What's the best way to get my girlfriend to quit smoking?!
Question:
What's the best way to get my girlfriend to quit smoking?
My girlfriend has been smoking for a few years before I came into her life and now since we are at 6 months I told her that I want her to start quitting because I hate smoking.
She has cut down to almost 3 a week when shes around me, but when she is with her friends (current smokers) or is drinking then she chain smokes non-stop.
It's obvious that her trying to quit isn't really cutting it and I want to find a way for her to be able to quit throughout the whole day everyday.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Keep in mind any attempt of me to take action by force results in her getting quite pissed at me, which stresses her more and makes her smoke more, so I'm trying to find an easier way for both of us
Thank you
Answers:
It's really too bad you can't arrange with some medical school to come in and have her take a look at the disgusting mess a LUNG becomes when it's "former owner" has smoked for years....it's also too bad you can't take her into hospital ROOMS where people with chronic lung disease cause by smoking are about to die... it's a HORRIBLE thing to watch----it's horrible to sit there and watch as they scrape the insides of the lungs or change the bandages on the large back wound from a partial lungectomy and it's really rough to watch a loved one DIE from cigarette smoke---like I had to watch my father die 11 years ago... THAT could be HER someday...and there is NO guarantee that she WON'T get a serious lung disease if she doesn't quit smoking.... she's young right now and it will be a LOT easier for her to quit NOW then it will be 20 YEARS from now when it might be TOO LATE.... she would have to stay away from her smoking friends for a while and either get the patch or use what I did-----NAVAL ORANGES... when I wanted a cigarette, I picked up an orange, peeled it, pullled it apart and ate it section by section---taking as long as it would take to smoke a cigarette... this gave my hands AND mouth something to do and it was not fattening and within a week, I was cutting DOWN on the number of oranges I HAD to eat to compensate for my craving for cigarettes... it's been 7 MONTHS now and I don't crave them at all---in fact, I've turned into an EVIL EX SMOKER hell bent on making the world quit.... 8 months ago, I would just LAUGH at someone who suggested I quit....