It is boring to tell about harm of smoking not only, but also it is useless. Many decades both physicians, and parents, and psychologists are engaged in it. But the speech will go not about harm of smoking now, and about the teenagers who began to smoke.
Why begin to smoke?
The answer is very simple – the aspiration to resemble other children or mere curiosity. They are children therefore they are constantly surrounded by not only a cosiness of the house, but also society in which the child does not feel support. In this society there are absolutely other laws and other rules. In other words, there can be a temptation from which nobody will save.
Let's assume that of you everything passed successfully: you did not smoke, forbade friends and relatives to smoke at the child and led a set of educational discussions on smoking. But, despite all this, the child after all can try to light. After that there are two possible options: tried - it was pleasant and smoked - it was not pleasant.
Noticed
Cigarettes are dangerous attribute of maturity. If it is correct to argue, weighing all pros and cons, teenagers should not smoke at all. But so parents think. Teenagers have completely different thinking. And here present: you found a pack of cigarettes at the child. "Hopes are lost, my child – the untalented person!" - you think. Certainly, such option is possible. But why not to collect the strength and not to take a solution in hand?
Horror stories
The first that comes to much to mind – a method of "wedge". What only tortures were not thought up by parents. It is possible to force to smoke all pack at once, to give cigarettes instead of food or just to soak a cigarette in milk and to give to the child. As you can see, parents are very inventive, when it comes to punishments. But similar methods civilized to call extremely heavy.
Of course, such methods yield the results, but it is better not to hurry, and to try other, more civilized and humane ways. If they do not help – use methods of "wedge", but already with quiet conscience.
What should I do?
For a start you need to calm down. Remember that you are parents! Quietly, in an adult way talk to it. Tell it about nicotine, ask why he began to smoke. The conversation surely has to be long, but without use of shouts and stereotypic phrases (The Ministry of Health warns, smoking kills, it is dangerous, etc.). Let the child will remember this conversation. Happens that such conversation is quite enough in order that the child ceased to smoke.
But it is not necessary to relax, this situation can repeat. Take care of the future. For example, think – what it is possible to oppose to smoking? For certain sport. Write down the child on tennis, soccer, rock-climbing or the pool. The child who is seriously doing sports will not be able to smoke.
What to do if the child does not like sport? Observe it, learn, than he is interested. Having learned, put his hobbies on higher and difficult level.
Practice shows that those teenagers who often lack interesting affairs and attention suffer from nonsense. Both you are able to provide, isn't it?