short of glueing his lips together, how can i get my hubs to STOP SMOKING!!!?

Answer 1

When you figure it out ... PLEASE LET ME KNOW TOO!!! ... I've tried everything, but one thing I do know, is that they won't quit until THEY are ready!!

Answer 2

Hi,

Great post! Quitting smoking was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, and I thought I wasn't addicted!

Here's what I tried before finding success: hypnosis, those fake cigaretts, the nicotine patch, and group therapy....none worked.

I finally tried this HERBAL patch I bought 6 months ago on the net. They claim a 97% success rate. Well, it worked! They had a sweet deal which was a free 10 day trial for only $3.95 including shipping (it's regularly $53 for 10 days)!!

I don't know if they still have that deal, but it's worth a try.

http://www.alllsite.info/stop-smoking-free.php

Good Luck

Answer 3

Why ? are you worried about this now ? Are you planning a baby ? Or just concerned for both of your health ?

Because the honest answer is that you can't make him give up: only he can give up if he wants to.

If it's for you & the kids he can smoke out a window/in the garden,but this won't be protecting you from him being ill through it.

If he really wanted to try giving up there's:
1 cutting down & saving the £ for a treat
2 Paul McKenna hypnosis video tapes
3 Patches and chewing gum

Show him £ he would save in a year and ask him what if he won that -what would he buy himself?

All the best

M : )

Answer 4

Well, when I got bronchitis as a teenager, that cured me of any desire to ever start smoking. So you might want to find someone with, say, pneumonia or TB and have that person cough heartily into your husband's mouth. Or lick his cigs. Then put them back in the pack like nothing happened...la-la-la, I don't know how you got the plague, sweetie! Tee-hee.

Seriously, I don't know. My grandpa quit cold turkey after smoking for about 65 years. I'm not even sure why he did it, really, since he didn't have any lung issues, and the cardiovascular damage was already done by then, I'm sure. I mean, the dude was in his 80s! Smoke 'em if ya got 'em.

I think the real effort is having the willpower to quit, and I don't know that smoking cessation aids help. They seem like *kinda* quitting...but you'd still be getting the nicotine, which would still be kinda like smoking, and I'd say it would be better to go cold turkey. Not that I smoke, but I've quit other things, and I find that a little is never enough--it's all or nothing with me.

Provide him with a nice locked room, electronic gewgaws, potty facilities, plenty of sugary treats, and lots of gum. Wait a few days. Just help him get over the initial hump. Smoking is nasty and dangerous and expensive and it causes horrible health consequences. Not that it's enough to make people quit. For me, I couldn't stand the sensation of having to cough...all the time...if I breathed, I coughed. I couldn't lie down to sleep--I'd start coughing. It was terrible. Trust me, you do NOT want a lung disease! It's almost unbearable.

Get creative, but be tough about it. He really does need to quit smoking.

Answer 5

I stopped in March this year after 40 years smoking 40 a day. It cost me £60 with ONE x 1 hour group session run by the UK Hypnotherapy Association. I had tried many times to give up and was extremely sceptical but it worked. Check their website out for venues: www.uk-ha.com

Answer 6

Probably not the most sensible suggestion in the world, but apparantly soaking cigarettes in formaldehyde works as it smells/tastes so awful. Though the whole formaldehyde thing sounds a little dangerous!

I'm sure you could come up with something that is equally awful smelling but not formaldehyde (maybe that stuff you can get to paint on kids nails that tastes horrid to stop them biting them).

Answer 7

not a lot he needs to want to. I stopped for a month using patches but i didnt really want to and started again however my mum stopped 5 months ago after reading allen carrs book an easy way to stop smoking. you need will power im afraid there is no miracle cure its all in the mind. You could give the book a go you can get it off amazon

Good luck hope you succeed

Answer 8

When my dad quit, he ate carrots constantly. It has been sown that carotine gives some of the same effects as nicotine, and the smoker doesn't lose the motion of the hand going to his mouth. Maybe, so that he doesn't like he's being attacked, ask him to eat a carrot every second time he wants a ciggarette, so he'll be having a cigarette, then a carrot, the cigarette, carrot etc. Then, when he gets good at that, every third time, have a ciggarette, etc.

good luck

Answer 9

The two of you could spent the day volunteering at the cancer ward at a hospital. After seeing all the people with tracheotomies and oxygen tanks he may quit.

Answer 10

I wish that I knew. I have been trying to get my boyfriend to stop smoking for 8 years already. I can't stand it but what can I do but accept it? Pick up a habit that he doesn't like and when he asks you to stop doing it, compromise that you both will stop these habits for one another. Other than that, good luck trying to get a smoker to quit.

Answer 11

I had the perfeact reason to stop ( and it's the best days work I,ve ever done!) , I got cancer! You have no idea how bad that smoking **** seems to me now!!