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kenny:
hey guy's
in 1994 i quit drugs and alcohol all in one second never to return not once.
but i didn't quit ciggies till 1999 it was the hardest thing i have ever done and am still doing, i want, crave or what ever you call it every day but i refuse to smoke and you know i minister to truck drivers every day and guess what over 99% of them smoke.
just the other day i was talking to a truck driver and he was telling me that ciggies went up again to over 5.00 dollars a pack and i was looking at the cigarette that he was smoking and it was popping and burning really weird and i said some thing to him about it and he informed me that they only make fire safe ciggies anymore and they burn differant so that if they are thrown out the widow of a car they will not start a fire so easily, that's just one more chemical to the already over abundance of chemicals in them.
you know if you think about it everything that gets burned off in the lake of fire probably smells like an ashtray. if you don't believe me go smell one, they really smell bad and if you smoke?
winner08:
Greetings Roy, I like many other suffer from addiction. I like you ask God every day and night to help me to get over my addiction. Its like being between a rock and a hard place. I been on pain meds for yrs due to serious back problems. If I don't take my meds I am in so much pain I can not work. I have no quality of life. If I don't take my melds for a day or two i start to get sick and go through withdraws. It's terrible. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I am a slave to these pain meds. I have read and listen to Rays audio on repentance. I have listen to it everynight for a week straight and I understand that when and only when God is ready to remove this addiction from me that it will happen. It is still so upsetting that I can not do anything about it and I must suffer and my family must suffer. But one day God will releave me of this addiction and until that day I will pray and thank Him for everything He does for me. The Lord will do the same for you Roy. One day you will wake up and not even think about smoking. it will be as if you never did. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Darren
John9362:
Hi guys,
I quit smoking 5 years ago, I had smoked for the previous 25 years. I did a program through smokenders.
http://www.smokenders.com
The program lasted 5-6 weeks, the guy who was teaching us to quit over the 5-6 weeks told us that it was going to be very easy to quit at the completion of the program, most of us responded with carcastic remarks, because we the class of about 30 all tried to give up many times before with limited success and always ended up back on the smokes.
Shock Horror .....at about the 4-5 week mark, most of us were dying to quit...we couldn't wait for the program to finish so we could throw away the smokes once and for all. BTW the program has a 92% success rate. Trully once I completed the program I quit the smokes so easilly and never looked back. Maybe this is the answer to some of you who are praying for God to help you quit, perhaps our God through my experience will have some of you quit through the smokenders program.....I hope so.
Love you guys ...the smokers and the non smokers :)
Deborah-Leigh:
Some comments from Ray:
I know people who smoke and drink who are fine people. Do most such people have a deep love for the Truths of God and strong desire to live out the Truths of God in their personal lives? No. Not generally. But then again, there are those who are real religious zealots who don't fare much better even without some of these carnal desires of the flesh.
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There is no mention of "smoking" in the Scriptures, as it appears to have been a more recent invention of modern times, so I can't give you specific examples of it in Scripture. It is a "lust of the flesh." It produces physical pleasure, but apparently GREAT PHYSICAL DAMAGE to the body. My father smoked for over a half century and died a horrible painful death from emphysema.http://bible-truths.com/email16.htm#drinking
Sin is sin regardless of whether "God controls everything," or God
controls nothing. Sin is lawlessness, missing the mark, coming short
of the glory of God, etc. God never ever does any of these things. Men
do. God made men so that they would "miss the mark," "fall short," and
be "lawless." It is not a sin for God to have made man so weak as to
prevent him from having the power to resist sin. There is a great purpose
for God creating man so that he cannot overcome the lusts of his carnal
weak mind, which God created. For the details, read the rest of our site.
God be with you,
Rayhttp://www.forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,2302.0.html
God gives us an experience of "evil"--things that are wrong (Ecc. 1:13, Concordant Literal New Testament), so that we will learn and desire to do what is RIGHT.
http://www.forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,1189.0.html
There are hundreds of Scriptures that show that God is Sovereign and that man is caused to make his choices by circumstances that ONLY GOD CONTROLS.
It is not true that if you have no free will, then it is God Who does or commits your sins in you. No, YOU SIN BY VOLUNTARILY [NOT "freely" OR WITHOUT A CAUSE] DOING WRONG. You do wrong because you [and me too, sister] were created too spiritually WEAK NOT TO SIN. And it was NOT A MISTAKE [sin] on God's part to MAKE US WEAK so that we sin. He did it for great purpose. http://bible-truths.com/email2.htm#freewill
When one sins willfully or voluntarily, it means that he has lost his conscience about those particular sins. He feels no guilt nor shame for committing them. We all sin, but sin is not to "reign" over us, as Paul admonishes. When we sin, we should recognize it as sin, and feel shame, and repent, and go on. Once we feel no guilt nor shame, there only remains "judgment" which will assuredly remove (through fiery trials and purging) these "adversaries" that plague the human race. Hope that helps.
God be with you,
Rayhttp://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,7848.0.html
Roy Coates:
I recommend Chantex for any body tyring to quit smoking. I had very good results, I still don't smoke. It is expensive if you don't have rx coverage(it is not covered under most insurance plans). My wife is giving it ago now and she hopes for the same results as I was given.
I am praying for all those wanting to quit...
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