Whats the best way to help a family member stop smoking -

Whats the best way to help a family member stop smoking -

pleass helpThis is a tough situation because at the end of the day it is your family members choice to wether or not they quit smoking.

All you can do is keep trying to convince them. Smokers are stubborn people (I know because I used to be one of them).

Let them know how much you and the rest of the family love them. Let them know the pain you will all go through if you were to lose them.

Laying on a big guilt trip is a hard thing to do but it may be your only option.

If you can, try to guide them to our blog. It has some really great ideas and information. This may help.

Never stop trying to persuade them, if you quit then they sure as hell won-t.

Good Luck and Good Quitting
There are many ways to help like the patch, gum and even medication from the doctor and on the internet at the american lung association website. The most important thing that your family member will need is support, patience and tolerance to the mood swings. Best of luck to the person who is quitting it-s not easy at all. There appetite will increase so encourage that person to eat healthy snacks and not substitute eating for smoking.There are plenty of resources out there. I was recently in the hospital and asked for the patch. I was there 3 days and didn-t have a craving at all. If the patch doesn-t work, try using the gum. DO NOT SMOKE while on the patch or gum or there could be serious side effects.

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Has any body heard about the shot to stop smoking?dose it work? -

Has any body heard about the shot to stop smoking?dose it work? -

When I quit in the 90-s, it was Zyban, which was like Welbutrin. I never tried it, but I did try acupuncture and hypnosis without success. What did for me was the nicotine gum.
Good luck.A few claim that it does, depends on how much you smokeIt doesn-t matter what you put in your body, the only way to stop smoking is to change your mind, not your chemistry. Smoking is an addiction that is carried on by a bad decision. Think of a better reason to quit.my neighbor had the shot and still is smoking!

Has any body heard about the shot to stop smoking?dose it work? -

Do the Ontario,Canada ministry of health offer free stop smoking aids to smokers? -

Do the Ontario,Canada ministry of health offer free stop smoking aids to smokers? -

I believe the ministry offers fre needle exchange and methadone treatment for addicts .Is this same sort of support offered to smokers who wish to quit? For the record, I don-t smoke, I-m jusrt curious.Thanks to all who reply.Well if a person is admitted, the physician may order the nicoderm patches. This cost is covered. while they are in hospital at least. It is a start so to speak. As for what the government will provide upon discharge i don-t know.
However it would be more pro-active on the part of the government if they had some service such as this. This could also be a platform perhaps to use in the next election period. If they want to ban smoking in all locations etc, then they should provide the support to help the smoker fascillitate this process.
Hope this helpslolHere in Wisco which was a blue state (part of Canada hey) we have good home grown which is frowned upon too.... free needle exchange should become global, along with aid to quit tobacco and alcohol....

BluntmasterActually, I believe there actually is a subsidy that is in place over them, perhaps ask a chemist or your local doctor.sorry, i don-t know, but i would just like to make a statement that if they don-t .........THEY SHOULD! if people have an addiction to smoking, it is very unhealthy.

Do the Ontario,Canada ministry of health offer free stop smoking aids to smokers? -

I need help With Smoking Please? -

I need help With Smoking Please? -

I had my 40th birthday yesterday and my gift to myself is to quit smoking cigarettes . I am a pack a day smoker and need all the help I can get . I have quit cold turkey several times in the last year and no good results . I hear tons of good things about joining online stop smoking support groups . There are hundreds of sites out there in internet land, but Im not sure witch ones to try because there are so many .

HEPL !!!

Thank YouDear e-mail friend as you are looking for help it means you really want to stop smoking,GOOD IT MUST BE YOUR FIRST STEP TO GO AHEAD,now look at yourself and say -I love myself and I-ll win this battle by myself with my friends help-.Good luck and think positively.all you need is will power just make up your mind and it will work i can tell you for certain ,i know somebody would have to get a cig arette at all costs he went on the nicitone patches for 2 weeks and that was that to this day hes not smoking and dont miss them try it best of luck there nasty .Try zyban after consulting with your physycian.If you want to quit you have to have willpower if you really want to you will.
Instead of quitting cold turkey try cutting back first, say if you smoke 20 a day over the week cut back to 10 then 5 then 0.
Find something else to do with your hands take up a hobby like swimming or something crafty, not only will it keep you busy so you don-t think about smoking but if you do something crafty you could make cards or pressents for people.
I gave up smoking a while ago and only ever smoke when i i go out for drinks otherwise i hate them.
Best of luck to you and once you quit stay a non smoker.Call 311 and request for the free patch. Happy birthday and the best of luck.Assistant manager of a pub, tried several times to quit in lots of different ways... smoked at least a pack a day but four weeks ago i just stopped. (I even threw away a full packet!)

I had had enough. It-s hard but you just get to the point where YOU want to be in control!

I-ve gone cold turkey and everyone is being supportive. It-s all about taking each hurdle at a time!!

I feel great already!

And so does my bank balance!

Will power is a marvellous thing!Good for you for quitting smoking. My mom quit in 1983 because Dad had a heart attack and both of them had to quit smoking. She went to a hypnotist; she said she wasn-t sure whether the hypnosis worked or whether it was her Scottish heritage saying that since she was paying for this then it had better work.

My HMO runs a -members-only- website with discussion boards. One of the discussions there concerns quitting smoking. There are also other resources available through the site for smokers who want to quit (some HMO-based and free, and others are contracted from outside providers and are not free). If you belong to an HMO and your HMO sponsors a website, go and see what-s there. :-)

I looked up -nicotine anonymous- in Google to see if there were such an organization; there does appear to be one:


http://www.nicotine-anonymous.org


Following the general format of -anonymous- organizations, there probably is no official fee (there might be a hat or similar device placed somewhere to collect donations, however).

Addendum (after reading others- postings): When Mom quit smoking in 1983, she put a carton of cigarettes in the freezer (just in case she needed them). She threw them out in 2004 when the house was sold.Something different works for everyone. Here is what worked for me.

First, I temporarily changed my entire lifestyle. I did not go around any of my smoking friends of family for about a month. (My hubby smoked at the time, but he was nice enough to not smoke at home for a month- he went for a walk to smoke). I also did not do any of the things that made me really want a cig like drink coffee or alcohol. After a month of not smoking, I slowly started adding those things back to my life without the cigs.

Second, I wrote -STEROID- on my fingers because my lungs had gotten a bad infection due to the smoking and I had to get a steroid shot once to clear them up. That way, whenever I wanted a cigarette, I had to face the guilt written on my fingers. You could write -CANCER- or something.

Finally, and this is the hardest- I had to come to terms with the awful reality of addiction. That is that I have accepted that I will want a cigarette for the rest of my life. There will never be a time when I don-t want one. Now that I haven-t smoked for two years, I go days without really wanting one, but suddenly sometimes the desire will hit me hard and I have to be really strong. You can-t give into that -just this one time- feeling and take a drag off a friend-s cigarette because that will make you start smoking again. I relapsed twice before I finally quit, and both times it was because of the -just this once- mentality. I-d have one cigarette, then one more three days later, then two, etc, then in a month I-d be back to a pack a day.

It-s all about hard cold determination and will power. There is no quick fix or trick. That really sucks, I know, but you can do it!dont give up try patches gum then this nasal spray my mum did it oh you need to fill the gap for your hands try knitting or jigsaws or somthing to take your mind of it its will power and if you want to live lomger then stopWell, I recommend getting one of them plastic fags that you put nicotine cartridges in, so you can still suck it and get your fix of nicotine, without the harmful smoke. I used one for six months and gave up for a year, but then I started smoking again, derrr how thick am I? Anyway good luck mate!If u really want to quit, u will start chewing gum and just quit.
But if u enjoy the taste of the earth, u will put back in your body what smokin takes out like antitoxins such as taking vitamin C daily and eating lung foods such as carrots and celery.
One cigarette destroys 200 mg of Vitamin C, so u need 2000 mg a day in your system to keep u healthy. Eat foods under the vitamins.
Its your choice, we just live once on this planet.For a start stop thinking about them they nearly killed me at the age of 38. Your not trying to quit you have quit you don-t smoke. Breathe deeply and slowly exhale fast. I found carrot sticks and oranges a great help. And smelling an old ashtray and telling myself that-s what I smelled like helped as well can-t stand the smell of them now. Good Luck be triumphant live longer and put them out of business.Your local hospital should have a smoking cessation group. I think most are either free or reasonable.
God luck- I am fighting it alsowell what i did to quit smoking was pick up a very time consuming hobby. i actually had to go to a few of them. since im younger i went and had 3 hour football practices everday, harder school class hw, and a guitar. but there are definatly things u can do as an adult now that was be equal in effectivenessNobody can help you except yourself.My birthday is on Tuesday next week. I am going to get some patches in the next few days to give them a try. Smoking to me is as precious as the air we breathe but I don-t want to end up dead or sick because of the cizgys that I really love. All the bestI have been a non smoker for 2 years and 10 months. I joined a Smoking cessation class. It was kinda like AA but it was so unbelievable helpful. The instructor went over benefits of quitting and consequinces on not quitting but nothing gory like a black lung or anything but it helped a lot it was eight weeks the first 2 weeks you can continue to smoke then the 3rd week is the quitting week it was put on by the county and if you were a resident you got 3 steps worth of the patch. Call your doctor and see if there is anything in your area. Quitting smoking is the most difficult thing to do.. its never easy... I still get the urge to smoke now... also the instructor told us that cinnamon helps stimulate the same tase buds as nicotine so sucking on a cinnamon stick or chewing cinnamon gum helps a lot too. Hope this helps you a little. Sorry if there are spelling errors i-m at the lauindry mat and my laundry has to be changed! =)It is a good idea to quit within a group,as you all give each other a boost when you say `i-ve not smoked for ....so many days/weeks or whatever.
They-re also there for you if you fail.
It-s hard quitting on your own,and with people saying you won-t do it,you need lots of positive support.
Ask around,and see what people have to say,and enquire on the sites about help you-d get.

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When i got pregnant i stopped smoking cigarettes right away, i mean i never really smoked? -

When i got pregnant i stopped smoking cigarettes right away, i mean i never really smoked? -

i smoked like maybe once a month or twice, its weird i smoke more when i drink!! but okay now i had my baby hes 3 months old and i have been smoking more like 5 cigarettes every week!! but now i dont feel right, like when im done smoking im like why the hell did i smoke??? so i dont know know what im gonna do.. i am 21 years old and i still cant smoke in front of my parents my mom would judge me so bad, she has an idea i smoke cus shes not stupid but how can i tell mom to understand!!! i dont smoke around my baby!!
okay what should i do....5 a week? What are you so worried about? You act lke a 2 pack a day smoker. If you want to quit, 5 a week should be easy. Now for your mother. Why do you care how she judges you? Here-s a little tip. You-re not going to please everyone. The only one you need to please is yourself. If you-re happy with yourself, then who cares what mom and dad think? You say you-re 21, it-s time to act like it.Maybe your smoking more b/c your more stressed now, or it could be more of a physical habit.....

As long as your not breast feeding, I would suggest Chantix. Works like a charm :)5 cigarettes per week is really not a large problem, considering that-s the equivalent of about one pack per month. Unless you increase that number dramatically, I wouldn-t worry about it in the least.It seems easy enough....quit smoking. If you are only smoking one or so a day it should be easy enough.It sounds like you-re just really stressed out, which is understandable considering you-ve just had a baby. You were responsible and did the best you could to protect your child-s health. One cigarette a day won-t cause too much trouble, but if you really want to quit (and it-s a good idea, so that you don-t end up wanting to smoke even more) then you should try to give up now. Throw out all your cigarettes, vow not to buy any more, and tell your friends to help you as best they can (not smoke in front of you, etc.). There are some non-drug stop smoking aids too - everything from hypnosis and acupuncture to laser therapy. Speak to your doctor if you need advice.

I do agree that you should stop worrying what others think of you - you-re an adult, and you have a right to make your own decisions :)First calm down you just had a baby and your 21! Life can be stressful I say continue to try to quit but if you need an occasional cigarette that-s fine don-t beat yourself up over it. We each deal with stress in our own way just and you did quit the entire time you were pregnant. Just make sure your not smoking in front or near the baby. Your 21 your mom has to realize your old enough to make your own decisions. Good luck and remember a key to a healthily lifestyle is moderation!Tell your mom to mind her own business. You-re 21, old enough to smoke anywhere.

When i got pregnant i stopped smoking cigarettes right away, i mean i never really smoked? -