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I wonder how the day is going to unfold????

Pops
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‎02-19-2020 06:55 AM

Good morning EXers....

I hope all of you had a better day than I did.....Heck, I was laying rubber in the parking lot as I was leaving to go home....

It seemed that everyone that I came in contact with, was just going out of their way to piss me off...:-(... and they were quite successful in that regard...almost all day long....

Now this being "Hump Day"...I'm curious which one of them will try to mount me first?  I'm so not having a good week so far....

However....I have not succumbed to the urge to go out and buy a cigarette.  Yesterday, I caught myself thinking...damn, just "one" cigarette sure would taste good, or at least give me a buzz for a couple of minutes anyway....hmmm hmmmm....I then came back to my senses, and asked myself, "when in my entire lifetime...have I purchased a pack of smokes, smoked one....then threw the other 19 away"?!!!  People, those demonic little s##ts....they NEVER run alone...they always run in packs of twenty!  Remember, one is too many....and twenty is never enough....

So Pops is still free and damned happy to be so at that....175 Days of thriving in my "smobriety"....not just surviving it.

Enjoy your day, and remember to watch your back...after all, it is "hump day". 

 

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About the Author
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!