I was banned

[DavidLee]

Stop Smoking (was: Re: I was banned)

I smoked for more than twenty years. I have been a non-smoker for at least five years (maybe seven) but I can't remember what year I quit. I can remember the date of my last cigarette (Feb. 16).

What clued me into the idea that it's more mental than physical was that I would sleep for eight to ten hours a night without waking up for a smoke. I thought if I could go all night without smoking, I could go all day without smoking.

The hardest part is (like anything else) in deciding not to do it. God will give you strength if you need it, but it's like power steering; it's only easy in the direction you want to go.

I have no desire to smoke now. I don't dream about it. I don't miss it. I do still sometimes catch myself reaching to my shirt pocket or looking at a table next to me for my cigarettes. Old habits die hard, but they do die.

Maybe this post should have been a PM or in another thread. If so, I apologize.

 

[Carol Lowery]

Thanks you guys you're great. OK I'm going to combined everyone's advice and go for it. I like it about the vitamins though I'm sensitive, I believe I can work with that....a one a day can keep me up for 3 days and nights, but I think I can play with the amounts to get results. And I have myself came to the same conclusion that if I can go all night I should be able to go all day without one and have. So I have been putting that suggestion into practice already, and pulling one out of a pack to wean is good too. OK guys start praying pleaseeeeeeeeeee I'm going for it and I will confess daily how many I've had. As of now it's 1:41pm and I haven't had one so far today, but I got to say talking about it made me want one so here I go. That's one.....let you know tomorrow how many. Getting a scratch pad to keep track. GNC here I come. :crazyeyes:

Kudos HIM,
Carolpsalm91

 

[stovebolts]

Good for you Carol! :smt038

Keep up posted! (Have you set a quit date yet?)

 

[Carol Lowery]

OK guys.....somebody is praying I've had 10 smigs/cigarettes since my post yesturday @ 1:41 pm And I finished the pack and here it is my time 11:16 pm Eastern time and I haven't went to get another pack, I've been fighting the urge and figured if I wait another 45 minutes the store will be closed and I wont be able to buy a pack until in the morning after my vitamin breakfast. :D Not bad 10 cigarettes in 34 hours......somebody's praying! Thanks, thanks, thanks, keep me in your prayers cause I know I haven't even approach the hard part. GBUE

Kudos HIM,
Carolpsalm91

Date? Hummmmmmmmmmmm How about by the time it's my birthdy? August the 18th? Great birthday gift to myself, and I'm not pressuring myself.....that seems feasable.

 

[DavidLee]

OK guys.....somebody is praying I've had 10 smigs/cigarettes since my post yesturday @ 1:41 pm And I finished the pack and here it is my time 11:16 pm Eastern time and I haven't went to get another pack, I've been fighting the urge and figured if I wait another 45 minutes the store will be closed and I wont be able to buy a pack until in the morning after my vitamin breakfast. :D Not bad 10 cigarettes in 34 hours......somebody's praying! Thanks, thanks, thanks, keep me in your prayers cause I know I haven't even approach the hard part. GBUE

Kudos HIM,
Carolpsalm91

Date? Hummmmmmmmmmmm How about by the time it's my birthdy? August the 18th? Great birthday gift to myself, and I'm not pressuring myself.....that seems feasable.

You should quit tomorrow. Don't worry about failing. What have you got to lose?
If you have to quit sixty times between now and August 18, you'll be pretty good at it by then, so you're setting yourself up for success. :D
Practice make perfect.

 

[Rick W]

I tried the patches but I couldn't keep them lit. :-?

 

[sheshisown]

About being a quitter.

Hi Carol,

I yam SO happy to hear of you decision! YES! :-D

Now you may no longer be called a smoker, because you are a quitter! YEAH! :

Plus smoking is for chimneys, campfires, and the ear-holes of angry cartoon characters!
HUH? :crazyeyes:

My tidbit of ammo for your battle is this . . . Jesus loves you just as you are, your lungs included, ~sides He's got sweet KUDOS for you when yer all finished with this silly habit. AND 1 Corinthians 6:20 ~ For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. SEE! You are just TOO expensive, you cost the blood and the glory of God!

I am praying for you to become nausious at the smell of those stinky things, I stunk fer 20 years myself! I am praying that you will get a NEW nose to smell your favorite foods, perfumes, flowers, and the rain with. I am praying for more grace in your time of need, and for you to boldly enter His throne of mercy when in need. I am praying for a prettier smile too!

Jesus, sweet Lord, for Your glory alone ~ I ask, amen. bonnie :fadein:

 

[Carol Lowery]

Thanks everyone for your support/prayers. Since my last post 6/27/08 10:29 pm I've had at various times when the urge has hit me the hardest a total of 6 puffs off of one smig, I still have half of it left. I'm finding by doing this when the urge hits the hardest that the taste of it is very replusive since it's not a fleshly lit cigarette each time I've taken a puff, and each puff becomes nastier and nastier.....with all the prayer covering me "thank you Jesus" and the advice taken with vitamins/subtracting one daily/depending on God's strength instead of mine/etc, etc, It just seems to be coming together for me in my flesh's desire to smoke to nip it in the bud.

I wonder at times if I'll ever stop being a weeping Christian cause I sit here and read you guy's post and I'm so overwhelmed by your Christ love, your godly advice, your humor in hard times that gives me a chuckle just as I need it (loved the smoking patches not staying lit), your loving prayers and I sit here in tears feeling HIS embrace through everyone of your post, and I have to thank HIM for you cause it would just seem so wrong in my spirit if I don't ask HIM to bless all of you as you've blest me. May your portions of God's blessings be so abundant in your lives in the time you take out of your lives for others....I speak it and confess it in the mighty name of Jesus. Bless them Lord.

Kudos HIM......and I am!
Carolpsalm91

OK the Lord respectfully had me come back in here as I was thanking HIM for you all and reminded more than anything to thank this ministry for providing us a stomping ground on the devil, bless them Lord that keep it running and the peace makers that keep YOUR peace flowing here Lord. Amen

 

[Carol Lowery]

Since 7/29/08 9:52 am, I've had (1 1/2) smigs. I know that things will get tougher, but praise God for some reason this has been easy.....I believe I am becoming a quitter instead of a smoker! I've never had such great results before.......it's got to be prayer. Amen

Kudos HIM, <><
Carolpsalm91

 

[lovely]

Praise God, Carol.

 

[Vic C.]

Since 7/29/08 9:52 am, I've had (1 1/2) smigs. I know that things will get tougher, but praise God for some reason this has been easy.....I believe I am becoming a quitter instead of a smoker! I've never had such great results before.......it's got to be prayer. Amen

Kudos HIM, <><
Carolpsalm91

Carol, in June of 1990, I quit with three cigs in my pack. I just handed them to a friend who asked for one and told him I would get more... no biggie. The first three days went much quicker than I thought. The amount of oxygen my brain and body was now getting was a bigger "high" than smoking could ever provide. It was two weeks later that I broke the news to everyone that I was smoke-free. I even hid the fact from my then girlfriend. Two weeks after my last smoke, she finally noticed I wasn't smoking. I did make it a point to not smoke around her anyway. She was a ex smoker herself.

My point to all this is if you somehow fall back into smoking and want to quit again; try not telling anyone you have stopped. It worked for me. The pressure of everyone around me, looking over my shoulder, checking my breath, lol, etc. was never there! No questions like how long has it been, etc.

So the key for me was, don't tell anyone! Maybe it'll work for you too. Keep at it Carol, it gets easier as time go by. :angel:

 

[sheshisown]

Toughin' it out solo~

Heya vic;

You are one tough guy~ the kind of person it takes to do something so difficult for most of us as dropping cigarettes solo- and nobody noticed? YeeaaH! OKAY! WOW, cool-beans! 8-)

For mua it took five years, I ran two miles a day~ did the weening off thing three times~ watched tv in the rain through a screen to keep from harming the lungs of my then teenage girls~ and even could tell you what cigarette meant the most to me in a given day. Ewe~ an analysts dream and my own nightmare!

However, NOT talking to others about my trial was not even a consideration~~~ my strength would have burned to the ground and gone up in s m o k e. :wink:

In the end Carol~ there is something very awesome in the solo deal that our brother advises. You see for me it was not the desire for cigarettes that kept me puffing and coughing. It was the desire to remain thin! Thou I was unaware of this until the Lord got my attention and told me so one day while in prayer~ all alone (with my Jesus).

After this revelation I quit the last time and totally gave the Lord my body weight too! Guess what? I had more stewardship to learn, and now I am mucho healthy too~ for an older gal. GOD IS SO GOOD! Who knows the very good plans He has for you? The One who thinks about you constantly, who has noumbered your hair strands, and who knows your every detail, who has spent 2000+ years preparing "a place" for you . . . Because He loves you so . . . :-D

In His unity~ like a fresh dew between us~ bonnie

 

[Vic C.]

Heya vic;

You are one tough guy~ the kind of person it takes to do something so difficult for most of us as dropping cigarettes solo- and nobody noticed? YeeaaH! OKAY! WOW, cool-beans!

Hey thanks. Though it showed me how nonobservant people can be, even the ones closest to you. 8-)

It was my dirty, no, "clean" little secret for about two weeks. ;-)

Do it Carol... go for it! :-D

 

[Biblereader]

Praise God, Carol.

Indeed, praise God!

 

[Carol Lowery]

Hey Vic,

Funny you should say that cause outside of this ministry, I've told no one I'm quitting. I put my smigs in the prayer bowl, and said as long as they're in here I know Jesus you wont bring them to mind....and praise God they haven't. Now here's the funny thing when certain people get around me, I'll think about smoking. For example my step daughter alittle, or my friends Gail and Judy or driving in traffic "alot"...... seem to be trigger points. So the next three weeks I'm homebound due to recovering from heat stroke, and hubby going out of state for school. So my trigger points have been removed these next 3 weeks. But you all.....you're right......no one has noticed, not even my hubby, but I avoid smoking around him anyway. Since my last post I still haven't had one, (no desire as long as they stay in that prayer bowl) :wink: But this taking a puff and putting it out for the next one is really turning me off....it stinks....it taste nasty.....and I don't know if it's the heat stroke or what but they're making me sick to my stomach just the smell of them. Lord Jesus they're nasty smellin' things, and I'm so glad HE is making them that way. I can't stand the smell on my hands/breath/clothing. My hubby quit 6 months ago, and he reminds me of you Vic, he just up and quit. Doctor asked him if he wanted to see his grandchildren grow up and he said yes and that was it. So of course about a week ago he asked me the same thing, must have stuck in my grawl good when he did. :-D

But I got to say Vic/others I am having a blast watching/waiting to see who has noticed. Now the only one who has said anything is my one friend who has sinus problems, but hers is more that "Thanks for giving me a break with my sinus's when I come to your house" : But she's not asked me if I'm quitting. She's noticed no smoking around her, but I don't believe she's put two and two together. :D Soooooooo well see who notices the actual "BIG QUIT". But what is weird I already feel like they're out of my system cause the mere thought makes me sick.....it's that heavy musty smell that gets me bad.

Later Gators......

Kudos HIM,
Carolpsalm91 <><

P.S. These beautiful heavy cut crystal ashtrays will be the hint when they're filled with candy! :crazyeyes:

 

[Vic C.]

Whoo hoo! :-D That's great Carol.

 

[sheshisown]

Halleluyah JESUS! YEEEAAAH! Independence here comes Carol !!! (Jesus dependence) that is.

It really surprises me that your friend vic; and your many friends and family Carol; have not noticed~ but I guess it's an "inside job" that we do not notice ourselves long before it ever becomes a good work of the Lord outwardly, Yes? :D

I have been asking our Father to help you despise what He does about cigarettes. Maybe He hates the smell, after all He sure loves the smell of Bar B Que! :-D All those roasted bulls and rams and sheep and doves and such, ya know~

Keeping you lifted up asking after His Wonderful work in you dear Carol.

Well, after awhile you crocodiles . . . :crazyeyes: bonnie

 

[Biblereader]

Hey, back to the being banned thing, is there any way to override the
"your IP address has been blocked" thing?

 

[Vic C.]

If your IP addy has been blocked on a site, there's little you can do, other than plead your case with the administration. There's a small chance it was blocked by accident. That happens sometimes with those who use dialup or services like AOL because they reuse their IP addy and refresh them quite frequently.

Well actually, there is a way to surf anomalously, but why bother? Who wants to be on a site where they were banned and not wanted?

 

[Carol Lowery]

Thanks Bonnie for the prayers.....keep me cover girl....it's working....thank you Jesus! Deliverance is at my threshold, and victory to Jesus. GBU

Kudos HI,
Carolpsalm91 <><