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How to Help Your Teen Quit Smoking

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Smoking is very bad for your teen's health and it is not cool to do. It contains about 4000 harmful chemicals that can impact health on a teen and can cause serious health problems in the future. Here are some helpful pointers that you can use to help your teen to kick the smoking habit.

Steps

1. When your teen wants to quit smoking , tell your teen to put it in writing. Have him or her write all the reasons why he or she wants to quit smoking such as saving money or gaining stamina for playing sports. When your teen is finished with this list, tell him or her to put the list in a place where it can be seen so your teen can add new ideas later on.
   
2. Inspire your teen to set a quit date and mark it on a calendar. Have your teen pick a day that he or she can use as a target day to actually give up smoking all together. Tell your teen that this day would act as a dividing line between the smoker you and the new and improved non-smoker you will become.
   
3. Tell your teen to throw away all the cigarettes along with your ashtrays and lighters. Your teen wouldn't be able to quit smoking with cigarettes still lying around.
   
4. Wash all your teens clothes so that the smell of cigarettes would disappear and if your teen smoked in his or her car its always a good idea to clean that out as well and get rid of the smoke triggers.
   
5. Guide your teen to figure out what triggers his or her urge to smoke and make changes such as if your teen and his or her friends usually smoke in restaurants tell your teen to eat in the non-smoking section of the restaurant or tell your teen to substitute something else for cigarettes such as lollipops, toothpicks, mints, gum and carrot sticks.
   
6. Expect your teen to experience physical symptoms of withdrawal while trying to give up smoking such as: Lack of energy, headaches, depression, stomachaches, jumpiness, crabbiness, dry mouth or sore throat and desires to pig out. These symptoms will pass so don't worry.
   
7. Tell your teen to keep active. The more distracted your teen is, the less likely he or she would crave a cigarette. Your teen should keep his or her energy up and keep his or her weight down.
   
8. If you teen slips up, don't let him or her give up. Your teen may quit for a few weeks and then have cravings that are so strong he or she may feel that they have to give in. Remind your teen how far he or she has gotten and not to lose momentum and it was just one mistake. Tell your teen that slipping up with just one cigarette is not being a smoker again.
   
9. Tell your teen to reward him or herself. Quitting smoking is never, ever easy. If your teen is tobacco free for a few weeks, have your teen treat themselves to a new CD, books, movies or some clothes and for every smoke free year, inspire your teen to reward him or herself because he or she deserves it.
   

Tips

• If your teen wants to quit, it has to be for good and not gradually.
  

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