he willl be 45 this year and has been smoking since he was 15. Thats nearly 30 years ! i really want him to stop ! ive tried begging him but nothiing works. He always makes it his new years resalution but it doesnt happen. He smokes on average 20 a day, sometimes more. Plus not only am i worried that he will die its costing us too much money ! my mum is sick of it coz he gambels too. Our house is a mess coz we have no money to do it up with (Coz of his smoking and gambeling)) nd the other day when my mum was cleaning the living room walls the tissue paper was full of yellow marks, where all the smoke had went to. I really want him to stop but i know i cant force him. My gran has been smoking since she was 20 and shes now 76 and sometimes she cant breathe coz of her smoking and she has a disease in her lungs. i dont want me dad to end up like that or worse………..
please help ! x
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He must want to quit ^..^
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Wow, thats sad. First try to just talk to him, go over the facts that smoking is just unhealthy. Show him how much you love him, start a petition/poll to get him to notice how many people want him to stop. Also, try to get your mum involved, try to stop him from going to cigarette stores, ask him how he would feel if YOU started to smoke. Mabye try some stop smoking medications. I really hope this helps, smoking is bad ):
Sorry about your gran
Tell them how much you love him, and how much it would hurt the whole family if he suddenly died of a heart attack or stroke at work one day.
Point out that kids who live with smoking parents are about twice as likely to become smokers.
oint out the benefits of a smoke free environment;Healthier, Everything smells better, Happier visitors
Ask your parent if they would like you to smoke when you grow up. After all, they are your parent, and you look up to them as your best role model. If they say no, then that is a bit hypocritical. If they say yes, then they might have missed out on the 1964 Surgeon General's report and everything after that that was discovered about the health risks of tobacco.
Write down all the ways tobacco has a negative effect on their lives. Drains their wallet, does the opposite of perfume, hurts the people around them, and, literally leaves them breathless.
Ask them why they started in the first place. Probably thinking inhaling a tube full of poisonous herbs would make them look cool? Older (yes, with all the wrinkles they will get)? Rebellious? Or because they were bored? Or because they thought being skinny and smoking would be healthier than being overweight (actually, you would have to be more than 200 pounds overweight to get all the health risks associated with tobacco)?
Remind him that with every puff of smoke he breathes out, someone else breathes that in (passive smoking) and inform the person that there are almost half of a million second-hand smoke related deaths each year.