My girlfriend and I are both 15 years old. She smokes (and knows it is bad!) and wants to start quitting. Every day she will come to me saying she has quit…but then she cant resist when one of her friends is smoking, and always asks for some. I get kinda upset when I see this, but I am really respectful of other peoples choices and want to know that it is her choice if she wants to smoke…even if it’s a not a good one!
Anyway, she wants to quit, and it was her choice and I want to help her with this. My granddad died from lung cancer cause of smoking.
I don’t smoke, and I don’t know how hard it is to break the habit however. I am aiming to at least cut out her “smoking at school habit” if nothing else. How can I do this? I want to make quitting fun tho, as I don’t wanna sound like someone's mum, if that makes sense. I was thinking I could maybe buy some stickers that have the no smoking symbol on them and put one on her hand each day 
and for every day she didn’t smoke at school, buy her something nice. I really don’t know tho, any ideas?
Suggestion:
Quitting smoking is HARD. I chain smoked for 3 years basically and tried to quit over and over. But I finally wanted to quit bad enough, just thinking about the effects that can happen with smoking. So I quit cold turkey and gave in once about a month later. I haven't had a cigarette in over a year now. If she REALLY wants to quit… then she'll have to stop being around her friends while they smoke b/c that's just gonna make her want a cig even more. You could try distracting her, doing things with her to keep her mind off cigarettes. Oh and keep plenty of gum and headache medicine ready!
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Have her go see a Doctor, maybe give her the fake cigarette candies.
Breaking a habit like that is pretty hard actually.
The crap in a cigarette is addicting.
So, maybe if you take her to a pharamcy so she can get the nicorette inhaler..that would help.
She'd only be taking in nicorette.
And soon, she'll get off that.
That's IF it's really difficult fer her.
If the cigarattes are where she can't get em..it helps.
So get her friend(s) who smoke to buzz off her, because she's tryna stop. And if they care, they'd help by not smoking around her, or asking fer smokes.
Make sure yer girlfriend has none of her own smokes on her at school.
To get rid of a habit..you should probably give her a new habit.
Like..chocolate. Or coke !
That's how i got off smoking.
I started drinking a lot of Coke Zero anytime I wanted a cig.
It helps. :]
Yer doing a good job by helping her. (Y)
Good luck!
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