How do you get someone to stop smoking weed! (since you can tell its doing them damage)? -
How do you get someone to stop smoking weed! (since you can tell its doing them damage)? -
I-m speaking about my own dad, so I-d appreciate no nasty comments towards him.He smokes the stuff every single day, at all different hours.
Plus he drives - me to uni every other day... and does shopping, etc. Not the safest of drivers.
He seems miserable without it, and every time he-s nice and friendly... I know or assume he-s stoned, and feel ashamed to even speak back.
I-ve spoken to him about it before. Him and my mom have argued and fought over it constantly.
But he told me he-s happy smoking it. And that-s what he wants to do.
It-s not like he does nothing for us! He does! that-s the thing... it-s just his behaveoir, not knowing his mood and having him around the house, looking all dopy, unable to function without it!
I-d rather not live with someone like that.
IF it were on an occasion. or the odd once a week with friends... not that that-s good either... BUT then... at least...that would be a whole lot better than by himself, every few hours, every single day. Paranoid without it.
Right?
Do you reckon I should just leave him be?You can show him all the details of how damaging, pictures, facts etc.
But I suspect he knows that. Only it is not easy for him to stop smoking weed. It is very difficult in fact to stop smoking weed. I know that. Only when it came to losing my family I sat up and made up my mind to do something. But even then it-s not easy.
There-s a good book you can introduce to him. It helped me a lot.Sounds to me like it-s a drug addiction that-s gone on for years. He will need professional help to get off of it. You might have to scare him with a drug test and report it to the police. They would probably send him to a rehab and try to help him get well from there. I have known people who smoked weed and were sent to rehab instead of going to jail. It is probably too late for you to scare him with facts about it. You need to let him know how much he means to you and to others around him. He won-t change because you tell him that the schools won-t let him in or because he might get into trouble. He knows about that. If he-s paranoid without it he probably needs to see a doctor, because weed causes people with mental problems or disorders to become depressed or anxious when coming -down- from it. If he has an unnoticed disorder, that would explain the paranoia. Good luck.
EDIT: I know someone in that situation. They are living with someone who is a paranoid skitzophrenic person because of marijuanna. It-s not that they want to use it, just that to be happy they have to. They were diagnosed with a disorder and given marijuanna for it, but it turned out that it was actually a mental problem and they should NEVER have used marijuanna. It turned out that when he used it, it made him happy enough to want more, but knowing that it was only an illusion basically made him crazy. He was so upset that he would throw things and then act like it never happened. It-s scary to be around him because you never really know his mood. The people who live with him walk on eggshells because they love him and want to take care of him, but he-s got a mental illness that notices the situation and takes advantage of it. A doctor would know more about the problem and could explain it much better than I can, but that-s what I know about it and the best I can explain it.I don-t think you-ll be able to -scare him with facts- I-m sure he knows all about it if he-s been smoking for a while.
You could try guilt, tell him how much you love him and how you would hate to lose him to a mental institution of worse (crying here will help). Ask how he can do that to himself when there are people depending on him.
Or you could try just telling him what you-ve said here (if you haven-t already).
Not much else I can suggest really, you won-t scare him or force him into giving up, good luck.There-s not much you can do just walk away when he smokes and leave little messages around the house like: Your ruled by a plant dad,,,, and every joint is about 9 fags as there is no filter , add them altogether and its about an 80 a day habit so write that down and also messages telling him how much you love him and you want him to be normal for a day .... But i must say i think alcohol is worse then dope,
All the best and good luck hun .xEasy - just Google whatever it is he-s smoking, - the effects of it, then print it out - show him what the weed is doing to him. Then tell him how upset you-d be if anything happened to him - you were left without a father. If he cares enough, he-ll give it up - if he doesn-t care, he-ll keep on doing it - or do it in secret.
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