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Simple as A,B,C...Pops is rockin 83!

Pops
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‎12-14-2018 07:50 AM

Yep, 7 more days before I am outa here!!!!! Next Thursday will be my last day until the 7th of Jan....next year!!!!!

How cool is that?!  So between now and then, I have to make sure all of my loose ends are neatly tied up, so that nobody has to needlessly do my work in my absence.....(that's the professional side of the holiday anyway)....As for the personal side of the holiday...since this is going to be my first Christmas/New Years sober....(in a long time anyway.....)...I have checked in the national directory and found several meetings that are taking place in the same neighborhood that my brother lives in....I will always have an escape route in the event that my sick mind attempts to pout and detract from the joy of the holidays....The last thing I want to do is be a killjoy to the ones that I love.  After all, it is me that has a problem with the moderator...not them.....As for the smoking, nobody in the family smokes any longer, so that will not be a problem...plus, I willl always have the site close by....As for Mac & Cheese....(pout....pout....sad face..) ....I have hired the neighbors daughter to come and sit with the boys a couple of times a day while I am away....

As I am writing this blog this morning, I have the You Tube christmas music playing through my computer speakers....Pretty soothing actually....

Most everyone on this site knows of Pops already, but in the event that you are new here...and just happened to land on this blog by chance...well I would like to share with you, that the whole business of not smoking anymore is really much easier than any of us ever imagined.  The hardest part of quitting was to get it through our stubborn heads, that we were just as entitled to be as healthy and happy as anybody else on this site.   The only thing we needed to do, was to start believing in that reality, and begin to focus on the gifts that we would be receiving "each" time we said no to a memory, or urge to smoke....DO NOT think about the negative side of quitting....the withdrawals will subside almost immediately, and soon will be so infrequent, you won't be able to remember the last time you thought about smoking.....

xoxoxox Pops with 83 Days of Freedom Woo Hoo!!!!!!!

Have a great smokefree day

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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!