What does it mean?

[ArohaB]

if you've quit smoking for 6 weeks, then have 2 rollies after some wine, but don't desire to smoke anymore? Even though you've had those two. But never wanted to have those two in the first place?

 

[StarryEyedPea]

Hi Aroha!

Firstly, well done on 6 weeks mate! Thats cool stuff!

Secondly, welcome to this forum/thread

Thirdly, stopping smoking is a trial and a challenge for us all no doubt! I have yet to meet someone who said they found it easy to stop smoking!
I have probably been stopped smoking for roughly the same time as you, but I have had a couple of times, today included where a ciggie has been lit. The first few let downs , i didnt smoke them, just lit them and put them out, but today, well, today I did smoke the whole thing!

BUT I have NOT started smoking again. I felt crap smoking it, but that feeling of "why am i smoking this" has made me continue with the thought of NOT SMOKING AND HOW GOOD IT IS!!!!!!!

Carry on NOT smoking, carrying on with it, put the fact you have had a couple behind you, and look forwards again!!!!

God Bless
Starry

 

[HumbleBee]

Tiz your flesh warring against your spirit! Whatever you feed the most, will have the strongest appetite. Well done that you gave up smoking, putting that bad habit to proverbial death! However, do recognize the enemy will try to resurrect it, tempting you, scheming to get ya hooked again. Does the following sound familiar?...

Romans 7:15-25 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!

Romans 8:37...in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Galatians 5:1, 16-18 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery...So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.

 

[BabyandMe]

Thanks for sharing the scriptures! They were a blessing to me.

 

[e=mv^2]

I smoked for 15 years and have been off the cigarettes for 10.5 months now. I used to get winded doing simple stuff and now I ride a mountain bike 5-10 miles 3x per week. I would have keeled over and coughed up blood if I had tried to do that a year ago.

Life *IS* better without cigarettes.

Having tooted my own horn....

if you've quit smoking for 6 weeks, then have 2 rollies after some wine, but don't desire to smoke anymore? Even though you've had those two. But never wanted to have those two in the first place?

It means that you did something stupid and extended your suffering by another week or so. Instead of being all finished with your quitting at date x you now have to wait until date x+y to be done.

This is how people start smoking again. You have two with some juice and think - hey that was not bad - I am ok... I can have a couple more and be ok too! Then you ahve those two and another two and you are hosed again.

Do not extend your suffering any more. Don't ever - ever allow nicotine into your body again.

 

[Evie1980]

I quit 5 1/2 weeks ago and bar one day when I smoked (3 weeks ago) I have not have not gone back. That does not mean that I have not thought about it, cried about it, prayed about it, wished about it ... The thing with change is that it takes time. We want it to be over in an instant, something that we may have done for years in our lives. Ask a person who has recently broken up with a partner how they feel - it usually changes on a moment by moment basis and depends on the length and type of relationship. Smoking was my friend (not a very nice one but still a friend). It helped me in various moments of my life. It went to parties with me, funerals with me, holidays, work ... It was always pretty much there when I needed it. Now I quit smoking and sometimes I miss my friend just like any friend I have loved and lost in life but I know that this friendship had to end. I wanted this. This was my choice and I live in the knowledge that God is here for me. I no longer need my constant companion because my focus is now on the Lord.

So remember what you wanted (to quit smoking), forgive yourself (we all make mistakes that we learn from) and start a new day with hope, love and peace.
May God bless, Evie

 

[ArohaB]

I agree with all of the posts, yes it was stupid and I know how easy people allow themselves to go back, and yes smoking was my friend too, during some very tough trials, and yes I am a non-smoker who thanks the Lord everyday that I have given up the foul and disgusting habit.
Thanks for all your input keep it up and all of us keep up the clean bill of health.
Don't you know your body is a temple?...