Will my brother quit smoking

How do you help your only brother quit smoking?

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As a former smoker, I can tell you unless your brother wants to quit, he won’t. Smoking is a pchyological and physical addition. Quitting is very difficult espicially among young people because they think the health effects will not be harm…

How can I help my brother quit smoking?

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Popular targets for culpability include the tobacco industry and its alleged manipulation of nicotine content, print advertising, and lack of government regulation. Although the aforementioned play a role in decision making in reality child…

How to Persuade a Sibling to Quit Smoking

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･ 1 Tell your sibling what his smoking habit is stealing from him – money, sense of smell and taste, and… ･ 2 Make your sibling aware of how often she smokes, especially around you and your family. Remind your… ･ 3 Stress to your siblin…

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How do you help your only brother quit smoking?

Q: he only smoked like 1 carton. he said that he was reducing from 3 a day to 1 a day. I found out from his car. he broke them and threw them away, but doesn’t meen he quit. he can always buy more. how do I help. im still young, not even old enough to buy smokes leagally, but hes 18.

A: Before you can help him he have to want to quit. Try having a series talk with him about him really wanting to quit,before you even begin to try to help him.

Whats the best way to encourage my brother to quit smoking cigarettes?

Q: He’s 28 years old – been smoking for 12 years. He has a good job and a new girlfriend.

A: Here’s my story.I tried everything to quit smoking and I mean EVERYTHING! I was so addicted I smoked in the shower. That’s the truth.Even though I was seeing my doctor every month to try to quit smoking, he totally missed for 1 WHOLE YEAR my throat cancer. By then it was too late and I ended up losing my larynx. I still consider myself very fortunate as I came within a half hour of losing my life and those are the surgeon’s words not mine.I now breathe through a hole in my neck. It changed my life totally. There are so many things in life that are now forever closed off to me because of it. If I could go back and tell myself the outcome of smoking cigarettes would have on my life I would have never started. Yeah, it’s hard to quit. They have shown because of the chemicals they add to cigarettes (did you know they actually add urine to them?), that they are harder to quit than heroin. But you know after 10 days of intensive care after having my throat slit ear-to-ear to take out the cancer I found it wasn’t so hard not to pick up another cigarette.As it is now, I have emphysema and it will probably be the thing that kills me barring an accident. My body will get to the point where even with medical help it will not be able to get rid of the fluid buildup in my lungs and around my heart. I will either drown in my own fluids or my heart will stop under the strain. It will not be a quick death but it will be like slowly being strangled to death. It’s called air hunger. No matter what you do, you can’t get enough air even with oxygen being put directly into you.So is cigarette smoking worth it? Absolutely not. It kills you. It makes you stink. It gives you yellow teeth. It makes your skin wrinkle especially around your mouth and eyes. It raises your insurance rates. It makes your house stink and everything in it yellow. It makes you cough up phlegm which is another word for pus. It cost you a lot of money that you could be using for many other things. It makes you an unwelcome guest in many people’s homes. It makes you more suseptible to colds and other illnesses. AND when you have lung inflammation, they give you prednisone and the number one side effect of prednisone is weight gain. (Think Jerry Lewis. That’s what happened to him.) Give them up.

Should I encourage my brother and husband to quit smoking or hope they will decide for themselves?

Q: I recently quit smoking after having smoked for 22 years. I really want both my brother and husband to quit so that they will not suffer the way several family members did until finally dying. I personally watched my grandmother and father-in-law die of lung cancer. Neither of them went quickly either. My grandmother took about eight years and my father-in-law about six years. It was years of watching their therapy that really broke my heart. But despite all this, I hated when the non-smokers in my family gave me any grief about smoking. One day I woke up and was finally ready to quit. I hope my brother and husband will do the same. However we are all getting up there in age and that possibility is getting more bleak. I don’t want to preach to them, but I also can’t stand the thought of watching another loved one die in such a manner. Someone please help…I’m so torn.

A: Its good you remember how it felt when you were hounded to stop when you weren’t ready. Just let your family know that if ever they want to quit that you are ready to help them through it, when they don’t think that they can finish a day without lighting up.Your instincts are right because you quit when you were ready and decided, this is the way it is for most things, you need to do it for yourself. Knowing that they will have support may encourage your sibblings, so just let them know of the hard times and what you did to overcome. Congratulations and I’m so sorry to hear about your loved ones cancer is a terrible thing I wish we could eradicate it.