Trying to Get Your Teenager to Stop Smoking? Consider These Tips

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.

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.

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How to Claim for Whiplash Compensation

The same rules apply to claiming for a whiplash injury as claiming compensation for any other personal injury claim.  Firstly you have to fit the criteria, which are:

• The accident cannot have been your fault
• You must have sustained injuries in the accident, either physical or mental
• The injuries must have required medical attention
• The accident must have happened in the last three years

If you fit the criteria you may be able to claim compensation for your whiplash injury, which can be very painful and disabling.

Get an estimate

The second thing you should do is get an estimate of the amount you are likely to receive for your whiplash injury.  This can be achieved by completing a whiplash injury compensation calculator, which will provide you with some idea of the amount you can expect.  This cannot be totally accurate for there are too many things that can affect the outcome of your claim, but at least it will be some sort of guide to your award.

Gather the evidence

The next thing you need to do before youclaim for whiplash compensation is to gather together as much evidence as you can about how your injury was sustained.  Things like:

· How, when and where the accident happened

·Who was at fault; the lawyers will need to know who to make the claim against

·Were you able to take any photos of the accident scene, maybe on your mobile phone?

·Details of witnesses if there were any

· Medical reports relating to your injury, and the future prospects of recovery

·If the police were called, a copy of the report they will have completed

· Any other information you think might be relevant to your claim, no matter how trivial it may seem

Once you have gathered all this evidence together, you should make your whiplash compensation claim as soon as possible. The sooner after an accident claims are made, the more successful they appear to be.  Probably because it is felt the evidence is more reliable at this stage than three years later.

Make the claim

You have just one more thing to do before making your whiplash injury claim; you need to find the right law firm to act on your behalf.

You need a company that:

·Has the experience and expertise to handle your claim quickly, simply and efficiently

·Specialises in claiming compensation for faultless victims

·Will make sure all costs and losses, as well as the impact on your life are accounted for as part of your claim

·Has friendly and helpful advisors who are trained to give you free legal advice about making a personal injury claim

·Is accessible all hours of every day because do you not know when you might need their help and support

·Operates on a no win no fee basis so that you need have no financial worries about your claim

Once you are happy you have found the right law firm for you; make contact and start the processes of your whiplash injury compensation claim.

  

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