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Yep, you guessed it right....Pops is alive w/85!!!!

Pops
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I see YoungAtHeart‌ gave me a nudge to get my butt on here and shout out another day of smokefree living....That would be eighty-five, and staying alive!!!!! (corny huh?)  Well, it's getting somewhat repetitious now, you have to admit....In ten more days, I will lhave to find another word besides alive...that rhymes with five...lol.  That is really a nice problem to have though.....

Yesterday was pretty boring, and you would be right when you wonder if my quit tool box was needed.  Even though I know that the quit that I am on is absolutely wonderful for me on all fronts....(healthwise, moneywise, sociably, and emotionally)...and still this nagging never say die addiction raised it's ugly head a couple of times yesterday and tried to get me to imagine what a smoke would taste like....I wouldn't know what a smoke tastes like.  Because I have never in my life smoked "a" cigarette....I have smoked a pack of em, and then a carton of em....but NEVER one....

So, I simply got busy doing some other chores around the house, and concentrated on how great I am feeling these days, and saw that my bank account is $1,386 fatter since the 22nd of Sept @ 2 packs per day....($16.50)!!!!! That is my vacation money for this upcoming Christmas.....it also helped take the sting out of the adoption fees for my boys as well.  After a few minutes of the positives from not smoking one single puff of nicotine....the urge was dispatched from my brain for the day....

That my friends is why we as addicts must NEVER forget that we have a quit tool kit that is always available.  Check on it's contents from time to time, to make sure that all of your tools are still in working order, and that you remember how to use them.....you never know what tool might be the one that saves your quit, (or life for that matter....).

Okay, it's time for football & another petting session......

Enjoy your smokefree Sunday....xoxoxoxo Pops w/85 DOF.

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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!