How to get my husband to quit smoking?
October 3rd, 2010
He smokes 4-5 ciggarettes a day and that is a LOT for me. smoking does more harm than any good. What small things can I do to help me quit? He is just not ready to quit. I want to start the process. Please help me
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in the first place, you cant make him quit in a snap. make the nicotine intake lesser by reducing its amount.
You will never be able to make him give up. It is something only he can do and decide when to do it. If you nag it will make the situation worse. You could ban smoking in the house and then he would have to go out side to smoke. He may then get fed up with standing out in the cold and give up on his own accord.
wow I used to smoke 60 a day, hes not doing much wrong really
you need to buy him what is called an ‘electronic cigarette’ research them on google, theyre really good and actually lead to me quitting in the end
Stop nagging him all the time, and 4-5 cigs is not a lot compared to a pack or two a day. If he is not ready to quit than he will not be open to stop. You can’t force someone to do something they don’t want to do. The question is why did you marry your husband if you knew he smoked now all of a sudden you are worried about his health.
well ask her beforehand that he should stop well say do it for you and your sake
surely she”ll understand
then do google some rehabilitation and how to quit smoking
even ask a doctor about how to stop
Leave him the hell alone, if you live in a medium to large town you inhale enough crap to equal a pack of smokes a day, and you are worried because he smokes 4-5 cigs a day? Find something else to fret about, you are over thinking this one.
4-5 ciggaretes a day is not that much. It will have not damage the health.
you cannot force him to quit smoke. If you do, he will lie to you.
The best moment to quite smoking is when you are sick, because on that moment a sigarette doesn’t tast that good. But he need to want it ofcourse.
To start the process, you should talk with him. Ask him why he smoke and tell him why you don’t like it. If you can agree with him to not smoke inside would be already a good first step
sorry but you cant..he will quit when he is ready and not until…you can tell him how you feel but thats it…if you push him ..you wont push him to quit you will push him away
Threaten him with sex
dont give him a bj.. tell him it tastes like fags so he will probably stop
I smoked about the same as your husband and my husband doesn’t smoke, except for the rare occasion when he’s having drinks with friends. I haven’t smoked now for about a month, but they still sound good sometimes. What made me able to quit without any withdrawls was waiting until I got sick with a chest cold. I absolutely did not want to smoke during that, and I already felt nasty from being sick. Now, I just try to distract myself when I think about wanting to smoke. I broke the habit of not smoking when I’m driving (which was the hardest one for me) and not having a cigarette with coffee (second hardest). When we go out for drinks I don’t smoke unless my husband wants one, because I don’t think its very kind for me to have nasty cigarette breath when he doesn’t. Exercise has been shown to limit cigarette cravings quite a bit and I it has helped me a lot.
Most of these people are right though–he’s not going to quit unless he wants to. My husband and I have been together for three years, and at first he didn’t say much about the smoking, then he started counting my cigarettes and asking how much I smoked that day. His nagging and checking up on my smoking made me want to smoke even more, because I felt like I had to take advantage of every chance I had to smoke… I also did it to passive-aggressively spite him. So, be encouraging, but don’t nag him about it all the time. Just tell him you’re concerned about his health, you think he is strong enough to quit, and ask him if you can do anything to help him. Tell him you won’t bring it up or check up on him all the time if he says he’s trying to quit and just give him a little room to work on it by himself.
Well, it’s hard for most people to just stop one day and say “I’m done”, especially if their bodies are physically addicted to a daily fix of nicotine. What you want to do, though, is introduce him to some alternatives; for example, electronic cigarettes are a newer thing on the market; basically, they give him his fix minus the stink and the 4000 chemicals in traditional cigarettes. That, and there’s no ash or smoke – water vapor and nicotine are all he gets.
What you can do from this point on is get him to follow the ‘gradual reduction’ method of quitting, where he fills his ecig with less and less nicotine over time, eventually not having a dependency on it anymore; it’s worked for a couple of friends/coworkers of mine…worth taking a look at IMHO.