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Day 12....

Pops
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5 10 115

Hello family!!!

I can't seem to find a rhyme for 12, as in this is my 12th day of this forever quit....

I am certainly having a day @ work today, that is for sure.....

It seems that my level of performance has not been up to par for one of my support teams work leader.  She has requested that I be relieved of my duty as her representative....hmmmm....okay....well that is the first time in my life that I have encountered a situation such as that.  I simply asked my immediate supervisor if that was going to impact me financially...of which he told me absolutely not, and that I wasn't to worry about it one bit.  Easy for him to say, he isn't the one who is being stripped of some of his duties.  I take it as a personal affront to me, and am ready fo go to war in my defense.  He assured me that I should simply let it go, that he understood that she was being intolerant, and that fortunately for me, she has nothing to do with my reviews, and that I had nothing to worry about....

So, you can see that I have been battling with a few difficulties today....NOTE:::::.....not one time did I encourage any thought of lighting up a smoke or reverting back to the old case of the f#%k its....Instead, I just kept putting one foot in front of the other, and went about my work, free of that extra burden that I used to have on my plate....

That being said, I am happy to report that Pops is enjoying his 12th day 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!