Chantix VS Chanting–to quit smoking

Before taking to chanting the Hare Krishna mantra daily my wife used to smoke 2 packs of cigarettes every day.  But with the help of this mantra she quickly and easily gave up smoking.

Chantix

The prescription drug Varenicline (Chantix) helps you quit smoking.  It has a standard pharmaceutical list of side effects and warnings.  Here is a few of them.

Allergic reaction.  Anxiety, confusion, depression, restlessness, or mood changes.  Blistering, peeling, or red skin rash.  Chest pain. Fast, pounding, or uneven heartbeat. Lumps on your neck, armpit, or groin.  Numbness.  Red or black stools. 

 

Seeing or hearing things that are not really there. Seizures.  Thoughts of hurting yourself or others.  It may also cause some people to have suicidal thoughts and tendencies or to become more depressed.

So far it has only been linked to 98 suicides, no big deal.   Also it has been linked to murder/suicide cases as well.

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Chanting Hare Krishna

Chanting the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, is the most effective prescription to give up smoking.  It is proven to work and literally hundreds of thousands of patients have easily given up smoking with this medicine.  Many of whom did it cold turkey.  Here is a list of a few of the side effects and qualities.

• Chanting Hare Krishna awakens love of God.

• Chanting Hare Krishna brings liberation as a side benefit along the way.

• When you chant Hare Krishna, you automatically develop knowledge and detachment.

• Chanting Hare Krishna gets you out of the endless cycle of birth and death.

• It is the most effective means of self-realization in the present Age of Quarrel. Nothing else works nearly as well.

• Chanting Hare Krishna cleanses the heart of all illusions and misunderstandings.

• By chanting Hare Krishna, you become free from all anxieties.

• Chanting Hare Krishna brings you to self-realization—and shows you how to act as a self-realized soul.

• It keeps you ever mindful of Krishna, the reservoir of pleasure.

• There are no hard and fast rules for chanting. You can chant anywhere, any time, under any circumstances.

• Krishna Himself is fully present in the transcendental sound of His name. And the more you chant, the more you realize it.

• All other Vedic mantras are included in the chanting of Hare Krishna. So just by chanting this mantra, you get the benefit of all others.

• Chanting Hare Krishna purifies not only you but every living entity around you. Whoever hears the chanting gets spiritual benefit.

• A person who chants Hare Krishna develops all good qualities.

• You can chant Hare Krishna softly for personal meditation or loudly with your family or friends. Both ways work.

• Srila Prabhupada chanted Hare Krishna, and so did great souls in the past. So why not you?

• It’s free. Chanting Hare Krishna never costs you money.

• Chanting Hare Krishna brings the highest states of ecstasy.

• There are no previous qualifications needed for chanting Hare Krishna. Young or old, anyone can chant—from any race, any religion, or any country of the world.

• Even if you don’t understand the language of the mantra, it works anyway.

• Chanting Hare Krishna brings relief from all miseries.

• Chanting Hare Krishna is easy. When the best way is also the easiest, why make life hard for yourself?

• Chanting Hare Krishna invokes spiritual peace—for you and for those around you.

• When you chant Hare Krishna, Krishna Himself becomes pleased.

• When you chant Hare Krishna, Krishna dances on your tongue.

• By chanting Hare Krishna you can return to Krishna’s world, the eternal abode of full happiness and knowledge.

• Chanting Hare Krishna frees you from the reactions of all past karma. Chanting Krishna’s name even once, purely and sincerely, can free you from the reactions of more karma than you could possibly incur.

• Chanting Hare Krishna counteracts the sinful atmosphere of Kali-yuga, the present Age of Hypocrisy and Quarrel.

• By chanting Hare Krishna you can relish at every step the full nectar that’s the real thirst of the soul.

• The more you chant Hare Krishna, the better it gets.

• If you look through all the Vedic scriptures, you’ll find nothing higher than the chanting of Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

However chanting Hare Krishna is not without warning.  Do not chant this mantra if you would like to keep attachments to pride, lust, anger, and greed.  It will destroy these attachments.