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Good morning EXers!

Pops
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I'm just not feeling it for the rhyming routine this morning....I've been up since 3:00 this morning cooking for an event that we (the Veterans) at work are hosting for this years Veterans rememberance day....This year, I am preparing enchilada casserole for about 65 people...I also made another 1/2 chaffing dish pan for me to eat @ home.  I just love this stuff.  But it is such a mess to make, I only cook it two or three times a year.  I'll send pics later....

So today is another exciting day of my forever lifetime quit.....Pops is rocking through this no man's land with 46 days today....and now I have a couple of traveling companions that are keeping me smiling all the way throughout this journey! 🙂

Know this....I am ecstatic for my newfound freedom from the chains and poison of nicotine.....I have not had ONE, that's right, not one single urge to smoke one cigarette since I began this journey 46 days ago, on the 22 of Sept.  That is an absolutely "Perfect quit date"...I have zero need to change it for anything whatsoever.  I certainly hope that each of you can feel that way about your quit date.  Have a great smokefree day.....I will check back in throughout the day today when I can.....xoxoxoxox Pops w/46 DOF...Woo Hoo!!!!!

And here is the start of my renown "enchilada casserole"....

...and who would've thought that would turn into this?...

...and who would've thought that, could turn into this?..

geez...am I ever hangry now.....

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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!