My mother was forced to quit a 3 pack a day habit when she had a heart attack when she was about 50...
She died this year at 73...but, she nagged and berated others that smoked from the day she quit...I hated it.
I quit 10 years ago, cold turkey...but I NEVER get on to people that do...because I know that when I did smoke I enjoyed it more than I hated it.
My main reason to quit was that my husband of 33 years has never smoked...and I didn't want to impose the smell and such on him...BUT, he never told be to quit....because he is the son of an alcoholic father..and he knows that unless someone REALLY wants to quit..
it doesn't do any good to nag them. I agree with what both of you have said...and I feel the same.
I have known people like that. They seem to completely forget that THEY once smoked. Reformed smokers can be some of the worst anti-smoking Nazis. I vowed never to become one.
it doesn't do any good to nag them.
No, it doesn't. Nothing anyone said to me made a bit of difference. I knew they all meant well, but I guess I am stubborn. In my case, it wasn't until I physically could not continue that I finally quit. And it feels good not to be controlled by cigarettes. I recommend it to everyone who is still smoking.....but that's as far as I am going to go in trying to reform them.
Congratulations on quitting, Txsleuth. It's no easy task.