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Any of you smoke?

I do (FYI i'm not proud of I and don't flaunt it) and have been told that I will smell like hell when I go there.
 
Wrg1405 said:
if so what's your thoughts on it?
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It's a very hard habit to break. I spent my entire childhood having adults blow smoke in my face. My parents used to make 8 hour car trips every weekend with us kids in the back of the car and smoked nonstop with the windows up for example. My dad smoked with emphysema and on oxygen almost til the day he died, at 77. My mom just quit not too long ago. My brother still chain smokes. Started smoking at age 11. After I was saved I quit. But pressures of the world eventually drew me back into it. Part of the habit, a big part, is social and a desire to relate to other smokers.

I eventually quit when I was 30 years old, and stayed quit for 18 years.

THEN the inevitable pressures drew me back into it. My best lifelong friend was killed in a motorcycle accident. This was followed by another long term close friend committing suicide and another who was killed in a fight that he was randomly drawn into, all within 90 days. During that year I had a total of 13 deaths with the above and other friends and relatives. It just devastated me internally. It still does actually. Death can make you feel very hollow inside. On the day we buried my best lifelong friend, 5 of the pallbearers, I was the 6th, lit up a smoke after we loaded his body in the hearse. I took one too. That was all it took of course.

Since then it has been off and on. I have had long spells of up to 5 years and 2 years not smoking. Working on it again right now, 3 months non after a short stint of back at it (a year after 2 years of not.)

It's a love hate relationship. Sometimes I can just walk away from it like it was nothing. But...

I try not to stress about it either way.
 
smaller said:
It's a very hard habit to break. I spent my entire childhood having adults blow smoke in my face. My parents used to make 8 hour car trips every weekend with us kids in the back of the car and smoked nonstop with the windows up for example. My dad smoked with emphysema and on oxygen almost til the day he died, at 77. My mom just quit not too long ago. My brother still chain smokes. Started smoking at age 11. After I was saved I quit. But pressures of the world eventually drew me back into it. Part of the habit, a big part, is social and a desire to relate to other smokers.

I eventually quit when I was 30 years old, and stayed quit for 18 years.

THEN the inevitable pressures drew me back into it. My best lifelong friend was killed in a motorcycle accident. This was followed by another long term close friend committing suicide and another who was killed in a fight that he was randomly drawn into, all within 90 days. During that year I had a total of 13 deaths with the above and other friends and relatives. It just devastated me internally. It still does actually. Death can make you feel very hollow inside. On the day we buried my best lifelong friend, 5 of the pallbearers, I was the 6th, lit up a smoke after we loaded his body in the hearse. I took one too. That was all it took of course.

Since then it has been off and on. I have had long spells of up to 5 years and 2 years not smoking. Working on it again right now, 3 months non after a short stint of back at it (a year after 2 years of not.)

It's a love hate relationship. Sometimes I can just walk away from it like it was nothing. But...

I try not to stress about it either way.
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Oh my friend. I don't know what to say. I feel so much for you. Jesus I lift up internal devastation that Smaller still has. I do pray for healing from this.
 
Wrg1405 said:
Oh my friend. I don't know what to say. I feel so much for you. Jesus I lift up internal devastation that Smaller still has. I do pray for healing from this.
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There are a lot worse states that believers can find themselves in than smoking my friend. I wouldn't trade my frailties for a lot of 'believers' problems.
 
smaller said:
There are a lot worse states that believers can find themselves in than smoking my friend. I wouldn't trade my frailties for a lot of 'believers' problems.
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Yes, cancer caused by smoking, or causing cancer in someone else based on 2nd hand smoke, is worse then smoking.
You are correct.
I dont smoke, but, i do believe that freedom of choice is the correct definition of "free will".
For example, most mornings i go to the gym and put in a really good workout.
Been doing this for years......and the end result, is that i get to die healthy:)
Thats my free will in action...
 
Kidron said:
Yes, cancer caused by smoking, or causing cancer in someone else based on 2nd hand smoke, is worse then smoking.
You are correct.
I dont smoke, but, i do believe that freedom of choice is the correct definition of "free will".
For example, most mornings i go to the gym and put in a really good workout.
Been doing this for years......and the end result, is that i get to die healthy:)
Thats my free will in action...
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Good health is the slowest possible form of death.
 
smaller said:
Good health is the slowest possible form of death.
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Preferred over watching a loved one die from emphysema or c.o.p.d and cancer,heart disease. I have asthma,laugh to hard or simply randomly do a quick cardiovascular workout and I will be using the inhaler. Nothing better then my throat closing.I don't know how smokers breathe at times.
 
I smoked from the age of 17 to 26. I would cough hard in my sleep cause I couldn't breathe. Now I hate the smell. It makes me nauseous.
 
jasonc said:
Preferred over watching a loved one die from emphysema or c.o.p.d and cancer,heart disease. I have asthma,laugh to hard or simply randomly do a quick cardiovascular workout and I will be using the inhaler. Nothing better then my throat closing.I don't know how smokers breathe at times.
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Death of the flesh is never pretty no matter what form it takes.
 
smaller said:
Death of the flesh is never pretty no matter what form it takes.
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I know one who died fairly healthy for age,92 years old.my grandmother.she recovered from hip surgery ,and celebrated her birthday and died that night.July 11,2011.
 
jasonc said:
I know one who died fairly healthy for age,92 years old.my grandmother.she recovered from hip surgery ,and celebrated her birthday and died that night.July 11,2011.
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There is nothing more disheartening to me than a cold lifeless body no matter what age it expires. It is the sight of deep sadness and sorrows. We try to brush it off and forget about it and move on, but every time we see it we see our own eventual fate as well. I just got back from an out of state funeral for one of my uncles whom I loved dearly. He was 84. I will miss him very very much. We shared a lot of things together over the decades and spoke to each other frequently. It hurt to see him. No one really ever recovers from this kind of pain. It tends to build and wear on you over time.
 
I'm a vet,one learns to compartalize death quite well.its a habit I have never unlearned.I say my goodbyes and when the time to remember hits I act on it .jaci was born a few days after my grandmother's passing.funny ,I will see a family friend tommorow who called me to tell me via her phone she had passed.
 
My great-grandmother enjoyed cigars & pipes.... drank whisky....ate beef, pork & poultry raised on the farm where she lived until she was 96. She only allowed a woman to come in to clean the house, etc. a couple of times during the week. Otherwise, this determined and healthy woman lived alone. (She died from complications of the flu, in the hospital.)
 
I smoked cigars for a year, until a new doctor noticed and told me I should stop. So I did, cold turkey. Haven't had one since. I suppose if someone gave me one I would fire it up, but I don't feel the need to go out of my way.
 
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