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Some Basics Steps On How To Help A Friend Quit SmokingSome Simple Tips On How to Help a Friend Quit Smoking The first thing you need to learn when figuring out how to help a friend quit smoking, is what the quit smoking benefits are. There is much documentation out there about what the physicals benefits of not smoking are, but for most people these are irrelevant. You would literally have to be living under a cave if you did not know how bad smoking is for you. Regardless of this people continue to smoke. When you try to show the smoker what the benefits of not smoking are keep it personal to them. For example, if they are struggling physically and having trouble breathing ask them how nice would it be to be able to fully function again and not have to worry about walking up the stairs or down the street. While saying they will feel physically better is one thing, showing them incedents and moments where not being a smoker would be helpful is much more powerful. In addition you can also show let them see their value to the people around them. By showing them this they will be able to see how the world would miss them if they were gone. It is important that they see how valuable they are to the people around them. Many times people who smoke do not even realize how important they are to the people that rely on them day to day. When you put it in these terms it is much more real to them and they can see that they are a needed part of all that is going on around them. For this reason it is important to relate them back to the quitting smoking, so they can see themselves as a non smoker and what the benefits will be. This is just the start on you quest to find out how to help a friend quit smoking. There are many more things that you can do to help them, but for each person these things will be different and unique and you will need to adjust you plan to them based on this. |
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