Everyone knows the irreparable harm to health from smoking. Despite this, the number of adherents of cigarettes not only does not decrease, but also grows. Parents live in a baseless fear that their children will also have this harmful habit. And if it happened, in the end, what to do if the child smokes?
Why do children start smoking?
To test the cigarette youth are pushed several reasons:
- a feeling of adulthood;
- bad Company;
- the erroneous opinion that smoking is fashionable;
- a view that smoking has a calming effect;
- a false idea that smoking contributes to weight loss.
How do you know if a child smokes?
Teenagers hide their attachment to tobacco with great care. However, after trying, parents can recognize the "danger" by:
- Smell. However, children mask it with chewing gum, hazel leaf, toothpaste. However, the child's things, his hands and hair are soaked with tobacco smoke.
- Frequent brushing of teeth.
- A waste of money. The child may no longer have enough pocket money, and in the purse of parents begins to disappear small things.
- Detection of cigarettes in things, pockets, school backpack.
- Smoking friends.
Naturally, the teenager will rest against and deny that he smokes. But parents must take action.
How to wean a child to smoke?
Do not follow the error of many parents, that is, scold or beat the child, punish him, forbidding you to sit at the computer or go for a walk. This will cause a negative reaction, and the schoolboy will smoke twice as much.
It is necessary to lead a conversation with the offender. But her character should be confidential, without reproaches, insults and threats. Express your discontent with smoking, tell me that you are upset and upset.
At all, do not rely on the age of the schoolboy, which can provoke a backlash to prove your "adulthood" with smoking. Better explain that you can show your maturity, defend your personal opinion, giving up a cigarette in the company of smoking friends.
Argument the rejection of bad habits not only by the dry scientific facts of the effect on health. Tell us about examples from the life of your friends, relatives, friends. If possible, the child himself will communicate with an inveterate smoker or have already got rid of this misfortune by adults. The child should have an idea that quitting smoking in the early stages is much easier.
Parents who care about how to make a child quit smoking can be advised to give a child to the sports section. Then the teenager will be able to show off before the girl she liked, not with a cigarette in her teeth, but with a steel bicep.