Stop Smoking praise thread!!

[Temple Messenger]

temple messenger,

AMEN,

I don not know how long it has been for me 56789 weeks or so, All you say is true. I even have lost quite a few pounds too.

John, do NOT go and replace the craving for them cigarettes with food now. Too much food is not good for us either. That is something we must be extremely careful about. Lots of folks do that, you know.

Keep on keeping on stopping with your stopping! I am happy for you!

[Live4Jesus]

Temple Messenger - thank you for your post!

I wish my DH would quit smoking. He quit when I did but started back up again. He does not smoke around me - he doesn't even smoke when he's home but I can still smell it on him. I am worried about his health.

Please pray for him!

I've been smoke free for 10 weeks, 5 days, 5 hours, 7 minutes, 14 seconds!

[Vickimac]

I am so excited for those of you are hanging in there!
I cannot believe how expensive those things are getting, going up another $.40 a pack!! I am doubly grateful to be done with them.

Something else I haven't mentioned, which is quite gross but I used to have bronchitis once or twice a year and at least yearly it was really stuck-in-bed bad. The stuff I coughed up.... oh my.....

I just realized that I haven't had even one of those episodes in the 2 yrs since I quit! I've had colds, but nothing like that choke-a-horse phlegm result of smoking. (Sorry- but it IS gross).

38 years, I thought "Well how much health can I get back at this point? I've already blown my lungs- 38 years!!!"
NOT necessarily true, so DON'T even use that excuse to keep smoking. :)

The wheezing at night is GONE. the bad bronchitis is gone, and all the real cravings are gone. I would like a cigarette, sure, but do I need one? NOPE! :D

PTL!!! ALL glory to God!

[jelaine]

Kyle, everyone, your testimonies on how God took away your own personal idol is encredible and your honesty about the fact you my friends saw it the same way I did, thats encredible, right on my brothers and sisters, John says "Little children, guard yourself from idols" .... I went for a year and a half without smoking and then I started attending this church and starting look at other people (very bad) I saw a flock of the sheep heading for the back before church to smoke ... I approached the pastor about the smoking issue ....his response to me was "Its not what goes into a man that defiles a man, but what comes out of a man, thats what defiles a man" I was like well, in your theology I can still pop pain pills and smoke weed, since its not what goes into a man that defiles a man .... get behind me satan! Can you belive that garbage God says, woe to them that call good evil and evil good... He also says woe to the worthless shephards of the flock..... I say ultimately we have to go to God, if God is gently convicting us to giive Him something there is a reason ... I know my biggest issue was Jesus said "Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on Earth will be loosed in heaven" I was like Lord, is there a smoking section in heaven? So I will pray for everyone who is in the first year the first year is the hardest, but with men it may be impossible, but with God all things are possible! Excellent testimonies my friends Amazing! I thank God for you my brother and sisters!!

[Live4Jesus]

jelaine :hug

[Michelle95]

It will be 6 weeks tonight since I quit. I actually had someone ask me if I smoked the other day...it was the first time someone asked me that and I could say "no". :yeah

I used Chantix and boy did it help me....only took it for 2 weeks total. I still want to smoke but I'm ok that I don't. My hubby is using it now to try to stop dipping. Today is his quit day and he has had one dip but not craving them near as bad as normal. He may need a few more days til he can quit for good.

I have seen many people in the past year and a half with lung masses and lung cancer. I've worked a heart floor (telemetry) and now on a perioperative unit getting people ready for surgery. This was part of the reason for me wanting to quit. You cannot deny how bad cigs are. :tsk

congrats to all who have accomplished the enormous task of quitting....and to the ones that still are....if we can YOU can!

[Sparkles]

Hi Everyone haven't stopped in for a while looks like everyone is doing great I have hit 70 days smoke free today Praise God!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't even believe it!! To everyone trying to quit or just starting hang in there and take it one day at a time If I can do it Anyone can

[justasinnersavedbygrace]

to all of you who have quit smoking! Praise God!

I was a 2 pack a day smoker for 23 years and quit almost 12 years ago. Sadly, I also watched my Mom die of lung cancer at the age of 67, just five years after her 94 year old non-smoking Dad passed away, and eighteen months BEFORE her 92 year old non-smoking Mom.

Truth is, smoking probably took 25 plus years off my mothers life.

Give it to God. Even when we are weak, He is strong!

[iwillnotstumble]

i haven't bought a pack in 1 week.............. ive mooched 7 cigs from people..... its funny yet sad at the same time:lol2 :tsk

[justasinnersavedbygrace]

Way to go Iwillnotstumble! Keep it up! Praying for you.