Among many benefits and healings I have experienced in Christian Science since I first came to know something of it, I think the demonstration over the smoking habit one of the most wonderful. For the benefit of those who indulge the tobacco habit and desire to be cured of it, I will relate my experience.
For about twenty years I had been a heavy smoker, and the habit had become so fixed that to discontinue smoking seemed to me impossible. I felt that my health would be better if I were to discontinue smoking, and I made several attempts at different times to stop; but the intense desire and craving would become so great that my efforts would last only for a few days, and then I would conclude that I should rather suffer any ill effects that smoking might cause me than endure the intense craving. It finally occurred to me, about eight years ago, that Christian Science treatment might help me. I went to a practitioner whom I knew, who had formerly healed me of paralysis of the bowels, and asked her if Christian Science treatment could cure the smoking habit. She asked me if I really desired to stop smoking; and I told her I did, provided I could be cured and not have the intense craving and desire to smoke that I had experienced in my former efforts, and provided I should not experience lonesomeness when with others who were smoking, which men sometimes have who are not. She gave me one treatment; and I have never since had the desire to smoke; and when I am with others who are smoking I feel just as much at ease with them as formerly.
The instantaneous healing of the smoking habit was a revelation to me. I have had many other healings, and much spiritual help through Christian Science; and I am constantly grateful for the understanding of this truth. I am also grateful for that wonderful woman, Mary Baker Eddy, who gave this Science to the world.— Denver, Colo.
