Stop Smoking Efforts: Preschooler
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Quit Smoking!
Asked by M.B. from St. Louis
on January 21, 2009
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Yes I started smoking and I hate it! I am totally ready to quit but its very hard! My husband smokes too! We have had a lot of stress lately with our jobs. I was w...
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- girl i am so not going to judge you - i have battled this too, and am still battling it. i quit in september, but then had some traumatic weeks and it was all shot to ...
- Hi Molly, The prescription Chantix works!!! Go to your doc, tell him to write you a script, then pick it up at the pharmacy. It's like $120 initially, then like $40...
- Hi Molly...your last question was, Why can't I stop? Honestly? It's because you don't really want to. I smoked heavily for 12 years and managed to quit before I tur...
Need Help to Quit Smoking
Asked by K.S. from Nashville
on March 12, 2007
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I desperatly want to quit smoking. My husband and I both decided to quit together. The nicotine gum works great for him but I hate it. It makes my mouth burn. I am loo...
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- Hey K... I am a 24yr old SAHM...and i just recently quit smoking. Because we are going to try and have another child! Their is no secret! I quit cold turkey! I gave i...
- Congratulations on making that decision. Its a hard one. There is a new medication out called Chantix that is great. Check it out at www.chantix.com . I want to quit m...
- Congrats K., I quit as well about a year ago, and all I can say is CHANTIX, CHANTIX, CHANTIX!!! This is an amazing drug! Insurance usually doesn't cover it, but it...
How to Response to My 4 Year Old Daughter About Smoking
Asked by H.M. from San Francisco
on April 13, 2010
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My 4 year old daughter came up to me and asked me why do people do this and showed me with her hand gesture of smoking. I was kind of shock and really didn't know how ...
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- I had something similar and funny happen...at a friend's mother's house, some of the people were smoking outside. No one in our family (mine or husband's smoke) She h...
- I agree about being honest about it - the truth isn't something bad for a 4 year old to know. Smoking is a habit someone starts, has a hard time stopping and can be v...
- I don't really think this question is surprising at all. Kids learn by observing their world and asking questions about what they see. She saw someone smoking and aske...
Quit Smoking Advice
Asked by L.M. from Minneapolis
on January 8, 2009
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Hello wonderful moms! I am 32 years old with three children ages 11, 4, and 3. I started smoking after my first marriage ended in 2000. I was the last person anyone ...
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- Bravo to you for stopping smoking. My sister used Chantix when she tried to quit smoking. It made her very crabby, emotional, and irratable. She ended up quiting th...
- Hi L. - I am in the same exact boat you are except my husband and I are both still trying to quit. We both tried Chantix last year, my husband couldnt handle the si...
- I am 38 (ugh) and started smoking off and on when I was 18. I never smoked alot, maybe a pack a week, and was able to go long periods without smoking. I went cold tu...
Why Not Tell Me? (About Smoking)
Asked by H.K. from Gainesville
on September 30, 2011
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I was cleaning out my garage and found my husbands "stash" of cigars. I had no idea he started smoking again (he hasnt smoked for 8 years) I sent them in with my daugh...
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- I get that there's an issue but please talk to your counselor about this. This is not fodder for a "family meeting." Family Meetings are not a place to call out an hum...
- I don't this the kids should be involved in this AT ALL. CLearly there are deeper things going on here than him smoking. With all due respect the post above makes you ...
- Your So What Happened suggests that your husband is pulling away from your family which is a major issue. Could be depression, another woman, an internet addiction......
Public Smoking
Asked by A.G. from Albuquerque
on May 27, 2011
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Im just wondering how do you feel about smoking in public? Do you ever say anything? Yesterday I took my kiddos to the Pediatrician. The drs office shares a small park...
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- I'm a former smoker myself and honestly, being around it now makes me sick. However, all the longer it takes to get kids in the car, I wouldn't have said anything. N...
- If it were me, I would not have waited. I would have just took the kids back inside and had my huband come around to the front with the car and pick us up. Problem s...
- I don't see the need to ask him to move. You could have easily had the children stand a short distance away with you or your husband and driven the car over to pick t...
Smoking in Childrens Playgrounds... Grr..
Asked by R.. from Chattanooga
on March 13, 2011
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I took my DD to the park to play today, and I noticed quite a few people were smoking in the actual play area. One woman was smoking while chasing the kid she was with...
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- there definitely should be, if there aren't. our cities in the KC area have started passing 'no smoking outside in public places' laws which might take care of that. i...
- I am with you, second hand smoke is worst, parks are for kids and if you can wait half hour to smoke you have issues and are rude an selfish. Besides, when I am in th...
- I get mad about this too. Yes, it's a free country.. You are perfectly free to do whatever you want as long as it doesn't infringe on MY rights. I am really allergic t...
Smoking Mom Question
Asked by K.M. from New York
on January 10, 2011
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Hi my name is K. and I am a Smoker. Just admitting to that in this post makes me feel like I have committed a felony and should be charged. So please try not to be too...
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- I wouldn't worry about it too much. I know where you are coming though. I smoke outside, not around kids (mine or others), not in the car and sometimes it does make me...
- not liking you because you smoke would be as silly as you not liking me because I like to drink wine after the kids go to bed. :) Nobody's perfect and everything has...
- Honestly - no - I choose not to be friends with smokers and would not allow my children to be around smokers. It is not the same as obesity - there is no such thing as...
Smoking
Asked by D.B. from New York
on September 29, 2006
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I kind of have a problem with my mother in law who smokes. She does not smoke in the house, but her clothes STInK of smoke all the time. I am due in about a month an...
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- Hi D., When I read what you wrote it reminded me of myself when I was pregnant. My mother and my mother in law smoke and I hate it. I did not want them to hold the ba...
- What does your husband have to say about this? does he smoke? Is he in agreement with you? I understand completely how you feel. I grew up in a stinky smoke filled hou...
- I went through the same thing. Only with my husband and my own mother. They both smoke. I quit the day I found out I was pregnant and never looked back. 2nd best t...
Smoking Mother-in-Law
Asked by T.H. from Kansas City
on August 29, 2006
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Hi. I have a mother in law that smokes in her house. I am allergic to cigarette smoke and I have a 19 month old and a 6 week old son. I do not allow them to go over th...
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- You are right!!! Also, if this were not between you and your mother-in-law, it would be something else. Your childrens health is more important than anything. Thank...
- Sorry to be so BLUNT but Smoker's never seem to think it is their problem.My husband smoke's not in the house he did when I first meet him but now it's outside in the ...
- HI T.. I am so sorry you have to deal with something like this. I too, had a very similar situation happen in my life. My ex-husband's entire family smoked in his m...
