Is it real to help a friend quit Smoking?

If your girlfriend smokes and you do not, it would not be easy for you to persuade her to quit this detrimental and harmful activity on every angle. There are so many tools from smoking - lozenges, gum, patches, electronic cigarettes, special literature and workshops, however, all this means is useless even if the smoker has no motivation.

If you will be imposing a healthy lifestyle, mothering, tell them scary stories about the tragic consequences of smoking, ultimately, you will not get the desired result.

Psychologists reached the following conclusions. Smoker is a self-contemptuous person, prone to depression and self-pity and have a fear to be independent. To inhale a cigarette – it is a great reason to fill yourself with doubt, try to relax and get away, to delay the decision and just to pass the time. Additionally, don’t you know that smoking is often a substitute for a concrete action, running away from the real problem or difficult situation.

To assist your girlfriend in getting smoking is a utopian, almost impossible idea. Another thing is to inspire and support – this is worth a try.

For example, shock therapy doing a great job.
Make an appointment with a handsome pathologist of any gloomy and go on a tour with your smoking friend to see the lungs of a smoker, any video will not replace you a real horror tour. Both of you will get an unforgettable experience.

Another version – familiarity with the men athletes.
You can join the fans of a sports club, start blogging about your favorite team or gamer. To pick the most muscular-charismatic men among the other hot players of the team and ask them to express their opinion and attitude towards the smoking woman.

In addition, here is the one original method, the so-called reflection, as masters said.
You should perform the deed and get out together in public Smoking room, for example, in the theatre. Before doing this, you must give your friend a task to assess other smokers by all accounts very critically – appearance, complexion and teeth, manners, image, and the like.

Some people prefer method of 5 goals.
It is appropriate to formulate and write on paper 5 goals that you can achieve if you quit smoking at the present time. This reminding paper you should always carry with yourself and repeat for each day until the result will be achieved.

Perhaps, the most proven and impeccable method of influence– a personal example.
Show your girlfriend that you can enjoy life without smoking a cigarette. If you are concerned about irritating tobacco smoke and a ‘wonderful’ aroma of nicotine from clothes after communication, you must honestly admit it and clearly, loving without any criticism explain your position about it. Choose a fundamentally non-smoking cafe area; you should also do not let your friend smoke in your house – let the communicating with you be the priority, not with a cigarette.

Nobody is perfect. Much depends on what we put the emphasis - on the weakness or on the strong and creative side of character.

An old Indian proverb compares the manifestation of human weakness as struggle between two wolves. One wolf is evil, the other is good.

Which wolf will win? The one you feed.

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