Stopping and restarting thread

Is it possible to stop a thread and then restart it from the original spot that it started?

So if i had this code

Dim FSRThread As Threading.Thread = New Threading.Thread(AddressOf objTCPIPFromSBMFResults.StartListening)

What would be the code for me to stop this thread within the StartListening thread function and restart the thread at the beginning of StartListening??

Thanks in advance.

there is some stop function and some resume function i cant remember how they were called