Praise Report: smoke free for 103 days and counting...

Good afternoon saints,

This is more of a personal Praise Report than a daily devolution

On Jan 5, 2006 at approximately 2:30 am, I prayed for God to deliver me from the addiction of nicotine. I went into the bathroom at work, broke up and threw away nearly a whole pack of Newports and have never turned back.

According to a site called Quit Keepers that helps you keep your stats:
I have been quit for 3 Months, 1 Week, 6 Days, 14 hours, 1 minute and 22 seconds (103 days). I have saved $543.81 by not smoking 3,107 cigarettes. I have saved 1 Week, 3 Days, 18 hours and 55 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 1/5/2006 2:30 AM

I see all these commercials for the patch, nicotine gum and all sort of other things they try to sell you to help you stop smoking. If you do the math you will spend more on these items than you ever did of cigarettes, so the companies that make the cigarettes who probably invented some of these items are still making money off of you.

This isn't the first time I quit, but unlike the other times, this time I decided as the songwriter said: The battle is not yours the battle is the Lord's, I decided to put it in the Lord's hands.

I don't know how accurate the stats are but I still couldn't help but to realize how blessed I am. Like another songwriter said, I said I wasn't gonna tell nobody, but I can't keep it to myself, how the Lord's been good to me.

Father God, thank you for delivering me from the addiction of nicotine and for letting me see another day smoke free. Please continue to use me to be a blessing to others.
In the name of your Son, Jesus Christ
Amen
Amen
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