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 :'( I am trying to stop smoking. Started today and it is not looking good. I want to smoke so bad that I am crying and depressed. Please Pray for me to be able to beat this habit. I have prayed and continue to pray every time I think about smoking but it is not helping . Maybe I am not praying hard enough or good enough. I do not have the will power to do this by my self. Please pray that God will give me the will power to stop smoking.
Thank You!!

Welcome to C.U. Lisa.

You do understand that we are helpless to do things such as that on our own - that's a major starting point.
I used to smoke, and I had a hard time quitting, but my advice to you is this...

The first thing to do is ask Jesus for help (which you have already done) next, don't buy any more packs. You will no doubt have to mooch off friends and family, but do not buy another pack. Your friends will soon get tired of feeding your habit, and that in itself will help you to quit, because you will begin to feel awkward asking for them.

Once you make the decision to stop buying, God will know you are serious and He will help.

Make a serious attempt to ween yourself off, by smoking one less ciggerret every day.

It is difficult, but once you have your mind seriously made up, and you ask Jesus to help, you will beat it.

My experience is that Jesus won't help unless we are serious, and work very hard to stop. When Jesus sees us doing that He steps in, and when He is on board, nothing is impossible.

I have prayed for you my sister.

John

I am praying for you as well.

I am very happy to be able to pray for you in this, Lisa.

Yes i will pray also...you may also try nicotine gum, it will take some of the edge off.

God bless

Thank All Of You For Your Prayers. I have tried the gum, it makes blisters in my mouth. I think that I will try to ween myself down a little at a time. Has any one tried hypnosis?

Hello Lisa,

I will also be praying for you. I've heard that the patch works well and has little or no side effects. I've heard some people talk about hypnosis, but the patch seems to be the best according to most people.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Ephesians 3:14-19 NASB  For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

Hi Lisa, GOD bless you, for your attempts to quit smoking. I used to be a smoker, and no matter what the doctors told me (always bad news) I still smoked. Then I realized that I was not just hurting myself, financially & physically, but more important than that I was being a hipocrite, I knew I was hurting the temple of the Holy Spirit. I realized that if I was going to let a man made habit get in my way now, what would happen if the rapture came and I was left behind due to my lack of self control? Would I be able to reisist getting the mark of the beast for a cigarette? Remember the Holy Spirit will not be operating through Christians after the rapture, I thought I I can't do it while the Holy Spirit is still operating here on earth why would I think i would be able to do it when He wasn't? I would be prone to a lot of evil, probably stealing cigarettes, lying, denying Christ, all these thought just invaded my mind. Later on I realized that the only way to win a battle is to go right to the enemy and fight him, in this case I was my own enemy, I kept on making excuses for myself to keep smoking. I had to be real tough with myself. I might sound like I am being real tough with you now, but it's only because I know that every born again Christian has the ability to stop doing anything that is harmful to the body, soul or spirit. It does not matter what the addiction is, it may be smoking, drugs, porn, lying, stealing, covetousness, gambling, flirtatiousness (is that a word?), anyway you know what I mean, overeating anything at all that hinders your walk with GOD. You must make a commitment and JUST DO IT. Nothing worked for me before I made a very serious commitment to GOD that I was going to quit. Slowing down, or weaning didn't help, patches didn't help, gum didn't help candy didn't help, doctor prescriptions didn't help, lack of money didn't help, (I would borrow money), nothing worked. Finally I was so disgusted with myself that I stood right in the mirror and lookd at myself and really gave myself a very harsh scolding. I said, "How would you feel if GOD was so undecisive about redeeming you, or how would you like it if He thought you were not worth the shed blood of His Son because you still smoke,or How do you think Jesus feels everytime you light up a cigarette?" I mean I was really hard on myself. Well to be honest it worked. everytime I felt like smoking a cigarette I thought about these things, I would remove myself from the enviornmet I was in that made me want a cigarette at that particular moment, I would read the Bible, pray, and once I was done doing that I would call my husband at work and tell him I was craving a cigarette, he would talk to me and undoubtedly pray for me as well but I would do this until I QUIT... I am not lying to you I even went to my pastor and confessed to him I was having a problem with cigarette smoking and believe me it wasn't easy, as a matter of fact it was downright humitliating and embarassing, but when I think about it it was much more worth it and what a joy it was to call him and tell him I had quit. YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!! I'm praying for you. We all are, now you do the right thing, remeber GOD will not force you to do something you won't want to really do. So JUST DO IT  \0/.

Glady joining you in prayers. Valie

Hi everyone, does anyone know if Lisa quit smoking? I don;t see any other posts