If you want to learn how to stop smoking for your children, I think it can help. My name is Bill I'm an ex-smoker. I'm lucky enough to have four children and six grandchildren at this point in my life.
However, I did smoke for a good portion of my children's early years before I stopped smoking. I'll say that as a smoker, you know that during the many times that you should be focused as a parent on your children's successes, and their victories, smoking gets in the way.
The things they're doing, even just the little day-to-day things. The award at a Girl Scouts. The teacher’s meeting. Going to school and watching your kids sing in chorus. Orchestra, band, and sporting events.
There were just so many times, even down to a point like playing video games. I loved playing the early Nintendo games with my kids on my days off. But there were so many times, that after a period of time playing, I'd have to stop and say “Okay let's pause the video game”.
I just wanted to go have a cigarette.
Always back in a couple of minutes, I did this over and over. I never thought how miserable it must have been for my kids, excited about the game, and spending time together, to have to wait while I smoked.
There's just no real reason why you should want to do that.
We would be in a Girl Scout function and it would last 45 minutes or an hour. About halfway through, I just started saying to myself “I wonder how long this is going to be? When will we get outside so I can have a cigarette?”
It was not just the inconvenience, but the memory of things my kids used to say like “Dad, you know you’ve got to quit smoking. It's not good for you. It's unhealthy. You know you have to quit.”
Sometimes, they would ask me why I couldn't quit. It's hard to tell why you don’t want to, or can’t, stop smoking. How do you say “I really want to smoke because it would make me feel bad if I quit, or to explain how the nicotine makes me want to keep smoking?”
How do you explain nicotine addiction to a grade school child? Maybe you are not the superhero that they thought you were. Maybe you're weaker than they thought. Your kids always looked up to you as a parent, and now there may be some questions.
Time and age do not change how children feel about a parent that smokes cigarettes.
When my oldest daughter was in college, she actually did a project to try to change my behavior so I would quit smoking. I can't really explain it but she did it because she cares about me. I’m sure your family feels the same and wants you to quit as well.
So put all these things together, and then ask yourself about the health risks of smoking.
First of all, don't smoke in the house with your children or your wife or your husband. You should smoke outside, somewhere that your family will not be breathing the smoke.
Your children shouldn't breathe smoke. It is your choice to be a smoker. It is not their choice. The same goes for your spouse or partner, along with anyone else who is a non-smoker. They chose not to smoke. You must respect that!
Hopefully, by now, you're not still sitting there thinking “Where do I smoke?”
I greatly urge you to consider that for your children, you should consider quitting smoking. It will make your life so much easier, and so much better, for you as well as for the people around you when you decide to stop smoking.
When I quit about 15 years ago, I wrote down everything that I did to prepare to stop smoking, I wrote down how I felt, and I wrote down what worked.
Now, 15 years later, as I get near retirement I've decided to put this all together as a program and make it available to help other people quit smoking. It will sell for less than the cost of one carton of cigarettes in many places around the country right now, so if you are interested and you'd like to learn a little bit more, click the link now.
You stand nothing to lose. I will tell you that I believe this program works. I literally bet my life on it!
I look forward to seeing you as a non-smoker!
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