Many adults understand that smoking seriously affects their health, and act as find in this case necessary. Someone reduces quantity of the smoked cigarettes in day, someone changes the brand of cigarettes, and someone leaves off smoking at all. But all these people arrive consciously. When it is about children, most of them do not understand what harm to health they can do, smoking even one cigarette a day. How to disaccustom the child to smoke?
Instruction
1. If the child was noticed with a cigarette, then it is worth remembering that scandals and shouts it is impossible to achieve the necessary result. It is also important to know that children begin to smoke not, and someone "places" them. First of all it is worth understanding what pushed the child to beginning to smoke what problems disturb him. Have with him a heart-to-heart talk, listen, learn, than you can help him.
2. If you smoke too, that is an opportunity to suggest the child to leave off smoking together. It will bring together you and will teach to trust more each other.
3. Make sure that the child knows about harm of smoking. It is better to pay once again attention to it, to show to the child the training movie, to reduce on a seminar about addictions. It is possible to give to the child the chance to communicate to those who smoke long ago that he firsthand heard about consequences of this addiction.
4. Admire those people who could leave off smoking in the presence of your child more often. Only the strong person can overcome this addiction. And each child wants that his mother or the father admired him.
5. Suggest the child to do sports or to register in some section. However he surely has to choose occupation independently. During moderate physical activity the human body receives an endorphin dose, or "happiness hormone". Same it is possible to achieve occupation meditation or art. At the child the desire to take a cigarette in a mouth will just disappear over time. Well and to all other sport and cigarettes – things not compatible.
6. Many children begin to smoke because consider as if it very "abruptly" that smoking is increased by their authority among peers and the senior generation. It is necessary to explain to the child that it absolutely not so. To be "abruptly" healthy and strong, but not to suffer with problems of heart and lungs in 20 years.
7. Do not hide from the child that are upset with the incident. Show that it very much disturbs you. But also you do not shout at the child, constrain emotions. Let it know that the situation not desperate, but its outcome depends on him and on its subsequent actions. And do not forget at all that the warm house and a quiet situation and also respect and trust from parents is extremely necessary for the teenager.