I'm trying to get my parents to quit smoking, any ideas?!


Question: My daughter use to ask us to quit so we would be around when she grew up and got married. At first she did it all the time (she was a nag) until we started getting angry. Finally she skillfully worked it into conversations. She would tell us about the organs she saw at school of x smokers, she would leave articles laying around for us to read. You can't make a person quit, they have to want to but you can help them want to. She even asked us why we wanted to commit suicide, which we were doing slowly by smoking. She kept at us , I finally managed to quit, partly cause of her but also for myself. I am not saying it will work for you, but worth a try.


Answers: My daughter use to ask us to quit so we would be around when she grew up and got married. At first she did it all the time (she was a nag) until we started getting angry. Finally she skillfully worked it into conversations. She would tell us about the organs she saw at school of x smokers, she would leave articles laying around for us to read. You can't make a person quit, they have to want to but you can help them want to. She even asked us why we wanted to commit suicide, which we were doing slowly by smoking. She kept at us , I finally managed to quit, partly cause of her but also for myself. I am not saying it will work for you, but worth a try.

If they are interested in quitting perhaps you could get them to investigate a web search for "nicorette activestop" but if you investigate it first yourself then you will be able to advise them.

If they are not really interested in quitting then you could be fighting a losing battle.





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