Smoking Cigarettes
When my baby was born I wouldn’t smoke in our house because
I didn’t want my baby to be affected by breathing in cigarette smoke. I went faithfully to church and even taught
Sunday School as a smoker. I smoked
teaching only for about 6 months after I started teaching. I was ashamed of smoking. I tried hiding the fact that I smoked but it
is something that is very hard to hide. I
didn’t lie about it I just didn’t tell anyone.
I remember praying numerous times to the Lord to help me
stop, but still, I could not quit. One
day when my child became older she walked into the garage where I was
smoking. I knew that if I didn’t quit it
would affect my child’s whole life. That
morning I prayed to the Lord. “ Lord, help me stop smoking because if you don’t
Lord, I will smoke until the day I die.”
Like a miracle, I never smoked
again even to this day. The one thing that helped me when I wanted a cigarette was the breathing exercises I
learned from the birthing classes I attended before my daughter was born. No one
told me to do the breathing exercises to relieve the desire to smoke, I just
did it and it helped. I’ve shared with other people about this breathing exercise
idea for helping smokers stop smoking for many years. I know God delivered me from smoking but He
also put in my heart to breathe if I felt an erg to smoke again.
A week after I was delivered from smoking I received a free carton
of cigarettes in my mailbox. I immediately
ran water over the carton and threw it into the trashcan. I believed it was a temptation from satan. That was over twenty years ago.
I thank God every day that I do not smoke because number one
it stinks, number two it destroys belongings, and number three it makes people sick. I can’t hardly tolerate being around smoking
because it makes both me and my daughter feel sick and especially my daughter
who sometimes has asthma attacks.
Susan Y Nikitenko
June 25th 2013
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