How to save a child from smoking

What motivates a child to smoke
Children take up a cigarette for several reasons. For example, it often happens with those teenagers whose parents smoke, and the desire to be like adults pushes them to it. Another reason - a difficult transition period, causing a protest, a riot. But the most basic thing that prompts smoking is peer pressure. By the way, drug addiction and other pathological addictions also arise from here.

The pressure of peers looks like this: "if you do not smoke, then you are not with us" or "you're a weakling, you can not." In a situation where a child wants to be part of a company, he is likely to smoke. And for a teenager, recognition in a team is the most important thing that only one has in life. The child is very dependent on the assessment of others, especially his peers. Belonging to the "teenage flock" here is much more important than anything else.

How to save from smoking
It is not so difficult to protect your child from smoking. It is enough just to teach him to fend off popular arguments "in favor" of cigarettes, to replace them. For example, a teenager in a company is told: "you do not smoke, you are afraid, you are a coward." If he does not know how to answer this, he will most likely make his first puff. He has no other choice. Or be a coward, or smoke. This is an obvious way out of the situation, because so the child can "prove" his "courage". Few will dare to admit that they are afraid.

If you encounter a problem when your child was involved in smoking, and were able to solve it yourself, be sure to share in the comments to this article. What other ways do you know how to protect children from cigarettes?