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What resources do I have that you don't have? It's not necessary for you to have started attacking me to begin with, but apparently you only think it's an attack when someone disagrees with you.
Who said I smoke around little children? My whole point is that while I don't smoke around little children you are driving your pollution-mobile past little children and your pollution-mobile and home are polluting the air so much that it reaches little children that you're not even around, whereas cigarette smoke does not.
True, but also no matter how cigarette-smoke-free your personal space is, if you are using toxic-pollutant-producing vehicles and other heat and energy sources you are way not toxin free. And yet you are allowed to pollute my air.
I'm aware of that. I will also regret that you were allowed to further pollute my air and the air of the children who are dying from diseases caused by your pollution. I don't think you regret that, though - you seem to not care about the pollution you cause and want to blame nothing else except cigarette smoke, particularly mine, even though you are nowhere near me. As a smoker, though, I can tell you what doesn't help us to quit smoking, and that is the constant badgering and ostracization and attacks from people like you.
@Chosen_and_blessed :It is not good to let anything other than God be a master over us. You know you shouldn't smoke that is why you are thinking and writing about it. Quitting is not so hard once you get through that first 5 days. I prayed the Jesus Prayer a lot (constantly!) to get through it: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.
I didn't think I would be able to quit, I was worried my mental health and or marriage wouldn't survive it but it was fine. My husband didn't even notice I quit until over 24 hours later when he couldn't find my ashtray! It's been three weeks and I am done with smoking for good. There was just no good excuse to be made anymore, smoking does not glorify God. May the Holy Spirit help you break this addiction, in Jesus' Holy Name, amen!
Bible verses about smoking
Many people ask questions such as is smoking a sin? Can Christians smoke cigarettes, cigars, and black and milds? There are no Scriptures that say thou shall not smoke, but smoking is sinful and I will explain why below. Not only is it sinful, but it is bad for you.
Some people are going to make excuses. They will literately search the web to find out if it is a sin, then when they find out it is a sin they will say well pollution and gluttony is bad as well.
No one is denying that, but pointing out another sin like gluttony doesn’t make smoking any less sinful. Let’s learn more below.
25 Important Bible Verses About Smoking
@Chosen_and_blessed :
Hi; I quit, too. (I don't necessarily regard not smoking as a religious thing.)
So how is your quitting coming along? did you keep it up so far?
Congrats!Hi, yeah I just checked it's been eleven weeks now and I haven't had any problems. My husband quit five weeks ago and he really was a heavy smoker (40 grams of heavy tobacco a day). He misses it and is eating a lot more which makes me wonder if we are actually saving any money by quitting smoking, haha. Still, money aside it is better for the health and we want the walls and ceilings to stay white after we paint them in the new year
Well done quitting! I certainly sounded like a religious zealot in the post you quoted. I don't want to suggest that people that smoke are not Christians or that it is necessarily a sin. I have plenty of sinful behaviours of my own to worry about. I'm not sure why I made such a stern post, tbh. I feel rather convicted by this...I think I meant to encourage in a strict motherly way...well, this is how I learn
Not really sure. I am British and have 'only' lived in the Netherlands for 12 years. Tobacco is cheap here so it seems that more people here smoke than in my native land (Jersey, Channel Islands) where tobacco is outrageously expensive.
Good that you managed to quit; but I guess that when you did smoke while you've been living in The Netherlands, you probably didn't feel particularly out of place there as a smoker, did you? given that so many others there do as well.
Oh no, it's quite a social thing to do here. I think it helped me to socialise a little because people tend to chat (and gossip!) during cigarette breaks. I won't miss having to stand outside in the snow just to satisfy that nicotine craving though!
Well, no more cravings now!
No, I had quit in Jersey and I started again when I moved to the NL because it is affordable and I had issues with compulsive eating, weight gain and such things. I am sure that eating disorders and poor body image are one of the main ways that the devil works through people to keep them addicted to all sorts of destructive behaviours stemming from self-hate and insecurity.
Sounds like you're really pleased now that you quit!
Sarah is a good name! Yes, I guess it would have helped socialize; I did read that in Denmark an even higher proportion of women smoke than in The Netherlands, where it is already high compared with most other countries.
Well, he did say that he hadn't been convicted to quit yet
Maybe if we keep posting replies all the e-mail notifications will nudge him...maybe the Holy Spirit is working through us to convict him 
