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The Greatest in the Kingdom. 1a At that time the disciples* approached Jesus and said, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" 2He called a child over, placed it in their midst, 3b and said, "Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children,* you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. 4c Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5* And whoever receives one child such as this in my name receives me.
Temptations to Sin. 6d "Whoever causes one of these little ones* who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. 7* Woe to the world because of things that cause sin! Such things must come, but woe to the one through whom they come! 8e If your hand or foot causes you to sin,* cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into eternal fire. 9And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into fiery Gehenna.
The Parable of the Lost Sheep.* 10f "See that you do not despise one of these little ones,* for I say to you that their angels in heaven always look upon the face of my heavenly Father. [11]g * 12 What is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray? 13And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray. 14In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.
A Brother Who Sins.* 15h "If your brother* sins [against you], go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother. 16* i If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that 'every fact may be established on the testimony of two or three witnesses.' 17j If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church.* If he refuses to listen even to the church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector. 18* k Amen, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 19* l Again, [amen,] I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father. 20* m For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."
The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant.* 21n Then Peter approaching asked him, "Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?" 22* Jesus answered, "I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times. 23o That is why the kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who decided to settle accounts with his servants. 24* When he began the accounting, a debtor was brought before him who owed him a huge amount. 25Since he had no way of paying it back, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, his children, and all his property, in payment of the debt. 26* At that, the servant fell down, did him homage, and said, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full.' 27Moved with compassion the master of that servant let him go and forgave him the loan. 28When that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a much smaller amount.* He seized him and started to choke him, demanding, 'Pay back what you owe.' 29Falling to his knees, his fellow servant begged him, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.' 30But he refused. Instead, he had him put in prison until he paid back the debt. 31Now when his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were deeply disturbed, and went to their master and reported the whole affair. 32His master summoned him and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to. 33p Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant, as I had pity on you?' 34Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers until he should pay back the whole debt.* 35* q So will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each of you forgives his brother from his heart."
* [18:1–35] This discourse of the fourth book of the gospel is often called the "church order" discourse, but it lacks most of the considerations usually connected with church order, such as various offices in the church and the duties of each, and deals principally with the relations that must obtain among the members of the church. Beginning with the warning that greatness in the kingdom of heaven is measured not by rank or power but by childlikeness (Mt 18:1–5), it deals with the care that the disciples must take not to cause the little ones to sin or to neglect them if they stray from the community (Mt 18:6–14), the correction of members who sin (Mt 18:15–18), the efficacy of the prayer of the disciples because of the presence of Jesus (Mt 18:19–20), and the forgiveness that must be repeatedly extended to sinful members who repent (Mt 18:21–35).
* [18:1] The initiative is taken not by Jesus as in the Marcan parallel (Mk 9:33–34) but by the disciples. Kingdom of heaven: this may mean the kingdom in its fullness, i.e., after the parousia and the final judgment. But what follows about causes of sin, church discipline, and forgiveness, all dealing with the present age, suggests that the question has to do with rank also in the church, where the kingdom is manifested here and now, although only partially and by anticipation; see notes on Mt 3:2; 4:17.
* [18:3] Become like children: the child is held up as a model for the disciples not because of any supposed innocence of children but because of their complete dependence on, and trust in, their parents. So must the disciples be, in respect to God.
* [18:6] One of these little ones: the thought passes from the child of Mt 18:2–4 to the disciples, little ones because of their becoming like children. It is difficult to know whether this is a designation of all who are disciples or of those who are insignificant in contrast to others, e.g., the leaders of the community. Since apart from this chapter the designation little ones occurs in Matthew only in Mt 10:42 where it means disciples as such, that is its more likely meaning here. Who believe in me: since discipleship is impossible without at least some degree of faith, this further specification seems superfluous. However, it serves to indicate that the warning against causing a little one to sin is principally directed against whatever would lead such a one to a weakening or loss of faith. The Greek verb skandalizein, here translated causes…to sin, means literally "causes to stumble"; what the stumbling is depends on the context. It is used of falling away from faith in Mt 13:21. According to the better reading of Mk 9:42, in me is a Matthean addition to the Marcan source. It would be better…depths of the sea: cf. Mk 9:42.
* [18:7] This is a Q saying; cf. Lk 17:1. The inevitability of things that cause sin (literally, "scandals") does not take away the responsibility of the one through whom they come.
* [18:8-9] These verses are a doublet of Mt 5:29–30. In that context they have to do with causes of sexual sin. As in the Marcan source from which they have been drawn (Mk 9:42–48), they differ from the first warning about scandal, which deals with causing another person to sin, for they concern what causes oneself to sin and they do not seem to be related to another's loss of faith, as the first warning is. It is difficult to know how Matthew understood the logical connection between these verses and Mt 18:6–7.
* [18:10–14] The first and last verses are peculiar to Matthew. The parable itself comes from Q; see Lk 15:3–7. In Luke it serves as justification for Jesus' table-companionship with sinners; here, it is an exhortation for the disciples to seek out fellow disciples who have gone astray. Not only must no one cause a fellow disciple to sin, but those who have strayed must be sought out and, if possible, brought back to the community. The joy of the shepherd on finding the sheep, though not absent in Mt 18:13 is more emphasized in Luke. By his addition of Mt 18:10, 14 Matthew has drawn out explicitly the application of the parable to the care of the little ones.
* [18:10] Their angels in heaven…my heavenly Father: for the Jewish belief in angels as guardians of nations and individuals, see Dn 10:13, 20–21; Tb 5:4–7; 1QH 5:20–22; as intercessors who present the prayers of human beings to God, see Tb 13, 12:15, . The high worth of the little ones is indicated by their being represented before God by these heavenly beings.
* [18:11] Some manuscripts add, "For the Son of Man has come to save what was lost"; cf. Mt 9:13. This is practically identical with Lk 19:10 and is probably a copyist's addition from that source.
* [18:15–20] Passing from the duty of Christian disciples toward those who have strayed from their number, the discourse now turns to how they are to deal with one who sins and yet remains within the community. First there is to be private correction (Mt 18:15); if this is unsuccessful, further correction before two or three witnesses (Mt 18:16); if this fails, the matter is to be brought before the assembled community (the church), and if the sinner refuses to attend to the correction of the church, he is to be expelled (Mt 18:17). The church's judgment will be ratified in heaven, i.e., by God (Mt 18:18). This three-step process of correction corresponds, though not exactly, to the procedure of the Qumran community; see 1QS 5:25–6:1; 6:24–7:25; CD 9:2–8. The section ends with a saying about the favorable response of God to prayer, even to that of a very small number, for Jesus is in the midst of any gathering of his disciples, however small (Mt 18:19–20). Whether this prayer has anything to do with the preceding judgment is uncertain.
* [18:15] Your brother: a fellow disciple; see Mt 23:8. The bracketed words, against you, are widely attested but they are not in the important codices Sinaiticus and Vaticanus or in some other textual witnesses. Their omission broadens the type of sin in question. Won over: literally, "gained."
* [18:17] The church: the second of the only two instances of this word in the gospels; see note on Mt 16:18. Here it refers not to the entire church of Jesus, as in Mt 16:18, but to the local congregation. Treat him…a Gentile or a tax collector: just as the observant Jew avoided the company of Gentiles and tax collectors, so must the congregation of Christian disciples separate itself from the arrogantly sinful member who refuses to repent even when convicted of his sin by the whole church. Such a one is to be set outside the fellowship of the community. The harsh language about Gentile and tax collector probably reflects a stage of the Matthean church when it was principally composed of Jewish Christians. That time had long since passed, but the principle of exclusion for such a sinner remained. Paul makes a similar demand for excommunication in 1 Cor 5:1–13.
* [18:18] Except for the plural of the verbs bind and loose, this verse is practically identical with Mt 16:19b and many scholars understand it as granting to all the disciples what was previously given to Peter alone. For a different view, based on the different contexts of the two verses, see note on Mt 16:19.
* [18:19–20] Some take these verses as applying to prayer on the occasion of the church's gathering to deal with the sinner of Mt 18:17. Unless an a fortiori argument is supposed, this seems unlikely. God's answer to the prayer of two or three envisages a different situation from one that involves the entire congregation. In addition, the object of this prayer is expressed in most general terms as anything for which they are to pray.
* [18:20] For where two or three…midst of them: the presence of Jesus guarantees the efficacy of the prayer. This saying is similar to one attributed to a rabbi executed in A.D. 135 at the time of the second Jewish revolt: "…When two sit and there are between them the words of the Torah, the divine presence (Shekinah) rests upon them" (Pirqê 'Abôt 3, 3).
* [18:21–35] The final section of the discourse deals with the forgiveness that the disciples are to give to their fellow disciples who sin against them. To the question of Peter how often forgiveness is to be granted (Mt 18:21), Jesus answers that it is to be given without limit (Mt 18:22) and illustrates this with the parable of the unmerciful servant (Mt 18:23–34), warning that his heavenly Father will give those who do not forgive the same treatment as that given to the unmerciful servant (Mt 18:35). Mt 18:21–22 correspond to Lk 17:4; the parable and the final warning are peculiar to Matthew. That the parable did not originally belong to this context is suggested by the fact that it really does not deal with repeated forgiveness, which is the point of Peter's question and Jesus' reply.
* [18:22] Seventy-seven times: the Greek corresponds exactly to the LXX of Gn 4:24. There is probably an allusion, by contrast, to the limitless vengeance of Lamech in the Genesis text. In any case, what is demanded of the disciples is limitless forgiveness.
* [18:24] A huge amount: literally, "ten thousand talents." The talent was a unit of coinage of high but varying value depending on its metal (gold, silver, copper) and its place of origin. It is mentioned in the New Testament only here and in Mt 25:14–30.
* [18:26] Pay you back in full: an empty promise, given the size of the debt.
* [18:28] A much smaller amount: literally, "a hundred denarii." A denarius was the normal daily wage of a laborer. The difference between the two debts is enormous and brings out the absurdity of the conduct of the Christian who has received the great forgiveness of God and yet refuses to forgive the relatively minor offenses done to him.
* [18:34] Since the debt is so great as to be unpayable, the punishment will be endless.
* [18:35] The Father's forgiveness, already given, will be withdrawn at the final judgment for those who have not imitated his forgiveness by their own.
a. [18:1–5] Mk 9:36–37; Lk 9:46–48.
b. [18:3] 19:14; Mk 10:15; Lk 18:17.
d. [18:6–7] Mk 9:42; Lk 17:1–2.
e. [18:8–9] 5:29–30; Mk 9:43–47.
f. [18:10–14] Ez 34:1–3, 16; Lk 15:3–7.
h. [18:15] Lv 19:17; Sir 19:13; Gal 6:1.
i. [18:16] Dt 19:15; Jn 8:17; 1 Tm 5:19.
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David Wood Is No Longer Worth My Time
I still want to stress that I like David Wood very much, and apart from our disputes I would consider him a friend of mine. What I am strictly dealing with are his arguments. Nothing personal is implied, even if I have been frustrated with him at times. He's a good man.
I do commend him for dealing with the problem of evil. My claim is that he is not dealing with this problem head on. I think he ought to take the advice of Adam in the comments below and just say he believes in the goodness of God despite the suffering in this world as a sort of Kierkegaardian leap of faith, and leave it at that. For as long as he wants to figure this out, he won't be able to do so.
Dr. Weisberger told me I'm wasting my time with David Wood of Answering Infidels and The Problem of Evil Blog. Like many others before her, I think she's right. She also advised me to argue with him on my blog, so I am now. I want people to see how he argues. So here we go...
Mr Wood claims that the argument from the problem of evil is an atheist argument. I responded that the problem of evil would have to be dealt with by him even if no atheist argued for it, since it flows out of that which he believes about an omni-God. He responded by distinguishing between the "problem of evil" and the "argument from evil," and the "argument from evil" is indeed an atheist argument. If successful as an atheist, he argues I'm trying to show that "God doesn't exist." But that is High School level thinking. A process theologian could press the argument, as could a pantheist. The conclusion of the argument isn't that God doesn't exist, only that if God exists he either isn't omnibenelovent, omniscient, or omnipotent. So why is it an atheist argument when it may not lead to atheism? A Deist could use it. I think it does show the Christian God doesn't exist, but it most emphatically doesn't lead to atheism. The amazing thing to me is that David does not back down, so far, and I don't expect him to here either.
After disagreeing with Dr. Weisberger's discussion of the burdern of proof , which I in turn agreed with her, Mr. Wood claims something wildly fanciful about that "method" (which isn't a method at all). He wrote:
"So the question arises, "Why would John cling to such an absurd method?" The answer: "Because he can't handle having to support his arguments with evidence." I see no other explanation.
Really now? Is it really true he can see no other explanation? Come on now David, think a little more deeply than that. What other explanations are there for why we argue you have the burden of proof here? Could it be that we think you do, irrespective of anything else? The burden of proof is not on the person who is disputing a claim, especially an extraordinary claim about an omni-God (or that there are invisible gremlins), but on the claimant. The person who makes a claim always has the burden of proof. Furthermore, if what he says is true, that I cannot support my arguments with evidence, then why is it that I am stressing the evidence, and arguing that that evidence is overwhelmingly against him? It's obvious that's what I've argued.
Besides Dr. Weisberger, Dr. Jeffry's also has commented on our debate. After reading both of their comments here's what David Wood said:
I've noticed something interesting, however. Both atheist reviewers (Weisberger and Jeffrys) seem to imply that John's arguments didn't work. That is, Jeffrys's response was "It would have been good to bring X up, and you shouldn't have let him get away with Y." Weisberger, apart from outlining [John's]arguments, responded by showing what she would have said in response to my claims. That is, at no point does either reviewer say "David said so and so, but John proved that wrong when he said such and such." Instead, both reviewers try to explain to readers what John should have said.
David claims that what they both wrote seems to imply my arguments "didn't work." Really? That is so slipshod by way of evaluating what their intent was, that I didn't think it needed mentioning that this is a completely ignorant thing to say. [The reason I mention this now, is because I'm seeing quite a pattern here coming from Mr. Wood and I want to lay a few examples on the table]. They were entering the debate. They were offering their own take on the arguments in the debate. There is no way anyone should ever conclude that because they had their own arguments on the issue that this implies they thought my arguments were ineffective at all! This is a non-sequitur.
But there is more. There was a post at Triablogue about a book called, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence by David Benatar, where the author discusses whether or not parents should bring children into existence given the harms that life might bring upon them, and that parents should give it serious thought before bringing another child into this world. According to the editorial review, "David Benatar argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm. He argues for the 'anti-natal' view---that it is always wrong to have children. Anti-natalism also implies that it would be better if humanity became extinct. Although counter-intuitive for many, that implication is defended, not least by showing that it solves many conundrums of moral theory about population." You can see the book and the reviews for yourselves here
Okay so far?
Now in comes David Wood, who wrote:
This guy sounds like John Loftus with a PhD.
Really? Is that what I am saying? We'll get to that later.
Then Jim Pemberton wrote:
Let's see a show of hands: who is glad they were born - despite any discomfort? I'm raising mine.
Then David Wood wrote:
You said that you're raising your hand because you'd rather live. But what about all the people who can't raise their hands because their hands have been chopped off in an accident? What about them? Huh?!! What about people who were born without hands! It must be easy for you to raise your hand, since you've got one. But other people don't have them, and they all understand that it would be better to die. Yeah, they understand. They can't play Nintendo like you. Cause they don't have hands. So think about that, Mr. Handman. Think about people with no hands. And you'll see that we'd all be better off not existing. That's why I don't like God, you know. Cause he made me exist and all. And he doesn't give me everything I want. That's just not right.
Now check out my response:
John W. Loftus said (with corrected typos)...
Okay, funny guys.
Have you ever heard of the phrase, "you'll wish you were never born?" That usually refers to someone who is about to be beaten or tortured to a bloody pulp. There have been such people you know. There have been people born who never had a pleasurable day, due to sickness, starvation, and torture. There are teenagers who have merely spoken their minds only to spend the rest of their lives in a gulag and to die, never seeing their parents again. I could go on and on and on, of course.
This is what I'm referring to, and all you can do is to joke about it. But I understand why you must do so. Because you can't face the problem head on for what it really is.
But there is more. After these people die, according to Christian theology some of them, maybe most of them, will suffer eternal conscious torment forever in hell. This is where the other shoe drops.
Face the problem head on. There are people according to YOUR own theology who wish they had never been born.
Stop joking about this real situation from the standpoint of the silver spoons in your mouths.
You actually make me sick.
I do think it's sick to so glibly treat a serious issue of why GOD, not parents, brings people into existence. And I think it's ignorant to even hint that my argument is anywhere close to what David Wood says it is here. He even thinks I wish I never existed! He has even argued that, if I enjoy life, I "shouldn't constantly describe the world as if it's nothing but a cesspool of death, disease, and bloodshed." But that again, is nothing like what I'm saying. He just doesn't understand for some reason. There is good in the world. I enjoy life very much. My questions are about why so many people (other than me) have to suffer so much if there is a good God, and why this God created such a world when he knew in advance that these people will suffer like they do.
Speaking of my questions, that's all he thinks I'm doing, asking questions. He summarized my 20 minute opening statement by placing the following words in my mouth: "I asked 'why this?' and 'why that?' for twenty minutes without making a serious argument." If anyone can read my opening statement and come away thinking I never made a serious argument, he is intellectually challenged.
I have repeatedly asked Mr. Wood to state my argument in his own words, and the two times he tried to do so, he failed miserably. So I challenge him to do so again, if he responds here. For he cannot seriously interact with my argument until he can effectively state it. That's what scholars do before they argue against someone. First they lay out the other person's argument, so that everyone can see for themselves if he did so fairly, with no strawmen. And scholars must do so charitably too, giving it the most charitable interpretation. I suspect he refuses to do so because he cannot effectively argue against it. Whether that's the case or not is to be seen. Maybe I'm wrong on this. But because he misunderstands and misrepresents so much of what I'm saying, I doubt it.
David Wood responded:
"You actually make me sick."
If God exists, why would he make so many people who make me sick? A good God would have put us on different planets, so I wouldn't get sick thinking about you disgusting people and your logic and all that. If I had the choice between living in a world with you people, and not living at all, I'd rather not exist. But here again, God hasn't given me what I want. So I will fight against him with all my might, and I will teach him that no one denies John Loftus! No one!
My concern here is that David Wood is in a Ph.D program at Fordham University in Philosophy where he must logically evaluate arguments. When it comes to the problem of evil he shows little evidence that he can do this. I wonder what his professors would think of this? It does not speak well for Fordham University, in my opinion. What Mr. Wood is saying is filled with many strawmen arguments, including the informal fallacy of "horse laughter."
Then I responded one final time:
John Loftus said...
David, I guess your response either means 1) my questions are silly and have already been answered by you so the only fitting response is to laugh at me, even though my questions about existing are sincere ones, and even though I have never seen you even attempt to answer them, ever, or 2) you refuse to face head on what your theology commits you to, so you refuse to deal with it. If there are other options please let me know what they are.
Bottom tier buddy. Sorry. But that conclusion is inescapable.
Carry on then. Bring on more ridicule. When you actually want to deal with this problem, let me know.
When I referred to "bottom tier," here, I meant that he is in the bottom third tier of those who defend the Christian faith, which parallels his placing the Rational Response Squad in the bottom third tier of those who defend atheism.
There are probably about ten types of things Mr. Wood continues to argue that shows me he's not really dealing with the problem of evil head on, and which shows me he is in the bottom third tier of those Christians who defend the Christian faith.
Now is he worth my time or not? I've just spend some time here, haven't I? Well, then yes, and no. Maybe I'm still hoping that by bringing these things to the light it might help him to take a serious look at what I'm actually saying and respond as the budding respectful scholar he's supposed to be. But until he does, I can no longer take him seriously.


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Family and friends are an important source of support and motivation for a person who is trying to quit smoking.
Before offering help, ask if it's okay to help, and then ask what you can do. Don't assume that the person wants your help or that you know the best way to help.
If a person asks for your support, there are many things you may be able to do.
Share your smoking history
It is important to the person trying to quit to know whether you smoke, are an ex-smoker, or have never smoked.
- If you have never smoked: Tell the person that you have heard that it can be very tough to quit. If you know people who have quit, tell their quit stories. Don't make the person feel guilty.
- If you are an ex-smoker: Tell the person, but don't brag about it. Say that you know it's tough. And if you had to try many times before you quit, say so. Talk to the person about how quitting changed your health and sense of well-being. Talk about how you got through times when you wanted to smoke again.
- If you are a current smoker: Say so. Let the person know if you have tried to quit and failed. Tell the person that you believe he or she can quit. And pledge not to smoke around him or her or leave cigarettes or smoking supplies around. If you live with the person who is trying to quit, agree to smoke outside the house or apartment, or limit your smoking to one room. Better yet, agree to quit with the person.
Give support
- Give the person support. Let the person know that you're willing to talk or visit anytime he or she wants you to. When the person meets a quit-smoking goal, congratulate him or her. Treat him or her to a movie, give a small gift, or simply send an email or note to acknowledge his or her hard work and efforts.
- Ask the person if you can check to see how he or she is doing.
- Many smokers like to have something in their mouths. Keep a supply of hard candy, cut-up vegetables, or toothpicks in your home to offer to the person.
- Ignore grouchy moods. No matter how grouchy a person gets, continue to support him or her.
- Tell the person about the good changes you see. For example, tell the person if you notice that he or she is not as short of breath.
- Don't check up on the smoker, such as looking for ashtrays or sniffing for smoke.
Help with avoiding triggers
Smokers usually have triggers, which are things that make them want to smoke. You can help a smoker avoid these.
- Ask about the person's triggers, and see if you can help him or her avoid them. For example, if the person always smoked during a coffee break, see if you can call him or her to talk at this time.
- Do things together, such as going to movies or on walks. Activity may help the person think less about smoking and decrease nicotine cravings.
- Alcohol is often a trigger. If possible, keep the person away from places where alcohol is used.
- Help out with daily tasks, such as shopping or cooking. This could help relieve stress, which is a major trigger for smoking.
Help someone who relapses
Most people need more than one try to stop smoking. If the person slips up, let him or her know that it's okay and that you still care.
- Give the person credit for whatever length of time (days, weeks, or months) that he or she didn't smoke.
- See what you both learned from the attempt. Are there any triggers to look out for? Should the person try phone counseling, medicine, or nicotine replacement therapy?
- When the person smokes again, it may be a one-time slip. Remind your friend about how long he or she had gone without smoking and why he or she wanted to quit in the first place.
- Tell the person that it was right to try to quit, and urge him or her to try to quit again. Use positive language, such as "when you try again," not "if you try again."
Suggest resources
There are many resources available to help someone quit smoking, and they make quitting more likely. Here are some ideas you can suggest:
- Join a support group for people who are quitting. People who have quit or are quitting know what quitters go through and can help you.
- Join a quit-smoking program. The person's doctor may be able to suggest one. You can also find them on the Internet.
- Call a stop-smoking hotline, such as 1-800-QUITNOW (1-800-784-8669).
- Try a free stop-smoking app if the person has a smartphone or a tablet device. The National Cancer Institute's QuitPal allows the user to track his or her progress and share successes on social networking sites. It also allows friends and family to record inspiring videos that the person can play when he or she is having a hard time with cravings or stress.
- Get counseling (by telephone, one-on-one, on the Internet, or in a group). The more counseling a person gets, the better his or her chances of quitting. Counseling sessions can also help if the person starts smoking again.
Current as of: August 2, 2022
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Adam Husney MD - Family Medicine & Kathleen Romito MD - Family Medicine & Christine R. Maldonado PhD - Behavioral Health


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Starting an Exercise Program
The toughest and most important step in an exercise program is getting started. People often try to tackle a strenuous program right away, thinking it will bring results faster. But if it has been a long time since you have exercised, slow and steady is the most effective and safest way to begin.
You need a workable plan to change your lifestyle from sedentary to physically active. If you have an existing health problem, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, a history of heart disease, or are a smoker, you should contact your doctor before beginning any vigorous physical activity.
Following some basic guidelines can help you establish an exercise program that protects you against disease and disability and ensures a healthy, independent, and productive life.
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Your goal is to establish an exercise routine you enjoy. Make sure your first activity sessions are fun and not tiring. Give your body a chance to get used to it.
Take plenty of time to warm up and cool down with walking and gentle stretching exercises.
Selecting Exercise Activities
Some people prefer exercising at home. This is more economical and convenient than joining a fitness club or taking exercise classes. To be successful exercising at home, however, you must be self-motivated in order to stick with your program.
Exercising at a fitness club is a good choice for those who like the stimulation of being with others and having the range of exercise options — machines, fitness classes, personal trainers — that a club provides. It is, however, a greater expense than exercising at home.
Whether exercising at home or at a gym, choose activities that can be practiced comfortably year-round. Try to have both indoor and outdoor exercise options. That way the weather or boredom will not be easy excuses for skipping your workout.
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Home equipment. If your plan is to set up a workout area in your home, be sure to try out any equipment before you purchase it. This can be done in the store or at a local fitness center. Libraries and video rental services have a wide range of exercise videos that you can try before purchasing, as well.
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A simple heart rate monitor measures your heart rate during exercise and helps you track your progress as your cardiovascular fitness improves. A fitness tracker worn on the wrist can track even more data — such as your daily step count and calories burned — and also provide a training plan and serve as a daily training log.
Exercise video games are also an option for some people. The more strenuous video games can also improve your fitness, as long as you do them actively.
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Exercise programs that get the best results are made up of three main elements: aerobic conditioning, flexibility exercises, and strength training.
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Aerobic exercise improves the health of your heart, lungs, and vascular system. It also helps you manage your weight because aerobic exercise burns more calories.
When you exercise aerobically, you move continuously to increase your heart rate. Your goal is to keep your heart rate elevated for a sustained period of time. How long you can exercise aerobically will depend on your fitness level. A general guideline is to work up to 20 to 30 minutes a day, three to four days a week.
Examples of aerobic exercise include walking, jogging, and biking. Many people prefer using machines, such as rowing machines, stair climbers, or treadmills.
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Stretching will help you improve your range of motion and how well you can move. Flexibility exercises also help lessen muscle tension and soreness and reduce your risk for injury. Stretches for both your upper and lower body should be done at the end of every exercise session.
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The most common strength training methods are working with free weights and weight machines or doing exercises that use your own body weight (push-ups, for example). If you are new to strength training, guidance from a personal trainer or online program can help ensure that you are maintaining proper form, which will, in turn, reduce your risk of injury.
Establish a Reasonable Schedule
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Start with a program of moderate physical activity — perhaps 30 minutes a session. If 30 minutes is too much in the beginning, or you do not have enough time, break it up into shorter intervals. For instance, walk for 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes later in the day.
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Focus on working toward your fitness goals gradually. Consider tracking your progress with a simple chart, perhaps listing the number of minutes you exercise each day. Your progress will start to show in the way you feel physically and in how you feel emotionally.
There are many things you can do to help you stick with your exercise program.
• Keep exercise interesting by varying your routine. Do aerobic training on one day, then strength training the next. Mix it up with different activities such as walking, bicycle riding, an exercise class, or working in the garden.
• Do not stop exercising if you have muscle soreness. Some muscle soreness the day after you exercise is typical. This often occurs when you begin a fitness program or when you increase the intensity of your exercise. Soreness will go away as you exercise regularly. If you experience severe pain and swelling, however, stop exercising and rest.
• Exercising with a friend often helps both people stay motivated and on track.
• Work towards an exercise goal, such as finishing a 5k run or participating in a group hiking trip.
• Choose a comfortable time of day to exercise. Do not exercise outdoors at mid-day when it is the warmest. Try not to work out too soon after a meal.
• Do not stop your fitness program — the benefits from exercise begin to diminish in 2 weeks and disappear in 2 to 8 months.
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This is due to the depth of field changing as the light conditions change and can be easily overcome by following set procedures.
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[Content Note: Rape, Racism, Victim-Blaming]
Hi! Welcome.
I know why you're here. You wrote something, or said something, that was entirely well-intentioned and meant to be helpful, meaningful advice to a group that you fully realized and recognized as unfairly oppressed, and then someone told you that what you said or wrote was "victim-blaming". And now you're confused, and possibly a little hurt.
You're not a bad person, so it's perfectly natural for this to have hurt your feelings. You openly acknowledged that the people you were addressing with your advice were and are unfairly victimized. You weren't trying to blame them for being unfairly victimized; that's what "unfairly victimized" means, for goodness sake. You might even be a member of that group, but whether you are or aren't is immaterial: you weren't trying to blame, you were trying to help. And then you were told that all your effort to help was really a big ball of Victim-Blaming Fail. And then you got linked here.
I don't think you're a bad person -- I believe you when you say you were only trying to help. But if you'll give me a chance, come sit here next to me, and we'll go through why what you said or wrote unfortunately really is victim-blaming. It won't be fun for you, but if you'll stick with me through this and hear me out, you'll find a better way to help people in the process. And if you really want to help -- and I honestly believe that you do -- you'll want that: a way to actually help the unfairly victimized.
Variable Victims, Unalterable Abusers, Invisible Society
One reason your advice was called victim-blaming may have been because you treated society in general and abusers in particular as an invisible, unalterable force and then proceeded to advise the victim how to modify their behavior in light of this. In other words, you may have treated the victim as the only variable in an otherwise unchanging and unchangeable equation.
There's a tendency in a lot of well-intentioned advice to treat bad things like rape and racism and institutionalized inequality as something that just sort of happens, like moon phases and crappy weather. When feminists post Rape Prevention Tips (RPTs) that are targeted to modify the behavior of rapists instead of the behavior of rape victims, there's sometimes an immediate reaction of how-could-you-possibly-expect-that-to-be-effective?
After all, rapists rape. That's what they do. Telling a rapist not to rape is like telling the clouds not to rain or the tide not to come in. It's all very well and good as a social experiment, but it's not going to do any good. So in the meantime, given that we live in a world with rapists in it, shouldn't we post well-intentioned advice to help people avoid being raped by rapists?
By treating everything in a situation as constant and unalterable except the victim's behavior, you inadvertently normalize abusive people, situations, and cultures. By drawing a situation and then declaring the victim's behavior as the only variable in the equation, you help perpetuate (for example) rape culture. I use the word "culture" there deliberately because most rapists are a product of their culture. Rapists are not forces of nature. They're not automatically mentally ill or inherently broken simply because they rape.
(Indeed, the fantasy that rapists are fundamentally different from the rest of us makes it harder for us to confront rape in our society because it means that we assume that since everyone we know is "normal", then we do not know any rapists. This is false, and it preemptively damages victims because they now have to fight against a powerful cognitive dissonance that, no, their rapist couldn't possibly be a rapist because we would have known.)
So now that you know that rapists are a product of their culture and not automatic forces of nature, hopefully you can see why RPTs need to be directed at rapists instead of at victims. After all, only a rapist can truly prevent rape... by not committing it! And you can help by repeating, loudly and often, This Is What Rape Is, Don't Do It. Just to be sure everyone living in our rape culture gets the message.
But even if I'm wrong and rapists really are forces of nature, the answer still isn't to see the equation as nothing more than a constant abuser and a variable victim. There's so much more to the equation and, again, it hinges on how we -- as a society -- treat rapists and their potential victims. Consider these RPTs that (I'll bet) you've rarely seen disseminated in a rape discussion:
- If you see someone leave their drink unattended, watch their drink. If someone puts a foreign substance in the drink, notify the owner of the drink immediately.
- If you see or hear someone casually making light of rape, bring that to the attention of anyone they might be in a position to rape. If you can safely do so, express public disapproval.
- If you see someone heading home in an impaired state, arrange transportation for them with a non-rapist. If you can safely do so, arrange to take them home yourself or call a cab for them.
- If you see or hear a struggle, do not assume that the whole thing is a consensual quarrel. Notify the police immediately, and -- if you can safely do so -- record what you are seeing or hearing.
- If you see or hear a sexual assault in a public place, provide immediate aid to the victim. Notify the police immediately, and -- if you can safely do so -- record the abuser's identifying details.
...and so on.
We'll actually see later on in the post that these are not good RPTs, so don't rush off to post these as new well-intentioned advice. However, I bring them up here in context as unusual twists on classic tips. These tips vary from the usual tips because they take the focus off the victim and puts the focus on the greater society around the victim.
These tips represent a cultural narrative that we are all capable of preventing rapes as observers and participants in society in general, and not just by protecting ourselves directly. These tips treat both the abuser and the victim as a constant, and look at treating society's reaction to abuse as a variable capable of being changed. These tips encourage all people to actively identify, call-out, and shame abusers. These tips remind all people that rape does not occur in a vacuum and that it is within our power to create a culture that does not tolerate or condone abusive behavior. These tips provide ideas for protecting victims without creating the impression that victims must never drink or have fun or dance or party because whooooops! they'll be raped.
Treating a toxic culture as invisible and static does a serious disservice to victims. When you write a post that says, 'yeah, society is screwed up, but since we can't change that, here's what you should do', then you wrongly normalize a society that we can-and-should change. When you tell "poor black kids" how to get around a system that has been carefully stacked against them, one day at a time over hundreds of years, then you contribute to that toxic society by implying that there's just nothing anyone can or do to fix society. Your advice may be well-intentioned -- you may be trying to say, "look, I want to change society but that takes time and in the meantime..." -- but whether you want to or not, every time you say "let's pretend society can't be changed", you reinforce the cultural narrative that racism and institutionalized inequality just... happens. Like tides and stuff.
There's a world of difference between advice that tells victims to change their behavior and advice that tells society to change our behavior. It's the difference between "you shouldn't leave your drink unattended" and "we should keep an eye on unattended drinks and holler if we see something hinky because ours is a society that from-here-on-out will not tolerate rape". It's the difference between "you should use whatever technology you can to bootstrap into a magnet school" and "we should be clamoring for higher taxes and better schools and empowered teachers so that all schools can do an equally good job educating our society".
That difference is the difference between putting the emphasis on the victim to model their life around an unchangeable 'reality' and putting the emphasis on society to model our culture to actively work to make a better reality. Is that new reality hard to implement? Sure! But if you're not willing to shift the burden away from victims and onto the larger society that supports their victimization, don't be surprised if your advice is labeled victim-blaming, because it is: you're essentially shifting the blame for the victimization off of society and onto victims.
'Could' Implies 'Should'
Another reason your advice was called victim-blaming may have been because you laid out a series of coulds that shifted -- possibly against your original intention -- into a series of shoulds. Coulds are tricky that way, and you need to be aware of that for the future, because could tends to imply that victims should follow your advice, or else blame no one but themselves when things go awry.
Remember what we said above about the tendency for us to treat abusers and toxic societies like they're forces of nature? When you come from that framing, it's easy to slip into a narrative of "ten ways to avoid this uncontrollable thing". Like, let's say, "10 Ways To Avoid Getting Rained On When Going To Work In The Morning":
- You could own an umbrella.
- You could own a (water-proofed, non-leaking) car.
- You could own a house with an attached garage.
- You could work at an office with an attached garage.
- You could work at an office that lets you telecommute on rainy days.
...and so on.
There are a lot of problems with this list. You might have already noticed some of them. And you may even have noticed some points of failure in your own well-intentioned advice. And you probably didn't start out your well-intentioned advice with the desire to say "and if you don't take my advice, it's your own fault when you get rained on." But the problem with the scenario we've created with this Rainy Tips list is that we've posited a universe where rain is an uncontrollable but to-be-avoided occurrence and then we laid out Easy! Simple! Guaranteed! tips for avoiding the rain.
Imagine that someone read my Rainy Day Tips here and then saw someone wringing out their wet hair after being drenched in rain. Imagine that instead of immediately feeling sympathy, now thanks to my tips they are puzzled. Why is the wet person wet? Are they ignorant and failed to read the Rainy Day Tips? Are they stupid and failed to work out how to properly implement the Rainy Day Tips? Are they lazy and didn't properly attain the right umbrella, car, house, and workplace as the Rainy Day Tips suggested? Are they greedy and refused to follow the Rainy Day Tips because they wanted to squander their money on non-umbrellas, non-cars, and non-houses with attached garages?
You didn't say that. Nowhere in your advice did you say or even suggest that failure to follow your advice would indicate that a victim deserved their victimization. In fact, you may have even stated explicitly that the advice would be difficult for some to follow and that it wasn't their fault if they didn't or couldn't follow your advice. So it's not your fault if someone takes your coulds and turns them into shoulds to use against the victim, right?
Whether you mean for them to or not, your coulds are going to be taken as shoulds. Humans want and need to believe that the world we live in is one of predictable causes and effects, where doing the 'right' things will result in precisely the right outcomes and the wrong outcomes can be avoided.
By providing "Rape Prevention Tips" or "Advice For Poor Black Children", you are effectively saying that you have a list of 'right' things to do that could, no, should result in the right outcome and prevent the wrong one. The should is implied because the tips aren't random, right? They should work... if you do them right. And since everyone wants the right outcome and wants to avoid the wrong outcome, your system of could-should tips adds to the overall belief that the world we live in can be controlled through the actions of a single individual. And that, in turn, leads to the confirmation that those single individuals who got the wrong outcome in life didn't follow the could-should rules to the last letter. And that is victim blaming in its purest form.
In a simpler explanation: When you write out advice that people could follow to prevent something bad from happening, you contribute to a cultural narrative that people who had that same bad thing happen to them should have followed your advice more closely, if they really didn't want the bad thing to happen. Your innocent could becomes a retroactive should because that's how humans logically operate.
The other problem with could-should is that it once again takes the focus away from the abuser and the toxic society and puts the focus on the victim. Asking why the victim didn't follow the Easy! Simple! Guaranteed! advice is a distraction from asking why the abuser is abusing and the society is not actively preventing the abuse. Asking why a woman left her drink alone with her date immediately and effectively distracts from the real questions, like why date rape drugs are so common and easy to obtain, why they're fodder for jokes in our society rather than strong approbation, and why our society looks the other way when a drugged woman is carried out of a crowded establishment and through a parking lot without anyone thinking to notify the police. Asking why a poor black kid isn't devoting every waking moment to applying to magnet schools effectively distracts from asking the real questions, like why our society habitually under-funds the schools in poor black neighborhoods, and under-pays the working poor and limits their mobility so that they can't seek better schools elsewhere.
By ignoring those harder questions for quick could-should advice, you blame victims for their own victimization and obscure the larger society that victimizes them by distracting from the larger issues.
Intricate Problems, Ignorant Solutions
Another reason why your advice may have been seen as victim-blaming could have been because the advice was so out-of-touch with the realities of the problem that your advice seemed either unintentionally ignorant or deliberately trollish. Now, I'm willing to believe you were ignorant, because I don't see ignorance as a judgment. We've all been ignorant, and we all still are ignorant about a lot of things, and ignorance is a curable condition. But a lot of people are going to assume you're more educated than you actually are... and in giving you that beneficial assumption, they'll come to the unfortunate conclusion that you're a jerk.
I want you to imagine something for me. I want you to imagine that you and I are chatting away, and you bring up that your beverage of choice -- whether it be tap water or soda or lemonade or coffee or tea -- has been tasting a little... off, lately. You mention casually that you're thinking about calling to complain, or changing beverages, or something, but you'd feel better if someone else could taste your beverage to verify that it's not just your taste buds being funky lately. And I want you to imagine that I'm listening with obvious confusion and maybe a little irritated condescension like, really, the solution here is Very Obvious, and finally I blurt out:
"Well, why on earth haven't you asked your live-in butler what he thinks?"
Can you then imagine what an uphill climb it's going to be to explain to me that not everyone has a live-in butler, and why not, and why you personally do not have one, and why it's just a tiny bit rude for me to have not realized that and additionally to have been a little snerky with my question? Can you imagine the vast gulf of information and lifestyles that has just been outlined between us, simply by virtue of my live-in butler-having existence, and my accompanying assumption that everyone lives like me?
When you offer advice to women like "if you take your eye off your drink for even a moment, buy a new one" or "always take a cab straight to your door" or "always rent a hotel when out of town instead of staying with an old friend" or "always have your cell phone dialed to 911 when you walk through a parking lot at night", you are making a lot of assumptions about money and class and lifestyles that you don't even realize you are making. You don't realize it because you're safely ignorant in your own personal money-class-lifestyle bubble, but your ignorance isn't an excuse.
When you offer advice to poor black kids like "buy a cheap refurbished computer at TigerDirect!" or "use BackpackIt to share work with classmates!" or "use Skype to study with other students!" you are making a lot of assumptions about money and class and lifestyles that you don't even realize you are making. And when you link to TigerDirect and BackpackIt and Skype and yet fail to notice or realize that TigerDirect computers are still hundreds of dollars, or that BackpackIt costs a minimum of $24 dollars a month, or that Skype requires high-speed internet plus speakers plus headphones plus webcams in order to be maximally effective, then it's hard for you to continue to claim ignorance even though, be fair, you probably simply are.
But now that we've established that you've made out-of-touch advice out of ignorance instead of malice, does that mean that your advice wasn't victim-blaming? Can you go back now to whatever thread linked you here and proudly point out that you're not a victim-blamer, but rather you are merely ignorant of the intricacies of the problem for which you were recently offering out-of-touch advice?
Even if your advice was offered from a place of ignorance, it is still victim-blaming. When I say "why on earth don't you ask your butler" or when you say "why don't you just take a cab straight to your door" or "why don't you buy a several-hundred-dollar refurbished computer to lift yourself out of poverty", we are collectively blaming the victim for something they have limited control over: we are blaming them for not being us. Whether we are blaming the victim for not being the same race as us or not being the same gender as us or not being the same social class as us or not having the same financial situation as us doesn't matter; in the end, the advice being offered is, essentially, "Why aren't you privileged like me?" And that is victim-blaming.
Burdens Without Benefits
Remember when I posted those Rape Prevention Tips way back up-thread and I said not to run off and reuse them because they actually are not good tips at all? I'll tell you now why they aren't good tips: They don't work.
Now, the reason they don't work isn't because they're focused on society at large instead of victims in particular. The reason they don't work is basically the same reason that your advice won't work for preventing all or even most rapes, and it's because both sets of advice accept a rape narrative that doesn't fit reality.
Most rapes are committed by someone known to the victim, and usually by someone trusted by the victim. Many rapes are committed in the victim's own home, or in the home of a close relative, loved one, or friend. So whether you tell a woman to always take a cab home or I tell society to always hail a cab for a woman, we're both buying into a narrative where rapes don't take place in victim's homes, by victim's family-or-loved-ones, or (for that matter) where cab drivers don't rape people.
Do you see the problem here? The "take a cab home" advice may reduce the incidence of stranger-in-the-bushes rape, but it won't necessarily reduce the likelihood that the woman taking a cab home may be raped. And yet, by giving one more piece of advice for women to memorize and try to follow (assuming they can afford a cab, assuming they can find one to service their place of residence), you've increased the burden on potential victims without providing an actual benefit.
When your advice buys into a narrative that does not reflect reality, your advice always creates burdens without benefits. When you advise a poor black kid to work day and night to get their grades up, you buy into a cultural narrative that employers care more about grade point average than they do about whether or not the resume has a 'black name' at the top. By buying into this cultural narrative and packaging it with your well-intentioned advice, you actively cause harm by encouraging potential victims to focus their limited resources on fulfilling advice that -- since it hinges on a false cultural narrative -- most likely will not help them.
But is advice that is wrong and potentially harmful necessarily victim-blaming advice? Can you rest easy in the knowledge that your advice may have been ignorant and wrong and potentially harmful but at least it didn't blame victims for being victims?
Unfortunately, no.
When your advice bought into a false cultural narrative, it helped to reinforce that cultural narrative. Victims who realized that your advice was harmful and choose not to follow it will be blamed if they become victims. After all, they didn't follow the advice, did they? The fact that the advice was harmful will not be a defense, because the advice will be believed by people who want the false cultural narrative to be true.
When DeShawn and Shanice don't invest all their food and gas money into TigerDirect refurbished computers, and then don't get selected for a job interview callback, no one will look closer to see if they weren't selected because of their 'black' names. People will instead nod their heads sagely and tsk that if only DeShawn and Shanice had bought a refurbished computer back in the day, well, then things would have turned out differently. Even though we know that to be false, still your advice is and will be used to blame victims for their own victimization.
Good Advice, Without Blaming Victims
So now you know why your well-intentioned advice was actually victim-blaming. And knowing is half the battle! But what's the other half, so that you can -- in the future -- give good advice without falling into the trap of blaming victims?
Don't advise people on how not to be victims. Instead, advise people on how not to victimize.
Seriously. You thought I was being facetious up-thread when I posted "Rape Prevention Tips" saying "don't rape people". I wasn't. Drop the narrative in your head that victimizers are forces of nature that cannot be reasoned with, and advise them.
Don't have sex with someone who is drunk, drugged, unconscious, or not otherwise competent to make major life decisions at that moment. Don't lobby to have taxes cut when you know the local inner city school hasn't had new computers since the 1980s. Do ask an administrative assistant to cover the names on the resumes you look at so that you can't be unconsciously influenced by racial and social prejudices.
It's not always fun to address potential victimizers in a newspaper column or internet forum. Victimizers tend to have privilege, and tend to defend it loudly. But if you're only willing to give advice when it's easy, and when it's against groups unlikely or unable to fight back, then what are you really in the advice-giving business for? Do you really want to help people or do you just want to lecture to them?
I'm going to assume you want to help people. So here's your chance, and now you know how. Good luck -- I'm rooting for you.


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