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TGIF!!!

Pops
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Good morning EXers!!!! It's Friday, and another day has come and went, and today gives me great reason to smile...for it is this morning that I have acquired 4 weeks of freedom...!!!!! And that my friends just rings my bell...loud and proud!

Next weekend, I will be in Ohio celebrating the Memorial Day weekend with Brother David and family...Know this, I am going to be eating like a king when I'm there!  His wife always makes me a care package to take home with me since she knows that I typically won't cook for just myself.  So at least I will eat a couple of good meals when I get back...It's not that I don't know how to cook.  Heck, my dad was a long order chef and brought me up in the kitchen.  It's just I really don't care to cook for just myself....

Our rain levels the last couple of days have been way over normal, and we are now experiencing down powerlines and major flooding throughout the D.C. area, and many of it's outlying towns as well.  Well, I guess I'd better get busy and earn my keep today....Enjoy your smokefree day today....

I will leave you with a couple of smiles on your face this morning.....

and maybe another???

Pops with 4 weeks of freedom!  Woo Hoo!!!

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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!