October 12th, 2009 
Trish 
My parents have been smoking for years. I have asthma and I have a 3 year old little brother. My parents try not to smoke around us and used to smoke out of our chimney in the winter. But now we just moved into a new house, and there is no fireplace so they just smoke in the house. They Can’t afford to use those quit smoking programs and buying cigarettes 3 times a day doesn’t help. They are truly amazing people, but smoking isn’t really making a good influence on others esapecially my brother and I. How can I get them to stop smoking?
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They can afford to see a doctor and ask for medication to get off of the nicotine highway. With the medication, they can continue to smoke for a brief period of time until the medication stops the nicotine from getting to the receptors in the brain. It will still take some will power, but basically is a tried and proven method to quit.
Tell them that you LOVE them and want to see them at your wedding and your kids weddings. If they keep smoking, the odds are against them being there for those events.
When I was kid I used to throw my parents cigarettes down the toilet. They both ended up quitting.
True story.
Can’t they go outside to smoke? My daughter smokes and her house is a no smoking zone. Her children don’t have to breathe it in and husband has asthma so it’s better for him. Because she has to go outside she smokes far less than she used to.
Can’t afford quit smoking problems is basically an excuse and that comes from somebody who made that excuse over the years. It is cheaper to buy and use for instance nicotine patches than smoke anything more than 8 a day. It’s a matter of transferring the money spent on cigs to stop smoking aids.
Another idea is for you to show your parents electronic cigarettes. Much cheaper than tobacco products, safer and I have used those successfully to stop smoking.
My friend quit smoking when she saw her young child take her cigarettes and put one in her mouth as if she were smoking. Please ignore the people on here you tell you to start smoking, especially since you have asthma, but it could send a powerful message if you were to pretend to. Like take a pack of their cigarettes and a lighter and put them in your room somewhere that your parents will see.
You need to talk to your parents about how you feel about their smoking. Set out a presentation telling them what diseases and what side affects smoking can cause. Get some pictures of lungs that have been exposed to smoke. Tell them how smoking affects people around them (diseases they can cause non-smokers to get from their smoking). Tell them how it makes you feel and how you feel about it. Tell them what would happen to you if one of them died from smoking. Tell them what increased risks they can get (stroke, etc…).
When these other people tell you to start smoking they are trying to make you just like your parents. if you start smoking you might not be able to quit and you will have all the same risks.
Check out the link below and get the parents to look at it. This will change their mind.
Whenever you watch a person smoking, think of the Palmolive bottle demonstration you saw the first day of the Stop Smoking Clinic. Visualize all of the smoke that goes into the bottle that doesn’t come out. Also, remember that the smoker is not only going to smoke that one cigarette. He will probably smoke another within a half-hour. Then another after that. In fact, he will probably smoke 20, 40, 60 or even more cigarettes by the end of the day. And tomorrow will be the same. After looking at cigarettes like this, you don’t want to smoke a cigarette, do you?
As much as you want them to they have to want to quit. You can’t MAKE them do anything. They are addicted to cigarettes. They will continue smoking until there is some life changing realization that will come to them (like a cancer scare) and that is when it will happen.
I am sorry you are in that situation, no child should have to live in those conditions especially with asthma. ( I too have asthma)
The most you can maybe do is appeal to them about smoking outside on in the garage or out their bedroom window or confine the smoking to their room leaving the rest of the house for those with respiratory ailments.
I quit cold turkey started walking and chewed ALOT of gum.
nobody lives forever, and if they buy cigarettes three times a day it sounds to me like they won’t be quitting cold turkey any time soon. nobody lives forever, and they know this, and have decided that they would like to die of lung cancer as opposed to something else.
if you REALLY want them to smoke less, tell them that you love them and you want them to be there for you when you’re older, and that you’d like it if they smoke less so you don’t lose them too soon.
You will never get them to quit. Sorry but that is the fact of the matter. You can show them reasons for quitting, tell them about all the bad side effects and show them lungs with disease and talk until you are blue in the face…..but they will only quit when they are good and ready.
They may even harbor bad vibes toward you if you keep at them about it too.
The best way to handle it is to sit down and tell them what you just told us and to let them know that you really would like to have them quit for their health and for them to be around when you get older. Tell them about all the money they could save if they quit. Then just let it be after that, you spoke your peace and there is nothing more you can do about it.
Good luck.
Let ‘em know that it’s a selfish decision as there are two underage kids living in their house, they need to consider that. Don’t tell em to just QUIT now cold turkey..tell em to narrow down the number of cigarettes they smoke a day. For example, say they smoke a pack a day..the next day get rid of 1 cigarette (so it would be one less than what they usually smoke) then the next day..another one less, and so on. That’s the best way to quit. Good luck! hope that helped.
my dad went and got laser acupuncture. it was very successful.
he smoked 2 packs a day for like 20 years. and he quit that day. its been 3 years and he hasnt touched one. amazing.
if they cant afford it maybe they should try going to get hypnotized.
whatever they do will cost them money. but they will save so much in the long run.
just tell them that they are setting a bad example. maybe show them some stats on second hand smoke effects.. ESPECIALLY in asthmatics. if they see what it can do to your little brother and you. it might convince them
good luck.
Well, there’s not really a way to get them to stop smoking. But there’s ways you can try. At stores they have pill things to help you stop smoking. And you could always tell them how bad it is lyke give em examples or something…. My dad Smokes lyke crazy. And he has since he was 10. He knows how awful it is but he still does it. There’s not much u can do about it. It’s an addiction. Alot of people these days smoke.
haha i learned this from school in health class
if u want ur parents t stop smoking, make them feel guiltiy like they do to you.
say something like “oh dad, i love you and i dont want to loose you. i want you to be there walking me down the row on my wedding dad (if ur a girl) ” or something like that, make them feel like what they make you feel like when you did something bad. they go “oh Sally (choosing a random name here) i thought i had raised you good and that you would know enough to not make that choice”
hope i helped
Start crying. Pause for effect. Be the drama queen.
When they ask what is wrong, say that you don’t want them to die early from cancer because they are smoking.
Consider confiscating their cigarettes. If you find them out, hide them.
have your brother take an object that looks just like a cigarette and have him put it in his mouth. Then have him walk up to your mom and dad and point to his fake cigarette and say cutely : “LOOK! im just like mommy and daddy!”
That should do it.
Pretend to smoke.. dont actually do it thats just stupid.
i dont know leave supposed “evidence” you smoked like empty packets of fags (ask your friends for the boxes?) that your parents dont smoke around the house.
your parents are not children try getting them to smoke outside and don’t you take it up its not easy to stop it is a drug i gave it up when i realised it was controlling me
Put pictures of lungs affected by smoking. Put it in their bedroom bathroom and wallets. If they yell at you, tell them that you are sick of breathing smoke and that it isn’t fair, it really isn’t.
Tell them the risk of smoking and that it can put their life at risk and yours if possible. Tell them if they die of lung cancer due to smoking, that you would loose much more than them.
Don’t smoke dude, it’s addictive. you will regret it after, just tell your parents what you think about them smoking and that you are worried.
WHATEVER YOU DO DO NOT START SMOKING THAT IS BS YOU FRIGGIN LOZERS I AGREE WITH THE GURL AT THE TOP MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOU WILL KILL URSELF IF THEY DONT ITS A GOOD WAY TO GET THEM TO NOTCIE HOW BADLY IT HURTS YOU BUT DONT REALLY KILL YOURSLEF
Start smoking. Then they’ll see what a bad influence on you they are.
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I had a friend who had the same problem, and she got her parents to quit by pretending that she had started smoking, and then telling them that she wasn’t going to quit until they did.
threaten them…trust they will stop that’s what i did..i told them i’m gonna kill myself and you from the tune of my voice you can say i wasn’t joking ha ha so
Well my friend told me that her mom quit smoking by using tootsie rolls as a ciggarette it may seem wierd but it might work
they dont sound amazing to me they sound selfish and moronic for smoking around a 3 year old. I smoked for 10 years and quit over 2 months using patches. They could afford to quit if they stopped smoking what you said dosant make sense.
If you are old enough, start smoking yourself.
That would show the action-reaction mode parents give off to kids.
find ways to distract them,
if you know what im saying.
get the Satellite. channels 600-700
they keep me and my boy busy for a pretty long time;)
start smoking yourself, let them catch you and say you need them to quit with you
hold a knife to your neck and say “keep smoking” sarcastically.
sit them down and tell them that you want them to stop
tell them how much they mean to and what they can get if they continue smoking.