🧓 In a house with caregiving, smoke is heavy
In a house where someone is being cared for, smoke drains everyone's reserves. A practical line to draw, without cornering anyone.
In a house where someone is being cared for, there are days when the air gets heavy.
You wake at night to the sense of someone else awake. On the table are the pills set out so they won't be forgotten. The family's stamina drains a little at a time, somewhere no one can see. When the smell of tobacco mixes into that, the tiredness gets thicker.
If the person receiving care is the one who smokes, you can't simply take it away. It's a habit of many years, and it may be one of the few pleasures they have left. If the person giving care is the one who smokes, a cigarette on an exhausted night may be what's holding them up.