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Smoking is iniquity?
I'll give you stupid, unhealthy, ridiculously expensive, a tough addiction, and (rumor has it) stinky, but it's not immoral. If you're in a church that thinks smoking is the worse sin in the world, find a new church.
And I say this as a smoker who is quitting on Monday. (God willing. And I really think he is this time.) Out of all the immoral things I have done in my life, smoking wasn't one of them. Incredibly stupid. But NOT iniquity... one smoker to another.
I'll give you stupid, unhealthy, ridiculously expensive, a tough addiction, and (rumor has it) stinky, but it's not immoral. If you're in a church that thinks smoking is the worse sin in the world, find a new church.
And I say this as a smoker who is quitting on Monday. (God willing. And I really think he is this time.) Out of all the immoral things I have done in my life, smoking wasn't one of them. Incredibly stupid. But NOT iniquity... one smoker to another.
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Smoking is iniquity?
I'll give you stupid, unhealthy, ridiculously expensive, a tough addiction, and (rumor has it) stinky, but it's not immoral. If you're in a church that thinks smoking is the worse sin in the world, find a new church.
And I say this as a smoker who is quitting on Monday. (God willing. And I really think he is this time.) Out of all the immoral things I have done in my life, smoking wasn't one of them. Incredibly stupid. But NOT iniquity... one smoker to another.
I'll give you stupid, unhealthy, ridiculously expensive, a tough addiction, and (rumor has it) stinky, but it's not immoral. If you're in a church that thinks smoking is the worse sin in the world, find a new church.
And I say this as a smoker who is quitting on Monday. (God willing. And I really think he is this time.) Out of all the immoral things I have done in my life, smoking wasn't one of them. Incredibly stupid. But NOT iniquity... one smoker to another.
My fiance suffered a stroke a blood clot in his brain, he smoked for years. I prayed he stopped but nothing until the day he nearly died with a stroke. He vows never to touch smoking again. It was a wake up call. I pray you will also get help from you doctors and be free from the addiction, both of you Lynn and yourself. Lord help these people get off the smoke. Amen
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Yeah. The reason I HAVE to quit smoking is because my hubby had a massive heart attack last November, and voluntarily quit smoking right afterward. (Voluntarily -- While I, a fellow smoker, was freaking that he's on a ventilator so can't go out for a cig at a nurse, the nurse said she can get him a nicotine patch, and he was awake at that moment and shook his head no. He was also sedated for the next two months so doesn't recall anything, including that moment nor if he was jonesing for a smoke during that time.)
Now I want him to come home to a smoke-free home.
But I'm also quitting for me. I watched a monitor for months tell me how much oxygen he was getting. When they yanked him off the vent, I saw how little oxygen he was getting. (Below 90 was bad. I kept seeing 87-89 and no one was doing anything.) They reinserted his vent and his levels went back up to 97-100. When they weaned him off the vent onto the trach, every time his oxygen levels went down to 93 (which is the number that makes nurse's faces register concern), I'd tell him to give a good hard cough and it would go up again.
I do those coughs constantly, which tells me I need more oxygen because the tar has coated my lungs. I think my oxygen levels are around 90.
And I'm just tired of scheduling my life around a stupid piece of paper with weeds in it (don't tell me tobacco is anything but a useless weed) and a filter. Just seems stupid anymore.
Unfortunately, the addiction is a brute!
Now I want him to come home to a smoke-free home.
But I'm also quitting for me. I watched a monitor for months tell me how much oxygen he was getting. When they yanked him off the vent, I saw how little oxygen he was getting. (Below 90 was bad. I kept seeing 87-89 and no one was doing anything.) They reinserted his vent and his levels went back up to 97-100. When they weaned him off the vent onto the trach, every time his oxygen levels went down to 93 (which is the number that makes nurse's faces register concern), I'd tell him to give a good hard cough and it would go up again.
I do those coughs constantly, which tells me I need more oxygen because the tar has coated my lungs. I think my oxygen levels are around 90.
And I'm just tired of scheduling my life around a stupid piece of paper with weeds in it (don't tell me tobacco is anything but a useless weed) and a filter. Just seems stupid anymore.
Unfortunately, the addiction is a brute!