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I'm a "two digit...midget"!!!

Pops
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Don't even start with me and the politically correct way to put it.  Hey, you're reading a blog of someone who used to think midget wrestling was a professional sport.  I also felt that midget tossing was great exercise....;-)  Some of us just never evolve...So me & the toads went to Shady Maple, Pennsylvania yesterday...long ride too.  We left Mount Airy, Md @ 9:30, and didn't get to the smorgasborg until 1:00.  All toll, we went on about za 325 mile ride through the back roads and twisty turns....I got so sunburn too.  And that was still after applying Banana Boat spf 50 twice!  Sun is just brutal this year.  Beware if you have any tendencies to burning....skin cancer sucks....

For some reason, last night was a really tough time for me to get through.  I simply took a cool shower & about 4 low dose zaspirin...zand crawled into bed with the boys for the night....Cheese knew I wasn't feeling good, so he stuck real close to me all night...what a soul mate he has turned out to be....Mac on the other hand...he could care less...lol.  He's the one to say, "hey, you gonna go out in that crap all day long??? then suffer" lol

I bought a loaf of the Amish Gourmet Blueberry bread with icing....ummm that is going to make for delicious slice of peanut buttered toast with jam....

Have a great smokefree Day....

Pops with "TEN" 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!