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Pops is on Day 5!

Pops
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‎07-14-2020 10:37 AM

No thanks to JIVE....Geez, the points system on this Jive website is broken again...I can't believe this outfit is still around.  They should have dumped these clowns three years ago when they came on board and just destroyed to way the older site was being run.  They tried to sell us on the fact that it was progress....more like they didn't have the expertise to duplicate the options of their predecessors.  Oh heck I've ranted enough....

Hey, I slept like a baby last night.  Only coughed a little bit when I first laid down last night.  Other than that, I slept through the night...woo hoo!  That is huge.  

I also am no longer having the smoking dreams either....I only had a couple of urges yesterday.  For my fourth day, I would think that is pretty good.  This morning after I ate my bowl of raisin bran...I was thinking that I normally would be out on the patio firing up a smoke before I even washed out my empty bowl.

I don't do that anymore....and here I am, I just got done pledging, and now I'm blogging, and next I've got to get my place ready for the carpet cleaner to come out and give my carpets a deep cleaning from Mac & Cheese being difficult...little chitz that they are....

Pops w/ five days of freedom....woo hoo!!!!! Have a great smokefree day....

Mac (the darker one)...now weighs 18 lbs, & Cheese weighs 13 lbs!!!  These two are part mountain lions....

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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!