How can i make my boyfriend quit smoking?

Question

Also plz suggest me some good therepy groups with contact information in delhi as in Nicotine Anonymous or something like that.

Well actually he's also willing to quit it . infact he has tried number of times but he remains smoke free for a week or two and then again starts smoking. he's desperate to leave this habbit but lacks will power. plz suggest me some good counsellor in delhi.

Answer 1

here's some info and tips on quitting smoking that you should suggest him to try

How to quit smoking :

Over the years numerous people have come to Cancer Patients Aid Association expressing their genuine desire to quit smoking. Yet they are unable to do so. There are both psychological and pharmacological reasons why quitting is so tricky. The nicotine in cigarettes is potentially as addictive as cocaine and heroine and hence as difficult to give up. Medical aids in the form of patches and chewing gum that release moderate amounts of nicotine into the bloodstream, have been found to be partially successful during the early days in combating withdrawal symptoms.

However the psychological aspects of the habit are equally hard to surmount and must be overcome by sheer will power. Each individual?s motivations for trying to quit vary. The most important step remains the first one, making the decision. Subsequently each one of us must assess what it is that will motivate us to quit. Given below are some tips that can be used.

Before you quit smoking, try wrapping your cigarettes with a sheet of paper like a Christmas present. Every time you want a cigarette, unwrap the pack and write down what you are doing, how you feel and how important this cigarette is to you. Do this for two weeks and you will cut down as well as develop new insights into your habit.
Many smokers feel that cigarettes give them energy. Such people should try gum, modest exercise, a brisk walk or a new hobby. But keep in mind, most smokers tend to put on weight, so watch your diet and do not start eating rich foods.
If you gain weight while giving up smoking, don?t start dieting immediately. Wait until you have succeeded in giving up smoking first.
If cigarettes help you to relax, try meditating, drinking a new beverage or some new social activity.
Try choosing an opportune time to quit, such as when you are ill with a cold or flu and have lost your taste for cigarettes.
On a 3"x5" card, make a list of what you like and dislike about smoking. Add to it and refer to it daily.
Make a short list of things you have always wanted to buy. Next to each, write its cost. Convert each cost into number of packs of cigarettes. If you save the money each day, you will now be able to buy these items. Use a special piggy bank for collecting this money.
Do not smoke after you get the craving until at least 3 minutes have passed. During that time, change your thinking or activity. Telephone somebody you can talk to until the craving subsides.
Plan a memorable day for stopping. Choose a vacation, New Year?s Day, your birthday, a holiday, your child?s birthday, your anniversary. But don?t make the date so distant that you change your mind.
If you smoke under stress at work, pick a date when you are away from work.
Decide whether you are going to stop suddenly or gradually. If it is to be gradual, work out a tapering system so that you have immediate goals on your way to an ?I Quit? day.
Don?t store up cigarettes. Never buy by the carton. Wait until one pack is finished before you buy another.
Never carry cigarettes around with you at home or at work. Keep them as far away as possible. Leave them with someone or lock them up.
Until you quit, make a smoking corner that is far away from anything interesting.
Never smoke while watching television.
If you like to smoke with others, try smoking alone. If you like smoking alone, try to find the company of people who do not smoke.
Never carry matches or lighters around with you.
Put away ashtrays or fill them with flowers or nuts. Walnuts will give you something to do with your hands.
Change your cigarette brand so that you progressively smoke cigarettes with lower and lower tar and nicotine content.
Always ask yourself, "Do I really need this cigarette or is it just a reflex?"
Try to help someone else stop smoking.
Each day try to postpone lighting your first cigarette of the day.
Decide that you will only smoke on even or odd numbered hours or as the habit recedes, on odd or even dates.
Keep your hands occupied. Try a musical instrument, knitting or puzzles.
Make a major change in your habits. Seek new activities or perform old ones in new ways. Think of different ways to solve problems. Do things differently.
Get out of the house if you tend to smoke more at home.
Keep to places where smoking is not allowed, libraries, theatres, department stores or just go to bed early during the first few days when you are trying to give up smoking.
Keep light reading materials, crossword puzzles or brochures to read during coffee breaks.
Take a shower or do something where you cannot smoke.
Brush your teeth frequently to get rid of the tobacco taste and stains.
Visit your dentist after you quit and have your teeth cleaned to remove tobacco stains and stale tobacco taste.
When you have a craving for a cigarette, take 10 deep breaths, hold the last breath while you light a match and blow it out with the exhaled breath. Put the match out in an ashtray, as you would have a cigarette. Pretend that it was a cigarette you put out. Then immediately start another activity.
Only smoke half a cigarette and throw the rest away.
After you quit, start using your lungs. Increase your activities and start moderate exercise, such as walks.
Place a bet with someone that you can quit. Put the cigarette money in a jar each morning and forfeit it if you smoke, keeping the money if you don?t smoke by the end of the week. Gradually extend this period until you stop altogether.
Purchase a money order equivalent to a year?s supply of cigarettes and give it to a friend for safe keeping. If you smoke in the next year, your friend keeps the money order. If you don?t, he gives it back to you at the end of the year.
If you are depressed or have physical symptoms that might be related to your smoking, discuss it with a doctor. It is easier to quit when you are aware of your health status.
After you quit, decide on someone who you can call when you crave a cigarette. Never face the situation of craving a cigarette alone.

- http://www.nicotine-anonymous.org/
- http://stopsmoking-guide.com/topics/quitting-smoking.html

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Quitting smoking is a great opportunity to learn about ourselves, as you have already observed.
Congratulate yourself on having the desire to stop - then you are over the worst, but still need to maintain your resolve. It's just so easy to start thinking that just one won't hurt, but it does. Just one achieves nothing except feeling the need for another. Whatever you do, don't have just one. Beware - alcohol will weaken your resolve.
Here's a few home-brewed tips that might be useful.
It's not just nicotine addiction - there are 50+ chemicals in cigarettes. Also the main problem is habit.
We have been used to having body sensations which we translate as 'my body needs something', which we have attempted to satisfy by having a cigarette.
When we try to stop smoking, we still get these 'my body needs something' sensations, and we still feel that we want a cigarette. We have to train our body to be more selective. When we feel we need something, we have to work out what it is that we actually need.
A glass of water is an excellent substitute if nothing else comes to mind, as it helps with the clearance of the toxic substances in our body. Another good substitute is a bag of salted peanuts, used in combination with the water.
Another thing to do is to find an activity which occupies the mind or body. Go swimming - nobody wants to smoke while they are swimming. Slowly, as our body adjusts and translates the 'want something' feelings into something other than cigarettes, then the feelings begin to go away. We know its not a cigarette that the body really needs, because as soon as we've had one we still have the feeling, and want another!
We will have a few bouts of feeling or even being short tempered. We must try to bite our lip, and control; ourselves. Recognise the short temper as being the removal of toxins which are trying to find a way out. They went in through the mouth, and they try to get out that way to. We must learn to keep our mouth closed, and force the toxins out the other way.

After we have stopped for a while we will begin to feel that just one wont to any harm.
All that leads to is a desire for just another one. We must guard very strongly against the desire to have just one.

Answer 4

Notice his erection. After I quit I had the hardest since I was 17 years old and had the sex drive of a bunny rabbit on viagra. Funny yes but really I could hang 5 towels from it no problem. Be ready to talk to him about what it's going to do to the lower regions and be enthusiastic about it. I think that would do a lot to help out with the quitting.

Answer 5

Tell him why you would want him to stop. Give him rationale reasons and for heaven's sake dont emotionally blackmail him. Also check how much is he smoking.. we all passively or actively smoke thanks to other smokers and air pollution. So, if he is smoking just 3-4 a day.. chill and relax.. however, if its a pack or more a day, surely talk to him
The other cute thing u could do is treat him to a glass of bitterguard (Karela) juice everyday, saying this is your way of neutralize effects of smoking in him.. he will eventually stop.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Compromise. Tell him he cannot smoke in your presence. If you live together, he must go outside to smoke. Either the relationship will end or else he'll eventually see the light and quit all on his own.

Answer 8

You Can't. Ever heard the "OLD ANALOGY", you can't change someone. Well it's true, you can connect your guy up with the best support groups, hypnosis, you can hound, beg and threaten. But till he is ready to quit smoking. You are blowing in the wind. Sorry, but I'm speaking from experience, and have seen history repeat itself over and over and over. What someones wants, just doesn't work, that person has to want it first themselves.

Answer 9

say him to comprimise and not to smoke otherwise u will start smoking and hanging out with boys who smokes and will leave him then i am sure he will quit smoking becoz no boyfriend can see his galfriend smoking and with other boyz. if he stop smoking on this reason then he is a caring, loving, good person otherwise he dont love u and dont bother whatever u do . PLZ try this funda. And ya thanks for ans. of my ques.

Answer 10

if he listen you seriously, make him determine that he willnot smoke hereinafter.becouz in later life it creat many complication.contact to a good physician.there are some tablet which keeps even a chain smoker away from cigeerets.(click(product name) pouch to be kept under lips is one of the remedy suggested to me by a pune dr.can be useful upto good extend) i am telling from my own experince,as once i was a chain smoker.now i am facing lots of sever health problems,which dr.say's firmly that all these complications are due to smoking only,and i will have to face complications there on.any how i stopped smoking totally by selfdetermination since last2 years.

Answer 11

If you met him and he was a smoker already - it's you that has to change.

He's got to decide for himself when to quit. Forcing the issue will make anyone resist quitting.