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I always swore I would never marry a smoker -but then of course, i did! He started at 15 with his parents approval (both smokers) and finally gave up 7 years ago with great difficulty. Only recently it has been admitted that nicotine acts on the brain in the same way heroin does which is what makes it so hard to stop...My husband changed jobs 2 years ago and his new boss chewed tobacco and unfortunately over the last year my husband has started on that - you don't get the smoke but it's a pretty nasty habit all the same, I almost prefer cigarettes to this other stuff, but then he is 40 and old enough to know better. My main problem is that recently we've found out that our 15 yr old son has been smoking ( he's very professional at role-ups already as they are cheaper!). He knows all the bad side-effects and that we won't allow him to smoke at home but he is not in our sight all the time. He is supposed to have given up once -(he didn't do it for a month when we went to visit my mum and dad in Tenerife this July), once back home he's admitted to starting again with his mates here. I caught him out as I found some tobacco strands on his bedroom windowsill! He denied having started again until he was blue in the face but admitted it to his dad. He knows i feel very strongly about it and i have tried to reason with him, he saw his italian grandfather die of Lung cancer 6 yrs ago but he was perhaps too young to remember...I hoped that seeing him so ill would have been the ultimate deterrent....
He says he will try to stop , apart from keeping him short of money it's difficult to help without nagging - he's back to school next week which will be the big test. Apart from that I am at a loss as to what to do...any suggestions?
He says it's only 2-3 a day.