Advice on How to Stop Smoking
Rinpoche gave the following advice.
My very dear Polly,
How are you? I am very happy to hear from you. In regards to your problem, this is my advice (below). I hope that this will help you to get inspiration and courage to stop smoking, so that you have a long life and healthy life, healthy body and mind. If your body is polluted, made dirty, then it is very easy to get sick and to get cancer.
Tobacco is a very impure plant, it came about due to devils, who made prayers to harm people. Then, from that, tobacco grew, to harm people. Especially, it blocks spiritual development. If spiritual development doesn't happen, then one has to continually die and be reborn, and experience continual suffering and problems, again and again, without end, as human beings, hell beings, devas, animals, etc. There is no end to the suffering in samsara and, also, you can't liberate thousands of others from samsaric suffering, and bring them to full enlightenment.
With much love and prayers...