"People who smoke cigarettes are all drug addicts. We all know that. Nicotine is the gateway drug to cocaine. Smoking cigarettes is similar to smoking a crack pipe. Nicotine takes 8 seconds to get to the brain from the lungs. Once it is in the brain, it binds itself to brain cells that are responsible for the release of dopamine. Nicotine and cocaine both releases dopamine. Dopamine affects what is called the brain's reward and pleasure circuit, which are structures within the organ involved with learning, appetite, memory function, and pleasurable feelings."
http://hubpages.com/hub/Nicotine-more-da...We all know the dangers of smoking and how addictive they are... so I won't bore you with the nauseating statistics. But when discussing nicotine, other drugs like cocaine have less negative effects, and that should tell you something. This whole industry is a cash-cow for the tax dept. and like other "sin taxes" they are designed to bet on the slave staying addicted. I though slavery was abolished... CHEMICAL SLAVERY
If you have ever smoked you will understand that wanting to quit is a fallacy, that will take more than your will... and like a scene from the exorcist, you can expect some very "bad things" to happen on your way to deliverance. Who dreamed this stuff up? Like diabolical lab-demons... these practitioners of sorcery deliver their most prized possession to date... IS CIGARETTES
Without getting into the whole Greek lessons, the word describing pharmaceuticals "pharmakeia" literally means "to administer drugs" ...and was used also to describe witchcraft and sorcery. And so with such a sinister product in nicotine, it is not the administration of medical necessities that is questioned, rather the use of this mind altering drug. Meds can be used both by self administration and by the pharmaceutical industry... but to determine which one the negative aspects of drug use is associated with cigarettes, one has to look no further than that of the results.
So let's dig a bit deeper into THAT HUMANITY
"Soul" and psyche can be treated synonymously... the very soul of a person can effect the entire body by mood and emotion or by will and determination... it is at this level that such insidious drugs such as nicotine create the imbalance toward full-scale addiction. The studies are in, and interesting enough, the results seem to mirror the biblical adage from years gone by... "What a man thinks... so he is." It is this connection... thinking... that fools the addict to believe that he/she cannot be free... and why would they want to? Knowing that each "hit" produces euphoric pleasure... as if to say "I love this stuff!" Because it is the delivery of chemical pleasure to the brain, that brings the "host" of this demon into submission... to witch it IS CRAVING
I am not even kidding, like a voice from the past, echoed by those who have gone before, all have intimated the same struggle... while trying to quit... a voice inside would say... "Why should I? I love smoking" ...I was wondering if "they" shouldn't just put those words on each pack of smokes, so that the user would know where those words originated. As this demon clutches the very mind and soul of a person... the addiction claims another victim ...3000 teens take up the habit of smoking cigarettes every day in the U.S. alone.... plenty of new souls to sacrifice FOR TEMPORARY PLEASURE
As a counselor, I have found the best tool against any addiction is the God given mind. By retraining the mind with truth and fact... exposing of the lie comes naturally. This is why the Bible says in order to overcome this worlds entrapment's "be transformed by the renewal of your mind" ...and to run from youthful lusts or desires that "war against your soul" or mind. Psychologists will tell you the greatest battles we face are in our minds... not in our bodies. Knowing this, and with all the medical, financial and psychological prowess of our reigning authorities... one can only assume that this entire pharmaceutical dependence is their brain-child for HUMAN DESTINY
As a triune creature, made in the image of it's Triune Creator... mankind has a much overlooked facet of their own existence. Some have dabbled and practiced with it's power and transcendent abilities, to overcome this world and it's trappings. It alone can control the mind; it alone can overcome the body and it's cravings, pain, anxiety. In the face of death it can be impervious to treat and torture...
for it does not belong to the body nor the soul, for it IS SPIRITUAL
God "has put eternity into man's heart" ...we literally live like there will never be an end to our existence... because there won't be. We are much more than what meets the eye; and much more than what can be determined from an MRI. It has been my experience that there is nothing that we cannot overcome... from disability to addiction, when we tap into the purpose we were created with. The best rehab programs are those who acknowledge that there is a God, one who is both interested and more powerful than our circumstances or predicaments that we get ourselves into. The potential of human existence is phenomenal... AND HIGHLY UNDER-RATED
"Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city." (Proverbs 16:32)
I would like to blame those who have laid traps for our feet, and the feet of our children... but there is another answer, and that is to discover our created purpose, and our eternal destiny. Once that is established, other things that beset us will be just as temporary as the physical chapter of our narrative. There is hope, if not now, in eternity where all will be free from their illusions. So as a former dead man to one about to be resurrected with purpose and potential... AND CAN ONLY BE FILLED WITH ONE GOD!