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I quit smoking when I was 22. I did not smoke long compared to some. A few hrs after I laid them down I knew I was as addicted to nicotene as any smoker that had been on them for YEARS.
How did I quit.
Kept telling myself I would rather hurt this way than -------> that way--------> 40yrs in the future. Life is precious & health life worth living. In the ministry for 41 yrs now, I have watched many take 10-15yrs of treatments, sick, weak, cant do anything, no way to live before they finally die. I decided I wanted to LIVE til I die.
I will confess that on occassion I still have a hunger. I will not go back.

My son, like you, from mid teens & he is 43 now. He quit about a yr ago. How??? Three yrs ago he married his HighSchool sweetheart. I did the cerimony. My prayer was that God would give them a 50th aniversary. (Both of them had a ROUGH UGLY 1st marriage.) That will put them both right @ 90. Not out of reach today.
A yr ago he told his wife, cancer is on both sides of his blood.
Told her he loved her & wanted the 50yrs w/ her that Dad prayed for.

How precious is life & health to you????
How precious is someone to you. Wife, kids, ....
Know from the start it may not ever really go away completely.
For some it does but for some it does not.
I pray Lord help him to really want to quit @ then grant him grace to DO IT. In Jesus name AMEN