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August 2026 Babies 🇬🇧

Getting husband to stop smoking...

31yo husband has been a smoker since he was 12 so I understand its going to be a difficult habit to kick but he's driving me mad a bit.

Keeps saying he wants to quit and doesn't want our kids to know he smokes or to pick up the habit themselves but he's also not done anything to actually stop smoking?

This month we've been short financially, currently have pretty much nothing left right now until he gets paid on Wednesday and because of that he hasn't smoked since Saturday morning as he's all out of tobacco and can't afford to get another pouch and I've refused to give him access to my baby saver.

Yesterday was a nightmare and he was either asleep or storming around slamming doors and swearing at everything. Because of that part of me is just like fine if not smoking turns you into an arsehole then id rather you carried on smoking, but why dont you just use this as an opportunity to quit? I'm currently just over 35 weeks and they say the first month not smoking is the hardest so can't he just use this to kick start quitting just in time for baby's arrival?

I don't really know what to say to him as he clearly doesn't actually want to quit and his mood is majorly pissing me off but I'd love for him to have quit by the time baby is here 😭