Please help me! Someone I know is addicted to smoking, I can't get them to stop! I tired hiding their cigerattes, but they always want more and more! Someone told me to try flushing them down the tiolet, now I didn't want to do that because the person would yell and scream at me, and I don't want that!!!
2007-02-21 16:42:30 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
They have to want to stop. Doesn't matter what you want. Forcing the issue will remove you from their life. Accept it...or move on.
2007-02-21 16:51:14 · answer #1 · answered by ROD'R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You flush those things down the toilet, you will lose your hearing after your friend is done yelling at you. Let your friend smoke. What business of it is yours to interfere with how s/he lives. What you are doing is destructive to your friendship to this person because addictions are a hard thing to break. Only the person can quit, not you trying to do something childish as hiding their nicotine. This is REALITY, sweetie, not some sheltered anime or sitcom. You need to get out more.
2007-02-22 01:01:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you make a power and control struggle out of this then your chances of the person quitting are not good. No one can force a person to stop smoking.
Making them feel like control of their life is at stake over the issue makes them not want to stop, just to prove THEY are in control, not you.
Conversely, some people that get a lot of attention for their habit continue it to get you to give them that attention - even if its negative attention.
If this person cares about you then your feelings will matter to them. Writing them a note every so often to express how much you care about them and don't want to lose them due to their smoking habit can be a non-threatning way to communicate your feelings. Focus on the feelings of love and caring you have and how you don't want to see them hurt. Don't preach. Just love.
And let them know when the time comes to quit you are there to support them through a very difficult process.
2007-02-22 00:52:13 · answer #3 · answered by gwennthered 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't make someone quit. You are just going to drive them further into their habit if you keep screwing with them. People have to come to the decision on their own, and quit when they want to. I would tell them one last time that you hate that they smoke, and then lay off.
2007-02-22 00:46:34 · answer #4 · answered by Omni D 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
give them the paches or gum they use those are supose to work or got to the docktor and see what ways he can over come it
2007-02-22 01:08:18 · answer #5 · answered by life aint a fary tale 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋