Testimony of Healing October 27, 2003 Issue

No longer addicted to smoking

Karin Staehler

A good friend had introduced me to Christian Science. I had studied it avidly from the start. The truths I was learning, and my growing understanding of my identity as the child of God, were having a powerful impact on my life.

But some years later, I started struggling with nicotine addiction. What had begun as a mild attraction to cigarettes quickly became habit-forming, and soon, it was part of my daily routine to purchase them—on the way to work, and again on the way home.

Over time, I did cut back considerably on the number of cigarettes I smoked, but it was as though I suffered from a kind of self-hypnosis that made me think I couldn't quit the habit altogether. I even resisted the idea of stopping my regular trips to the store to buy cigarettes, because the trips in and of themselves had become such a habit.

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