How To Deal With Teen Smoking

How To Deal With Teen Smoking

Teen smoking is a growing problem worldwide and affects the growth and development of your child before it is complete. The government is doing a lot to stop teen smoking through smoking information education, but the parent should prevent their children from this behavior. Teens emulate their parent, and as you sit down and smoke in the presence of your child, at one point or another, he or she will start smoking. The main reason for teen smoking is because they admire other people smoking. This article will enlighten you on how you can prevent teen smoking and some of the effect you child is likely to experience.
Teen smoking is very dangerous and addictive making it very hard to quit and as a result of smoking, your child is liable to face the following:
• Teen smoking leads to various disease like stroke, heart diseases, respiratory problems and heart attack. 
Teen smokers are greatly addicted compared to the adults and these increases the risk of lung cancer twelve times. Other forms of cancer which include cervical, kidney and lymphoma cancer among others. 
• Teen smoking also decreases the lifespan of a child by ten years. 
At their age it is very hard to convince those how important those years are and the danger they are likely to encounter. 
• Teen smoking leads to addition of other drugs.
Smoking is very addictive, and it is proven that those who smoke are likely to die seven years earlier that the expected time. They also experiment other drugs and alcohol endangering their lives.


As a parent what should you do to prevent teen smoking? Here are some of the steps to consider while dealing with teen smoking. 

1. Know their friends.
You child is in the stage of development, and a lot is likely to happen including peer influence. They may have joined teen smoking due to the friends they associate with and understanding their friends you will be in a good position to isolate them from bad company. 
2. Engage in open discussion with your child about the dangers of smoking.
Never get tired of telling your child how dangerous teen smoking is and by informing the about the effects they will be in a good position to resist peer influence from their friends. 
Conclusion.
Never take teen smoking lightly because these is one of the reasons we encounter unnecessary deaths. There are many organizations today that offers education about prevention of teen smoking and is high time you expose your child in such organizations to have proper knowledge about teen smoking.

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