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easy. quit smoking. Wait maybe thats not so easy. Well if you cant do it for yourself, do it for him.
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you can't that would be hypocritical!! only thing that i advise you do is tell him how harmful it is!
Show him some pictures of some smoker lungs and dig up some stats on lung cancer.
by quitting himself
Both my parents smoke/smoked and tried to talk me out of it..didn't work, I have been smoking since I was 18 and have no intentions of quitting. I guess the best advice is to not smoke at all but in the end, it will be your sons choice and peer pressure is a *****
Lots of people loose their intellectual by smoking to much.
A father can convince his son that smoking is bad by giving him examples of smokers who died just because of smoking and telling him that he will disown him if he does not stop smoking.
Yup, ya gotta quit. It's about time though, don't ya think?
Do as I say, not as I do! ;)
He knows it's bad. Kids just need to make a "statement" and if that's his, then he's only hurting himself. He may also use you as a role model. But I highly doubt that he will quit just because you quit. I do suggest that you quit though, because I'm sure your father told you it was bad for you right.
My sister quit smoking for this very same reason.her son! She wanted to set an example for him and try to make sure she would be there to see him through all the things he will go through (ie:graduating, college, marriage his first apartment) I think it is a great love to show someone being able to give up a vice like that for the sake of another.
Good luck, it's a hard habit to break.
What a good point. You know something.My father is a doctor and he smokes, my mother is a Dentist and she smokes as well, when my brother and I started smoking .. Their arguments about it were really poor.based in you point. So I decided to quit, such as my wife as soon as my first daughter was born, because of this fact.there is nothing you can tell to your kids.what they learn is your acts, not your words. Very Good point..!!.
On the other hand.and answering your question my father made us learn all the secondary effects of smoking and even made us a test on this before he approves ourselves smoking at home.!!. that may help understanding the big damage you make to your body.with this bad habit.
Be honest with them. Tell them how bad it is for them and how hard it is to quit. Tell them how much you want better for them than you have for yourself. Encourage them to participate in sports and physical activities. I know it's almost impossible, but try to steer them away from the wrong crowd. That is what my parents did. Two of their kids listened. I'm the bad one, and it wasn't until I moved out of the house and started hanging out with kids who smoked that I started. So if he listens, make sure you don't stop what you've been doing just because he's at college. Keep reminding him all your life, just because he's an adult doesn't mean that he won't still need guidance.
Maybe you should both educate yourselves together and work as a team to quit smoking.
Hmmm. well lets see..My mom told me and told me how bad it was to smoke.BUT. I am 30, have been smoking since I was 13 and my mom Just passed away from LUNG CANCER and I still can't seem to quit. I know its hard and it is an oxymoron to tell someone not to do what you sit and do yourself.. So with that said I can honestly say you can literallu tell him its bad for him till your blue in the face and it won't help at all. If he wants to smoke he is going to no matter what kind of pictures or reports you show him or how much you scold or punish him. But if you can quit that would be awsome. and may encourage him not to smoke.
You can't, even if you quit yourself. I have a friend who was a smoker for many years, her children watched her get lung cancer. They saw her go through the chemo, the radiation and all the other treatments. Her two children smoked then and still smoke. My friend died a few days ago and at the funeral home, her kids took several cigerrette breaks outside during the wake.
So the answer is you can't make your son quit. As a smoker, you know how hard it is to quit. I suggest you attempt to quit yourself for your own health, but if you don't at least don't smoke in front of your son when you smoke. And don't let up on him, you might not be able to get him to quit, but keep trying. Go to the Cancer Society and get some free pamphlets, download information from the internet. There are some websites with some pretty gross pictures of damaged lungs due to smoking, download those for him. And if you have insurance at work, get a prescription patch, gum, pills or whatever to help both you and him quit.
Good luck.
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