Trying to Get Your Teenager to Stop Smoking? Consider These Tips
>> Feb 20, 2014
Finding out that your teenage son or
daughter has recently started smoking can be an incredibly stressful time as a
parent, especially if you believe you’ve always brought them up to believe
smoking is a bad habit that they should never fall into.
Though it’s not easy to help
any member of your family to quit smoking, encouraging your
teenage son or daughter to quit can be an even greater challenge because
they've only recently developed their own mind, independent from you and other
members of your family, and they’re unlikely to want to give up this power yet
whether you want them to or not.
You can get through to them however, even
if it takes some time. To help you along the way, keep in mind the following
three tips for getting your teenager to stop smoking; and good luck!
Set a Positive
Example
It goes without saying that a teenager
living in a household in which their parents don’t smoke is less likely to
smoke themselves, especially if this has always been the case, with them never
being exposed to smoke or smokers as they were growing up.
You can’t, as a parent, realistically
believe you can encourage your teenager to quit smoking if you continue to do
so. The old maxim “Do as I say, not as I do,” is hypocritical to say the least,
and today’s teenagers are going to take no notice of it, or anything else you
say, if you continue to do so with a cigarette hanging out your mouth.
There are many ways to set a positive example for your children, meaning if you do currently smoke,
the most powerful way of encouraging your teenager to stop smoking is to tell
them you will quit alongside them, working with them day by day to halt your
addiction together. Your teenager may not have any regard for their own heath,
but chances are they’ve been wanting you to quit all your life.
Work With, Not
Against Them
On that note, you must make a point of
working alongside your teenage son or daughter, not against them, in order to
help them quit their habit. It’s natural, when finding out that your teenager
smokes, to get annoyed with them and even shout at them, but this won’t
encourage them to quit, if anything it will further their belief that they
should carry on smoking for as long as possible.
When you work with your teenager in this
way you can help them to make a plan, setting out milestones, goals, and other
information to help them quit the habit. Halfway along your plan you may wish
to introduce them to an electric cigarette brand that
will allow them to experience the same sensation as smoking (and therefore help
with their cravings), while admitting hardly any of the toxins associated with
regular cigarettes.
Read this also: A healthy guide on vaping.
Read this also: A healthy guide on vaping.
Appeal to Their
Vanity
Appealing to your teenager’s vanity is
never a bad idea, and it can work very well for you when it comes to
encouraging them to stop smoking.
Though there are a number of good reasons to encourage your teenager to stop smoking, such as
the fact that they’ll save a fair sum per week, and they’ll feel healthier and
struggle less on long walks, you can appeal to their vanity with such truisms
as:
-
Cigarettes
reduce the flow of blood to your skin, washing you out and making your face
look much unhealthier than a standard non-smokers skin.
-
Smokers
gain more wrinkles, much earlier in life (sometimes as early as their
mid-twenties).
-
Smokers
are becoming less and less attractive in the eyes of the opposite sex, with
many non-smokers saying they wouldn’t ever want to kiss a smoker.
In conclusion, finding out that your
teenage son or daughter has recently started smoking can be an incredibly
stressful time as a parent. To help encourage them to stop smoking, make sure
you set a positive example, you work with them, not against them, and you
appeal to their teenage vanity.
About the Author:
A business that designs their products to
protect the health of their customers, Vaper Empire is a dependable provider of
a wide electric cigarette and refill range across Australia.
6 komentar:
Smoking harms your brain as well as your body
stop smoking apa berarti berhenti merokok ya mbak
kalo iya, alhamdulillah saya telah diingatkan oleh Alloh SWT akan dampak rokok buat kesehatan manusia.
Dan sekrang pun saya berhenti total dari merokok sejak 7 bulan yang lalu
Good article. I think its hard for smokers to quit once they have started, unless they have strong will to do it.
untuk bisa berhenti merokok, mantapkan niat. Kalau niat belum mantap alias masih setengah atau seperempat, akan percuma saja. yang ada hanya ucapan belaka
saya selalu wanti2 anak saya mbak Lin...
dampak buruknya rokok buat kesehatan..
meskipun terkadang kita kuatir juga sama pergaulannya di luaran..
tapi minimal....dorongan dan contoh nyata dari tiap orang tua..bisa menjadi pengingat untuknya...
thx untuk sharing nya ya mbak :)
Mudah untuk diucapkan tapi sulit untuk dilaksanakan. Mengucapkan kalimat berhenti untuk merokok itu mudah sekali tetapi pada kenyataannya sangat sulit sekali untuk dilaksanakan, terutama bagi yang sudah bertahun tahun bahkan puluhan tahun sudah merokok dikarenakan Nicotine yang terkandung di dalam setiap batang rokok sifatnya addictive sekali, termasuk saya yang sejak kecil sudah mengenal rokok. Beberapa bulan yang lalu saya mencoba electronic cigarette, bukan maksudnya supaya bias berhenti merokok tetapi lebih karena keinginan untuk berhemat (saya tinggal di Australia dimana harga rokok luar biasa mahalnya), ternyata electronic cigarette membuat keinginan saya untuk merokok (normal rokok maksudnya) jadi berkurang bahkan bias sampai berminggu2 saya tidak punya keinginan untuk merokok. Kebetulan semalam 7 Mei 2016, 7News, muncul di televisi disini (Australia), dimana dikatakan bahwa electronic cigarette jauh lebih aman dibandingkan conventional rokok, 95% lebih aman dan asap yang dihasilkan tidak berpengaruh terhadap kesehatan orang2 disekitarnya.
Berita tersebut mengconfirm saya yang dimana beberapa saat yang lalu saya membuat website untuk memasarkan product electronic cigarette khusus di Australia saya. Sudah banyak para pakar kesehatan yang mengatakan kalau electronic cigarette jauh lebih aman dari rokok biasa.
Kesimpulan dari tulisan ini, bagi teman2 yang tidak/belum dapat meninggalkan rokok biasa, yang terus terang memang sulit, silahkan mencoba electronic cigarette, tetapi bagi yang tidak pernah merokok, tidak perlu mencobanya. Good Luck.
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