smoking????!!!?

Question

How can i incourage my nehibors without being pushey or rude to stop smoking????? For my behalf and their son's behalf.

Answer 1

you cant encourage them. you only can stay away to keep your self healthy. there is nothing you can do til they decide to quit. then you can support.

Answer 2

Well, It's America if they want to smoke in their own home......then it's their right. They should respect their son's life and smoke outside but at the same time, that's really none of your business. I'm tired of all the "anti-smoke haters" out there telling smokers what they will, what they can do and what they shouldn't do. Eating a double quarter pounder is probably just as bad but you don't see anyone banning McDonald's. Bottom line is it's not your business. If you don't like it move to another apartment.

Answer 3

Your neighbors (like me) are probably as aware as you are of the health dangers of smoking. Very few people are not.

As a smoker, I appreciate the (concerned and polite) efforts of others to encourage me to quit, and I know without question that they are right. (Well, when they are right. Some of them pull diseases and statistics out of their hats. )

The reason I haven't quit is NOT because enough people haven't encouraged me. In my case, the reason is that I have tried and tried, and have so far been unable to stay quit. I am neither stupid nor uninformed; I am addicted and, for some reason, more afraid of not smoking than some other smokers. (Don't tell me how irrational that is, I know!)

On the other hand, learning to keep their smoke away from their children--while it won't reduce their risk of becoming smokers because their parents are--will certainly reduce the immediate health risks to the children. And it isn't about addiction or fear of withdrawal or any of those really hard-to-overcome hurdles.

So perhaps you should focus your efforts in that direction. It is less of a "personal attack" (I know you don't mean to attack, but our addiction is a scary thing, and we feel attacked despite intent), less of a threat, and really, a much more likely area for you to help them affect change.

I think it took me about three days to get used to NEVER smoking in the house, and a little longer to force myself to pull the car over, get out to smoke, and then continue our drive.

But if their smoking actually impacts you in some physical way (I'm trying to imagine how it could), then none of this is going to help that. That one, I guess, will require firmer demands on your part, and you may have legal recourse, depending on how this is happening. I mean, if they're coming on your property and blowing smoke in your windows, there is certainly legal relief available!

Answer 4

You can't. Look, they know. They know all of the problems with smoking, they know it gives you cancer, but they're addicted and so do not desire to quit. Nothing you tell them will make them stop unless/until they choose themselves. All you're going to do here is make them start avoiding you. That's like trying to shove religion down somebody's throat. If the smoke is that big a deal to you, just avoid them completely when they smoke. When they ask why you're doing it, tell them you value your lungs and are avoiding the smoke, not them. That would be as good a clue as any.

Answer 5

MENTAL DISORDERS

Oh there is so much more thaks for making me do my homework. it's a personality disorder but it may also be the cause of some of them. Interesting.
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The purpose of this site is to assist in preventing mental disorders

(a) by avoiding lay notions (such as the lay myth that smoking is a habit, not a mental disorder), and

(b) by citing medical journal data on the role of tobacco in mental disorders.

Let's start by seeing what medical researchers have found.

In the Autumn 1998 issue of Tobacco Control, a voluminous summary of data on the subject from a June A.M.A. conference was recently published.

"Persons with mental illness are about twice as likely to smoke as other persons." And, "Persons with a currently active mental disorder consumed 44 per cent of all the cigarettes smoked in this nationally representative sample."—Karen Lasser, MD, et al, "Smoking and Mental Illness: A Population-Based Prevalence Study," 284 J Am. Med. ***'n (#20) 2606-2610 (22/29 Nov 2000). (Also at http://www.unhooked.com/atod/lasserjama0...

And, "smoking is more common in patients . . . with accelerated than with benign hypertension. It appears that hypertensive patients who smoke regularly are more likely to developed the accelerated phase than those who do not."—Elliott, John M., and F. O. Simpson, "Cigarettes and accelerated hypertension," The New Zealand Med J (#662) 447-449 (25 June 1980).

"Avant le . . . tabac, la folie était une maladie très rare dans l'humanité,"—Depierris, Hippolyte A., Physiologie Sociale: Le Tabac (Paris: Dentu, 1876), p 346. Before tobacco, mental disorder was a rare malady among humans.

Toxic tobacco smoke (TTS) is radioactive and contains toxic chemicals, and produces toxic chemicals emissions far above the safe and legal limits. Harm by tobacco pushers is foreseeable and thus is by definition intentional.

The brain operates on electrical impulses and chemicals, e.g., serotonin, dopamine, etc. They are involved in regulating mood, reasoning, ethical controls, and all brain functions. Nerves communicate with each other by using such chemicals to transfer messages, cross the synapses, between nerves. Tobacco's toxic chemicals have an impairing effect on the message transfer process. Naturally, mood, reasoning, ethical controls, and other brain functions are impaired. TTS-caused damage, says Thomas Edison (1914) is irreversible.

16 hours ago


HOPE THIS HELPS IM GOING TO BY CIGARETTES CALLED NATIVE SOLD BY INDIANS AT LEAST NO ADDITIVES THEN TRY TO QUIT.

Answer 6

That's their choice. Unless they are in YOUR home smoking, then mind your own business. I am anti-smoking too, but I also believe in personal choice. They know smoking is bad for them and they also know it's unhealthy around children. Unless you want an all-out neighborhood war, just leave it alone.

Answer 7

They're your neighbors? LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!!! IF they try to smoke in your house, say something. However, them smoking in their own yard or house is NONE OF YOUR EFFING BUSINESS!!!!!!!! What little bit you inhale while in your yard from their yard, when the wind is blowing in that direction, is MINISCULE. Quit being a busy-body and mind your own business!

Answer 8

You really can't say anything, it's there right to smoke. Try getting an air filter for your home, or move.

Answer 9

You can't really!
Just let them know not to smoke in your house and stuff.
But saying that if they are polite they will ask anyway. I always do

Answer 10

If they are not smoking in YOUR house, I think you need to mind your own business.

Answer 11

I don't think you would do anything but make your neighbors mad at you. Stay away from them if you don't like them smoking.