BeerBelly, FANTASTIC!
My dad died of cancer which originally showed up as cancer of the gum/jaw right where the cigarettes used to hang from his mouth.
I'm 58 and quit when I was 21, after 5 years of smoking 2 packs a day. Thats not long for some of you but my whole family were smokers. A commitment as a new Christian was my challenge to make the change. I did something to replace the bad habit with something better. Ok so I had a little extra help, but I also came up with this little help which if anyone tries it should work for them. To establish my commitment once I made the decision, I got rid of my smoking paraphanalia a brand new 2 day old Zippo lighter and 2 new cartons of Marlboros to a friend.
• I bought a folding toothbrush and a bunch of those little travel tooth paste tubes. I put the folding brush and a tooth paste in my shirt pocket. Every time I craved a cigarette I would go brush my teeth,especially my gums and tongue. There was several days I would be brushing my teeth every 5 minutes, like right after meals, or when I first got up. I can't rem. how long I did the brushing thing, but I knew after 60 days I had it beat. I had one relapse about 120 days when I went out drinking. Not a very Christian thing but I was young and still a bit wild and crazy.
• I had to quit all drinking, which I did for about 5 years. I never drink hard liquor except in egg nog. But I am a beer lover, and like a good glass of wine.
My dad died of cancer which originally showed up as cancer of the gum/jaw right where the cigarettes used to hang from his mouth.
I'm 58 and quit when I was 21, after 5 years of smoking 2 packs a day. Thats not long for some of you but my whole family were smokers. A commitment as a new Christian was my challenge to make the change. I did something to replace the bad habit with something better. Ok so I had a little extra help, but I also came up with this little help which if anyone tries it should work for them. To establish my commitment once I made the decision, I got rid of my smoking paraphanalia a brand new 2 day old Zippo lighter and 2 new cartons of Marlboros to a friend.
• I bought a folding toothbrush and a bunch of those little travel tooth paste tubes. I put the folding brush and a tooth paste in my shirt pocket. Every time I craved a cigarette I would go brush my teeth,especially my gums and tongue. There was several days I would be brushing my teeth every 5 minutes, like right after meals, or when I first got up. I can't rem. how long I did the brushing thing, but I knew after 60 days I had it beat. I had one relapse about 120 days when I went out drinking. Not a very Christian thing but I was young and still a bit wild and crazy.
• I had to quit all drinking, which I did for about 5 years. I never drink hard liquor except in egg nog. But I am a beer lover, and like a good glass of wine.
