This is emotional blackmail. There must be laws against this, surely?

[D0oinMeCleanin]

I can have them grounded arrested or something, no?

I got a lovely glitter painting from my DC. It's of a no smoking sign and a dead person .

It has glitter gel pen writing on it.

It reads "Mammy, please stop smoking. It is bad for you. You will die a lot sooner than you normally would. It will make you really poorly. We don't want you to die [insert face with glitter tears]

People who want you to stop
[insert dd1, dd2 and DH's signature]

Me and dd2 and Daddy would want you to quit. It would make us very happy. We love you lots"

This is worse than those awful bloody adverts with the children.

Please tell me I can punish them? This is just wrong. Glitter should not be used this way.

[Feelslikea1sttimer]

Ground them!!!!

My son tried to get me to stop by saying 'if you die mum, we'll have to go live with dad and you know that will make us have a horrible life'

It worked... Cos it was true! still have a crafty one when drunk, they are the best ones

[HeartsTrumpDiamonds]

Teenage that is what happened to me last time. Went out drinking and had "just one". Six months later I was back on 15-20 a day.

Think I have to accept that I'm a proper addict, just like an alcoholic or heroin addict. Once an addict, always an addict. You know how they say "a reformed alcoholic is an alcoholic who doesn't drink" well that (hopefully) will be me for the rest of my days, a smoker who doesn't smoke.

OP sorry for the hijack! I really think you should give it some serious thought, but you can't do it for anyone other than yourself.

[Albertinaschnauzer]

I am sorry but the OP made me .

Does that make me a bad person?

It was the glittery tears that did, sorry

[Finola1step]

Hi OP. I was just like you 8 years ago. Started at 14 and loved smoking. It sounds odd, but it's true.

Gradually got fed up with the smell and the cost. Not to mention the normal winter colds which would turn into hacking coughs and chest infections.

I decided to stop. Bought the Alan Carr book. Had if on my book shelf for m

[HeartsTrumpDiamonds]

Feelslike - I am SO JEALOUS of people like you who can just have a "crafty one" now and then! But for me to have the few good ones (first one in the morning with coffee, mmmmm, the one walking home from work, mmmmm, the one after a gin & tonic, double mmmmm) I have to smoke all the other gross, smelly, expensive, inconvenient ones. Utter Crap.

[Wheresmycaffeinedrip]

I can't believe people are finding it funny. These kids are scared and people r laughing :(

[Finola1step]

Oops. Posted too soon.

On my book shelf for months. Still smoked. Then one day, picked it up. Read to page 7. Stopped smoking.

The big thing for me is that I stopped. I didn't give up smoking as giving up something automatically makes that thing more desirable. I just stopped choosing to put a lighted cigarette in my mouth.

I was a committed 20 a day minimum smoker for 17 years. Stopping is by far one of the best things I ever did.

[TheOriginalSteamingNit]

God there's a lot of piety on here! Yes of course it's better not to smoke, and you should probably stop.

But one can't help sometimes feeling a bit of envy for the people who lived in the time when it was ok to have a fag sometimes!

[rootypig]

It is, like most things in life, both very funny and a bit sad and crap.

Ok the OP is more funny than most things in life.

[Feelslikea1sttimer]

I did have to be careful for a while as I almost turned into a raging alcoholic as I was pouring a drink just so I could have a cig...

[rootypig]

Feelslike you lot have me in stitches! all so true. tonight it was one very large drink and one fag on the step outside and I'm going to bed happy

[ComposHat]

Can't you buy them their own pack of cigs so they can share the fun?

It could be a nice family activity. Maybe start them on the Silk Cuts, that'll stop the anti smoking Nazis from getting on your case. Silk Cuts are good for you.

[WorraLiberty]

Oh for goodness sake, of course the OP 'gets it'.

She's adding humour to the thread because because right now she's an addict, she's obviously ashamed that she's upsetting her kids but right this very minute, she can do nothing.

"Mummy, we're very worried that your BMI means that you're obese. You're always joking on Mumsnet about how many jaffa cakes you've eaten and all your friends laugh along with you. You never take any exercise either. We're worried that your weight means you're going to die younger...and you're more likely to suffer from chronic diseases. Please lose weight for our sake."

What if some of you got a message like that? Would you run out and buy healthy food immediately and start flinging yourself around the lounge to the latest fitness DVD?

No, of course you wouldn't. You'd have to run it through your mind, think about what you're doing to yourself and how your kids feel about it...and THEN hopefully make an action plan to stop overeating.

If during that process you use a little humour, then so be it if it helps.

[TheOriginalSteamingNit]

Yes, worra. Exactly.

I said one can't help but feel that... I didnt say I thought it would be great of everyone smoked everywhere all the time. But when you are in that place, it does seem a little bit of a shame that you missed the time when you could wave a silver case at someone and say 'cigarette?' and leap frogged straight to the time of MUMMY YOU ARE GOING TO DIE STOP DOING THAT THING YOU LIKE. It's not necessarily rational, but it is so.

[MalcolmTuckersMum]

Hear Hear worra.

And caffeinedrip if you're going to be all preachy and shouty at the OP at least spell 'are' with all if its component letters. Substituting with just 'r' is pointless and lazy - it's hardly the longest word you're going to have to type all night is it?

[woodchuck]

OP, sorry to hear about your glitter. MIL tells a similar story of her DCs (now-Dh and siblings) telling her she would die. It didn't do a damn bit of good. She finally quit 20 plus years later after visiting her premature newborn niece in hospital, struggling to breathe. I guess the moral of the story is you have to be ready.

Quitting smoking is hard. Anybody who says otherwise has never been a dependent smoker. Saying that, the fact that you have posted at all suggests that you may be thinking about quitting smoking. have you been in touch with your local 'Stop Smoking Service'? You are 4x more likely to quit for good if you engage specialist advice and use stop smoking medicine (pardon the corporate tagline. Yes, I do work for an NHS Stop Smoking Service). If you go this route, your adviser will find the right medicine for youto help you quit. Have you thought about using Champix/Zyban? These medicines work by reducing your urge to smoke.

DH quit 4 years ago using Champix. Since then we have been able to take the kids to Disneyworld twice. Not sayng these things are related, you understand!

[D0oinMeCleanin]

They get pocket money for that kind of thing Compos

Sorry, couldn't help it

Of course I will think about what they've wrote but a glittery corpse is mildly amusing. They have plenty of paints they could've chose from.

[poorbuthappy]

Chamoix worked for me in March 2012. But it is only willpower which stops me every single bloody day.

[rootypig]

they are crafty, OP, like my fags! the glitter is a devious touch. you're in trouble

goan, you can do it

[poorpaws]

It's very very hard to quit smoking. I used the nicotine gum then got addicted to that, went on to ordinary chewing gum and got addicted to that too. I dare not ever smoke again as I could never go through it again. Giving up alcohol was far easier.

OP it's very difficult but so worth it when you do. Saving your cigarette money to buy luxury items you could normally not afford/justify is a fabulous feeling.

GOOD LUCK.