Can your parents give you free smoking cessation tools such as nicotine replacements? Can they refer you to weight loss groups, and give you 3 free months?

Why would you need a free smoking cessation tool when your cigarettes cost you several euros or pounds per day? Any smoking cessation tool is already less expensive than your vice.

But then of course my comment was at least in part sarcastic. An advice can always be a good thing; on the other hand, my first reaction at the idea is to think that I'd like my doctor to listen to whatever health issue I have and solve it, rather than giving me paternalistic advice. As if we didn't have enough already.

Not everyone has such handy and knowledgeable parents.

Edit. Grammar.