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I have eyes on my day five ;-)!

Pops
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‎06-18-2019 08:26 AM

 Good morning EXers.....

Well, things are going well as can be expected...the jonsing factor isn't too terribly disturbing this time around.  I am sitting @ my desk eating my morning ritual..(a mug of iced tea, and two slices of wheat toast with peanut butter and jelly)...That seems to help keep the hunger craves away until lunchtime.  

As you can see...I'm already getting started lol.  I have a staff meeting in about 20 minutes, then it's turn & burn all day again.  My office neighbor is starting to feel some heat, as he sees that I am knocking out work at a maddening rate, while he simply sits at his computer and surfs the web for gun deals and streams his music, and spreads rumors about the state of affairs in our office these days....(you know what I mean....anything "BUT" doing some semblance of productive work...???  All the while, singing Trump's mantra, "Make America Great Again."  I could just puke....

But hey....I'm not smoking!!!  I'm thinking just a second...time for another bite of that toast....ummmm good....Okay, where was I?  Oh yeah, I'm alive on day FIVE!  Yep, I noticed that I didn't hack up any phlem this morning either.  I'm certainly not missing that wonderful morning exercise...you know the one....where you cough so hard, that a hunk of oyster guts come flying unexpectantly out of your mouth and lands on some inappropriate spot on the side of the car, or down my shirt....oh joy....what a great visual you get to have this morning huh?  Well remember EXers...that is just one example as to why you don't do that anymore....so there....don't say Pops never gave you anything...your welcome. 

Seriously, I need to get busy on this toast before the meeting and I will check back after the meeting.  In the meantime...

Enjoy your smokefree day!

Pops with 5 Days of Freedom!!! Woo Hoo!!!

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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!