<p>Well I am a smoker, I smoke a half a pack of marlboro 27's per day. Since I have been home for winter break its been really hard to hide it, only smoke outside when my parents are gone, hide the clothes and take a shower and brushing my teeth. Well I am tired of doing that, and am ready to tell my parents..any advice on how to do it? A little back story to my family..my mom was smoker for 30 years, and quit when I was in 9th grade, and my dad smoked a few day too, until my mom quit. Now they both seem very anti smoking. Hence why I am worried about telling them...</p>
<p>They will find out eventually. Do you want them to figure it out on their own (smoking is too stinky to hide for long) or do you want to be upfront with them? Now, really- did you not see from your description of how you hide it, how pathetic it is to be smoking in the first place?? Your parents didn’t smoke for so long because it’s a joyful, self-loving habit- it’s an ADDICTION. </p>
<p>If my child was smoking I would cut them off from any monetary assistance I was giving him/her. Including college bills. Then I would cry, long and hard. Both my parents died of lung cancer- one had quit ten years prior to getting the cancer.</p>
<p>Timely thread given that this one has been going in the parent cafe the last couple of days, might be a good read to prepare yourself for how your parents might react:</p>
<p>You are a big boy now and get to make big boy decisions, and the price for that is that you are not entitled to your parents approval of everything you do. They get to be mad and disgusted if they want just like you get to choose to smoke if you want. So there is really nothing for it but to tell them and get it over with.</p>
<p>Yeah its been a tough decision for me, and its gonna be really tough to tell my parents/family. I am going to break the news next week, after Christmas.</p>
<p>Also read some hilarious post in that parent’s thread that said something like “when your kid smokes he dies a little bit every day.” Yeah no **** jack. What is with people’s obsession with avoiding death? If I die when I’m 40 or 80, what’s the difference? I don’t get it.</p>
<p>My best friends father drowned in his own blood from complications from throat cancer, in front of his wife and children. Some people do take these things pretty seriously.</p>
<p>Just light up while you’re around them. It’s less weird than simply saying “Mom, dad… I’m a smoker” like you’re a gay guy coming out to his parents.</p>
<p>I told my dad when he asked me what I was doing outside. I told him I was having a smoke and he said “oh, ok.” He smokes as well so it’s not a big deal to him. </p>
<p>My mom found out when suddenly (after several months of smoking) she realized that sometimes I smelled like smoke. I said I smoke, and she said she’d like it if I quit but she wasn’t gonna tell me how to live my life.</p>
<p>I’m probably gonna quit next year, since I don’t wanna die young. My dad’s smoked for a long time and he’s in pretty good health, but I’d rather not gamble on being the exception to the rule.</p>
<p>Also lol, all of you implying he should quit by saying things like “Just tell them that you would rather die at a young age, have brown decaying teeth, and smell like **** instead of being a normal human being” are ****ing idiots. We all KNOW it’s bad for us, we’re not ignorant.</p>
<p>My advice? Try and quit while you’re not addicted man. I know it can be hard, because smoking feels great. It can become a ritual (wake up, grab a coffee and a cigarette), and it becomes something you do among your friends who smoke. Lord knows I LOVE smoking, I really do, but as much of a misanthrope as I am I still want to enjoy life as long as I can. It’s hard to stay quit (I’ve tried a few times) but with enough willpower it can be done, especially if you’re not a heavy smoker. Try and find something that can replace the pleasure of smoking.</p>
<p>lol, i always find it hilarious when people assume all smokers are illiterate and ignorant to the effects of smoking when the WARNING sign on the pack of cigarettes is bigger than the damn name brand itself…tomorrow aint promised to anyone just saying…</p>
<p>But talk to them as if you are about to “come out” of the closet and then tell them you’re a smoker, that way they will just be happy as hell that you’re not gay and not worry about the smoking part lol</p>
<p>Just wondering, what does it feel like to be addicted? </p>
<p>Sounds like an odd question. I’ve always wanted to try smoking, because I have so many friends that do it. It sucks being the only person left out while all of your friends smoke, but I literally won’t let myself try one. I have a slightly obsessive behavior and I know if I get addicted, I probably won’t be able to stop. I just never want to have that nagging feeling of addiction, you know? What has made you all start smoking? Do you just think the feeling it gives you is worth the financial costs/negative health effects? Not judging, just honestly curious.</p>
<p>A lot of my friends have tried coke, just to try it once, and I know a few people who want to experience it (just to do it once) and, just like with ciggs, I don’t want to do it for the small of chance that it may become something I have a nagging to continue doing.</p>
<p>“But talk to them as if you are about to “come out” of the closet and then tell them you’re a smoker, that way they will just be happy as hell that you’re not gay and not worry about the smoking part lol”</p>
<p>Ummm…what’s wrong with being gay? Are you implying that being gay is worse than being a smoker?</p>
<p>well, i have never been addicted, but i am led to believe you will feel great when doing it, but you’ll feel like crap if you miss a hit. addiction is dependancy…</p>