Dads a smoker...drinker...and other things. please read.?!
Question: ok so my dad is about 55 years old and he drinks and smokes he has emphazyma(sorry i dont know how to spell it) high blood pressure and i think thats it. he doesnt even try to help himself..he has been in the hospital before and when he got out he just started all over again the only thing he does is sit on the couch and watch t.v. and sleep all day and smoke and drink thats about it. i love him and i want himto be around or a long time but idk if thats gonna happen so if someone could tell me about what age he will probley live to that would be great. please answer seriously.
Answers: ok so my dad is about 55 years old and he drinks and smokes he has emphazyma(sorry i dont know how to spell it) high blood pressure and i think thats it. he doesnt even try to help himself..he has been in the hospital before and when he got out he just started all over again the only thing he does is sit on the couch and watch t.v. and sleep all day and smoke and drink thats about it. i love him and i want himto be around or a long time but idk if thats gonna happen so if someone could tell me about what age he will probley live to that would be great. please answer seriously.
I have a great idea! Get a bunch of magazines and photo copy pictures of yourself and your dad. Cut out your heads and put them in a bunch of scenes.
Wedding...
Prom
Graduation
Grandchild's birth
Arrange them in a photo album and say..."Daddy - I want you to be alive to see my life happen. If you keep on living like you do. I'm afraid you will not.
I hope this works honey!!
if he dont get help, he will die soon.
i'm sorry.
maybe you should sit down with your dad and have avery serious talk with him.
explain the risks or everything and tell him how much you love him and that you want him to live for a long time...
but if he doesn't want to change his ways, there's not much you can do about it...
if he doesn't try to help himself, it's really tough to have other people help him..
good luck. :]
There is really no way to say how old he will live to, it is up to the Lord. My brother was 32 when he died of a heart attack. My grandfather lived to his 80s. He smoked and drank. No one knows for sure.
Im just going to answer your question. Most likely if the visits to the hospital increases in this year by last year, most likely he will not die, but he will go to intensive care and then he'll die. I would say less than 5 years after intensive care.
when he dies is not so important as what you do before he dies. In other words, cherish every day you have with him, because no matter when he dies, you will miss him and regret not having done what you could have when he was living. Make every day you have with him count.
We can't really say how long he's going to live for. However, if he's this careless about his health then it's not going to be very long. My dad has a lot of serious health problems as well but he stopped smoking willingly about 10+ years ago because he knew that continuing to smoke was not going to help him. He also stays active. He can't walk as much as he used to but he doesn't sit at home and do nothing all day. He takes short walks so he exercises and he tries to eat healthy.
If you want to help your dad, get some pamphlets from a local doctor's office about smoking and how to quit. That can be his first step. It's really all up to him. He has to WANT to make a change for the better.
Good luck!
I have personally known many, MANY people that drink, smoke heavily and have sedentary lifestyles to live into their 70's or 80's.
True his habits are dangerous and he's pushing the envelope, but don't put him in the ground early just due to the scare tactics that are being thrown on people about health. It's not as bad as some people would try to lead you to believe. Read the essay "Smoking, Lies and the Nanny State" by Joe Jackson.
The habits he's got are very hard to break and only HE will know when it's time to stop. Badgering him will make him do it more and will be worse for his health in the long run. Some people get a joy out of smoking and don't really want to quit something they enjoy. Only he can determine if he wants to quit something he enjoys and the time. Any damage done due to these habits (which once again, aren't as bad as you'd think or have been told) have already done the damage they're going to do. Let him enjoy life and determine the time he sets to lay them down.
My dad was a drinker and heavy smoker and he's into his 70's. He did quit his "bad" habits, but only about three years ago. He's also been a miserable sort for the last three years and would have probably preferred death to losing the things he enjoyed.