How to Convince a Parent to Quit Smoking Colorado

Steps

1. Ask your parent if they would like you to smoke when you grow up. After all, they are your parent, and you look up to them as your best role model. If they say no, then that is a bit hypocritical. If they say yes, then they might have missed out on the 1964 Surgeon General's report and everything after that that was discovered about the health risks of tobacco.
2. Point out the benefits of a smoke free environment;
   • Healthier
   • Everything smells better
   • Happier visitors
3. Ask them why they started in the first place. Probably thinking inhaling a tube full of poisonous herbs would make them look cool? Older (yes, with all the wrinkles they will get)? Rebellious? Or because they were bored? Or because they thought being skinny and smoking would be healthier than being overweight (actually, you would have to be more than 200 pounds overweight to get all the health risks associated with tobacco)?
4. Write down all the ways tobacco has a negative effect on their lives. Drains their wallet, does the opposite of perfume, hurts the people around them, and, literally leaves them breathless.
5. Look at it from a religious perspective if you follow a religion. If you accelerate the death of yourself and others around you, that may be considered suicide or murder.
6. Tell them how much you love them, and how much it would hurt the whole family if they suddenly died of a heart attack or stroke at work one day.
7. Point out that kids who live with smoking parents are about twice as likely to become smokers. Actions speak louder than words.
8. Have them read The Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Allen Carr.

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