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Once more...I have arrived @ Day "Four"!

Pops
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Good morning EXers!

Hey guess what?  This morning I was out of creamer and milk.  So, I got a recycle bag and went up the stairs to the street level...and walked across the street to the local Giant Food store & purchased my goods...(okay, not just milk & creamer...) I mean after all, I did walk to the store didn't I?  And since I seem to have this overwhelming urge to stick something in my mouth at times....why can't it be a Jelly Filled roll?    I looked like a really mischevious chit after I ate it too....(it had a ton of powdered sugar on it).  So here I was sitting at my pooter, drinking my fresh coffee and wearing a black sleeveless tee shirt.  All was normal and peaceful until I took a bite of that roll & I mean it looks like half of Cuba landed on my clean black shirt.  I mean I had white powder from neckline to waistline! 

So my blood pressure is starting to settle down again...I took it this morning after my walk & it was 130/64 with a pulse of 62.  Those are actually very good numbers...I'm simply amazed how I forget that nicotine actually coagulates my blood and makes my heart work harder to circulate the blood through my system.  Hence, my lower legs get tired much easier than when I'm not smoking.  It was so nice to walk across to the store and have spring in my step every step of the way...I'm telling you...I'm on FIRE! with energy and hope for a better life....

Pops celebrating day Four...once more!!!! Woo Hoo & "Happy Monday to you too"!!!

 

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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!