Would some one please pray? or at least give advise...?

Question

For my wife, she said she would like to stop smoking but she can't.
She took zyban before and it worked, but now she's puffing again.
Seems like the pills are the best solution.

Will do jackie...

I've heard that works too Barbara, thanx

Gongrats, Mark..

iwant_u2_....Guess that did look strange, bible in one hand, cig in the other.....thanx

Congrats. St John..She did good for a while but the other girls at work smoked, makes it harder..

Tristan, getting wiser are ya..That's the reason i gave up a life of crime..got tired of making DA's and lawyers rich..

Answer 1

I just quit after smoking 12 years and trying to quit about 7-8 times.

What worked for me this time was watching Spike Lee's HBO documentary on Hurricane Katrina. Seeing that level of tragedy is horrible. Seeing how the U.S. government did almost nothing to help the tragedy and continues to screw over the people of New Orleans is unforgivable.
I look around and see that I am living in a country that is run by people who don't give a **** about their citizens. This country is run by evil men and big corporations. And I am fed up with it. I don't really know what to about it, but I know that I don't want to support it and play into their hands anymore than I have to. One thing I figured I could do was to stop killing myself with cigarettes and paying them $5.25 a day to these ******* evil men to shorten my life and do exactly what they want me to do.

I was tired of being too weak to stop and submitting to the corporations. **** them. I will not let them get the better of me.

And don't let them do it to you. It is really hard to give up smoking, but keep at it. Keep trying. Be strong and determined and disciplined. If you keep smoking it will probably kill you. By smoking you're very very slowly killing yourself. They smell horrible. They're kind of expensive, and the money you spend on cigarettes could be spent on something positive for yourself or donated to people who have less and need some charity.

The list of reasons not to smoke goes on and on. And there is really no good reason to continue.

I wish you the best of luck with your efforts and hope that you eventually overcome this problem. You'll feel a whole lot better once you do.

Take care,

Tristan

Answer 2

I sure will pray for her. My parents just quit smoking after some 39/40 years. My mother had started when she was 16.

The only way they could do it was through constant prayer and "fasting" from the cigarettes. Every time they had a craving it reminded them to pray and pray hard and when they thought they couldn't pray any more they prayed again.

It was a most humbling experience, but let me tell you something else. They not only stopped smoking (Without drugs or patch or whatever else the world has to offer) they are now closer to the Lord than ever because they were humbled through this process.

They know now how vulnerable and weak the flesh is and can be again lest they constantly seek the Lord in all they think, say or do.

Her goal while quitting smoking should not be so much to "quit smoking" but to SEEK HIS FACE and while she enters into the Holy of Holy's and draws near to her Savior, he will cleanse her spiritually and physically from her dependance on worldly things, including cigarettes.

I believe this with all my heart. I saw Jesus heal my parents from their addiction and they are completely new in the Lord now.

You too might want to select something and fast from it during this time so that you too might be in a place to pray with her continuously. Together this will really strengthen your marriage bond and of course your relationship with the Lord.

Change your routines a bit. Smoking has a lot of "triggers" that are caused by her daily associations.

EX:
Change seats at the dinner table
Sit somewhere different at church
rearrange the furniture in the house
add a nightly walk or morning walk
eat dinner at a different time
add a bible study to your evening together
turn off the tv
bring her flowers! :) (Hey! I'm a girl, what can I say?)

Answer 3

No one can stop smoking until they really desire to. I smoked for about 30 years. I tried everything, and nothing worked. I even prayed, and that did not work either. The point is that I wanted the cigarette more that I wanted to quit. God will not quit for you, but he will give you the strength-you must use it. You will have to use that strength oven and over again. The day my wife and I decided we would quit (June 9, 1991), we had to commit and recommit every time we had the urge, finally after about a month the urge began to slip away. After the second month we were free. You can go 5 years without a cigarette and smoke just one-and be back to a pack or two a day in 24 hours.

Answer 4

Let me tell you how God took mine away and maybe that would be a help to her. When I got saved my husband and I would go out and witness and while I was telling them about Christ I wanted a cig. I started praying and asking God to help me stop smoking. I wanted to quit but I knew I was weak in the flesh to do it on my own. I prayed each day and 6 months after I was saved God sent a missionary to our church and I knew when i spoke to that woman that God was speaking to me about smoking. God used her without her knowing I have been praying for this and this was my problem. The next day it was as if God spoke in a small still voice and told me to stop now or I will end up like my mother. I threw a whole carton away and God took away my habbit. I had no withdrawls, wasnt angery. God did it. If your wife isn't truely ready to quit then she want. When she is ready have her to pray till God takes it.

Answer 5

Tell her to get down on her knees and genuinely pray. Tell her to be so sincere in her request for the grace to just quit ~ cold turkey. She must see herself really quitting, not thinking while she is praying that she cannot wait to go out & puff, she must be real, the way GOD is. Pray & He will help. But the power is within herself, she just has to believe. That's how I quit, but u must help her do things to keep her mind off it, esp. after meals or occasions when she used to smoke. Buy her a huge pack of sugarless gum. Some sweets (ice creams, chewey or hard candies) to support the oral fixation, God bless, but I will pray for her too. Being addicted to things keeps us away from God.:o] Good luck, smoking stinx!

Answer 6

Prayer is conversing and thanking God for all that he has given you. remember one factor, it must be worse. you need to be ineffective, and you will forsee the failings that take place after dying. God will continually pay attention yet won't respond the two. existence is a attempt and while he would not respond he will ultimately and supply you signs and warning signs for people who've a prepared eye. case in point, while you're properly-off and you ask for greater money, God won't provide you cash he could in actuality make your existence worse so which you will savour how lots money you have besides. yet once you assert that as quickly as you probably did pray it replaced into right down to people no longer religious bodies. properly duh. God would not conjure up stuff for you and make issues take place and each thing revolves around you. He classes you to do stuff. case in point, while you're in a desolate tract devoid of-one and you ask God for water. God isn't in basic terms going to grant you water. he will provide you signs and warning signs and help instruction manual you to water. you would be able to desire to place some attempt in. The argument of unanswered prayers is quite vulnerable via fact maximum of those prayers are performed with the help of lazy human beings and egocentric human beings. he will pay attention and instruction manual you. do no longer assume miracles for each thing. in any different case there may be no atheists top? It would not be stated as 'faith'. have confidence in him and you would be wonderful.

Answer 7

Ciggies are a tough habit to break, she wshould try any of the over the counter products, the problem is you may quit for a while then somethink kinda snaps and you start again, it may take several chances before you have kicked it permanently. Support her, it is really-really hard!

Answer 8

Thank you for sharing the prayer request for your wife. I'll be praying for the Lord to turn her heart away from cigarettes and the desire to smoke. I'll pray that everytime she thinks about smoking she will be repulsed. God can break any stronghold in our life.
Your prayers are more powerful than any pill, I promise.

Answer 9

It is very simple: if she would like to stop smoking, she will, and if she does not stop, it is because she really does not want to. Tobacco is an addiction, but ultimately the one in charge of one's action is oneself. My father was a smoker for years; one day, he decided to quit, and did so. (It was not until several days later that my mother became aware that he had quit.) One thing that may help: remind her that the odds that she will die from smoking are one in three, and that the process of doing so will probably be extremely unpleasant.

Answer 10

I heard about a book called smoke free-the lazy way. I don't know how well it works, or what it's about but it sounded good on the radio the other day.