Good evening brothers and sisters,
I know this question may seem a little strange, but I wanted to ask for advice about a problem I'm having.
I have a healthy lifestyle, except for smoking.
I developed this addiction due to various circumstances in my life, and although I have tried several times to quit, I find it very difficult.
I have achieved several goals and overcome many obstacles in my life, but I find this addiction difficult to combat.
I know that this must come mainly from me and my willpower, but I wanted to know if anyone here has succeeded in this goal and if there is any spiritual advice that could help me in this.
Thank you very much.
It took me awhile to quit. I smoked since I was in my teens and 10 or so years past that, and a bit more. Had a point where I quit for 3 years, but eventually came back to it. Currently now, I have been done for over 5 or 6 now with no issues.
I used a certain cycle against the addiction to cigarettes, since I do or rather, did, enjoy them deeply, it is no good to lie to yourself if this is the case. The tapping, lighting, inhaling, scratchy feeling, taste through the mouth and nose, etc. Though, these are rather pitiful gains compared to all the bad it does to your body, and as a result your soul, mind, and emotional state in from the suffering your body is being put through. All the time wasted. Let alone your wallet, those things were expensive enough when I quit, alcohol gone 1 year later too, which also helped.
I used the cycle in the fact that there would always be a point, some point, where you light up and it just makes you feel like wanting the throw up all over yourself, was the worst. I used one of those days to entirely throw away all my cigarettes and not go back to them for 3 years, though, bad company and bad times I was not dealing with well had them move in again for a few years on overdrive. I had to get away from more negative influences to be able to attempt to get away from them and some other things. After getting a hold of life again I reattempted quitting using the same method, almost had a full pack, and with that nauseating feeling off the light up, I got rid of them all with the full acceptance that they were no longer useful to me in any way, especially in advancing oneself, despite the fact that they were a useless parasitic habit in the first place, all wrapped up in deviously attractive packages with foolishly attractive attributes to their use.
They are useless for the little value they truly add compared to what they take, and I have settled with just staying away from them. I am unsure if they will ever be particularly wholesome, even if it was fresh dried tobacco, it is still inhaling the products of combustion and whatever else is created when the leaf and whatever else is stuffed into commercial or non commercial cigarettes burn. There are always lovely pictures of folks who were smokers, opened up after they died to show how their lungs looked compared to non smokers. Crazy, thinking anyone would still smoke after seeing that, to know that I kept smoking after knowing this, and had to use the method I did, though I hope it is easier for you than it was for me. Being able to run, work out, have good sex, among other active physical tasks not to forget Kundalini and Hatha yoga, which take good breath control, along with our meditations and breathing exercises, etc, the list goes on, is so much better than smoking.
Best just stay away from them, and enjoy walking across your living room not feeling totally gassed
Of course, a good quote of "Life is in the Breath" - Thoth, always rang out to me when I smoked and was getting through that addiction. So concerning cigarettes take the breath away, well, you do the math.
Take Care
Hail Satya.
Hail Zeus.
