My friend sent me this:
I‘ve been trying to get my parents to stop smoking forever. Neither of them like going to the Doctor or taking any kind of medication, and they get ticked every time I suggest something. However, I finally convinced my Mom to at least pick up something over the counter. She bought the gum last week and is convinced it’s not doing any good and refuses to buy more than what she has now. I think it’s time to step it up, hit the Doctor’s office, and get some serious stop smoking medication. Any suggestions on how to encourage them? I’m getting really frustrated.
Leave your comments if you think you have any advice for her!
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Don't nag them the more you do the worse it gets
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January 2nd, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Start asking them about their will, and ask that they leave you things when they die. That's what got my aunt to stop smoking.
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January 2nd, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Your parents can surely have some fun in there lifes stop nagging @ them thats there job, to do to you…….
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January 2nd, 2009 at 11:43 pm
If you figure this out please let me know. My hubby is trying to quit and this is after 3 years of trying to get him to quit. Unfortunately, you've got to let them figure it out for themselves. Just like all addictions, it's the addict that has to want to quit, not their loved ones! Sorry, I know that's not what you wanted to hear!
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January 3rd, 2009 at 12:23 am
The best thing you can do is nothing. There your parents and I'm sure there aware of the dangers of smoking, and besides they raised you not the other way around. You can not make them stop as much as you probably don't like to hear that or read it, but its just the way it is. I have done the same thing when i was in high school, but they are adults and can do so, Just be thankful your nagging hasn't got you kicked out of the house or into counseling. If anything just explain to them that you know you can't make them stop but you would like them to be around to have great grandchildren and it bothers you that they smoke but your not going to stop them. Cigarettes are more addictive and hard to stop then all your street drugs together. Check it out and look it up. It is far more addictive and powerful and hard to just quit. Just be there for them. Good Luck.
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May 3rd, 2009 at 12:17 pm
My dad has smoked since before I was born. My mother never liked it, I never liked it. I would be playing outside and he would come out, light up and I would go right back inside. Told him if he really wanted to spend time with me he wouldn’t smoke and thus endanger his daughter’s life. Didn’t seem to care. My mom left him. He found himself someone new and continues to smoke. I did the math – all the money he spent on cigarettes throughout my life could have easily paid for college and books, so whenever he complains about money that’s what I tell him. It’s not my fault – it’s his. If cigarettes are more important than family, than education, than life – why bother with him? That’s the problem with smoking, you forget about your family, their health, and in today’s economic troubles the money they need for education. If they cared, they’d kick the habit.
PS – my grandmother said when she was young that when the price of cigarettes was ever over a dollar she’d quit. She went to the store, they were over a dollar, stopped buying them, quit cold turkey. When my grandpa saw she quit he decided to quit too. No meds then, no gum. If you want to quit, then put your mind to it and QUIT. Obviously it isn’t impossible.