Smoking is one of the most contradictory problems in the last decade. In spite of the fact that in many cities smoking in public places is forbidden and there is a probability that health insurance will rise in price for the smoking people, less they do not become. Besides, more often teenagers and young people fall into nicotine addiction.
Instruction
1. If you had suspicions that you the child began to smoke, immediately interfere and try to convince him that smoking is very harmful.
2. Many know that cigarettes – pleasure rather expensive, and the sum of pocket money school student or the student rather small, the main or even most part which the teenager will spend for cigarettes. Therefore try to pick up time and to talk to the child about financial side of smoking and expediency of expenditure of pocket money.
3. If your child does not believe that smoking is the main reason for development of cancer diseases, go with it to an excursion and show it expositions of bodies of the smoking people. Lungs, a liver and other bodies of the people smoking during all life are presented at such exhibitions. Many people after such show refuse nicotine. At the exit of many similar exhibitions there is a box in which smokers can throw out cigarettes after viewing exhibits.
4. Discuss the purpose of the tobacco companies with the child. Explain to him that a main objective of producers of cigarettes is involvement of the client. Therefore they also inspire in people that cigarettes are capable to make them more beautiful, more popular, cleverer and are more successful. Explain to the child that at tobacco firms own benefit, but not wellbeing of the client is on the first place.
5. Try to understand the reason which your child began to smoke. Perhaps, you find for him not enough time and you have no open and close relations. Most of teenagers in cigarettes look for rescue from a depression and loneliness.
6. It is probable that the child with your help also will not refuse at once smoking. But in any case, it will have doubts concerning whether it is worth continuing to smoke. And as option, he will come to a conclusion that smoking does only harm.
7. To get rid of nicotine addiction very difficult. However if to begin to fight against an addiction as soon as possible, then its destructive effect will be minimum.