Have you ever wondered why so many teenagers start smoking so early in life? Do you have a son or daughter who is already lighting up, even though they are still in school? Would you like to help them stop smoking without alienating them or damaging your relationship with them? If you said "Yes!" to any of these questions, then this article may just be the answer you've been searching for.
A recent study from the University of Toronto and University of Montreal published in the Addictive Behaviours journal states that teenagers who start smoking cigarettes to alleviate stress, it may cause them more problems in the future.
Experts call this habit "self-medication" because adolescents start smoking cigarettes to feel better, especially during stressful situations like examinations or relationship problems.
The study's lead author, Michael Chaiton says, "There's a theory to suggest what's happening is that you do feel better after a cigarette, but that's because you're in a state of nicotine withdrawal (before you smoked it)."
"When there's something else that's stressful in your life, you're less able to cope with those feelings, so those mood swings become bigger, but are still helped by the cigarettes. Over time, what we see is that it's not actually helpful and that leads to more stress.
"We've known for a long time that higher nicotine dependence is associated with more depression."
He added that between one-third and half of the smokers who joined the test group claim that they smoked to deal with stress and pressure from their daily life. The study involved 662 students between grades 7 and 11 from different socio-economic group, both French and English students, 406 of them female.
Teenage smoking happens across the globe. In fact, one small boy in Asia started smoking before he turned 5 years old! Alarming, I know. But there is a silver lining. Knowing the reasons why kids (and even grown-ups) start smoking at an early age helps a lot when it comes to understanding how to solve this problem.
If you or your loved ones light up every now and then, perhaps it's time to try Quit Smoking Hypnotherapy. It's one of the best ways to kick that habit for good. It's also the most effective way to stop smoking without having to use nicotine patches or gums or dealing with awful side effects like withdrawal or weight gain.
Trying to quit smoking or helping a loved one go through it can be quite difficult, especially if you do it cold turkey. But with Hypnotherapy, you can go with your son or daughter and an expert hypnotherapist will help your teenager discover the real reason why he or she started smoking in the first place so he or she can overcome the habit for good. You can be supportive throughout the whole process while still giving them space.
Teenagers who smoke because of stress need help on more levels than one. This is a delicate situation and parents must tread carefully. The thing is, once their reason for smoking is addressed, you're saving your children from both the smoking habit and from the possibility of going through depression in the future. By eliminating the root cause, the person breaks free from the health risks that may come with it.
The best part about Hypnotherapy is that it's not just for smokers. Hypnotherapy can help people deal with all sorts of health conditions or problems such as phobias, anxiety, sleeping disorders and it's also proven to work wonders for people who want to lose weight and even helps children with their fears or health issues.
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