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		<title>The Great American Smokeout 2009: break free from habitual sin!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the Great American Smokeout 2009, an event sponsored by the American Cancer Society. The idea is straightforward: decide today that you're going to break your smoking habit, and take steps to make that happen. Here's a Christian ministry that can help you do just that.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today is the <a href="http://www.cancer.org/docroot/subsite/greatamericans/Smokeout.asp">Great American Smokeout 2009</a>, an event sponsored by the American Cancer Society. The idea is straightforward: decide today that you&#8217;re going to break your smoking habit, and take steps to make that happen. (If you&#8217;re looking to quit, the ACS site has a useful-looking <a href="http://www.cancer.org/docroot/subsite/greatamericans/content/Guide_to_Quitting_Smoking.asp">guide to quitting smoking</a>.)</p>
<p>Smoking is a habit you don&#8217;t hear much about in the church these days. I imagine that&#8217;s partly because the traditional evangelical shunning of smoking and drinking has a lot less moral traction than it used to; and partly because years of anti-smoking campaigns have convinced most of us that whether or not it&#8217;s a sin, smoking is not a desirable habit.</p>
<p>But there are plenty of Christians out there who want to break a smoking habit that has <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20corinthians%206:12&#038;version=NIV">mastered them</a>. One ministry that can help you do so is <a href="http://www.settingcaptivesfree.com/">Setting Captives Free</a>, which has a free 60-day online course called <a href="http://www.settingcaptivesfree.com/courses/breath-of-life/">Breath of Life</a> that takes a Jesus-centered approach to breaking free of a smoking addiction. (Setting Captives Free offers <a href="http://www.settingcaptivesfree.com/courses/">many other free courses</a> as well, all aimed at finding freedom from habitual sin.)</p>
<p>If this is something you struggle with, today&#8217;s as good a day as any to decide that you&#8217;re going to quit&mdash;and that you&#8217;re going to do what it takes to break the habit for good. Take a look and see if the above resources can help!</p>
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