Need prayer / Need advice

[DaveKerwin]

please pray for my Dad. He is horribly addicted to smoking, which is affecting his health in a big way. He doen't necessarily face lung cancer, but a disease that eventually maked you run out of breath (COPD?). 

I ask you for your prayers because I am going to approach him and ask him to quit. He has tried to quit, but he has been trying for himself. I am going to ask him to do it for me. I plan on having my brother go with me, so we can approach him together. He is only fifty years old, so it's not like there is no hope.

Also, if you have any advice, it would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

 

[GraftMeIn]

Will keep you and your family in my prayers Dave

 

[altya]

I am praying for him to quit smoking.

 

[Blynn]

I will pray for your Dad to be delivered from his addiction to nicotine.

God bless you
Roberta

 

[DaveKerwin]

thanks!  keep the prayers coming.

Does anyone disagree with the straight forward approach?  I wanna tell him that it hurts me to see him smoking, and that he needs to stop being selfish. I figure he might quit for me, since he won't quit for himself (he has tried, but he has been smoking for over 30 years). I will obviously be praying about his addiction, and not just asking him to quit.

Any my Dad really doesn't persue God. I doubt sometimes if he is even saved. He has come to church with me a few times, and has told me he feels at peace with God, but I don't see a relationship. So pray for spiritual awareness too, thanks again.

 

[ZiSunka]

My dad is sick, too, because he smoked for twenty years. He quite thirty years ago but the damage was already done. He may lose his feet due to poor circulation. Doctor says people with that condition are almost always smokers.

I will pray for your dad, and for you to be able to talk to him. Stress how much you love and need your dad, and how you want him to live to be there for all the times that lay ahead of you. Tell him how much you need him to be your dad.

Lots of hospitals and clinics have stop-smoking classes. If he agrees to go, enroll him and take him to the classes.

 

[wvmtnkid]

Hi Dave!

I think the straight forward approach is a good one! Let me tell you a little story about my dad and smoking.

When I was a teenager I used to babysit alot. The little girl I used to babysit just lived a couple of houses up from me and she would often come down to my house when I kept her. She was about 4 years old at the time and her father was a doctor. My father was a heavy smoker. The first time she was at my house and my father lit up a cigarette, she marched right over to him and said "Don't you know smoking will kill you!" (Outta the mouths of babes, they say!) After this, she always told him this everytime she seen him no matter if he was smoking or not. She even brought him pictures of what smoker's lungs looked like and always reminded him that smoking would kill him. It got to where it bothered him and whenever she was around, he wouldn't smoke. My sister and I could plead with him and he still would. But let Rebekkah say something to him and he immediately put out that cigarette. But at least he would stop for a little bit while Rebekkah was around. And believe me, I kept her around as much as possible!

I think it's a noble thing that you are doing. Your dad is lucky to have a son that cares for him as much as you do. But be prepared-quiting is not easy for someone who is addicted. It takes a lot of willpower for both the quitter and those around him or her. I will keep you and your family in my prayers!

 

[altya]

I think the straight forward approach is a good one!

I agree.

 

[allieisme]

Both of my parents smoke..They have smoked for as long as I can remember, and because they smoked, I believe I started at a young age..15. I quit the earlier part of this year, for good, and believe me it was only by the grace of God, and alot of repetative prayers, and kicking the Devil's teeth in helped quite a bit
Anyways, my mom has had 2 open heart surgeries.. has COPD, and continues to smoke. Nothing Nothing will make her or my father quit, unless THEY want to. AND its the right time for them!
My daughter who is only 3 1/2 would walk around with just about anything that resembled a cigarette and would pretend she was smoking.. Now if you saw that wouldnt that make you want to quit?
It would me..
I think you can talk to them only so many times, and then you just have to continue praying for them.
My prayers are with you, when you talk to your father about smoking!
allie

 

[Blessed-one]

i was going to suggest that your dad can try by the power of God alone to quit smoking, but then u're saying he's not a believer.
i'll be praying for his salvation and smoking problem, believe in prayers, Dave. God has heard you.