A couple of additional thoughts:   You could try to negotiate having it break your lease or replace you with someone else on the lease. Tell it that you are moving out (pleasantly so that it doesn't become adversarial, but happy for you and wanting to help). Something good, maybe to another city (lie) for a better opportunity (technically true, as you'll have the opportunity to be ham-free).   You are a human. One difference between humans and hams is the ability to correctly assess a situation, find the solution, and then (and here's the part that all hams fail at) execute the solution.   Yes the solution has a cost, takes effort, takes time, and has downsides. That's why they are solutions. Fats might understand they are fat and that that's bad, and they might even understand the solution is to eat less. But they never put that plan into action other than occasionally and superficially. You, being a human, can do those things, and have done those things, and will do those things in the future. The day you stop doing those things is the day your hamminess becomes inevitable.