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Day 3!!! and Pops is off & running....!!!!

Pops
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‎09-25-2018 09:12 AM

Good morning EXer family!!!!!  I spent all day @ the doctors office (VA Medical facility in Washington D.C.) checking out to see what sort of damage I had done to my body while I was out there running and tearing through life!  Don't tell me there isn't a power out there looking out for me....My organs are all in great shape, to include my lungs! (if you can believe that....) My liver is great, psa levels are normal, cholesterol is only 158!!! My blood pressure simply blows me away....it is now 117 / 63!!!!!!! Thank you God!!!  It was so wonderful being able to say to the doctor, "No, I am not drinking any alcohol, nor am I ingesting any form of tobacco whatsoever...

Oddly enough, when I was in the medical clinic going through my backpack, I noticed there was a last brand new unopened pack of smokes that I had totally forgotten about in one of the side pouches...I simply returned home and threw the pack into the dumpster, (not my inside trash can).  I am having no craves or urges whatsoever, in either deadly habit.  Drink, or smoke....either one will most certainly hasten my death, and will be going against the agreement that I have with my God today....

Be well my friends...I will blog later, I have to get back to work this morning.....Have a great smokefree day!!!!!

Pops w/3 Days 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!