Wow. So I called my dad Thursday morning before Easter weekend. I told him we were worried about being around cigarette smoke now that The Wife is pregnant and especially after The Baby comes. I told him we were thinking of sleeping in the apartment when we visited. He said he completely understood and we could stay in the apartment if we wanted, but he also said he'd just go outside to smoke. I was completely blown away. I mean, he goes outside when he comes here, but I just didn't think he'd do that at his own house. He even said maybe this would be a helpful incentive for him to quit. I thought to myself that if death or emphysema wasn't enough incentive, I'm not sure a grandchild would help, but you never know. It was such a relief to have talked to him about it. We went down there last weekend and had a great time.
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Wow. Glad that worked out for you guys. My mom swore she was going to quit before Gavin was born, but then she started having health probelms, things were looking bad at work and the extended family dramatics started up again so she kept smoking. But recently her health problems got bad enough that it convinced her she should quit and take that off her health problems list. She's been smoke-free for about 2 weeks now!
That's awesome! I hope she can stick it out. I'm hopeful that my dad will quit completely, but I'm worried that it's unlikely. The best I can tell, he really doesn't want to quit, he just feels like he should.
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