anarchy:
Hope your doin' well, just wanted to throw in my 2 cents on the matter....
I'm not a cigarette smoker myself but I worked in a cigarette store for a while...
I know the higher beings of the spirit world view tobacco as a sort of bastardization of a sacred plant sort of like cocaine of heroin which is viewed in a similar fashion by them..
I have heard a few stories and also have been witness to some incidents where people on DMT or Ayahuasca had very bad/demonic like experiences that seemed to be directly related to cigarette addiction in one way or another....
Why does this happen? I will tell you my opinion on it and you can take it into consideration if you like.
In my particular system of observations, which is based on my own psychedelic experiences as well as from studying various ancient scriptures..
IMHO the spirit world(therefore our world as well) operates in strict accordance with it's own concise set of rules and guidelines.
For illustrative purposes, picture the spirit world as a court of law.....
In this celestial court each human is constantly on trial so to speak.....
As in a regular court of law each person is represented by an advocating spirit, this spirit is the proverbial guardian angel on the shoulder, this "angelic" spirit is present from the time of the humans birth and it's number one duty is to protect, council and defend the human during the ongoing spiritual trial of that persons life.
As you might assume there is not only a defender and an advocate but there is also a antagonist as well. Satan is a Word that's literal meanings include, the accuser and to turn away. The being known as Satan constantly acts as a prosecuting attorney against the person, The job of Satan is to constantly bring accusations against the human in an effort to stir up the wrath of judgment and hopefully win a verdict of punishment against the human.
As we are familiar with the saying ignorance of the law is not equal exemption from the law. And this is true to some degree in the high celestial court. Unlike Earthly court however, In the spirit world courtroom the advantage does decidedly and ultimately belong to the defendant. This is because the foundation of all creation is mercy, and the concepts of mercy, compassion, understanding and empathy supersede all other directives....
So in spiritual court the burden of prove falls upon the prosecuting attorney and not the defendant. The prosecutor in this case is quite over zealous however and the "judge" is also well aware of this fact and takes it into consideration when delivering any sort of judgement.
But every once in a while the prosecutor has a solid argument against the person for which the defense fails to defend against....or else there is "no contest" against the charges levied towards the person.
So....as you might have guessed addiction itself is a violation of some of the laws of the spirit world and so being addicted to an abominable substance is a heavier still violation...
The other thing that tend to make the judgment more severe is when a human commits a violation of a rule when they know it is wrong. Then the you didn't know better plead for leniency goes out the window.
My guess is that in your case the prosecutor was able to convince the judge to "let the dogs loose" on you based on your choice to not follow through with quitting your addiction and there was nothing your advocating defender could do to stop it because you were just plain too guilty.
So....this is just my opinion on it,I'm not trying to make any spiritual judgments or anything just relating that I have been through similar things countless times and this info seemed to go a long was towards helping me understand why these things kept happening. So I just thought I would run it by you and give you a bit of food for thought..
Take care.
And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not percieve the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, "brother let me remove the speck from your eye", when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye?-Yeshua ben Yoseph