This sounds difficult at best. Patients that are not interested in improving their own situation respond poorly to being pushed by others in my experience. While he clearly behaves like a person who has been scared by his latest brush with cancer, (changes TV channels when cancer stories come on etc.), obviously he was not scared enough. Continued smoking by those that have had an oral cancer, will likely generate a recurrence, and the treatment options for him will be few, if and when that happens. For the most part radiation is a one-time shot. If he has been a life long smoker, he can get Rx level nicotine inhalers by doctor

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.