Hi, I have a question about smoking? -

Hi, I have a question about smoking? -

Alright, well I started smoking in November of 2007 when I was 14, now I am 15 and I-ve been trying to quit off and on. I haven-t been a regular smoker just socially, but I can tell I am slowly getting addicted, and I have been smoking cigarettes.

I can remember lots of times in this 10 month span that I did not smoke at all for 1-3 weeks and twice I did not smoke for a month.

When I smoked socially I smoked on average one cigarette a day socially.

But I did not smoke every time there was a social smoking opportunity.

I can remember a few times where I smoked five cigarettes in those social situations.


Now I have decided to stop smoking socially all together, and I am wondering how much damage I-ve done to my lungs and will they recover?

Thanks.hey if you play soccer quit!! i play and your 15 dont end your career play in college or more!! ps nice answer to my question i was suprisingly amusedIt will do really bad damage to your lungs if you continue and you could even die! it is unhealthy can cause cancer and lung deasies it is all together bad quit so you can be more healthy. Don-t do it it is a filthy habbit get an interest instead of smoking. Your teeth can rote and turn yellow and fall out. Your skin can get affected. You can lose brain cells. it is bad. cigs are made up of rat poision and other crap quit and be happy and healthy smoking leads to no good!Don-t worry about it -- you haven-t smoked enough to have any significant effect on your life expectancy. In fact, at this rate, you could smoke for years without much of an effect on your health. The danger is that you-ll end up smoking more.its only minimal damage but you should stop before you physically become addicted. if you dont, it literally physically hurts when you dont have a cig if u need one and you dont want to get to that point.You-ve probably done very little damage, though smoking affects individuals in different ways. Good for you on quitting. It is the single healthiest decision you can ever make.you have not done any damage to your lungsStick with the quit, don-t give in!

Hi, I have a question about smoking? -

I have a hard time getting my parents to stop smoking does anyone have any ideas for me to get them to quit...? -

I have a hard time getting my parents to stop smoking does anyone have any ideas for me to get them to quit...? -

I-m afraid they-ll die of cancer soon if they don-t stop.Keep addressing your position on how you feel.
You are a good son/daughter if you ask strangers on yahoo to help with getting your parents to quit.

You say your old man used to talk you down? Why don-t you use that same strategy on him. Tell him he is weak if he needs to hide behind cigarettes all the time.
As far as your mom goes, just keep at telling her about the health risks and stuff.even if you felt able to use physical force, it would not break your parents smoking habit. There comes a time when you have cut the apron strings kiddo, they are adults and responsible only to themselves for what they do. You can-t MAKE them do anything. If they want to quit, they will, if they don-t, they won-t. And it is their right to make that choice, you have nothing to say about it. You do have the right to protect yourself from their habit however, so simply refuse to be around them when they indulge in a cigarette.Get them to catch you with a fag, maybe just in your bag or something.
Then when they ask you what its doing there, say well you smoke, i thought i-d give it a try?
And then yeah go on like that so hopefully they will see that their actions will take effect on you too!
Good luck! :)tell me that if they don-t stop they are digging themselves a grave and they are endangering your helath too by being around them too. i fthey can-t give it up for you i don-t think they-d give it up for anything. good luck trying.Let them know you support them, let them know you-re proud of them when they accompish something. But, in the long run you can-t do it for them, it-s up to them.take away their wallets and throw away the cigarettes in a place they cant find them and buy them the patch


but u cant really MAKE someone quite they have to want toYou can-t make them quit. They have to choose to quit themselves.
Just like you can-t make anybody love youYou cannot save the goose from the gander, so forget about it............stop giving them stress you are the reason they smokeYou can-t do it for them. They have to want to quit.

I have a hard time getting my parents to stop smoking does anyone have any ideas for me to get them to quit...? -

Do you know where I can get free stop smoking aid for my mother??? -

Do you know where I can get free stop smoking aid for my mother??? -

The most important aid for her is genuine desire to quit. If she really wants to stop and makes an iron clad commitment to stop then she will. If she does not commit to it then she will find a way to fail. That really is the hardest part, deciding that no matter what you are done with this poison forever.

You also might try getting her to go the cancer treatment center and see what her future is if she doesn-t stop. Or to a respiratory therapist. Just asking her to go to these places with you may help wake her to to reality. 400,000 people die from this crap EVERY year in the U.S. alone. As an insurance guy I can tell you that the life insurance rates for tobacco users is almost double what it is for everyone else. That is an indication of the increased risk of mortality.

I found that using the nicotine gum helped me, since it gave me the oral gratification replacement to the cigarettes and helped me get out of the habit of reaching for the pack. And it left me in complete control of when I got my nicotine and how much I got. (Unlike the patch which is constantly leaching it into your system.)

I decided to use the gum as soon as I had even a tiny craving. I did not want to be -jonesing- all the time as I thought that would make it harder to succeed. (And this part may have been crazy but I did not throw away all my smokes, ashtrays, and lighters. I put them out of easy reach and out of sight but for me it was less psychological pressure. However, experts might tell you that this was a bad idea. It could have increased temptation for some people but for me it was a reminder of my determination to quit.)

Over the next week I found that I was chewing less and less of it. The last day I had only had one piece of gum all day. That day I decided that I was done with the gum and that I was done with my drug addiction no matter how I felt or how much I wanted one. The next few days I was a bit testy and cranky (more than normal) but once I had gotten through the first day I knew the next few days would get progressively easier and I also knew that I did not want to have to ever go through this day or this process again.

She should know that her body is done with the drug after a week or so but her MIND will mess with her off and on for a long time to come. (This will get steadily better.) She will find herself in a situation where she used to smoke and the urge will jump up even though it may have been months or even a year or more since she quit. Something will trigger an emotion or a memory and the same thing will happen. My way of dealing with those urges was to laugh at it and to take several deep breaths and thank God that I am able to take those deep breaths.

Next month will be three years clean--after being a nicotine addict for over 30 years.

I celebrate the anniversary of my first day clean. I think that is worth noting each year.Take her cigarettes away!You can self teach and self apply EFT -Emotional Freedom Technique- which can release the addiction and allow your mom to give up smoking.

Since you are self teaching and applying it-s free.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly.

Peace, Kathleenwatch TV for a day and see how many stop smoking ads come up then call and order all of them and see which ones works or notsome hospitals or clinics offer free classes in helping to quit smoking...I know the Seventh-day-Adventist church would steer you in the right direction...they are all about -health-....make sure she has plenty of mints or hard candy to suck...if she has a problem with sugar...there are many that are -sugar free-...goodluck!Try going to the Phillip Morris website, or join a drug study for a new product, they pay you for being involved. (Just watch out, they can be risky because of unknown side effects. May be bad for your health.) But, she has to be willing to stop first. If she is not ready, it won-t do any good.

Do you know where I can get free stop smoking aid for my mother??? -