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Summary
- Short prayers cover the first morning, a craving, habits after meals, stress, withdrawal, a slip, not yet wanting to quit, the body’s healing, milestones and a loved one who smokes.
- Free help: 1-800-QUIT-NOW in the US, NHS Stop Smoking Services and the NHS Quit Smoking app in the UK, and 8-800-200-0-200 in Russia.
- Smokefree.gov says withdrawal symptoms are usually strongest in the first few days or weeks; the NHS says people who reach 28 days smoke-free are five times more likely to quit for good.
- Two collects from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and the Orthodox Jesus Prayer are given for moments of temptation.
- The Bible never mentions tobacco; the Catholic Catechism (paragraph 2290) names the abuse of tobacco among the excesses temperance avoids.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Psalm 50:15; Proverbs 24:16; Lamentations 3:23; Matthew 6:7; 26:41; Luke 18:13; 1 Corinthians 6:12, 19–20; 10:13; Galatians 5:22–23; Hebrews 4:15). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Collects for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany, p. 114, and the Second Sunday in Lent, p. 127. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd ed. Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1997. Paragraph 2290. https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P80.HTM
- Orthodox Church in America. “The Jesus Prayer.” The Orthodox Faith, vol. 4, Spirituality. https://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/the-orthodox-faith/spirituality/prayer-fasting-and-almsgiving/the-jesus-prayer
- Hilgers, Joseph. “Novena.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11141b.htm
- Smokefree.gov (National Cancer Institute). “Speak to an Expert.” https://smokefree.gov/tools-tips/get-extra-help/speak-to-an-expert
- Smokefree.gov (National Cancer Institute). “Understanding Withdrawal.” https://smokefree.gov/challenges-when-quitting/withdrawal/understanding-withdrawal
- NHS Better Health. “Quit smoking.” https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/quit-smoking/
- Consultative Telephone Center for Help in Quitting Tobacco (quitline of the St Petersburg Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology, Russian Ministry of Health). https://spbniif.ru/klinicheskie-podrazdeleniya/konsultativnyy-telefonnyy-tsentr-pomoshchi-v-otkaze-ot-potrebleniya-tabaka-.php
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