My best friend started smoking...?
Now that you're 16, you're going to be around smokers at times, and I'm sure your folks know that. Just explain the situation to them, and your concerns. They'll likely be grateful that you've decided not to smoke yourself. Besides, it'll be much more convincing than if they have to ask you why you smell of smoke. I mean, you're probably the first teenager in the history of the world who didn't use their friends' smoking as an excuse to hide their own. :-)
How do I stop my best friend from smoking?
tell her this " you will smell bad, you get hooked on it, ciggerettes are expensive, smoking ruins your teeth, you will die sooner, it melts your brain. SMOKING RUINS YOUR LIFE!!!" as my mom says: "the best way to quit smoking is to never start" and as my dad says: "its the stupidest thing ive ever done, and the stupidest thing i keep doing" and my dad smokes and chews tabacco. my mom just smokes.
My best friend is smoking Meth, what should I do?
It would help if we knew her age, first of all. If she is an adult, all you can do is check to see if you think that she is maintaining her daily life, and responsibilities. If not, then as her best friend don't fear talking to her family. At that point, they may have grave concerns, too, and you can all decide to get help for her. But, remember, if she is using substances often, you'll be talking to a chemical, not really to her. So don't be surprised, and don't judge her on her reactions, or actions, just get outside help. That seems like a long stretch, but it's the best way to go and requires adult thinking to follow through, setting aside personal concerns, or worries about how she will accept such intervention, just focus on getting help for her. Substance abusers are merely chemicals, not themselves at all, and they're in sad shape. Abuse mean what I describe above - and it is a dependence, although most will deny it until the cows come home (if they do!). Assess her as best you can, then talk to her family. Forget how things turn out between you - you're trying to save her life. More people need friends like you.
What is the best way to help a friend to get rid of a smoking addiction?
Original Q: "Have you helped/ successfully persuaded your friend to quit smoking?"………….Almost every vaper can recount how they introduced family, friends and colleagues to vaping, and this resulted in that person being able to successfully stop smoking. Some vapers can give you multiple instances. Vaping community advocates have been the primary influence behind thousands of successful smoking cessation attempts. Forums such as ECF have enabled hundreds of thousands to quit smoking.This is why vaping has spread like wildfire, with more than 30 million vapers globally now. It is termed the contagion effect: how something popular spreads. Good things result from contagion, apparently.Vaping is now the most successful route to non-smoking status. In England it is the most-used and the most successful quit method. Government stop smoking units can achieve a greater than 60% success rate for smoking cessation by using vaping + mentoring, which is a success rate so far ahead of anything else it is a waste of time considering any other approach.It usually needs expert advice, though - called mentoring - for the best chance of success, because it is not a homogenous solution (one thing): it is a bunch of separate hardware and refill combinations and choices that have to be tuned to the individual in order to work well.Whatever you do, don’t go to the nearest gas station or corner store and pick up whatever they have on the counter there; that is the worst way of going about it. Success via that route is unlikely. Join a forum first, if you don’t have a friend to advise.Many join up to ask what sort of products to buy for a family member, and this is a good idea as a first step. I was given an electronic vaporiser (‘ecig’) in 2009 and as a result have not smoked for years. Indeed, I quit involuntarily: I had no intention of stopping smoking, it happened by accident.Vaping will destroy smoking in the West, given time. That’s why the bans and ‘regulations’ (de facto bans) are coming thick and fast: the end of the gravy train is going to be very painful for the big players.A2A: “Have you helped/ successfully persuaded your friend to quit smoking?I don’t smoke. My friend does. And he's getting hitched few months from now. I just want him to quit smoking. For Everyone’s Sake.Help me help him.”
What should I do if my best friend is pressuring me to smoke?
Just say that you might have a cigarette later or have a drink later or steal something later - and keep saying it until later never comes. Be prepared for your friend to become a little defensive and maybe make comments about it (because chances are, he feels a bit guilty about it too and might feel that you look down on him). Then maybe you can say that you think he's cool and you're happy to hang with him but you're just not into the other stuff. It can be hard, especially when you're young, but this can be what shapes you. I always say: you choose your ending. Choose your path wisely now so that your ending is what you want it to be. Good on you for even thinking about it.
My best friend smokes what do I do?
My best friend has been really depressed lately because she has got heaps of stuff going on at home and she told me about two weeks ago that she has just become addicted to smoking. She says that she does it at home in the afternoons before here parents come home. I'm not sure I'll be able to help her. She goes around telling people to try and make her look cooler but when I mention it in a conversation later she yells at me for saying it, For example We were practicing a play with some friends for english class and I told her that her breath smelt like smoke and later she got pissed off at me for saying it. I said that she already told those girls and she said that she hadn't so we argued for a while. This is really bugging me, she has always been incredibly dramatic. She has been seeing councilors for a while now so that's not really an option. Please help me.
My best friend smokes pot. What should I do?
if shes smokeing to smoke then thats all cool. its really not a big deal. the hype that is built up around it being "a bad drug" is all lies. (im not saying it like a hipie would im saying like i spent 4 months doing a research papper on it.) but if she is doing it to deal with problems, like u mentioned she doesnt care what happens, then that indicates a more serious problem. mind sets like that are what lead to worse drugs, not marijuana. talk to her, but not like, "you need to stop smoking, its bad, blah blah blah" because someone in this situation doesnt want to hear that ****. you need to talk to her, and by that i mean listen. ask her whats wrong dont make her feel like she is doing something bad because thats not going to solve anything. instead find out y she has turned to weed to cope. like i said dont tell her what she doesnt want to hear.
What should you do when your best friend starts smoking and you don't?
I do understand how you feel, and maybe alot of people will not be able to connect with you but i do, i have been in that situation. When my friend starting smoking around me, in the starting i had tried to stop her alot. She use to say it is not an addiction, she is just trying and stuff. But eventually she got addicted. that doesnt mean everybody would, or even if they would let them, advice them not to. It depends on what kind of a nature she has. Smoking doesnt make her/him any less of a bad person. But if she goes away to smoke and forgets that you are sitting alone, then there is a message over there. Try to give her space over her decisions, but advice her alot. Temptation are made for that, you survived it maybe she is not that strong to survive it.Dont feel sad about it , i did but eventually nothing happened by making myself worry about it. Your friend would end making her own decisions. But do see out that she doesnt leave you alone in order to smoke or stuff.If that happens talk to him /her about it. Get a straight answer. Dont stress yourself. Also try making other friends, donot leave them at all but make other friends as well.
My best friend is starting to smoke weed, what do i do?
Well first of all 13-14 year olds shouldnt be smoking anyways. Im 17 and I dont even do it. Drugs arent my thing. But if your friend is doing it you first need to understand why. Maybe shes going through some hard times and wants to get away or maybe its just cause she wants to try and act cool and do what the older kids are doing. Talk to her about it and find out why she has suddenly become so involved with weed. But dont stop being her friend. You need to stick by her during this. Im not saying hang out with her 24/7 but dont completely shut her out of your life. and maybe in time she'll she come to realize that she doesnt need that stuff to make her life cool. It could be just a phase shes going through. but TALK TO HER. its the best thing you can do right now. :) Hope I helped!
My best friend started smoking crack. What should I do?
Pray. And mourn..I’m sorry to hear. I really am. And I’m sorry to say, that in my experience.. few will climb back.I’m almost at the verge of tears answering this.. Because I hate to say that I really from my heart of hearts.. Doubt there’s much you can do to help your friend.Pray, pray that the relationship breaks and she kicks the habit.I don’t know what you should do. Genuinely. Because regardless of what you do, there’s the great risk you have met your friend, in soul and person, for the last time. Which breaks my heart.If anything. Try not to cut off from her. If you can. Try to help her improve other parts of her life. Try to listen to her, in situations where she opens up on how she really feels. And try to tell her without judgement nor contempt, how you are genuinely worried for her, and you don’t want to lose your friend. Express how you feel.I’m sorry, so so sorry to hear this happened.But it’s not a lost cause. I managed to come back after years of dancing with the white-dressed whore. I pray she can do the same. Preferably before going down that path which was my prison for so long.