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Day dreaming while in day 6...

Pops
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Good morning EXers....

before I forget..the banner pic today is a photo that I took from the overlook on top of the mountain in Cumberland Gap while I was on one of my many motorcycling adventures....great shot Pops!...why thank you...I thought so too...;-)

Geez, it sure is nice being able to sleep the night through without waking up every thirty minutes to light up a cigarette.  I know that is a dangerous practice...smoking in bed, but hey....if I was worried about dangers from smoking...then I would have quit along time ago.  Right?...You should see all of the cigarette burns in my carpet under my bed, where I would be so tired...that I would drop my smoke as I fell asleep, and the smoke would smolder away while burning a two inch long hole in my carpet...(I'm going to have to pay for a complete re-carpet job when I move...).  I have gorgeous linens that I have been purchasing for my bedroom, all of which have various sized burn holes in brand new bedspreads....what a waste of hard earned money.  As time goes by, I will use the money that I am saving from not smoking, to replace my bedspreads.

Speaking of not smoking...withdrawals are not too terribly bad this time around.  I am using the 21mg Nicoderm patch, and I believe that it is helping.  I still get cravings, but they are much less frequent already.  I have to remember the phrase that usually displaces those nagging thoughts..."I don't do that anymore"...then just simply move on to the next thought process. (usually work related).  In this particular instance, work is a nice distraction from the negativity.  Office mates are not nearly as supportive as they had been in the past.  I can hardly blame them either.  They are most likely making side bets as to how long it will be before they see me outside smoking another cigarette. 

Okay, I have had my toast already, and now I'm going to enjoy a cup of joe, and hit the bricks with everything I have.  I'm going to post a pic here.  See if you can read the sticker that I put on the back of my tour pack...lol...I love the sentiment..

Enjoy your smoke free day....

Pops with 6 Days of Freedom!

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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!