, or I am going to have to break something!!!!!)  Geez this sucks!!!!!

Wha wha whaaaah whaaaah ....yeah I know....but that is just how it is @ this moment....oh well, I'm going to post this at the risk of looking like a total village idiot.

Pops who still struggles just like most people do from time to time.....

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Hi, and thanks for stopping by to read my page....My name is Ken Bishop...aka, Pops. I am a stubborn older addict of nicotine....I have quit on numerous occasions in the past, and have experienced great rewards as a direct result of not ingesting deadly toxins into my bloodstream. One of the curses of having a strong constitution that seems to be able to withstand much more than others can...is this...my body would still be able to move around, and get things accomplished even after I was poisoned by the harmful effects of nicotine addiction. Eventually, the harm became so significant, that not even I, with all of my denial...could avoid the truth that to continue to smoke, would most assuredly be the death of me, and in short order as well. On Sept 1st, of 2018...I found myself in a rehab facility for alcohol abuse, and came very near death. I quit messing around, and had a deep and moving spiritual encounter, and have remained sober without one single urge to pick up a drink since. That was after consuming copious amounts of booze for many years in the past. After a short while.. I asked for spiritual help from my creator to make it possible for me to get the same amount of conviction towards finally being able to successfully put down nicotine once and for all...As of....(September 14th, 2019)...I have 17 days of living smokefree! Woo Hoo!!! Friends and family are all very proud and happy for me. They have asked me what I thought was the turning point, after having experienced so many failed attempts before. I simply reply, "I took the God Shot". xoxoxo Pops update: in Dec of 19 when the stock market started going nuts...I used that as an excuse to start smoking again. I see-sawed back and forth for severa months, and when the COVID crisis hit, I simply lost all desire to be smokefree...I was going to smoke & that was final. Well, as always...the pains of excessive injestion of nicotine into my blood stream...(one puff is all it takes) started affecting my everyday life again...I knew I had to quit placating my inner child and grow up and accept a life without nicotine. The normal person would read this and say well duh...finally he's getting it. But the normally addicted nicotine addict would understand...weird huh? So now I'm back with a new quit date of July 8th, 2020 & am hoping that I can accept that as a perfect quit date that does not need to be changed. Thanks for reading and good luck to you in your quit journey. Pops w 4 DOF!