Dear Queenie,
My husband smokes. Before we were married he promised to stop, but he never did. Then when I got pregnant he promised again, but didn’t. He goes outside to smoke, but he just won’t stop.
Aside from the danger to our children, I’m afraid the smoking will make him sick or even kill him young.
Queenie, how can I get him to quit?—Smoker’s wife
Dear Wife,
Smoking is an addiction and, like other addictions, can be extremely difficult to overcome, which certainly appears to be true in your husband’s case.
All you can do is protect your children from their father’s habit, which he seems to be doing by going outside to smoke, and, when they are old enough to understand, explain to them why he does that and warn them never to start smoking.
