How can I get my mom to stop smoking cigarettes and how can I stop my dad using smokeless tobacco? -
How can I get my mom to stop smoking cigarettes and how can I stop my dad using smokeless tobacco? -
My mom has been smoking since she was in her late teens and she has asthma. I am afraid she will develop lung cancer or worse... I want my mom to be around for a long time because I love her and care about her and I know that she is a very special person. I do not know when my dad started chewing smokeless tobacco, but this type of tabacco can cause mouth cancer and my dad could lose his entire jaw if he continues... I want my dad to be around for a long time because I know if he were to get into an accident, I don-t think I would be ready to become the man of the house. plus, My dad makes most of the money in our family and we couldn-t live in our home without that money... I also look up to my dad and I think he makes good decisions for our family. He is a nice dad and is nice to have around. Even though we have a home security, I feel safer at night when he-s home. I just want them both to live long, happy and healthy lives- drug free. My mom can-t take pills to stop smoking because they give her a stomach ache and idk if there are anything to make my dad quit smokeless tabacco. I need some words of advise or what to say to them to get them to quit. PLEASE HELP!!! Your answers may be my only hope!!!its called willpower,if she doesn-t want to quit she will NOT quitnothing you do or say will make a difference.empty the dry tobacco from your mothers cigs into a bag, refill it with your fathers smokeless tobacco. then Pour the bag of cigarette tobacco in the smokeless tobacco container. This should make them hate tobacco forever.I tried for years to get my parents to stop smoking. I even went as far as to breaking their cigarettes but it just got me grounded lol. All you can really do is tell them what kind of illnesses they can get and let them know of all the many ways they can try and stop smoking.
My parents eventually just stopped smoking on their own after they decided it was a good way to save money and made the house smell nicer. You can lead a horse to water, but you can-t make them drink it!ask them if you can smoke...seeing they don-t care about there health , why should you ?.....Quitting something that you have been doing for a long time isn-t easy. First of all the person that is smoking has to want to quit. Maybe you can get some literature on quitting and leave it where your mom can read it, tell her that the smoke bothers you and it smells the house and clothes up, suggest maybe going outside to smoke, trust me if someone has to get up and go outside or what have you they might smoke a little less. Also figure out how much money a year it costs for cigarettes and show her the figure, with that money she could buy something shes always wanted ,save the money for a trip, re-do a room in the house. Try the gum or the patch, they are expensive but so are cigarettes. It is nice to hear that younger people actually care enough about there parents health and are willing to help.Hope everything works out for you and your family.I completely understand. My mom smoked but quit a LONG time ago and she doesn-t seem to have any issues. My dad started smoking at like 12 and smoked for about 45 years. Despite this my brother-in-law still -chews-. I work in healthcare and many people tell me the reason they quit smoking was something happened to them personally that was health related that scared the crap out of them. Like coughing up blood or a heart attack. Most people know it-s bad but won-t/can-t quit.
What you need to do is tell them exactly what you-ve said here. Write each of your parents a letter. Break their hearts with how much you love them and need them. Tell them that you are there for them and will help them in any and every way you can. I don-t know much about issues with chewing other than what you-ve already stated. As for smoking, it-s progressive, things only get worse (a lot worse) unless they quit. After the asthma, next will be COPD and constant oxygen is surely in her future if she doesn-t, and that is the beginning. Tell her how terribly sad is makes a total stranger to think of what her future is.
Good luck.eat it it works trust me
(seriously dont trust me)Introduce them both to the concept of electronic cigarettes. They might be willing to switch over to them. While not perfect they are better than what they are doing now.
vapersforum.comJust let them be. Ask for some catalogues from local funeral homes and leave them around the house. Tell them you are eager to give them a final resting place. Have some funeral homes call the house. When you contact the funeral homes, say both your parents will die shortly and told you they wanted to begin the arrangements, for example.
Also, you may decide to ask some oncology institute or hospital to send your home some -postcards- with pictures of blackened lungs and really yucky pictures. A great way to show just how damaging smoking is, is to make a few large posters of internal organs damaged by tobacco and put them in your bedroom so you mom and dad see them every time they go in.
The more eery the result the harder it is for your parents to ignore the images.
Remove posters only if they quit.
Another way is to make 2 giant (human size) cigarrete pillows and give one to each of your parents. If they miss tobacco while they-re quitting, they can hold on to the pillow and never feel lonely.We have all been brainwashed by the nicotine industry. The truth about nicotine is the key to quitting using it. Once your parents understand nicotine they will see it as useless and they will stop using it. Smokers only smoke to stop the nicotine craving. Non smokers don-t crave nicotine. Smokers only smoke to feel like non smokers. There are many other very interesting and useful facts about nicotine. I smoked for 20 years believing that I could not quit. I read an excellent book and quit cold turkey and have not even wished for a smoke. I quit cold turkey almost three years ago.
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