smoking

[other one]

Grandma, I started smoking when I was about 12 when I started working for my dad in the service station he bought and I could afford my own cigarettes. I don't think any of us knew it could be harmful to our health at the time, or I'd have not started.

Anyway I smoked for a really long time (I'm 65 now). but quit a bit over 20 years ago. My kids had allergies really bad and we were learning how damaging it can be to health. My wife quit when she got pregnant the first time. She bugged me to quit for several years, but I really didn't want to so I just smoked outside and away from home at work.

I assume she'd been praying about it cause one night while I was our puffing away under the car port in about 25 degree weather, the Lord tapped me on the shoulder and wanted to talk. He never told me to quit, but he did show me the future of where the things was going to take us.... It's much to personal go get into here, but I didn't take the cigarettes back into the house, they went directly into the trash.

I had been kind of trying to quit to suit my wife's wishes, but that just wasn't going to happen with me really not wanting to quit.

Long story short I was over the chemical dependence in about three days, but the habit of having them in my pocket and mouth really gave me some trouble. I cut up white straws the length of my Camel unfiltered cigarettes and kept them in my shirt pocket where I'd have something to grab and poke into my mouth when the phone rang....... still to this day when I answer the phone I catch myself reaching in my pocket even though I don't have an urge to smoke at all..... just a learned habit that didn't go away.

Anyway I don't think anything could get me to start smoking again for any reason.

[grandma dolittle]

I don't smoke (cause im 14), but I don't think there's anything wrong with it (provided that you do it at an age that it's legal) unless you're addicted to it. I think the same for drinking, too.

I don't smoke because I am 14!" :24: I love that!!!

[grandma dolittle]

I don't smoke (cause im 14), but I don't think there's anything wrong with it (provided that you do it at an age that it's legal) unless you're addicted to it. I think the same for drinking, too.

I don't smoke because I am 14!" :24: I love that!!!

Honey, I am not putting you down, but you would have to be over sixty to really appreciate the humor in what you said.

[other one]

I don't smoke (cause im 14), but I don't think there's anything wrong with it (provided that you do it at an age that it's legal) unless you're addicted to it. I think the same for drinking, too.

I don't smoke because I am 14!" :24: I love that!!!

Honey, I am not putting you down, but you would have to be over sixty to really appreciate the humor in what you said.

Well I qualify...... and I did laugh...

[Guest LadyC]

i'm not quite even 50 yet, and i got a chuckle out of it! oh, if only more of our youth were like that!

[udx]

i don't believe that smoking, in and of itself, is any more sinful than having a glass of wine with dinner. (which, by the way, i don't believe is a sin at all.) now, if you let it control your life, then it is a sin of idolatry.

i smoked. it may not have been the thing God wanted me doing, but i suppose there were other areas of my life He was more concerned about. many, many times here on worthy, i said that my smoking was between me and God, and when He decided to deal with me about it, i'd obey.

and i did.

after 30+ years of a 2+ pack a day habit, God told me it was time. i put them down nearly three years ago and haven't picked them up since. it was a God thing then, and it's still a God thing now. and when He is ready to deal with you about that aspect of your life, He'll let you know. until then, rest assured that HE ALONE will let you know... He's quite capable of telling you directly rather than using the dripping condemnation of non smokers.

Comparing smoking with a glass of wine is a very bad comparison. Smoking in any amount is medically proven to damage the body. Drinking in moderating on the other hand is good for your body, and Jesus also drink wine. I believe smoking is a sin because it is willfully damaging the body that God has given.

[Guest LadyC]

believe what you wish, i don't expect everyone to agree with me. but in my opinion, it was an apt comparison. and for those who feel it is a sin, it WOULD be for them to partake. what God does not define in scripture as sin is a matter between God and the individual.

in any case, i'm glad that i now longer smoke (even though my immune system plummeted AFTER i quit smoking). it was a costly habit, and it did control my life. God has delivered me from it, and i'm grateful He did.

[Hall7]

Someone once asked a preacher if they would go to hell if they didn't stop smoking, and his reply was that they won't go to hell but they'll probably go to heaven earlier than expected.

[gdemoss]

i don't believe that smoking, in and of itself, is any more sinful than having a glass of wine with dinner. (which, by the way, i don't believe is a sin at all.) now, if you let it control your life, then it is a sin of idolatry.

i smoked. it may not have been the thing God wanted me doing, but i suppose there were other areas of my life He was more concerned about. many, many times here on worthy, i said that my smoking was between me and God, and when He decided to deal with me about it, i'd obey.

and i did.

after 30+ years of a 2+ pack a day habit, God told me it was time. i put them down nearly three years ago and haven't picked them up since. it was a God thing then, and it's still a God thing now. and when He is ready to deal with you about that aspect of your life, He'll let you know. until then, rest assured that HE ALONE will let you know... He's quite capable of telling you directly rather than using the dripping condemnation of non smokers.

Comparing smoking with a glass of wine is a very bad comparison. Smoking in any amount is medically proven to damage the body. Drinking in moderating on the other hand is good for your body, and Jesus also drink wine. I believe smoking is a sin because it is willfully damaging the body that God has given.

Good points. According to scripture God made wine for the purpose of cheering a mans heart and also that Jesus was the man of sorrows. I don't recall scripture ever saying God made anything to be grown, harvested, rolled up and smoked. Drunkards are not allowed to enter into the kingdom of God because the turn the truth of God into a lie and choose to live a life of partying for the sake of partying. I don't know what God will have to say to the smokers when they show up.

Gary

[other one]

i don't believe that smoking, in and of itself, is any more sinful than having a glass of wine with dinner. (which, by the way, i don't believe is a sin at all.) now, if you let it control your life, then it is a sin of idolatry.

i smoked. it may not have been the thing God wanted me doing, but i suppose there were other areas of my life He was more concerned about. many, many times here on worthy, i said that my smoking was between me and God, and when He decided to deal with me about it, i'd obey.

and i did.

after 30+ years of a 2+ pack a day habit, God told me it was time. i put them down nearly three years ago and haven't picked them up since. it was a God thing then, and it's still a God thing now. and when He is ready to deal with you about that aspect of your life, He'll let you know. until then, rest assured that HE ALONE will let you know... He's quite capable of telling you directly rather than using the dripping condemnation of non smokers.

Comparing smoking with a glass of wine is a very bad comparison. Smoking in any amount is medically proven to damage the body. Drinking in moderating on the other hand is good for your body, and Jesus also drink wine. I believe smoking is a sin because it is willfully damaging the body that God has given.

Like living in Los Angeles... I had more trouble in LA than I did smoking...