What can I do to help my wife, while she is trying to quit a 25 year smoking habit?

Answer 1

My mom has been fighting for 36 years.

She has tried almost everything.

I want her to a. Give it to the Lord. His grace is sufficent to give us the strength.

b. there is a program that I have both heard about and read about called Quite Smoking Right Now http://mshuebrook.qsrnp.hop.clickbank.net/

I pray that all works out for you and your wife.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Be patient with her. Being understanding goes very far. Smoking is an addiction. I know. I too am a current smoker of 25 years and have tried to quit on several occasions. Unfortunately, I didn't succeed and now I have emphysema. I hope your wife has a positive outcome on this and I would also like to wish her the best of luck. Comfort her when she needs it and be there with the withdrawals hit because it's not going to be easy. Good luck to you both.

Answer 4

The best thing that you can do is just support her , dont ask her how it feels not to be smoking all the time. Just go on like a daily routine but throw in i am so proud of you this will help her see that it is worth it and others are noticing her will to stop this bad habit

Answer 5

For my husband, he totaled up how much he was spending on cigarettes (which was a lot!) in a given period. Then when he made it past that period without smoking, he got to spend that money on whatever he wanted.

Of course, we didn't really save that much because he was spending it on patches instead (not cheap, but a real godsend for quitting--he never succeeded before those came along), but it was more than worth the money.

Totaling that up and cheering him on (and staying out of his way sometimes) were the only things I could do. Unfortunately this is all on her, and possibly her stop-smoking support group if she's lucky enough to have one.

Answer 6

Be supportive, and understand that she's going to be cranky for awhile. Try not to take anything too personally when she gets upset. Quitting smoking is very hard and she needs support. When she reaches a new milestone, like a week, congratulate her and let her know you're proud of her, but don't make too big of a deal out of it. Good luck!

Answer 7

Okay, here's what you can have wife do. First figure out how many cigs she smokes a day. For example say 16 cigs a day. Her goal would be to cut her habit to 8 cigs a day. From there go half again then next thing you know she quits. Good luck to her.

Answer 8

Everyone who sucessfully quits smoking does so in a way that is so personally different to each person that it's really hard to tell.
For me, I need time and space to experience the terrible feelings and emotions I had without him getting in my face. I didn't want him to tell me it would get better - I just needed to be left alone and deal with it myself.
I truly treated myself like a suicidal case who would self explode if I smoked again. I got into a big cacoon and dealt with my own self and my own brain at every emotion.
During one particular rough patch - my hub and I were arguing about something. He left because he knew it was just the space I needed. I was angry and went to buy a pack of cigarettes. I sat in my bathroom and cried and screamed until I finally took a vase and threw it into the sink. That was my turning point.
(Unfortunatley, we also needed to replace the 4 foot vanity top- because it broke the sink). :-)

Talk to your wife- ask her what she needs from you to be sucessful in her quit. I bet she will be happy you asked.

Answer 9

Be supportive of your wife for kicking a horrible habit and hard to get rid of habit too. Do not nag her a lot. Just enough that she will not get annoyed and enough to not let her pick up a cigarette.

Answer 10

Listen to her and be supportive, but to be honest I wouldn't bring it up much, even just to tell her you're proud of her. When I've tried to quit, the last thing I wanted was people reminding me of it all the time, asking me how I was doing, telling me how great it was. It just made me think about it and thinking about it made me want to smoke! So if she brings it up, you can be supportive and tell her you're proud of her. Otherwise, I'd just proceed like usual.