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I must still be chugglin' ;-)

Pops
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Good morning EXers!  

Just thought I'd share something with you this morning....I woke early this morning, and found myself sort of anxious to get the day started, so I got up, put on some coffee & headed out to the garage to find a specialty tool that I had misplaced awhile back for a project that I am doing later today.  

Sometimes I misplace tools in the bottom of my saddlebags on the Harley...so I dug into the my bags, and what did I see in the bottom of my bag?  A brand new pack of Marlboro Reds that I forgot about.  I used to call that one of my emergency stash points, in the event that I ever came up not having smokes, I could always go to my saddlebag and find an emergency fix...

So I must be doing something right.  I'm 15 days and 9 hours into my quit, and I immediately thought to myself..."I wonder if I should take a selfie of me flushing these down the toilet or not?"  lol...I decided to spare you the visual of my toilet, but I did come back inside and immediately opened them, and ceremoniously counted them out loud as I tossed each one into the water.  Then I bid them farewell as I flushed them all down and watched them just circle on away from my new lifestyle...

I'm pretty darn proud of that moment, and just wanted to share it with you.....

btw, I didn't find my tool that I was looking for, but I really think I found something much more valuable than that.  Another successful day won!!! Woo Hoo!!!!!

Pops with 15 DOF!!! Woo Hoo!!!!!

Enjoy your weekend.....

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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!