The ONE AND ONLY good thing that came from my ever being Mormon was that I was never a smoker. And I'm pretty sure I would have been. Back in the 60s-70s everybody smoked. Siemens Sintony Ic60 Manually. You bought your cigs from vending machines. There were no non-smoking areas in restaurants.
I felt so out of place during lunch breaks at work. I wanted to smoke to fit in.
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But I was too afraid of God. Thank you God! Cisco Jabber 10.6 For Mac Os there. But I have a couple of kids who did the typical 'I'll show you,' not realizing they were proving nothing to me only damaging themselves, and started smoking as teens.
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I try to look at the positive side--and again, there's only one, and that is that maybe it will guilt her into being able to quit smoking. The thing she and my two kids have had the most luck with is e-cigs. My DIL's parents would never in a million years have offered to buy her e-cigs the past few years when she's been trying to quit, even when she was pregnant. That would have meant having to admit they have a child who's a smoker. Even though they knew that, they would never talk about it and DIL would try to go outside and hide it when she'd be at their house. But now that DIL is going to church, and at the ward where her father was bishop for 7 years (they have moved since), her mother is all into buying her e-cigs so she can quit.
Of course, now it's a different ball game. Can't have daughter going to church smelling like smoke and being around all her old friends.
But anyway, I'm grateful. I'd like to see her quit and not have my granddaughter around that. But it really made me wonder why, if it's probably the 3rd greatest sin, after murder and playing with the little factory, do they not have some kind of program to help people who join or come back to church or are even active members who struggle with that addiction? Is it because, like DIL's mother, they would have to admit that you can't just pray the addiction away? They'd have to actually face some kind of reality? It was hilarious.
The first thing we did was tell people that NO ONE had ever failed to stop smoking with our workshop, and that the guy who started it was a former missionary who made a lot of money in the States teaching it. But of course, we were giving it to them for free. I don't remember all the steps, but you start by praying. Then you tell everyone that you are stopping on a certain date. You get rid of all your smoking materials -- cigarettes, ash trays, etc. -- and everything that reminds you of smoking. Clean your house so that nothing smells of smoke.
Overdose on Vitamin C tablets. This cleans the nicotine out of your blood. Use a cinnamon mouthwash all the time to keep certain tastes from triggering cravings. Make plans for what you're going to do with all the money you save from not smoking -- like go to Blackpool on vacation!:D I don't know why that never caught on in the Church. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12:15PM by Makurosu.
The church might have some programs in Utah, but I'll bet they have nothing in Mississippi. But I wonder if their social services program might provide Chantix.
Although I know some people who couldn't stand the nightmares and outright hallucinations they'd sometimes have with that. However, I have a feeling (and hope) that this going back to the Mo church thing is just a phase. And if the church gave them much help they might feel obligated, which I hope does not happen. My other daughter has done real well with the e-cigs. She's down from 2 packs a day (of regular cigs) to about a pack a week.
But she vaps ('smokes' e-cigs) all the time when she's driving or sitting on her porch or those triggers that were more behavorial addictions than physical ones. She's down to no-nicotine cartridges and I told her that who cares if she sucks down cherry-flavored vapor the rest of her life. Big deal, except that it still costs money. But hey, it's like having a vaporizer with you all the time, can't be bad for you.