Smoking getting me down

[RustyAngeL]

10 hours ago, lifeszero said:

I can't work out if smoking cigarettes is sinful, can someone help me get around the perpetuation of mans wacky inventions.

It's not sinful but as is said in this forum, Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.  It is very harmful to your health and I know you know that.  We are cast our cares on God because He cares for you.  If your a believer, a born again Christian than ask yourself if smoking is harmful to your testimony?  Is staying healthy and giving God the glory worth trading for smoking?  This is a personal decision and it is between you and God.

Blessings

RustyAngeL

[Willa]

I quit smoking 48 years ago after smoking for 3 years, but today I have COPD.  The doctors attribute it directly to smoking.  It does great damage to the lungs that apparently is irreversible.  My son works in monitoring radiation.  He told me to day that you inhale radiation when your smoke--greater than background radiation.  When I was taking anatomy and physiology I was told by a geneticist that the carbon monoxide that is inhaled kills the phagocytic cells in your larynx and lung membrane so that they are unable to kill foreign cells.   So much more has been discovered since then.  Were you to see the autopsy of the lungs of a smoker they would be black.  This is what convinced our son to quit.  

To my knowledge there is nothing in the Bible that pertains directly to smoking.  But common sense should tell you that you need to quit.  Use whatever methods you need to do it, but remember that nicotine patches etc when used together with cigarettes can and do cause heart attacks from too much nicotine.  This is also one of the problems of unregulated e cigarettes.  You don't know how much you are getting.  We quit cold turkey when we were told the smoke was endangering the health of my unborn baby.  

Ask God to give you both the will and the ability to do His good pleasure.

Blessings,

Willa

[missmuffet]

One thing I can say about a smoker is that they do not need a lecture.It will make them smoke that much more.If a person has been successful in quitting that is great.We all need to take a look at ourselves before pointing a finger at the other guy.

[missmuffet]

47 minutes ago, Willa said:

I quit smoking 48 years ago after smoking for 3 years, but today I have COPD.  The doctors attribute it directly to smoking.  It does great damage to the lungs that apparently is irreversible.  My son works in monitoring radiation.  He told me to day that you inhale radiation when your smoke--greater than background radiation.  When I was taking anatomy and physiology I was told by a geneticist that the carbon monoxide that is inhaled kills the phagocytic cells in your larynx and lung membrane so that they are unable to kill foreign cells.   So much more has been discovered since then.  Were you to see the autopsy of the lungs of a smoker they would be black.  This is what convinced our son to quit.  

To my knowledge there is nothing in the Bible that pertains directly to smoking.  But common sense should tell you that you need to quit.  Use whatever methods you need to do it, but remember that nicotine patches etc when used together with cigarettes can and do cause heart attacks from too much nicotine.  This is also one of the problems of unregulated e cigarettes.  You don't know how much you are getting.  We quit cold turkey when we were told the smoke was endangering the health of my unborn baby.  

Ask God to give you both the will and the ability to do His good pleasure.

Blessings,

Willa

Smoking is a reason for emphysema,COPD and other lung diseases but so are other factors such as an occupational hazards,second hand smoke,a lot of air pollution.I would say about 50% of those who get lung cancer have never smoked before in their life.There are those who smoked 20 or 30 years ago and quit and their lungs are still vulnerable to a lung disease. I have never known a person to have smoked a cigarette and then get into a car and wipe out a whole family in another car such as those who are partaking in drugs and alcohol.

[Kan]

2 hours ago, lifeszero said:

My daughter keeps moving my cigarettes so I have to keep finding them, the last place she put them was in the freezer. She'll always give me a clue to where the cigarettes are and a map of the house so I won't get lost.

 

So I always get plenty of exercise.

You have a great sense of humor. 

I don't think that it's just the cigarettes that get to you. That's too simple.

I'm pretty sure that you are craving to be comforted on other levels, not just the feeling that nicotine gives you.

If I am a sinner, then I know that God has been working closely with you ever since you were born, but we don't really believe that our whole life is of interest to Him, including how we face daily challenges. That's just typical of all sinners.

He remembers all the things that we have experienced and felt, and while we forget, He does not forget what has made us who we are.

Of course we have been dreadful, but we haven't had it easy either, besides we are samples of what Christ came to save. 

As someone said before, talk to Him, tell Him what's on your mind, be totally honest, and tell Him that you are sorry for not recognizing His love for you, and that He is now welcome in your life, especially for the sake of your loved ones.

And if we feel under any pressures, (because we will - seeing that Jesus makes us face some of our defects and troubles within) tell Him the truth, and don't forget to thank Him for what good He does to us, that we are completely unaware of.

 

 

[lifeszero]

3 hours ago, bopeep1909 said:

Well how about drinking coffee?That is a drug.How about gluttony?That is a sin.Smoking will not keep you from heaven if you are a born again believer.It just may get you there faster.

Yeah, but it does give me mixed emotions.

[lifeszero]

3 hours ago, bopeep1909 said:

Your daughter loves you.She wants you to live a long time and not get an illness related to smoking.But then again you could go out in your car or walk across the street and it would be over.Our lives are in God's hands.He knows us better than we know ourselves.Pray to God to give you the strength to cut down or quit.I would be the last one to point a finger because I am a smoker myself.

Helping oneself is a plus.

[lifeszero]

3 hours ago, manuelf324 said:

That's OK anger is not sin be ye angry but sin not. It's the result of that anger. Do you continue to smoke out of emotion(frustration) or do you trust in the Lord and focus that anger to bring your body to subjection. This can only be done with daily prayer and meditation in God's word 

If you mean trust as in Faith, then yes I do. I think I smoke because of something that happened with some children when I was a teenager.

[lifeszero]

3 hours ago, angels4u said:

That is sort of funny...

I smoked many years back and know how you feel...

God will set you free if you trust Him!

Luke 4:18

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed

She's very funny, when I get sick (Like food poisoning) she walks around in circles in the lounge room. Then she come's into my room as says "Better or Worse." And if I say worse she goes back out and keeps walking in circles.

[missmuffet]

People who have a lot of anxiety often turn to cigarettes.Cigarettes is the only drug that relieves depression and anxiety.It is extremely difficult to overcome.It is not a bad habit it is an addiction.I have known many who have stopped smoking for 20,25 and 30 years but have started again often due to a devastating incident in their life.