Quote Originally Posted by redz View Post
I drive around with a pack of smokes and never touch it. I found it was better to conquer temptation than avoid it.
I find your last sentence there very interesting, especially in the context of people attending temple or attending church in the mindset that they should avoid temptation. Not many people would say that you should seek out temptation and sit with it until it is no longer tempting (I've never heard a pastor or a guru say that).

But another person might look at your situation and say that you needed the packet of cigarettes in your car all the time in order to feel soothed (and that you would not be soothed if you did not know that they were always there if you needed them).