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Why is my dad addicted to smoking? how can i help him quit?

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Dr. Barbara Lavi answered

Specializes in Clinical Psychology

It is an addiction: and he may need help to overcome it. Tell him you love him and want him to live as long as possible so that he can be part of your life and his grand children's lives and that smoking jeopardizes that. Hypnosis could help, but he has to want to stop smoking for it to work.

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Answered 5/29/2016

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