Smoking in adolescents: It's showdown time!

"Today the U.S. to stop smoking" resolves on the third Thursday of November each year, so as to encourage smokers to quit smoking. Furthermore, it can be for all parents to take advantage of this event in order to begin to talk with their children about the dangers of tobacco.
Tobacco use is currently the only cause of death for the most susceptible to prevent it in the United States. People who start smoking early are those with risk Supreme injury symptoms and diseases associated with smoking, including cough, shortness of breath, cold and sinus infection and infection with the lung (pneumonia), lung cancer and poor fitness, heart disease and poor health in general. Teenagers who smoke are more likely to abuse alcohol and drugs and carry weapons, attempt suicide and to participate in high-risk sexual behaviors.
The best way to prevent smoking among adolescents and the problems that can occur due to smoking is to prevent kids from smoking at all in the first place. When children and adolescents smoke, this is usually the beginning of a pattern of smoking continues to longevity. It is very easy for children and teenagers to become addicted to nicotine. If the teen finished high school without smoking at all, it is unlikely, almost never, to become a smoker after puberty.
To prevent smoking in adolescents, it is important for both parents to talk with their children about tobacco, starting from an early age. Here are some suggestions to deliver important messages about tobacco to kids:
1. Explain that smoking is very dangerous and unhealthy at all. It is certainly cause breathing problems and makes it difficult to hold and play sports normally.2. Point out that foul smell of tobacco smoke and tobacco dying teeth, nails and skin, and even makes clothes and hair smell and foul breath, too.3. Male child that most young people do not smoke or chew tobacco. Sees many children from cigarette ads and references to smoking in the media and perhaps believe that smoking is more prevalent than it is in fact real.4. Talk with your child in order to be prepared how to deal with the pressure that it has exercised his friends to try tobacco. Pretended to be a colleague or friend to your child, offering him a cigarette and allow your child to issue different responses.5. When you see cigarette ads, talk with your child about what you are trying those ads that really marketed and sells it: maturity, beauty and sexual attraction. He explained to him that smoking can not provide this stuff to anyone.
If your child seems smoking, try the following suggestions put forward by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).1. If you smoke, try to quit smoking. If you smoke and have already taken off from smoking, talk with your child about your experience. He talked about the challenges that you encounter when you tried to quit smoking. Teenagers often think they can quit whenever they want, but research shows that many teenagers do not do this forever.2. Ask about the changes that can get in your child's life to help him quit smoking.3. Avoid threats and ultimatums. Ask a few questions to find out why your child feels the need to smoke. Probably wanted to be acceptable to his colleagues, or perhaps looking for attention. We also know how it would be pressures of adolescence - can be smoked your son in order to vent the pressure. If so, try to help your son to reduce the level of pressure and look for another way out of the pressure.4. Be supportive. You and your child need to to Tkona ready for the mood swings that can occur when nicotine withdrawal when someone is trying to quit smoking. To your child, teenager feet following five tips to be able to overcome the difficult times:

    Do postpone - the desire to smoke will be lost in the end.
    Breathe deeply - Take some deep breaths sedative.
    Drink water - it helps to mitigate the desire of the mouth to cigarettes.
    Preoccupied with something else - Find a new habit.
    Discuss - talk about your thoughts and feelings.
5. You wrote your child or teenager who before the age of adolescence all the reasons that make him want to quit smoking? Go back to this list when your child tends to return to smoking.6. Finally, reward your teenager when they stop smoking. And plans something special to Tflah together.
If you smoke, plan to quit smoking today! You can use the five tips to help you mentioned. Do not forget that exposure to secondhand smoke is also a major health problem for children. Some harmful chemicals to passive smoking, including nicotine and carbon monoxide and benzene. And exposure to secondhand smoke accompanied ear infection symptoms and chronic respiratory infections and impaired lung function. And exposure to secondhand smoke in childhood may increase the risk of environmental allergies and asthma, and can increase the number of visits to the emergency department for children who suffer from asthma. Sons smokers also have a risk of sudden death during childhood tripled the children of non-smokers, and increases the risk of increasing the number of cigarettes smoked per day.
If you can not quit smoking yet, try to reduce the risks to a minimum by reducing tobacco exposure your children, as much as possible. Fuming abroad, and never smoke in the car. If you smoke in the home, use a well-ventilated room. Air cleaning machines do not remove all the harmful particles from the air. And as we head on a winter vacation, remember that one of the best gifts you can give to your children is to keep the air around them clean and maintain their health.