how can i stop my 14 year old friend form smoking?

Question

she's not really addicted to it she started ever since she went on vacation with her cousinss because her cousins teached her how to smoke and her cousins are the same age as them.....i tell her thats bad and she says"its only cigarettes and you can get cancer ony if you smoke the whole thing to the yellow part"...... when she tells me that i dont have nothing to say because i dont know if its true...what can i tell her!!

Answer 1

My parents used to smoke and because of second hand smoke i now have asthma and bad coughing and those are just effects for second hand. Smoking is really bad and i suggest that you show her pictures of the effects cause they r not pretty. The whole yellow thing is wrong. Also, you should give her the list of ingrediants in a cigarret one is tar and a couple have to do with rat posion. They're more than 100 bad ingrediants.

Answer 2

That's a tough one... My mother has been a heavy smoker since she was about 13, she smokes 40 a day. I have always been terrified of her getting cancer or lung problems, but she just reassured me that her own mother smoked just the same and died an old lady.
Well... For about a month now, my mum has been coughing her guts up every night. I lie in bed listening to her awful coughing and just cry myself to sleep. My younger sisters are all terrified, everyone is so scared that she has lung cancer and yet she refuses to go to the doctors because she is scared herself. The scariest thing is that despite all the coughing, she is still happy to light up a ***.
Tell your friend that smoking is a disgusting and filty habit that WILL kill her. It may start off as a few a day, but she will probably end up spending a whole lot of money on it. Refer to her cigarettes as "cancer sticks", because that's what they truly are. Every single puff of that disgusting stick is cutting her life short by another few minutes.
At the end of the day, it is up to HER to quit. You, her parents and no one can get her to stop. Maybe it would be the best thing to tell her that if she continues to smoke, then you no longer want to be her friend. Tell her you don't want to breath in her filthy smoke and make YOUR lungs weaker just because she is being selfish and stupid.
There are many products out there to help with tobacco addiction, so maybe offer to see a doctor with her if she is truly addicted. My suspicions are that she is just experimenting at the moment and thinks a *** makes her look cool. You should show her this page and these answers, and get her to see how idiotic she is being.
Don't worry too much, with any luck, this will all be over soon and you will have your fresh smelling mate back as opposed to hanging out with a walking ashtray...
And regarding the yellow part??? That is just complete nonsense. The yellow part of a cigarette is just the filter tip and is actually far less harmful than the rest of it. Even smoking a couple of puffs of every cigarette is harmful to her health.

PS - Sorry, the ***rd parts aren't because I was swearing, just beacusethe English word often used for a cigarette is the same as the word used to describe a gay man in a bad way- f*g lol

Answer 3

Every part of the cigarette is deadly and full of chemicals to the but .Ask her how she can afford to smoke and wouldn't she rather have nice clothes and $$ then yellow fingers and stinky old and wrinkly 10 years down the track. Lung cancer is real and so is mouth cancer.She is in denial and it is doing her damage no matter what part she smokes or even if she smokes rolled tobacco.Even chewing tobacco is deadly.She just shouldn't do it she is silly.Tell her to visit a hospital and see people who have cancer and see if she finds that glamorous coz smoking ain't.Also she is damaging the environment with her butts and smoke!

Answer 4

1- That's sooo not true. 2- There are several ways you could stop your friend from smoking. Do some research on lung cancer and print out pictures of cancer patients and photographs showing healthy lungs and the lungs of smokers. Show her the pictures. Aside from the health risks, smoking causes wrinkles, especially around the mouth. After you tell her all of that, tell her this "you're my friend, I love you, and I won't sit here and watch you kill yourself." Then whenever she lights up around you take the cigarette out of her mouth, break it and throw it away. If you see the pack throw it away too. As long as you smile and laugh about it she won't see it as you being a *****. You'll just be being a true friend, and possibly hardheaded. If she claims to be craving a cigarette tell her to chew gum.

Answer 5

She doesn't know what she's talking about. There is a risk of cancer how ever much of the cigarette she smokes. The smoke coming out the other end is not filtered and toxic to other people breathing it in.

Answer 6

Look up then print, or email her some pictures of what smoking does to someones lungs. It doesn't matter how far down she smokes now. Unless she quits now, she will smoke more and more, then she will really be addicted and then all she will want to do is quit, but it will be too hard. Quit asap while it's easy.

Answer 7

I know this is horrible and probably considered child abuse but make he smoke at least 20 cigarettes one after another. She will probably never smoke again as she will be so sick. Its drastic but you could save her life in the long run. My parents tried to stop me smoking, I am now addicted and have lung problems. I wish they had done something drastic when i was young!! Do not let her continue to smoke, do what you have to do. Good luck.

Answer 8

weren't you told not to do something when you was a child i know was it's called growing up you have to let her make her own mistakes in life i know smoking is a bad one i smoke but my daughter started about the same age as your daughter i just made it clear no smoking in front of me i would give no money to get any she kept on stopping and starting again but she has stopped now nearly four months i never told her to stop she done that all by herself she is 18 now so there is light at the end of the tunnel hope this helps

Answer 9

Tell her she's being stupid. She will become addicted, and if passive smoking can cause cancer, then of course smoking can cause cancer - to the yellow bit or not! It's nice that you're so caring =)

Answer 10

Smoking=Cancer

Doesn't matter how much of the cigarette you smoke its equally as dangerous. The longer she smokes the harder it will be for her too quit but you can't force her, and the more you nag the less she'll listen, show her some of these pictures.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=smokers+lung&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2


well done for being wise, and not taking up the bad habbit.