Is my mom hooked to cigars? She is smoking more day by day inhaling cigars and can't stop??

Question

My mom is 50 years old heavy chain-smoking woman for years. She is on her 3 packs a day habit with no intense to quit or cut it down. She is smoking for about 25 years, and she is always with a ciggie in her mouth smoking like a chimney and every day she smokes more and more. She also likes to smoke two cigs at once saying that she really needs to smoke more to feel good. In a recent years she started to smoke cigars on a daily purpose, she is really deeply inhaling them and says that she likes big smoke that fills her inside. She has a female friends about her age, who also smokes a lot and when they come to our house it is smoke everywhere i'm almost out of breath.
And my mom changed a lot. She looks older than she is, she got wrinkles on her face too early, she has a yellow tar stained teeth and very bad breath, she is always coughing a lot and constantly out of breath, sometimes i noticed that she is feeling dizzy, but she says she is ok and that she needs to smoke.Is it problem?

Answer 1

Any tobacco product contains nicotine (an extremely addictive drug) which can mess with your brain. In technical terms, nicotine is both a stimulant and depressant to your nervous system. People like smoking or chewing tobacco because nicotine makes them feel good and keeps them focused. After a few cigarettes or chews, your body can become addicted to the nicotine because your brain gets used to the nicotine rush and then requires it in order to keep you comfortable. If your brain does not get its nicotine rush, you go through withdrawal symptoms that make you feel irritable and edgy and literally need a cigarette in order to feel normal again.
Let’s weigh the pros and cons of smoking and chewing tobacco.
Pros: You feel good and focused.
Cons: There are plenty of them!
Smoking causes addiction, constant coughing, bronchitis, asthma, damage to your lungs, smelly hair and clothes, yellow teeth and bad breath. And those are just the short term effects. The long term effects include cardiovascular disease (heart attacks and strokes), lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, emphysema (a lung disease where a person has a really hard time breathing), reproductive problems, and birth defects in kids. The short effects of chewing tobacco are addiction, tooth decay, yellow teeth, receding gums, drooling and smelly hair and clothes. Long term effects include heart problems, stomach cancer and reproductive problems.

Looks like the cons win!

Smoking and chewing tobacco are really hard habits to quit so you’re best off just not starting to begin with! More than 90% of people who try to quit go back to smoking after one year or less. And in case you thought smoking was cool—it’s not! A survey of teens found that 70% of smokers between the ages of 12 and 17 would not have started smoking if they could do it all over and 66% of them want to quit. Half of these teens tried to quit but couldn’t make it that time around.

If your addicted to smoking, go to http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com for all the info you need to quit.

Answer 2

Talk to your mom about how you feel about her smoking this much... If she won't listen, find her help. You might want to try hiding the cigars from her maybe.

Answer 3

Smoking is an addiction like any other. It's the nicotine that people get hooked on.