Do you really want to get your kids to stop smoking? Some people are taking a drastic route and applying the rule of force by getting the kid to smoke his first cigarette to his heart's content. If the child's content turns to nausea the aggressive parent will still force the child to complete his cigarette smoke. Others say that you have to know your child in order to do this and some do not have the stomach to watch their kids get livid green in order to have them stop a habit that has not started. Here are some details.
Your kid will not stop smoking, if you want to enforce it and the child is in the rebellious phase. He will most likely want to challenge your authority as a way to get you upset. Similarly telling your teenager that other kids their age look stupid may seem like a reinforcement against the potential habit especially if the kids agree but if they don't then you could be headed for them to try it out just to shake your nerves.
So some parents and concerned adults try to set an example by stopping to smoke. At least that would show the child that if the parent has made an effort, so can they. If the parent is adamant about not giving up and wants to dictate what is healthy then he/she just has to be prepared for the proverbial, “If you want me to stop, why don't you?”
One method of getting the to stop before it is to late, is to illustrate the loss of health or better still use a dead parent as an example. Seeing an ailing parent about to die because of lung cancer that was caused by cigarette smoking is quite an effective deterrent. That is how this writer never considered taking smoking into the habit phase. He started to smoke the pipe but gave that up soon enough when he read that Freud died of painful throat cancer linked to pipe smoking.
Still there are those adults out there ready to watch their kids choke on completing their first cigarette smoke. They will encourage their kids to inhale deeply and naturally one of the first reactions to do doing so is intense nausea and discomfort. This is not a foolproof method; sometimes the child stops before he gets into habit but not always.
