My girlfriend smokes all the time..?

My girlfriend smokes all the time.. and yes it bother me..Everytime I mention it to her, in regards to her health. It seems that it goes in one ear and out of the other.. I've mentioned the health issues.. Along with pictures.. So, please tell me how can I help her?

You can't help someone that doesn't want to help themselves.

If she does want to quit then be support for her. There are lots of options to pick from. Going cold turkey is the hardest. Generally a step down program gets better results. It all depends on the person.

I wish I could but she has to want to stop to be able too...My daughters' boyfriend is the same way..I wish it were easier to quit I know it is very addicting and it even killed my father In Law,,I hope she will stop soon for her sake and yours...GOOD LUCK!
My daughter is in love but says he has to stop smoking before she will marry him,,,But neither are willing to give in..I just hope it works for them also...
I am glad you DO NOT SMOKE,,,hopefully she will get stong enough to stop but she has to want to first ....

tell her how it affects your relationship and each time you guys kiss her breathe dosent seem or taste good, and tell her how bad it makes her smell the truth hurts but then she well eventallly get the point... btw say if u really cared for me you would respect my desion and she dosent shes not right for u

You cannot help her.
It is disgusting.
-rj

The best way to help her is to get off her back. She knows what she's doing to her health. You are only making her resentful. She will not want to change if you are bugging her about it. She has to make the decision to change for herself. If she doesn't, don't take it personal. It's an addiction.

Smoking is an addiction and a very strong one. She will need to want to quit and when she does she'll need support. But until she's ready...

love her for who she is, not what she does.

You can't. She has to figure it out for herself. It's a really strong addiction, too...like giving up crack.

If it really bothers you, just from YOUR standpoint (aside from HER health, etc.), maybe you need to reassess whether you want to be with her. I wouldn't want to be w/someone who smoked bc I couldn't be in a relationship w/someone who doesn't care about their own body.

She's not likely to listen. Just to give you an idea, my aunt was dying from lung cancer surrounded by my mom's entire side of the family, almost all of whom are smokers. My aunt told everyone during her private conversations with them to please quit smoking. Her kids and grandkids all watched her waste away and die from the cancer within a 4 month span. She had 3 large tumors in her lungs that spread to her back so that she was paralyzed. It looked like the life had been sucked out of her.was like it wasn't even her anymore. Its been 3 years now and they all still smoke.

My mom's father died from emphysema. She was with me when I visited my aunt. She was one of the people my aunt told to quit smoking. She still smokes.
People with drug problems continue to abuse drugs even as their friends around them are overdosing and dying. I guess when you're addicted you stop caring or the denial is so strong. They really don't think it can happen to them.

There isn't much you can do- other than be supportive if she decides to quit, communicate your concerns but not to the point of nagging. Unfortunately by the way she's acting, its possible that it might be a decision of hers that you might have to live with. Her reaction reminds me of many smokers who refuse to quit.

You can't force a person to quit smoking, it's a decision they have to come to on their own. You can offer all the encouragement and support in the world in her decision, but in the end SHE has to be the one to WANT to quit. I know, cause i smoked for the better part of 10 years, and i had people telling me right and left that it was bad for me, but i didn't care, cause i wasn't convinced that i wanted to quit. Best of luck to you.

You might consider that you love her because she is herself. Smoking is an addiction that is harder to break than Heroin. The more you try to tell them the more they withdraw.
For a smoker it is the only thing that gives them that little lift. so they feel that something is taken away from them. Now days they are really cracking down on smokers. to the point of the smokers verses the righteous and this is a bigger problem than smoking it is the removing of one or their rights.
When she is ready she will quit but if you hound her you may loose her as tobacco comes before any other relationship.
Good luck but be gentle with her.

The highes forms of addiction are found in nicotine and caffeine. Both are powerful substances. Smoking is a hard habit to kick; I know as I was a smoker. The only way it seemed to work for me was to use to stop smoking aids in cinjunction with each other and then carry a stop watch. I used the gum and the patch and then if a craving broke through, I would click my stop watch and set it for two minutes. I would take out a sucker (candy works well for the oral fix;get sugar free, though, or you will be as big as a house!) a little Dum Dum, (root beer flavor is my fav!) and then when the stop watch went off after two minutes, the sucker was gone and so was the craving. This did take a total of two months to stop being an ACTIVE smoker, in which I actually smoked, and several more months to almost completely kick the craving. There will always be the times in a exsmokers life where a cigarette and a drink look very inviting, but you can get to the point where it is just a fleeting desire and one you don't indulge in. But none of this will matter unless she wants to stop. It is sad, but very true. But when she says she is ready, then at least you have a plan tht she might find useful to her. Blessings......

O SO SAD.........TELL HER 2 STOP...............OR ELES.............U KNOW WHAT I MAEN...........SORRY IF I HURT YOUR FEELS 4 HER AND U...U UNDERSTAND ME ..CUZ I HAD A BOYFIREND LIKE THAT 2...SO DO NOT GET MAD