For more than forty years I was a smoker. During that period I faced all the arguments for and against the habit. I know what a smoker thinks and his reaction to am suggestion that he quit smoking. It was not until I came to realize that smoking is a stumbling block to spiritual progress that I decided to quit.
With this decision I faced the problem, having as my objective freedom from bondage to tobacco. For several months I wrestled alone with this false appetite without overcoming it. Then it finally dawned upon me that I was making a reality of a myth in order to have an object to fight.
I asked a Christian Science practitioner for help. The first thing I was given to consider was an explanation of the unreality of any false appetite and the reality of man's God-given dominion over the errors of the flesh. It took ten days for me to assimilate the truths that were given to me. Then the desire to smoke vanished completely, leaving me entirely free.
