For one thing, while my addiction to cocaine disappeared overnight, other habits I had formed did not.  I was still bound to cigarettes.  My body was still hooked on nicotine even after Jesus miraculously delivered me from cocaine addiction.  I really struggled against lighting up.  In my heart I didn't want to smoke anymore, but there I would be, still smoking regularly, but doing it with tears streaming down my face because I wanted to stop so badly.  I would get so angry about it that I would throw my last pack of cigarettes out the window on the way home, only to rush back out soon after and buy another pack!

HOW DELIVERANCE COMES

As I learned to pray, study and live the Word, and as I worshipped God with my whole heart, gradually I changed on the inside to such an extent that at the end of that time I could finally set that pack of cigarettes down and not pick them up again.  Through my discipline in the Word and prayer, I had formed new spiritual strength inside of me that gave me the self-control to beat nicotine - my spirit had become strong enough to overrule my physical desires.  It was just as miraculous as what had happened to me with drugs, but it took longer to come because there were things I had to do and to believe to be changed.  Yet when I finally did set them down, I kicked them just as much as I had kicked drugs out of my life.