Re: Trying Again. Praying for strength
Hi again New start22,
This is what Chris replied in the smoking thread that I started:
Shelton has this to say on the matter of nicotine addiction and with which I wholeheartedly agree.........
"Many tobacco-slaves try repeatedly to discontinue the use of the poison, but fail to succeed. They return to the poison-vice rather than endure the irritableness, grouchiness, "nervousness," and uneasiness that the prior use of tobacco has induced. They lack the determination to "tough it out," until the nerves have repaired themselves; they lack the will power to carry through; they are unwilling to bear the suffering, but return again and again to the fictional "relief" offered by another dose of their accustomed poison.
To such as these fasting is a God-send. It makes discontinuing the tobacco-vice easy, almost pleasant. Indeed, in but a few days the very taste of the weed becomes obnoxious. It is no uncommon complaint of the old smoker, after a thorough overhauling, that he cannot get a cigar of the right brand, or that he cannot find a cigarette that he likes. The difficulty is not, however, as he thinks, in the tobacco, but in his improved nervous system, and in the regenerated membranes of his mouth and nose. I have seen heavy smokers, who smoked half a life-time, after a fast, become so "sensitive" to the obnoxious fumes of tobacco that the odor of a cigar wafted to their nostrils from a block away was objectionable to them."
If you click on the link below, this is the book that most people on this forum quote from and it has lots of great information on fasting.
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.toc.htm
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The Lungs can be permanently damaged with the life-long habit of smoking, but the writings of Natural Hygiene testify to the effectiveness of the fast in healing the Lungs, as being the first organ to be favorably influenced, especially with sunlight directly exposed onto the back of the sufferer.
Lungs will heal after giving up smoking, but they are healed much more rapidly whilst fasting and the exposure of sunlight.
I understand about quitting and I won't be hard on you because I've been there, smoking was one of the many reasons why I'm fasting, I wanted to quit and couldn't do it on my own, I'm weak in that regard. Take my word for it, after a few days of fasting they will start to taste nasty to you. You have to do what you can do for yourself, everybody is different in how they handle things. I understood when I started my fast the cleansing and healing process couldn't truly start until I quit but that is how I had to do it for me and now I AM A NON-SMOKER!!! YEAH, YEAH!!!! Don't get discouraged, do what you can for the moment and it will get easier.