It is time cancel culture has cancelled smoking habits. Smoking is not cool. Even as depicted in movies, and tv shows of people smoking, the real truth is smoking is for the losers in life. There are zero benefits to smoking. The high that a persons get's from smoking is really their brain cells dying so fast they feel woozy and call it a "high". Smoking helps cancer cells in the body to thrive because it helps free radicals thrive instead of controlling them as the body would normally do if it was not in a state of perishing. Smokers burn out their lungs and even you can tell a smoker by their darkened gums, reddish eyes, yellow teeth, blistered lips, and gaping pores on their cheeks. The truth is smoking is detrimental to not only your lungs that you breathe with, but your entire body is at stake. Smoking frequently can cause damage to the thyroid gland and cause some to be placed on ventilators or a trachea which is a long tube in your larynx or better known as your voice box. In the 1990's their were smoking commercials famous for showing wheel-chaired persons with a trachea begging people to quit smoking or they can end up like them. Their brave story touched many lives and saved so many lives as well.
Some smokers argue that nicotine cigarettes are different from smoking weed or even vaping. Still research and experienced smokers have shown that vaping is worse than regular smoking. Even hookah plays a similar role. Smoking illegal drugs like weed gives a psychedlic high that provides hallucinations, the drug helps free radicals reign, and the smoke kills brain cells. The smoke in smoking is probably the most harmful part in smoking. Smoke can cause chemical reactions to occur in the brain and in the body. Inhaling smoke is extremely harmful to anyones health whether it is smoke from a house on fire or smoke from a cigarette or blunt, smoke is still smoke.
So why do people still do it? Why do people smoke? It's easy to start smoking when a friend or partner introduces it to you. When hanging out the choice activity is to smoke together it becomes a task to do. The high feeling becomes a feeling the person wishes to have all the time for they believe it releases stress and relaxes them unknowingly they are killing themselves slowly and this is the relaxed feeling they enjoy its a near death experience the smoke eases them into. Smoking can become an addiction. If a person has no goals, purpose, and knowledge about what smoking is really doing to them, some can carry this habit for years, even decades until the smoke collapses their lungs, thyroid, or heart. Some smokers may even have heart pains that they refuse to tell anyone about. The heart pain they feel can be a result of smoking more than the heart can handle.
It might look cool at a party, club, or watching your friends do it, but smoking has grave dangers that can lead to lung cancer, blood clots in the heart, brain damage, or even death. Many smokers are aware of the grave dangers of smoking but still do it. One person said "I am young, I am able to smoke, its not like I will do it forever." Many young teenagers and adults who begin smoking try it out as an experiment. No one signs up to becoming addicted to any substance, it is a habit that just forms and continues until it becomes like second nature until it is too late to quit. It is better not to experiment with drugs at all. When a person experiences a drug several times they may become accustomed to the hallucinations and escape that they may want more. Friends or drug dealers can use addicted persons who are begging for a high. A temporary feeling is not worth an entire life. Do not seek friends for illegal substances, seek friends who have substance in themselves like character, integrity, and honor.
Our bodies is like a temple for God. We honor God when we honor and nourish our bodies. Our bodies trust us to feed it properly and bring it strength. Our bodies is our vessel. We only have one body. We only get to live and experience life in one body so we ought to treat it well to the best of our capabilities. Smoking is a poor habit. Monetarily, it's a waste of money. Smokers spend thousands of dollars on cigarettes, weed, and vaping products in a year. Theses substances bring zero benefit to the body. These substances promote idleness, laziness, slothfulness, and poor health. Most people who decide to smoke have a depression issue and lack of purpose whether they know it or not. Smoking gives them a sense of purpose by doing something with their time and the high they receive depresses the reality of their lives and bring them to a high escape. For how long will a person carry this habit before deciding on becoming self-controlled? Many who have formed smoking into a habit will deny that they are addicted to these substances although they partake in smoking everyday or several times a week spending money, resources, and time on a thing that brings no proper sustenance to their life. At some point one must ask themselves if the products they choose to consume and entertain are sustaining them?
No one can stop a smoker from smoking. the power of smoking is that it is a free will task and a free choice because no one can put anything to your lips and force you to ingest it. Breathing in these harmful chemicals is a choice. If you are around a frequent smoker, you always have the choice to walk away and go someplace else. Some smokers can quit in a day. Some people have cold quit in just a day deciding they shall no longer allow smoking to rule their life and they choose to spend all the time they use to smoke on something purposeful, beneficial, and nourishing to their body, soul, and mind. Choosing to quit smoking is a task dedicated to the strong and willful. if you believe you can do it, then you will. Picking up new habits, new activities to do, new hobbies and learning something new is a great way to distract yourself from smoking by finding things you enjoy doing and spending more time focused on doing something meaningful. Another helpful tip to quit smoking, is to do it less and increase exercise and healthy eating habits. Soon you may realize you enjoy feeling energized more than feeling woozy and high.
Another way to slow down smoking is to make a list of reasons to quit, make a list of why smoking is ruining your life, make a list of the negative effects you have experienced from smoking whether its constantly having to shower and brush your teeth because everyone around hates that smell or smoking is depleting your savings and slowing down the rate you can be living in your dream home or taking your dream vacation. Imagine how much money was wasted smoking versus being on a Caribbean island! Smoking can even affect your relationships, your family, cause you to lose friends, affect your focus, or even affect your ability to get employed. Make a long list of reason you should quit smoking and soon you will be able to convince yourself to quit this poor habit and pick up new ones today!
2 Samuel 22:9
Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.
1 Corinthians 6:20
For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
James 4:17
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
Hebrews 10:26
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 6:12
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything
1 Corinthians 3:17
If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Romans 12:1
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
1 Corinthians 10:31
So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
Isaiah 65:5
“Who say, ‘Keep to yourself, do not come near me,
For I am holier than you!’
These are smoke in My nostrils,
A fire that burns all the day.
Job 41:21
“His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.
Psalm 68:2
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;
As wax melts before the fire,
So let the wicked perish before God.
Isaiah 4:5
then the Lord will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy
James 4:14
Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
Revelation 18:18
and were crying out as they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What city is like the great city?’
Psalm 144:5
Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
Touch the mountains, that they may smoke.
Isaiah 7:4
and say to him, ‘Take care and be calm, have no fear and do not be fainthearted because of these two stubs of smoldering firebrands, on account of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah.
Matthew 12:20
“A battered reed He will not break off,
And a smoldering wick He will not put out,
Until He leads justice to victory.
Proverbs 10:26
Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
So is the lazy one to those who send him.
Genesis 19:28
and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a furnace.
Psalm 37:20
But the wicked will perish;
And the enemies of the Lord will be like the glory of the pastures,
They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.
Job 41:20
“Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth
As from a boiling pot and burning rushes
Revelation 9:18
A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths.
Psalm 74:1
A Maskil of Asaph.
O God, why have You rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
Joel 2:30
“I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth,
Blood, fire and columns of smoke.
Psalm 102:3
For my days have been consumed in smoke,
And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
Hosea 13:3
Therefore they will be like the morning cloud
And like dew which soon disappears,
Like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor
And like smoke from a chimney.
Revelation 14:11
And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”
Isaiah 34:10
It will not be quenched night or day;
Its smoke will go up forever.
From generation to generation it will be desolate;
None will pass through it forever and ever.
Isaiah 42:3
“A bruised reed He will not break
And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish;
He will faithfully bring forth justice.
Exodus 40:34
Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
2 Chronicles 7:1
Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the house.
Revelation 8:4
And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.
Deuteronomy 29:20
The Lord shall never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.
Leviticus 16:13
He shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the ark of the testimony, otherwise he will die.
Daniel 3:27
The satraps, the prefects, the governors and the king’s high officials gathered around and saw in regard to these men that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men nor was the hair of their head singed, nor were their trousers damaged, nor had the smell of fire even come upon them.
Leviticus 3:11
Then the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire to the Lord.
Exodus 19:18
Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
1 Corinthians 3:15
If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
Exodus 29:13
You shall take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and offer them up in smoke on the altar
Isaiah 14:31
“Wail, O gate; cry, O city;
Melt away, O Philistia, all of you;
For smoke comes from the north,
And there is no straggler in his ranks.
Proverbs 11:17
A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself.
1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.
Luke 17:2
It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.
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