How do u help your man to stop smoking

It’s difficult to watch someone you care about smoke their lives away.

However, smokers need to make the decision to quit because they realise it will benefit them, not because someone else wants them to because he might stop smoking for your sake, but he won’t stay stopped unless he is doing it for himself.

This doesn’t mean you can’t help you can provide support and encouragement.


Most people know the bad news that smoking can lead to cancer, heart disease, emphysema, reduced circulation (sometimes resulting in gangrene and amputation), premature ageing due to free radical scavenging of ody cell and cellular damages from oxidative stress.

But many people don’t think about the good news of quitting. Much of the damage caused by smoking is reversible, and the earlier your man quits, the more chance his body has to repair itself. The longer he stay stopped, the greater his chance of avoiding a smoking-related disease.


As soon as a person stops smoking, their body begins to recover

After 12 hours almost all of the nicotine is out of their system.
After 24 hours the level of carbon monoxide in their blood has dropped. dramatically. They now have more oxygen in their bloodstream.
After 5 days most nicotine by-products have gone.
Within days their sense of taste and smell improves.
Within a month their blood pressure returns to its normal level and more air is getting into their lungs.
Within 3 months the blood flow to their hands and feet improves, and their lungs will be working better.
After 12 months their risk of dying from heart disease is half that of a continuing smoker.
People who give up smoking often get the confidence to take on other challenges and break other damaging habits.

Quitting smoking saves money that can be spent on other things.

Understand that quitting can be very difficult, especially in the early days, smokers often feel in 2 minds about their smoking. Don’t become involved in arguments about smoking. The chances are that, underneath the bravado, the smoker knows as well as you do that smoking is becoming more anti-social and is bad for their health. Disagreements only make smokers more defensive and more likely to insist on their right to keep on smoking.

If you want to make sure you’re helping follow these tips.

Provide support, understanding and encouragement – even if your quitting friend slips up
Sometimes smokers slip up and smoke a couple of cigarettes even though they are trying to quit. There are many reasons why this happens.

The smoker may not have prepared for how to deal with all their usual smoking situations, they might have decided it’s OK to have ‘just 1’, or they may have difficulty thinking of themselves as a non-smoker.

If your friend slips up, encourage them to put it behind them and focus on the reason why they quit. If your friend goes back to full-time smoking, remember that most smokers make several attempts before they are able to stop completely.

Every attempt is a step in the right direction and will make it easier for them to stop next time around. Criticism, on the other hand, is counterproductive: it just makes the smoker fearful of being judged and less likely to try again.

Help your friend to follow through with quitting strategies he planned
What sort of support do you think your friend wants you to provide? Perhaps you can support the smoker when they go out.

If they have decided to avoid tempting situations, such as pubs or parties, suggest some alternative activities that you could enjoy together (such as going out to a smoke free restaurant, a play or a film); if they have decided to take up exercise and need encouragement, offer to go along too.

Be around
Sometimes, a person who’s trying not to smoke just needs someone to talk to.

But have tried all my best telling him to stop but he kept on promising me that he will stop it,next other time I will still see him smoke Jedi all he could say is it gives him strength