And yet he has started to smoke again on a regularly basis.
I ‘saved’ his life once, back in 2002, when I blackmailed him into going to hospital. He could have died then.
I only allowed him home on the promise that he would give up smoking. Even I gave up to help him back then. But now he’s scrounging fags off friends and smoking again. I’m not sure what route to take:
kick him and his fags out?
give him a second, third or even fourth chance?
There are so many complications that I really don’t know.
Happily die here – or go home and die.
Whatever he does, he is going to kill himself.
So…
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Take up smoking yourself. Preferably cigars and a pipe. Light up during the most intimate moments,in the middle of meals and first thing in the morning before getting out of bed. Make sure that you run out of tobacco at 3am and make him go and find you some.
Chainsmoke during cooking and eating.If you do his laundry, make sure that his clean clothes stink of smoke. If you share a car,fill it with a good fug before he drives it. Use your imagination…
Sit back, and enjoy…
Theres no answer to that Zoe, he must surely know that being asthmatic he is asking for serious trouble. I gave up smoking 40 years ago because my loved ones were so concerned about it and I didn’t want to hurt them so I resolved one night to stop. And I did. Explain to him that it causes you great distress to see him destroying himself, and if he has any sense of decency and love for you then he will stop.
He obviously needs a better class of friends!
I’ve got a few suggestions:
1. If he comes home smelling of smoke, don’t let him in the house until he’s bathed and changed his clothes — in the garden.
2. Slap a nicotine patch on him every morning.
3. Just shoot him. It’ll be quicker and cost less.
Anon, too – I like your last suggestion.
Make him clean the ashtrays with his tongue.
Or – someone has to say this – promise him a shed if he stops.
… and then he can smoke in the shed!
My Boyfriend Is A Stiff… mmm, doesn’t sound too good.
Truth be told, I quit smoking when I couldn’t reach the top of the stairs the same day I started to climb them.
Happy I quit, but I really had to get badly ill to have the right amount of motivation.
Not easy and you’ll be in the line of fire when he’s trying to come off them.
Refuse to kiss an ashtray.
I once suffered a massive, terrifying asthma attack because of a friend who smoked. Fortunately, that *friend* is now out of my life.
Knowing how scary an asthma attack can be, I just don’t understand why Q. insists on smoking.
When I managed to lure Q into hospital in 2002, it was discovered after doing tests that for his height he should be able to take in 3-4 litres of oxygen. He couldn’t even take in a litre.
He only had 66% oxygen in his blood.
He wheezed badly, could only walk slowly and was literally grey. I don’t want that to happen ever again.
“kick him and his fags out?”
You mean he’s asthmatic, a smoker, AND he’s gay??? What a combination…(there goes those Britishisms again…
You have to be making this up. How could things be this bad? Does this guy have a death wish?
Arggg!
Grey – I couldn’t make it up. I didn’t know that you could even test for oxygen in your blood. And yes, the man does have a death wish.
Very sorry. Its just sad.
Grey, it’s OK. Just something that I have to live with.
But I’m not paying for his funeral – that, you can count on!
Make sure you have a good health and life insurance policy on him, and say goodbye now.
He’s an adult. He’s got to see sense for himself or suffer the consequences. I feel for you.xox
Kick him up the ass for every fag he smokes?
When I went to see my boyfriend post-op in hospital, another guy had just come out of his own op. His other half turned up and, with stunning regard for his health, sneaked him outside for a cigarette. He came back in, and immediately collapsed, shaking, sweating, heart pounding. Thought he was at death’s door, literally. Sister comes in, turns out he’d had a nicotine patch put on in theatre to keep him comfortable, so by smoking as well he’d ODed. A certain four letter word beginning with a T comes to mind! He was fine, but swore he’d never smoke again.
Just saying!
Maybe a reminder that smoking can lead to erectile dysfunction is in order?
Friend of mine got her son to quit with that bit of information.