Metalpetal
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OK, this is today’s potential challenge! The last few times my brother or I have spoken to mum via facetiming the hospital, she’s asked us to get her some cigarettes. She stopped smoking 9 years ago, after a triple bypass and valve replacement!! She was a very heavy smoker until then - at least 40 Marlborough 100’s a day.
Our concern is that she’ll somehow manage to get some when she gets home, and start again! Has anyone had experience of this happening? Hopefully it’s just a ‘memory of a habit’ that she’s somehow conjuring up, rather than it being any real deep urge to smoke?
She doesn’t have any shops nearby, and I suppose as long as we tell her carers not to get her any (I doubt they would anyway) then it’s all quite low risk. But I wonder if we should steady ourselves for this being a repeated request from her?
Our concern is that she’ll somehow manage to get some when she gets home, and start again! Has anyone had experience of this happening? Hopefully it’s just a ‘memory of a habit’ that she’s somehow conjuring up, rather than it being any real deep urge to smoke?
She doesn’t have any shops nearby, and I suppose as long as we tell her carers not to get her any (I doubt they would anyway) then it’s all quite low risk. But I wonder if we should steady ourselves for this being a repeated request from her?