There is licentiousness, and not only of the soul, but also of the body, a false calming of oneself. Now, during the earthly journey, your body must be constantly renewed, otherwise then "smoking tranquility" will become a source of terrible captivity of the soul. You cannot calm yourself down with the satisfaction of passion, you can only resist it, refrain from it. It is very difficult to quit smoking, every smoker knows about it, and the Orthodox Church understands this.

Will prayer help

By the way, every second smoker has tried and more than once to "quit" with a bad habit, but to no avail. Trusting in Christ and asking Him for the strength of spirit, you can overcome the evil tobacco devil. A special prayer to quit smoking will also help.

Icon "Vladimirskaya Mother of God"

It is advisable to part with a sinful habit at a time when a person feels closeness with the Church, feels the goodness of God and His love.

Important! Without a serious decision to quit smoking, nothing will work. It is important to realize the inherently murderous power of smoking, which is service to the devil.

Prayer for help quitting smoking to holy saints is a very common practice. God's saints always intercede for us, sinful people, help to avoid the consequences of the Fall and inevitable punishment.

Prayers from other passions:

Therefore, the more a person desires to receive Divine help, the more persistently one should pray to the Lord, the Queen of Heaven and the saints. Do not forget and

Advice! Do not self-deceive and try to reduce the number of cigarettes you smoke. Just take and pluck this root of evil from life once and for all.

And to help a good deed, ardent and heartfelt prayer.

Prayer petitions from smoking

Holy Trinity

O merciful God, Father, Son and Holy Soul, worshiped and glorified in the Inseparable Trinity, look gracefully on Your servant (name), the possessed disease; let him go of all his sins; give him healing from the disease; restore his health and bodily strength; Give him a long-lived and prosperous life, Your peaceful and rewarding blessings, so that together with us he would bring grateful prayers to Thee, the All-Blessed God and our Creator.

Mother of God "Seeking the Lost"

Diligent Intercessor, Benevolent Lord Mother, I am running to Thee, I am a cursed and most sinful man; Hear the voice of my prayer, and hear my cry and hear my groaning. For my iniquity has surpassed my head, and I, like a ship in the depths, sink into the sea of \u200b\u200bmy sins. But Thou, O All-Gracious and Merciful Lady, do not despise me less than the desperate and perishing in sin; have mercy on me who repent in my evil deeds, and return to the right path for my lost, cursed soul. On You, my Lady Theotokos, I lay all my hope. Thou, Mother of God, preserve and keep me under Thy roof, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.

Guardian Angel

To the angel of God, my holy guardian, given to me from God from heaven to keep! I diligently pray to you: you enlighten me today, and save me from all evil, instruct me in every deed, and direct me to the path of salvation. Amen.

Ambrose Optinsky

Reverend Father Ambrose, you, having boldness before the Lord, beg the Great-gifted Vladyka to give me an ambulance in the fight against impure passion. Lord! With the prayers of Thy saint, Reverend Ambrose, cleanse my lips, chaste my heart and saturate it with the fragrance of Thy Holy Spirit, so that the evil tobacco passion will run away from me far away, back to where it came from, into the womb of hell.

Job the Long-suffering

O holy pleaser of God, righteous Job! Having fought on the earth with a good deed, thou art in Heaven the crown of righteousness, which the Lord has prepared for all who love Him. Even so, looking at your holy image, we rejoice at the glorious end of your residence and honor your holy memory. But you, standing before the Throne of God, accept our prayers and bring them to the All-Merciful God, forgive us every sin and help us to become against the wiles of the devil, and get rid of sorrows, diseases, troubles and misfortunes and all evil, we will live piously and righteously in the present forever and we will be honored by your intercession, if you are not worthy of me, see the good on the land of the living, glorifying the One in His saints glorified God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and ever. Amen.

John Chrysostom

About the great Saint John Chrysostom! You have received many and various gifts from the Lord, and as a good and faithful servant, you have multiplied all the talents given to you for good: for this, truly, you were a universal teacher, as every age and every title is obtained from you. Thou was the image of a youth of obedience, a luminary for the youth of chastity, a mentor for the husband of industriousness, a teacher for an old gentleness, a monk of abstinence, a leader who prays from God, an enlightener for the wisdom of those who seek the mind, an inexhaustible source of good-spoken words of a living source of good-hearted mercy rule , the inspirer of the truth to the zealots of daring, the mentor for the sake of the persecuted patience: all you were, but you save everyone.

Above all these, you have acquired love, it is even the sauce of perfection, and with that, as if by the power of the Divine, you copulated all the gifts in your soul in one, and that love, divided by reconciling, in the interpretation of the words of the apostles, you preached to all the faithful. We are sinners, according to a single cue and every gift of property, unity of soul and union of the world are not imams, but there are vanities, irritating each other, envying each other: for this, for the sake of our gift, we are not divided into peace and salvation, but into enmity and condemnation. ... By the same to you, the Holy Hierarch of God, we fall, we are overwhelmed by strife, and in contrition of heart we ask: by your prayers, drive away from our hearts all sorrow and envy that separates us, and in many people we have one church body, we will remain undisturbed, but according to your words of prayer we will love a friend friend. Amen.

Tikhon Zadonsky

Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of God, Son of David in the flesh, as you have mercy on the Canaanite: my soul rages in evil with anger, rage, evil lust and other destructive passions. Lord! Help me, I cry to You, not walking on earth, but sitting at the right hand of the Father in heaven. Hey, Lord! Give me a heart to follow Your humility, goodness, meekness and longsuffering, with faith and love, and in Your eternal Kingdom I will be worthy to partake of the meal of Your servants, whom You have chosen. Amen.

Tikhon Voronezh

O saint, our father Tikhon! Hear us and sweat your favorable intercession to plead with the Lord, may she add her great and rich mercy to us, sinful and unworthy servants of her (names), may heal with her grace the incurable sores and scabs of our corrupted souls and bodies, may dissolve our petrified hearts with tears of tenderness and contrition over the many great sins of ours and may he deliver us from the eternal torment and fire of hell, may he grant peace and silence, health and salvation in the present day, so let us be honored with the angels and with all the saints, glorify and chant the All-Holy Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer of the Passion-Sick Smoking

Merciful Lord! Hear my petition, accept the prayer of your unworthy servant, do not abhor my sores, do not turn away from me. As sometimes you healed the money-loving soul of Zacchaeus the publican, heal my soul, which is sick with many passions and troubles. Lord, heed the voice of my prayer, hear my groaning and my pitiful cry. Oh, woe to me, woe to me, a sinner, since I am like idolaters, I am not ashamed to burn demonic incense, I am not ashamed to offend You, Lord, with the craftiness of my heart. I tempt You with excessive reliance on Your patience. Standing in Thy Holy Temple, I delight myself with the fragrance of incense, and for an hour, packs, I enjoy smoking the stench. I defile my lips, and with these same lips I speak words of praise to You. Aki the dog returns to his vomit, so I serve sin. Everyone, as if this is a sin, but the imam of daring does not repudiate the bribes of the mercenaries. Merciful Lord! Descend my infirmity, forgive my indecency, strengthen me, give me patience and spiritual courage, do not leave me, do not let me drown in the mud of sinful sin, Save, Lord! I'm dying! As if sometimes thou, Lord, healed, through the prayers of thy Most Pure Mother, a certain husband Sergius - heal me who is unworthy. As sometimes Thou art, Lord, delivered, through the prayers of the Monk Ambrose of Optina, from the bad habit of a certain Alexei of Moscow - deliver me the accursed one. As sometimes Thou art the Lord, through the prayers of the saints, the father of Kiev-Pechersk, freed from the pressing passion of a certain Maxim and set him to serve You in Your Holy Temple - the same and less filthy and unclean freedom, and grant me to serve Your truth, and work without laziness To you, my Lord Jesus Christ, all the days of my life, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.

1. But within the church walls it is easier to concentrate and realize the essence of sin, ask for strengthening of the spirit.
2. Reading the prayer text once will not help. You need to pray several times a day, especially in those moments when the hand involuntarily reaches for the cigarette and there is no way to endure this vile state.
3. It is advisable to memorize the prayer and, just in case, have its handwritten text with you in your bag or pocket.
4. Any good deed, an Orthodox person begins with the blessing of the cleric of the local church. This also applies to trying to quit smoking. In addition, the priest, knowing about the problem, will also pray for the smoker.
5. You need to pray slowly and with concentration, in solitude with yourself. It is advisable to kneel before the face of the saint to whom the prayer is addressed. Hold the prayer book in your left hand, and put the sign of the cross on yourself with your right.
6. After finishing the prayer, you need to cross yourself three times and turn to God with a request for help to quit smoking.

Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople

In addition to independent prayer work, it is necessary to attend Sunday services, confess, and receive communion.

More about prayer:

Do not hope that reading a prayer alone will help you get rid of tobacco smoking. Of course, it will reduce cravings, but it will not completely eliminate the sinful habit. You need constant and daily independent work on yourself.

Important! The Monk Ambrose of Optina recommended that at every desire to light a cigarette, make 33 bows to the earth, after which read "Our Father", and do this until the victory over addiction. This method has actually helped many ex-smokers. And, of course, to help the sufferers, confession, the sacrament and daily reading of the Gospel.

From the point of view of the Church, the habit of smoking is tantamount to fornication, worship of idols, pride, pride, which is a sin. This disease is an evil parody of burning incense, but not in the name of Christ. Pray daily, starting the morning with prayer and ending the day with it. This is the only way to overcome this sin forever.

Attention! Drug therapy is not prohibited by religion, so it can be used in conjunction with prayer work. But the Orthodox Church categorically does not approve of the appeal to magicians, hypnosis and conspiracies.

Watch a video on anti-smoking prayers.

Smoking is one of the harmful habits that destroy health and significantly reduce life expectancy. And already quite a lot of people are thinking that it's time to quit smoking. All means are good in the fight for health. But sometimes it is not enough to use even the most advanced developments aimed at combating tobacco dependence.

The main thing that is necessary in such a battle is the presence of a strong will and a desire to part with nicotine addiction. But not all people are famous for their confidence and boundless self-confidence. What to do in this case? Christian believers are helped by prayer to quit smoking cigarettes. Holy words bring a person the necessary strength and confidence to overcome addiction.

Many Prayers Help Fight Smoking

Church foundations attribute nicotine addiction to sinfulness. And the clergy are convinced that only sincere prayer can cope with a sin. The result will certainly be achieved, especially if a person calls out to the Saints with an open heart.

All prayer words must be spoken with sincere faith in their miraculous words and the power of inner conviction.

One can read prayers and cry for the grace of the Saints both within the walls of the Temple and in a familiar home environment. Strong prayer from smoking can help build self-confidence, awaken willpower, and fight deadly addiction. Some believe that there are no specific prayers for tobacco addiction.

Before starting to fight tobacco addiction, set clear goals

To whom, then, can you appeal for help? Church ministers advise to pray to some specific Saints who can help with this problem. Prayer against smoking will be successful if addressed to such Saints as:

• Guardian Angel;
• Tikhon Zadonsky;
• Job the Long-suffering;
• Saint John Chrysostom;
• To the Monk Ambrose of Optina.

Guardian Angel's Help

Prayer to the Guardian Angel

Everyone has their own personal Guardian Angel, a protector who will always come to the rescue in any trouble. It is better to read the prayer appeals addressed to him daily, especially if the desire to get rid of tobacco addiction is great. The words of the prayer are as follows:

“To my angel of God, Holy Guardian, given to me from heaven by God! I pray you earnestly - enlighten the son of a sinner and bring light into my soul. Save me, Angel of God, from all evil, and instruct me to act dean, leading to the light. Guide me, a sinner, on a bright and righteous path. Amen".

Petition to Tikhon Zadonsky

Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk

During his lifetime, the saint was already an idolized and highly respected teacher of Christianity, he was engaged in active Orthodox propaganda and devoted himself to teaching and preaching. The Monk Tikhon became a real example of respect and adoration of the word of God, striking everyone with his extraordinary sagacity.

Even after the end of the earthly years, the preacher of St. Tikhon did not stop honoring and praising. This Saint helped many people to get rid of addictions and diseases. To call him for support and help, you must read the following prayer:

“Tikhon, our Reverend Father, we praise and honor you! A saint and saint of God, like an angel of heaven, you appeared on our earth. I direct you, Holy Hierarch of men, all my thoughts are good. Intercede for me (name) before the face of God, and ask him for salvation and intercession.

Give me your wisdom and save me from sinful cravings and unhealthy dependence. Pray for me before the Face of God. Save from daily evil, the harm of the devil. I ask you for my physical and mental recovery. Give strength to cope with adversity and forget about cursed smoking. Amen".

Appeal to Job the Long-Suffering

Holy Righteous Job the Long-Suffering

Job the Long-suffering (he is also called "the poor") is a God-pleasing righteous man respected by Christians who lived on earth for 2000 BC. e. In his life, this Saint had to endure many troubles and hardships, but he worthily endured all the hardships given to him by God.

His earthly story teaches us to be compassionate towards disadvantaged, painful and dependent people. To turn to the Martyr for help in combating tobacco addiction, you should read the following prayer book:

“Our holy saint of God, more righteous than Job! Having fought on a sinful land with a glorious feat, and in Heaven he received the crown of truth. Looking at your glorious Face, and the Holy Image, day and night I honor your memory. Accept from me the kneeling prayers, and convey to the All-Merciful my prayer, uttered with hope.

Help me, Saint Job, to overcome the heavy addiction fanned by evil smoke, and give me strength to resist the wiles of the devil and evil unclean ones. Save me from troubles and ailments, direct me to a healthy and bright path. I thank you Job, but I hope for help. Amen".

Petition to St. John Chrysostom

Saint John Chrysostom

John Chrysostom became famous for his long and successful theological work. After long and diligent years of serving God, the theologian was elevated to the rank of archbishop. During his lifetime, he created a huge number of valuable works on Christian worship..

Petition prayers addressed to the saint are considered one of the most effective and successful. Most often, Orthodox Christians turn to this Saint for help in the following matters:

1. About the health of loved ones.
2. About help in various endeavors.
3. About tranquility and peace of mind.
4. About instructing children and relatives on the true path.

Such a prayer for smoking, by the way, it is not necessary to read it to the smoker himself, is considered one of the most effective. The greatest result will be obtained if one of the close relatives prays for the smoker before the saint and asks John Chrysostom to direct the addict to the true path. The following prayer speeches will help you fight tobacco addiction:

“I appeal to St. John Chrysostom! Do not deprive your servant of heavenly help, but help get rid of cowardice, and your own torment. Direct your mind to the glorious and pure path. Take off the petrified insensibility. I am sinful in my flesh, sinful by burden and sinful attachment.

I ask for help from thee, our Saint and Intercessor. Reduce your grace to me, but come to my aid in the fight against infectious ailment. Show the righteous path, and help free me from the dependence of the devil. With a petition I pray to you in your kingdom. Amen".

Requests to the Monk Ambrose of Optina

Venerable Ambrose of Optina

It is smokers who most often turn to this Saint for help, who want to part with their deadly addiction. Ambrose of Optina became famous for his strength during his lifetime on earth. He preached the harm of smoking and drunkenness, urged people to direct all their efforts to overcome the irritability that grips a person in the fight against tobacco addiction.

There is a known case when an ordinary man named Alexy Moskovsky, an avid and long-term smoker, came to the Saint for help. He could not part with cigarettes due to the weakness of his own character. Ambrose Optinsky advised the smoker to do the following:

• go to confession and repent of all absolutely sins that the layman managed to commit throughout his life;
• take communion;
• read the Gospel daily, or every time there is a desire to smoke, beat 33 big bows.

According to legend, having received such an answer from the Saint, Alexy of Moscow fulfilled all the conditions. When the smoker tried to smoke again, he fell on his back, struck by a terrible headache. Since then, Alexy quit smoking, as even the mere mention of tobacco caused a layman to feel sick. Ambrose of Optina's prayer against smoking sounds as follows:

“Venerable father, our intercessor Ambrose, you are bold before our Most High. Yes, pray to the Lord of the Lord, let him give me a sign, give his mighty help to fight against impure passion, and a destructive desire.

Lord! With a petition to the Holy Father, your Pleasant, Saint Ambrose, I pray thee for the protection of the Almighty. Grant me strength in the struggle for health and pure thoughts. May the tobacco passion run away from me, your servant, evil, far away, where she came from, from the womb of hell and the damned receptacle. Let it be so! Amen".

Before reading the words of the prayer, you need to ensure yourself a quiet and secluded place. Remember that while communicating with the Saints, no one should interfere. Prayers should be read with absolute faith in their power and sincere conviction of their effectiveness.... Also, for maximum effectiveness, arm yourself with the following rules to follow each time you read your prayer proclamation:

• read the prayer slowly and slowly, carefully pronouncing the words and delving into their essence;
• do not be distracted by anything while pronouncing sacred words;
• it is better to read all prayers on your knees;
• during prayer, fully focus on the goal set for yourself;
• it is better to hold the prayer book in your left palm, and to overshadow yourself with the banner of the cross with your right;
• at the end of the prayer, one should cross oneself three times and appeal to the Lord with a request for help in the fight against smoking.

Know that reciting prayers should not be a one-time event. You should turn to the Saints for help every day 3-4 times a day, and also every time you feel the urge to smoke. It is best to memorize the prayer words and start with this prayer every day.

If, in the process of parting with cigarettes, the former smoker feels unwell and withdrawal symptoms, read the prayer even harder and more often. Remember, the more sincere your own faith in yourself and the help of the Great Pleasants, the sooner the long-awaited freedom from tobacco addiction will come.

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Smoking is a pernicious habit that poisons the life of not only the smoker himself, but also everyone around him. Believers are sure that the addiction to tobacco is a sin before the Lord, the desire to forget about nicotine and prayer from smoking saves from him. A strong desire to get rid of addiction along with the help of the Almighty can work miracles.

Are there prayers for smoking?

To get an answer to this question, it is enough to turn to historical data. In 1905, a great event took place in the Orthodox world - the Monk Silouan the Athonite arrived in Russia. He traveled here by rail, and on the way he met a wealthy merchant. The merchant offered the clergyman a cigarette - a fashionable innovation at that time.

The merchant took the refusal to smoke rather nervously, he began to actively convince the elder that there is no sin in smoking tobacco leaves. The monk did not argue, simply offering to read to the person before lighting a cigarette a simple and well-known prayer - "Our Father". The merchant was embarrassed, saying that it is not appropriate to read a prayer before smoking cigarettes. To this he was given the answer that he must read prayers before any deed. If the appeal to the Lord is pronounced in confusion, then nothing needs to be done.

There is a sacramental meaning in this story - any prayer against smoking. It is important that a person believes and turns to the Almighty for help without a doubt and with a strong desire to give up addiction. A person does not need to prove to society that smoking tobacco is a bad business. It is important that he himself understands the sinfulness of this addiction and with all his soul tried to get rid of it.

Parable about the help of the saints in their efforts to get rid of smoking

Once a man came to the famous and now deceased elder Taisiy Svyatogorets, his daughter was very ill at that time. She simply died from several diseases, and the doctors did not leave the child any chance not only for recovery, but also for life. The man sincerely asked the elder to help with prayer, Paisy promised to help. In a long conversation, the elder pointed out to his father that he should help his child in every possible way, and therefore it is necessary to give up his addictions, addictions, and limit his desires. Taisiy advised the man to forget about smoking, albeit at the cost of his suffering. They were the ones who had to give the child the strength to fight ailments.

The man left his cigarettes near the church so that he would never return to them. The father helped to heal his daughter, fighting his sinful addictions.

Who to Pray for Smoking Cessation?

Addiction is a sin before the Lord because they are given to the unclean. They should be got rid of, which is facilitated by Orthodox prayers from smoking. There are many of them; texts can be found in special prayer books. It is not forbidden to address the Lord in your own words. Saints, guardian angels, the Blessed Virgin Mary also help to abandon addiction.

Today no one studies the Holy Scripture, as it was at the beginning of the past century. And a person, having decided to give up an addiction, often does not know which saint to turn to, what words to choose. There are texts that are compiled and recommended for reading by the church. Among the most famous is the prayer to Ambrose of Optina for getting rid of smoking. However, the spiritual fathers advise to look into your soul, to find support there - a true desire to give up tobacco, and then turn your aspirations to the Almighty, reading the appropriate prayers. They help true believers forget about tobacco and nicotine.

Strong prayer from smoking: what is its secret?

It is important for every smoker to understand that tobacco is not a gift from God. The addiction to nicotine, which is contained in the plant, makes a person weak-willed, deprives him not only of health, but also of independence of choice. The nicotine component of tobacco affects the mental and emotional state, and has a strong effect on the body. To help smokers, the church offered a prayer against smoking - you should read it yourself. In this case, there is a high probability that the spirit will get stronger, and the body will be able to give up nicotine.

The holy words are made strong by the person who sincerely believes and hopes for complete deliverance from addiction. The constant recitation of strong prayer from smoking and wine evokes a strong understanding that such habits are sinful. To receive the help of the Higher Forces, one should pray and believe daily.

How can you quit smoking by the power of prayer?

To quit smoking, the prayer is read by the smoker or his close people. It is in this case that the words will be healing, they have a beneficial effect on the sincere believer. The church advises to read prayers from smoking to the smoker himself, but sometimes a person himself does not realize the sinfulness of his addiction. In this case, relatives and friends will be able to ask the Lord for healing.

The Church does not forbid, and often encourages, the opportunity to combine the power of the prayer word and the methods of traditional medicine. All of them are aimed at healing, and therefore are not considered sinful. The exceptions to this rule are various nicotine chewing gums, the transition to electronic cigarettes and snus. In this case, nicotine - a drug - still enters the body, replacing one habit with another.

Church people and clergy consider nicotine addiction a terrible sin. Those who want to get rid of it can read strong prayers from smoking for themselves, but they should already be aimed at a successful result and methodically achieve their goal. If the thoughts in the process of reading are pious, and faith is strong, the person has a high chance of being healed.

People who, with the help of prayer, have already been able to quit smoking cigarettes, advise:

• Visit the church and talk with the clergy, talk about your problem and get valuable advice.
• Choose a saint who wants to pray. You can read about the life of the saint, learn about his deeds and the help provided to those asking. Often, smokers choose a strong prayer to Ambrose Optinsky from smoking.
• Do not give up the accepted and validated methods of classical medical science to help you quit addiction.

But the main thing is mood and faith, which strengthen the soul of a person.

A sincerely read prayer will be heard, will allow you to forget forever about a dangerous habit.

How to read a prayer correctly so that it helps?

The most powerful and healing prayers are considered to be from the passion of smoking to the Monk Ambrose of Optina. However, this is not the only saint who helps to forget about a habit, to save a person from addiction, to make his spirit strong, to strengthen his faith. There are also prayers from smoking to Nicholas the Wonderworker, Matrona of Moscow, Virgin Mary, Guardian Angel, Holy Trinity and others. The choice depends on the smoker himself, his faith and aspirations.

You can read the prayer for smoking offered by the church not one, but several saints. It is important that the smoker:

• He turned to the saints and the Lord independently and with a pure heart. If there is no understanding of what is happening, true faith, desire to read, it is better to do it later.
• I must forget about pressing problems at least for the time of turning to the Lord. Do not just mechanically repeat words, there is no benefit from such a reading. All thoughts should be pure, the mind - freed from thoughts.
• I must realize and pass through myself every word that is mentioned in the church text. They should be pronounced with reverence, thoughtfully, sincerely.
• First, clear your mind by reading (you can repeatedly) the prayer "Our Father". You can find it in any prayer book.
• If a strong desire caught a person on the way, and there is no prayer book at hand, he may not read the text of the prayer from the incense of Ambrose of Optina by heart. You can turn to the saint, the guardian angel, the Almighty with a sincere request to help and support. With the daily reading of prayers, the words are quickly imprinted in memory, and therefore in the future there will be no problems with independent reading of the text.

Before proceeding with the purification of the body and spirit from addiction, one should confess and receive communion, receive a blessing from a priest or his spiritual mentor. Such support will help the smoker even in the most difficult moments, give him strength. Often, the blessing of the mentor disciplines, sets up a person who will simply be ashamed to let the clergyman down. This is a good motivation.

Appeal to Ambrose Optinsky

The prayer against smoking to Ambrose of Optina, according to smokers, has become one of the most powerful. In the process of reading it, the smoker or his close people turn directly to the saint, who has also become a comforter for many suffering. The monk was famous during his lifetime, he was famous for the gift of clairvoyance and healing. God gave him the rare ability to heal body and soul. Ambrose of Optina, even after his departure to the Lord, helps everyone who turns to him with a sincere word and faith. In this case, the person asking will be heard and will soon receive help.

A sincerely read prayer from Ambrose's smoking allows you to understand the sinfulness of tobacco smoking, as well as the negative impact of nicotine, like a narcotic drug, on the soul and body of a person. Even during his lifetime, the elder argued that tobacco slowly but surely destroys the body, and the soul of a person from such an addiction also dies a slow death. Often smokers are prone to mood swings, they are haunted by defeatist thoughts, they have little light and faith, but a lot of despair, melancholy and blues.

The prayer to St. Ambrose from smoking is known, its text is in many prayer books, you can find it on the Internet.

Address to Saint Nicholas the Pleasant

Everyone knows Nicholas the Wonderworker - the hasty and the healer of souls. He helps sufferers find the right way to forget about tobacco. It is recommended to read the text not only at home, but also in the church in front of the image of the Wonderworker. One or three candles can be lit and prayed sincerely. The saint does not refuse to help anyone, he helps to heal from addiction to wine, cigarettes, drugs.

Help from Matrona of Moscow

Mother Matrona of Moscow is a revered saint who lived in Russia in the middle of the last century. She helped those who were suffering and those who were asking while still alive, bequeathed to turn to her with a prayer for help to those who were suffering even after she had gone to the Lord. She saved a lot of lost souls who needed healing from tobacco smoking, alcoholism, drug addiction.

Turning to your angel

From birth and after baptism, a person receives his angel to help. He goes with everyone through life, helps with illnesses, does not refuse help in getting rid of smoking, alcoholism, drug addiction. Prayers to your angel are short, but strong enough. The main thing is to back up every word with sincere intentions and desire.

In order for a smoker to be heard and receive prompt help, one should turn to the saints and the Lord with sincere faith. There are several hint rules that are recommended to be taken into account by all those praying.

Quitting smoking is basically simple. First of all, you need a sincere, your own desire to quit smoking. But desire alone is not enough. It takes will, it takes strength to fight a bad habit. But many people have a bad will. Although, if you think about it, this is not a lack of will, this is a lack of full support, a weak confidence that you will have enough strength and time on the way to a life without cigarettes.

Believers are helped by prayers from smoking, more precisely, prayers that support a person in the fight against smoking. Unfortunately, many are convinced that there are no special prayers and saints that help directly fight tobacco smoking, such as the Inexhaustible Chalice icon of the Most Holy Theotokos helping to overcome the green serpent, prayers to the Martyr Boniface and the Monk Moses Murin.

List of prayers for smoking

Choose any, depending on the situation.

In fact, even from the sin of smoking, there is someone to pray and someone to ask for not providing help, maintaining strength, forgiveness. By the way, forgiveness is very important here: smoking is a sinful habit. And why this is so, the priests explain very well in the pastoral instructions.

Prayer for the passion of smoking to the Monk Ambrose of Optina

The main prayers for smoking are offered up to the Monk Ambrose of Optina, and it is called "Prayer for the passion of smoking to the Monk Ambrose of Optina." This is exactly what Ambrose said to help those who want to quit smoking:

You write that you cannot quit smoking tobacco. I advise you to use spiritual healing against this passion: confess in detail all your sins, from the age of seven, and throughout your life, and partake of the Holy Mysteries, and read daily, standing, the Gospel, chapter or more; and when melancholy attacks, then read again until the melancholy passes ... Or, instead, lay, alone, 33 large bows, in memory of the earthly life of the Savior and in honor of the Holy Trinity.

Prayer before the icon of the Mother of God "Seeking the Lost"

But there is also an icon, the prayer of which will help to overcome the passion of smoking, like many other troubles. This is the icon of the Mother of God "Seeking the Lost". For a long time, those who are mired in drunkenness, smoking, drugs, suffering from illness have resorted to her help.

How to pray and how to order a prayer service - the priest will tell you or you can find an Orthodox website where everything is described in detail. Let's just say that at home you should pray before the icon of the Mother of God "Seeking the Lost" as follows:

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Rejoice, Blessed Virgin of the Virgin, in the arms of Her Eternal Child and God who carried. Ask Him to give the world peace and salvation for our souls. The son of you, Bogomati, speaks, as if all your requests for good will fulfill. For this sake, we are leaning, we pray, and those who hope in Thee, may we not perish, we call Your name: Thou art, Lady, the recovery of the lost.

Prayer

Diligent Intercessor, Benevolent Lord Mother, I run to You, I am a cursed and most sinful man; Hear the voice of my prayer, and hear my cry and hear my groaning. For my iniquity has surpassed my head, and I, like a ship in the depths, sink into the sea of \u200b\u200bmy sins. But Thou, All-Merciful and Merciful Lady, do not despise me less than the desperate and perishing in sin; have mercy on me who repent in my evil deeds, and return to the right path for my lost, cursed soul. On You, my Lady Theotokos, I lay all my hope. Thou, Mother of God, preserve and keep me under Thy roof, now and ever, and forever and ever. Amen.

In moments of despair, prayer from smoking will help righteous Job the Long-suffering

When difficulties overwhelm, when despair overwhelms and does not give the strength to start quitting smoking, or when weakness of spirit prompts to abandon the process of quitting, the prayers of the suffering to Job the Long-suffering and St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, help.

The prayer to the righteous Job the Long-suffering is lifted up to strengthen patience. When difficult days come in the process of quitting smoking, when the strength to endure without cigarettes is running out - seek help from the holy and righteous Job the Long-suffering, resorting to him with these words:

O holy pleaser of God, righteous Job! Having fought on the earth with a good deed, thou art in Heaven the crown of righteousness, which the Lord has prepared for all who love Him. Even so, looking at your holy image, we rejoice at the glorious end of your residence and honor your holy memory. But you, standing before the Throne of God, accept our prayers and bring them to the All-merciful God, forgive us every sin and help us become against the wiles of the devil, and get rid of sorrows, diseases, troubles and misfortunes and all evil, piously and righteously we will live in the present forever and we will be honored by your intercession, if you are not worthy of me, see the good on the land of the living, glorifying the One in His saints glorified God, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and ever. Amen.

Prayer for smoking to St. John Chrysostom

Likewise, in a difficult moment of despair, the prayer to St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, keeps you on the right path.

About the great Saint John Chrysostom! You have received many and various gifts from the Lord, and as a good and faithful servant, you have multiplied all the talents given to you for good: for this reason, truly, you were a universal teacher, as every age and every title is obtained from you. Thou was the image of a youth of obedience, a luminary for the youth of chastity, a mentor for a husband of diligence, a teacher of old gentleness, a monk of abstinence, a leader who prays from God, an enlightener for the wisdom of those seeking the mind, an inexhaustible source of good-spoken words of the living source of an inexhaustible source of benevolent mercy reign , the inspirer of the truth to the zealots of daring, the mentor for the sake of the persecuted patience: all you were, but you save everyone.

Above all these, you have acquired love, even there is a sauce of perfection, and with that, as if by the power of the Divine, you copulated all the gifts in your soul in one, and that love, divided by reconciling, in the interpretation of the words of the apostles, you preached to all the faithful. We are sinners, according to a single cue and every gift of property, unity of soul and union of the world are not imams, but there are vanities, irritating each other, envying each other: for this, for the sake of our gift, we are not divided into peace and salvation, but into enmity and condemnation. ... By the same to you, the Holy Hierarch of God, we fall, we are overwhelmed by strife, and in contrition of heart we ask: by your prayers, drive away from our hearts all sorrow and envy that separates us, so that in many people we have one church body, we will remain undisturbed, but according to your words of prayer we will love a friend friend. Amen.

Prayer from smoking to St. Tikhon of Voronezh

A prayer to St. Tikhon of Voronezh, the Wonderworker of Zadonsk, will help to support the spirit in the fight against tobacco evil.

O saint, our father Tikhon! Hear us and sweat your favorable intercession to plead with the Lord, may He add His great and rich mercy to us, sinful and unworthy servants of His (names), may heal with His grace the incurable sores and scabs of our corrupted souls and bodies, may dissolve our petrified hearts with tears of tenderness and contrition over the many great sins of ours and may he deliver us from the eternal torment and fire of Gehena, may he grant peace and silence, health and salvation in the present day, so let us be honored with the angels and with all the saints, glorify and chant the All-Holy Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit forever and ever. Amen.

I would like to remind you once again that prayer is a purely personal, secret matter. As with any business in Orthodoxy, you need to start praying for healing with the blessing of the priest and according to his advice. Do not hope that the mechanical repetition of prayers will help you to resist, although - if such a recitation of them helps, distracts, gives strength - then it is wonderful.

« And when you pray, do not repeat the same thing, like people from other nations who think they will be heard through verbosity.”(Matthew 6: 7).

Prayer to the Guardian Angel

To the angel of God, my holy guardian, given to me from God from heaven to keep! I earnestly pray to you: you enlighten me today, and save me from all evil, instruct me in every deed, and direct me to the path of salvation. Amen.

Prayer for smoking to St. Tikhon of Zadonsk

There is a prayer for taming the passions, compiled by St. Tikhon of Zadonsk, which must be read. And the more often the better!

Prayer for the taming of passions

Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of God, Son of David in the flesh, as you have mercy on the Canaanite: my soul rages in evil with anger, rage, evil lust and other destructive passions. Lord! Help me, I cry to You, not walking on earth, but sitting at the right hand of the Father in heaven. Hey, Lord! Give me a heart to follow Your humility, goodness, meekness and longsuffering, with faith and love, and in Your eternal Kingdom I will be worthy to partake of the meal of Your servants, whom You have chosen. Amen.

How to pray to quit smoking

You can use any of the above prayers. The most important thing is to do this every day, from morning to evening. And in moments of strong desire to smoke. Believe me, these prayers have already helped many people, you are not the first, and not the last.

Pray every day and then you can overcome the sin of smoking.

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The Church points out that the ability of smoking mixtures to change creation was used in most pagan cults. Therefore, the Church calls addiction to smoking a sin. Think for yourself, the need to smoke, to poison the body is as unnatural as the need for food and drink.

Harm to the body from smoking

It is known that changing consciousness with the help of smoking mixtures dates back to ancient times. Always, until the 16th century, when tobacco was brought to Europe, they were used mainly in religious cults. And today shamans, brahmana sorcerers use various mixtures, inhaling their smoke and plunging into a trance.

Of course, the Orthodox Church treats such practices as serving the dark forces (indeed, as soon as you read about the essence of shamanism or witchcraft, the Church's disapproval becomes clear).

The church never stops talking about the dangers of smoking. Medicine confirms the harm of smoking, there are many studies on this topic, in fact, the harm of tobacco is known to everyone, like the harm of other smoking mixtures. Both they and tobacco itself are soft drugs, cause a change in consciousness and addiction.

The habit of smoking, the passion for smoking is a real addiction. Tobacco, like smoking blends and some well-known types of burnt plants, is a light drug.

How to quit smoking

Today there are a number of medical and psychological ways to quit smoking. However, many of them have the opposite effect. As Benjamin Disraeli said, "There is nothing easier than quitting smoking - I myself have quit a thousand times." The Church always advises to resort to prayer means.

Recognizing smoking as a sin, fighting it as a sinful passion, confession and Communion help to quit smoking forever: after all, you are not fighting alone, the grace of the Lord and His saints are with you:

Pray to the Lord Jesus Christ and the Most Holy Theotokos in front of Her icon "The Inexhaustible Chalice." Contrary to popular belief that it only helps with the ailment of alcoholism, the prayer of the Mother of God in front of this icon is read to get rid of all types of addictions.

Prayer to the Guardian Angel, helper and intercessor, a friend who is given by God to every person at Baptism.

Prayer to the Monk Ambrose of Optina, who during his lifetime saved an inveterate smoker from addiction.

How to pray from smoking, to quit smoking:

• understand that this is addiction, both physical and spiritual;
• exercise more and attend church more often: a healthy mind in a healthy body;
• to ask to get rid of smoking as a sinful passion;
• pray for a successful fight against the demon of passion inside us, the demon that lives in every pack of cigarettes;
• ask the Lord to strengthen your will;
• do not give in to despondency.

Without effort, without spiritual and mental work on yourself, you will not be able to quit smoking forever. It is important not to try to get rid of smoking with rituals and appeal to psychics: what cannot be expelled from the evil spirit by another evil spirit, it will only drive you into another, possibly worse addiction.

Make up your mind to quit smoking and begin to pray: daily, perhaps 40 days or a year in a row. Take the priest's blessing for this spiritual work. For a miracle to happen and you are no longer drawn to a cigarette, believe in God's help and remember that smoking is a sin.

To give up smoking

Sincere prayer and strong determination are the keys to success in quitting smoking. Even people with a weak will, who have no experience in self-restraint, over time, with regular prayer, notice how a miracle happens: active physical activity becomes available to them, fresh smells are clear again, the desire to fiddle with something in their hands is replaced by fingering the rosary with prayer ...

You need to read the prayer with attention and awareness of the meaning of the words. You can pray at any time of the day. If you have forgotten a prayer and you do not have a phone at hand to pray online - if you have a strong desire to smoke, simply turn to the Lord: "Lord, have mercy!"

Give yourself time to solve the problem, tolerate the urge to smoke and certain difficulties. Believe me, addiction to alcohol or junk food is no easier to overcome.

Quitting smoking on your own if there is no willpower is possible only with prayer. You need to pray, repent of dependence and know that the grace of God will help you.

The Monk Ambrose of Optina was a saint who lived quite recently, the founder of the Shamordinsky desert and the Optina elder, teacher and healer. He exerted a very great influence not only on the peasants who loved and respected him, but also on the educated society of the 19th century. The elder even became the prototype of the literary hero.

They pray to the Monk Elder Ambrose of Optina for getting rid of smoking, because during his lifetime he was able to help a St. Petersburg resident quit smoking, who smoked 75 cigarettes a day. This happened in the 19th century, then "cigarettes" were much stronger than today. Feeling health problems, he tried to quit smoking for two years in a row and, finally, when he heard about the miracle-worker in Optina, he wrote him a letter.

The Monk Ambrose answered him with a program for the fight against smoking, which we will present below. It is important that while reading the old man's letter, the smoker mechanically inhaled, but a sharp headache immediately interrupted the inhalation. He was simply not able to smoke anymore: he stopped carrying tobacco smoke. But he nevertheless fulfilled the program of the Monk Ambrose, because the habit could return. A miracle happened, but it was all the more necessary to obey the instructions of the holy elder, since such a mercy of God was shown. When the former smoker came to Optina to thank the holy elder, he also got rid of his headache: the Monk Ambrose simply with prayer touched his head with his staff.

Here is Ambrose Optinsky's program to quit smoking:

• Confess in the church throughout your life from the age of seven, repent of all the sins that you remember.
• Prepare and partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ (at the morning Liturgy).
• Read the Gospel - one chapter a day, if there is discouragement because of quitting smoking - read several chapters.
• Every day, in front of the icon of the Lord Jesus Christ, pray 33 prostrations (according to the number of years of the Savior's earthly life).

Today there are many testimonies of the miraculous getting rid of the smoking habit after praying to Ambrose of Optina and fulfilling his "program". It is important to read the words of the prayer carefully. With the help of prayer, you will focus on your soul, free time and thoughts from smoking.

“Reverend Father Ambrose, you are the intercessor of all those who pray to you before the Lord God - ask the Lord Almighty and Deliverer to help me in the fight against the sinful passion of smoking! Lord! Through the prayers of Your holy saint, the reverend Elder Ambrose, cleanse me, my internal organs and soul, make my heart chaste, instead of the stench and smoke of tobacco, fill me with the fragrance and grace of Your Holy Spirit, so that the harmful addiction to tobacco will go far away from me - there, where it came from, into the abyss of hell!
O reverend our father Ambrose, you can intercede before the Lord for every person - pray to the Almighty God to give me help in the fight against smoking addiction.
Lord Jesus Christ! through the prayers of Your saint, Saint Ambrose, make my lungs clean of smoke, make my heart resistant to smoking and fill it with the scent of Your grace, so that the passion for smoking will leave me - back to where it came from, in the hellish abyss. Amen".

You can repeat this or a special universal Jesus prayer when you have a craving for smoking:
"Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner," - or even shorter: "Lord have mercy!".
Understand that through prayer you will focus on your soul, free time and thoughts from smoking.

Prayer to the "Inexhaustible Cup" from smoking and addictions, reviews

Before this image, those suffering from the ailment of drunkenness began to pray, perhaps because it depicts a Cup - only instead of alcohol, the cause of drunkenness, there is a Divine Child in it, healing people from sins and diseases. This icon was miraculously found two centuries ago and scientists have not been able to establish either its origin or its author to this day. The icon is famous for the healing of many people suffering from drunkenness and drug addiction. Two miraculous lists of it are known. Both of them are in the monastic cloisters of the city of Serpukhov. This city has long become a center of pilgrimage for believers from all over the world.

The icon depicts the Mother of God with the Infant Jesus Christ. The peculiarity of the image is that the Infant Christ stands in the Sacrament Chalice (chalice) with uplifted hands. The Mother of God, standing behind the Infant God, is also depicted in the pose of Oranta - the Intercessor, that is, with her hands raised in prayer.

The icon "Inexhaustible Chalice" symbolizes the Sacrament of the Eucharist - Communion. The Infant in the Chalice shows that Orthodox Christians who receive communion during the Liturgy receive the grace of God. This icon is in almost every Orthodox church.

A folk remedy, a spiritual cure for addictions of any kind - alcoholism, smoking, drug addiction - the prayer to the Inexhaustible Cup. There are testimonies of her miracles in many, for example, church rehabilitation centers for getting rid of addictions. They are in every diocese.

If you or your loved ones started using drugs or smoking mixtures ("soft drugs"), smoke, drink alcohol often enough and you are drawn to it again - turn to the best way to get rid of addiction - prayer.

“Oh, Lady Theotokos, merciful Protector for us sinners! We come under Your intercession, do not turn away from our prayers, but hear us: wives, children, mothers.
Heal our loved ones - husbands, sons, fathers, relatives, friends - who are possessed by the grave illness of drunkenness (drug addiction, smoking) and leave the Church because of it! Most Holy Mother of God, awaken their souls and deliver them from sin, lead them to abstain from alcohol (drugs, tobacco) for the salvation of their souls!
Pray to Thy Son, our Lord, to forgive them and us for their sins, and to take His mercy from the people who believe in Him, but to strengthen us in sobriety and virtue.
Accept, good Mother of God, the prayers of mothers for their lost children, the tears of wives crying for their husbands, the cries of orphans, forgotten by those sick with the ailment of drunkenness, and everyone who comes to Thy icon. May our prayer ascend and our lamentation by Your intercession to the throne of the Lord in Heaven.
Cover us with grace and deliver us from evil, committed by our loved ones due to illness, from the action of the spirits of darkness, and during the death of the earthly help everyone to go through the ordeals of demons, with Your prayers deliver from eternal torment, so we glorify God's mercy forever. Amen".

Church help, reviews

If you yourself are trying to break out of the networks of addiction, also reinforce your strength with prayer. This ailment is insidious.

In difficult cases, it is possible to advise patients and their loved ones to contact help groups and rehabilitation centers that are in every diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church under the Departments for Counteracting Alcoholism and Drug Addiction. They themselves, their relatives or friends can pray for patients with alcoholism and other addictions.

Pupils of the centers and members of anonymous groups participate in church services, communicate with priests and psychologists. Many are acquiring new professions.

Through the intercession of the Mother of God, the Monk Ambrose of Optina and all the saints, may the Lord keep you!