Testimony of Healing January 17, 2000 Issue

Smoking habit conquered

Barbara L. Kelly

For about fourteen years I was a smoker—up to two packs a day at one time.

Although my parents were not church members, I was taken by a neighbor to a Christian Science Sunday School quite regularly during my childhood. I knew Christian Scientists didn't smoke or drink, but I wasn't clear about why they didn't. Deciding that Christian Science was too restrictive, during my freshman year in college I began to smoke and drink, and I stopped attending church or Sunday School.

Eventually I realized that these actions were not the acts of freedom I had anticipated, but were a kind of bondage. Over the next ten years, I "quit" smoking a number of times—for a few days, a few weeks, and once for about a year—but always I went back to it.

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