My friend smokes over 20 cigs a day ?!
Question: We have all tried helping her stop
she is 18.
Answers: We have all tried helping her stop
she is 18.
You know what would scare the sh*t out of her? This may sound gross...just warning you. When I was a TA in college, we worked with cadavers and you could tell right away which cadaver was a smoker or not. If you could see the lungs of a smoker it should scare the sh*t out of her. The lungs are black and all of the alveoli look like rotted raisins. Some even had tumors that looked like a dirt clod where there should have been tissue. It's too bad she can't see what her lungs look like but if you can, check out the cadaver lab of any university and ask to see a smoker's lung.
she's a fool man. cigarettes should be banned from the world... all they do is bring in money for the goverment.
Let her smoke it is her choice, does she tell you not to eat greasy kebabs?
Thats more of a statement than a question!
So...? seriously..its her bad.
Aaaaand nobody cares.
That isn't even a question.
Tell her she will die 30 years time on average
ask her to call your state's anti smoking website or you can check this website the program is based in Maine but I think they will be able to help.
www.myan.org
I try to get my G/f to smoke daily she won't. So be grateful. It easier to run someone elses life than your own
well there is no helping, a pack a day is quite a bit, and it will only escalate. until she wants to quit there will be no quitting. if you are a group that hangs out regularly and you are are doing things very physically active then eventually she will be slowed and find some friends who smoke too heh. seriously, its her choice and there is not much chance of telling an 18 year old kid to stop doing something that they want to do in the first place.
What kendeas said.
And it will be painful.
Admit your friend in hospital for rehabilitation.They will provide treatment to overcome the 'feel to smoke'.It has been proven successful.
Recommend half smoking to her. In which you take a puff but DO NOT breathe it into your lungs instead you just hold the puff of smoke in your month you still get the tobacco taste in your mouth and its not as bad to your health.
Try here....
http://www.gosmokefree.co.uk/whygosmokef...
find some pictures of people dying of cancer, of tarred up lungs. Feed her the contents of ashtrays.
my dad smokes 60 a day, he is 58 so a lot older but he has been smoking since he was 21, he smells of smoke constantly, he gets out of breath walking from one room to another or up the stairs, he cannot play with my children as he is too tired, he coughs constantly. you cannot tell her to stop, you cannot make her if she doesn't want to, my dad is too scared to go to a doctor incase they tell him he is dying. try asking her what she wants from her future, children, grand children etc, support her if she wants to stop and drop hints of the benefits of stopping with out naging her. that is where i failed with my dad
Giving up smoking is the most effective single thing you can do to improve your health. Also 100,000 people a year in the UK die of smoking related diseases every year. Your friend's life will be shortened if she carries on. My son is also on the slippery slope and he is 17.
I am so disappointed.
It's nobody's business whether she smokes or not. If she wants to smoke (which she clearly does) then that's up to her. She's an adult, it's her decision and the more you push her to stop, the more she'll do it.