Re: Helen-smoking

[Guest guest]

Hello Lynn

I was able to quit smoking because I got a miracle

from the Lord. It was not an instant miracle. I am

not sure you would want my kind of miracle but

there might be things here in this email that I did

which may help you.

I hope it does not offend anyone that I make

reference to the Lord. This story is not possible

without mentioning from whence came my help.

I, too, had been wrestling with smoking for years.

I had people pray with me. I prayed for myself for

the desire to smoke to be gone. Nothing happened.

I knew if I could just wrap my mind around the idea

of quitting, I would be able to go through any

withdrawal I might suffer but I was never able to

wrap my mind around quitting. Pathetic, I know.

Another thing that was a problem was that I loved

smoking. It was like it possessed me or something.

It seemed like that from the first day I took a

cigarette when I was 12. I smoked heavily whenever

I got the chance with the real heavy smoking starting

when I was about 17.

Then, many years later and about 10 years ago, my life

took a very bad turn, and after I lost my home, I moved

into a bachelor suite. I was distressed about the much

smoking because not only was I smoking 2 - 3 packs a

day, I was also getting a lot of my own second-hand smoke,

at least more than usual because my living area was

so much smaller than I was used to. I finally just prayed

and told the Lord that if He did not help me with this I did

not know what to do. " I guess I will just have to die with a

cigarette in my mouth because I don't know how to quit. "

I finally had let go of trying to quit.

It's funny how the Lord Jesus steps in when we finally give

up. Let go and let God, they say. It's true. As long as I was

trying to do it myself, He didn't do anything. Some people

think the Bible says that God helps them who help themselves.

The Bible does not say that. It actually says to cast our

cares upon Him.

Shortly, after that prayer, I got pneumonia and ended

up in the hospital for 12 days. They don't let you smoke

anywhere in the building and if you wanted to smoke

you had to go outside. It was winter, cold and wet and

my lungs were very tender so I did not go outside. Also

I did not have money to buy cigarettes. The Lord thought

of everything )

Finally when I got home, I thought to myself, " I've been

without a cigarette for 12 days. Maybe I should try this

for a bit longer. " The fact that I had no money to buy

them really helped me, too. Notice, however, I still had

not really made up my mind to quit.

I bought a bunch of hard candies. I seemed to need

something to keep my mouth busy. If I needed to do

something with my hands, I'd sit on them. The amazing

thing is that I really did not miss having a cigarette. Yes,

sometimes, I thought it would be nice to have a cigarette

especially when I was standing waiting for the bus or

something but I cannot say I craved a cigarette from

then on and when I was in the hospital, I was too sick

to care.

I just want everyone to know that I would never have

ended up in the hospital if I had had the money to buy

supplements and decent food.

Another concern was having a cigarette when I went out

for a coffee which I liked to do every day. I remember the

first time I went for coffee. I ordered a coffee. Fortunately,

they served it in mugs. I wrapped my hands around the

coffee mug and said to myself, " THIS will be my cigarette. "

Whenever I did think about having a cigarette, I did not

lie to myself and say that I did not want a cigarette. It

came to me, from the Lord, that I had two choices. I could

feed the thought of having a cigarette or I could simply say,

" This thought will pass in a minute. " I chose the latter.

Do you know what happened? The thought did pass and I

would often forget about smoking for an hour and a half at

a time! To me, that was amazing. I was used to smoking

3 or 4 cigarettes per hour most of the time.

It helped me that after being without cigarettes for several

weeks, I just did not want to go back to them. My desire

for cigarettes just went. I can't get over how easy it was.

Even though in my case God orchestrated everything to

where I quit, He did not take away completely the desire to

quit smoking but I believe He took away about 90% of it.

I would wish for a cigarette once in a while but I was able

to quickly reject such a thought.

I was eating too many candies. I knew this was not good

so after about 3 weeks of candies, I just didn't buy them

anymore. I am not one for candies anyway.

I hope you find something in all of this that will help you.

I thought I would mention a product I sell since it fits here

so well but remember there is no obligation to buy it. I

just will tell you about it and you decide.

As you may know, I sell the Miracle 2 products and the

company has conference calls about their products which I

listen to a lot of the time. I was just recently listening to

one of their DVD's about a product they have called Body

Rejuvenator and on which they did a clinical study. In it

they interviewed a man they called Mr X, a banker who

was in the clinical study. On the DVD, he says that in

addition to helping him with Diabetes, lowering his blood

sugar levels and lowering his cholesterol, he believes the

Body Rejuvenator helped him to quit smoking.

Just in case you are interested, the Body Rejuvenator

is on special now until the end of the month if you are

interested. If you have any questions that you would like

to ask the company, you can call them at 1-888-422-5833.

And while you are at it ask them if they would send you

the DVD about the clinical study they did. Usually they

sell this DVD for $1.00 but maybe they will send it ..and

maybe they won't. If you call them, please let me know

if they agreed to send the DVD to you or not. ) I really

would like to know.

Their website is www.miracle2network.com/rejuvenate

If you have any comments or questions, send me an email

privately or via this forum or call me.

I hope you find a way to quit smoking. I will say a prayer

for you for that to happen. Please let me know if something

happens.

Here's a thought and something I should have done long

before I did finally quit. Tell yourself, you are going to try

this for a given amount of time and if it doesn't work out,

you can always start back to smoking. I think once you

have sacrificed a couple of weeks without cigarettes, you

wouldn't want to do that all over again at another later

date ...if you know what I mean.

Helen Elias

604-420-1544

________________________________

From: Lynn <lynnppi@...>

Coconut Oil

Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:03:57 AM

Subject: Helen-smoking

Hi Helen,

I'd love to know how you quit smoking after too many years of 2-3 packs per

day??? I have struggled with that addiction... so I am curious.

Thanks in advance for your response!

Lynn

[Guest guest]

Great story! Thanks for sharing.

 

Tony

From: helen/zhebee <zhebee@...>

Subject: Re: Helen-smoking

Coconut Oil

Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 10:57 AM

Hello Lynn

I was able to quit smoking because I got a miracle

from the Lord. It was not an instant miracle. I am

not sure you would want my kind of miracle but

there might be things here in this email that I did

which may help you.

I hope it does not offend anyone that I make

reference to the Lord. This story is not possible

without mentioning from whence came my help.

I, too, had been wrestling with smoking for years.

I had people pray with me. I prayed for myself for

the desire to smoke to be gone. Nothing happened.

I knew if I could just wrap my mind around the idea

of quitting, I would be able to go through any

withdrawal I might suffer but I was never able to

wrap my mind around quitting. Pathetic, I know.

Another thing that was a problem was that I loved

smoking. It was like it possessed me or something.

It seemed like that from the first day I took a

cigarette when I was 12. I smoked heavily whenever

I got the chance with the real heavy smoking starting

when I was about 17.

Then, many years later and about 10 years ago, my life

took a very bad turn, and after I lost my home, I moved

into a bachelor suite. I was distressed about the much

smoking because not only was I smoking 2 - 3 packs a

day, I was also getting a lot of my own second-hand smoke,

at least more than usual because my living area was

so much smaller than I was used to. I finally just prayed

and told the Lord that if He did not help me with this I did

not know what to do. " I guess I will just have to die with a

cigarette in my mouth because I don't know how to quit. "

I finally had let go of trying to quit.

It's funny how the Lord Jesus steps in when we finally give

up. Let go and let God, they say. It's true. As long as I was

trying to do it myself, He didn't do anything. Some people

think the Bible says that God helps them who help themselves.

The Bible does not say that. It actually says to cast our

cares upon Him.

Shortly, after that prayer, I got pneumonia and ended

up in the hospital for 12 days. They don't let you smoke

anywhere in the building and if you wanted to smoke

you had to go outside. It was winter, cold and wet and

my lungs were very tender so I did not go outside. Also

I did not have money to buy cigarettes. The Lord thought

of everything )

Finally when I got home, I thought to myself, " I've been

without a cigarette for 12 days. Maybe I should try this

for a bit longer. " The fact that I had no money to buy

them really helped me, too. Notice, however, I still had

not really made up my mind to quit.

I bought a bunch of hard candies. I seemed to need

something to keep my mouth busy. If I needed to do

something with my hands, I'd sit on them. The amazing

thing is that I really did not miss having a cigarette. Yes,

sometimes, I thought it would be nice to have a cigarette

especially when I was standing waiting for the bus or

something but I cannot say I craved a cigarette from

then on and when I was in the hospital, I was too sick

to care.

I just want everyone to know that I would never have

ended up in the hospital if I had had the money to buy

supplements and decent food.

Another concern was having a cigarette when I went out

for a coffee which I liked to do every day. I remember the

first time I went for coffee. I ordered a coffee. Fortunately,

they served it in mugs. I wrapped my hands around the

coffee mug and said to myself, " THIS will be my cigarette. "

Whenever I did think about having a cigarette, I did not

lie to myself and say that I did not want a cigarette. It

came to me, from the Lord, that I had two choices. I could

feed the thought of having a cigarette or I could simply say,

" This thought will pass in a minute. " I chose the latter.

Do you know what happened? The thought did pass and I

would often forget about smoking for an hour and a half at

a time! To me, that was amazing. I was used to smoking

3 or 4 cigarettes per hour most of the time.

It helped me that after being without cigarettes for several

weeks, I just did not want to go back to them. My desire

for cigarettes just went. I can't get over how easy it was.

Even though in my case God orchestrated everything to

where I quit, He did not take away completely the desire to

quit smoking but I believe He took away about 90% of it.

I would wish for a cigarette once in a while but I was able

to quickly reject such a thought.

I was eating too many candies. I knew this was not good

so after about 3 weeks of candies, I just didn't buy them

anymore. I am not one for candies anyway.

I hope you find something in all of this that will help you.

I thought I would mention a product I sell since it fits here

so well but remember there is no obligation to buy it. I

just will tell you about it and you decide.

As you may know, I sell the Miracle 2 products and the

company has conference calls about their products which I

listen to a lot of the time. I was just recently listening to

one of their DVD's about a product they have called Body

Rejuvenator and on which they did a clinical study. In it

they interviewed a man they called Mr X, a banker who

was in the clinical study. On the DVD, he says that in

addition to helping him with Diabetes, lowering his blood

sugar levels and lowering his cholesterol, he believes the

Body Rejuvenator helped him to quit smoking.

Just in case you are interested, the Body Rejuvenator

is on special now until the end of the month if you are

interested. If you have any questions that you would like

to ask the company, you can call them at 1-888-422-5833.

And while you are at it ask them if they would send you

the DVD about the clinical study they did. Usually they

sell this DVD for $1.00 but maybe they will send it ..and

maybe they won't. If you call them, please let me know

if they agreed to send the DVD to you or not. ) I really

would like to know.

Their website is www.miracle2network .com/rejuvenate

If you have any comments or questions, send me an email

privately or via this forum or call me.

I hope you find a way to quit smoking. I will say a prayer

for you for that to happen. Please let me know if something

happens.

Here's a thought and something I should have done long

before I did finally quit. Tell yourself, you are going to try

this for a given amount of time and if it doesn't work out,

you can always start back to smoking. I think once you

have sacrificed a couple of weeks without cigarettes, you

wouldn't want to do that all over again at another later

date ...if you know what I mean.

Helen Elias

604-420-1544

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From: Lynn <lynnppi (DOT) com>

coconut_oil_ open_forum

Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:03:57 AM

Subject: [coconut_oil_ open_forum] Helen-smoking

Hi Helen,

I'd love to know how you quit smoking after too many years of 2-3 packs per

day??? I have struggled with that addiction... so I am curious.

Thanks in advance for your response!

Lynn

[Guest guest]

And thank you, Tony, for the feedback.

________________________________

From: AGPacific Nutriceutical <agnutriceutical@...>

Coconut Oil

Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:33:19 PM

Subject: Re: Helen-smoking

Great story! Thanks for sharing.

Tony

From: helen/zhebee <zhebee (DOT) com>

Subject: Re: [coconut_oil_ open_forum] Helen-smoking

coconut_oil_ open_forum

D

[Guest guest]

Helen,

Thank YOU for the information. And I am not offended by the God talk~ I respect

everyone choosing what is right for them!

 

Congrats on your quitting......and I appreciated your explaining how you arrived

at a non-smoker place!!

 

Lynn

[Guest guest]

You are welcome, Lynn!

________________________________

From: Lynn <lynnppi@...>

Coconut Oil

Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:48:48 AM

Subject: Re: Helen-smoking

Helen,

Thank YOU for the information. And I am not offended by the God talk~ I respect

everyone choosing what is right for them!

Congrats on your quitting.... ..and I appreciated your explaining how you

arrived at a non-smoker place!!

Lynn