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My bestfriend.
Hi my bestfriend smokes all the time, and sometimes drinks I think, well use to, but she smokes almost everyday, and probably 5 or more a day, and she's done it for a while.
I'm so scared for her, cause I know she's gonna have health problems in the future..but do you think something might happen soon since she smokes so much and so many a day..she's only 14. and I want to tell someone but I think her grandparents let her! and when she's with her mom, she sneaks when shes with her.
What do you think I should do?
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I'm sXe--no tobacco, alcohol, drugs.
And I try not to associate much with people who don't really follow the sXe ideals.
I've already lost 2 grandfathers and an uncle from the effects of long term smoking, and my dad smoke. Great combo, huh? So maybe that's one thing you can slip to her in a conversation. Say that a friend has lost 3 family members and the cause of death was from smoking effects.
Right now, she'll get excessive phelgem [sp?], bad breath, and smell, yellow teeth and nails, and she'll need to make her whole body work harder to do something simple like walking down a hallway than a non-smoker would.
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This site has a lot of good effects of smoking.
Look at the right column links that leads to more information and how you can help your friend stop smoking.
Addition to that, tell her that smokers get yellow teeth and nail, bad breath, bad smell overall, and that many guys are repulsed by female smokers nowadays. Make a compromise with her on how to cut down on her smoking. (i.e One smoke per day, 3 per week, 1 per week, 5 per month, 1 per month, then none at all) Tell her that you're not trying to nag her or anything. You're doing this because you care about her and that you don't want her to get sick or get cancer from smoking. Tell her that it's not other people's story about getting cancer from smoking. It could easily be her story too. Tell her that you want her to stop because you're afraid to lose her and that if she's mad at you for talking to her about this, tell her that you'd rather lose a friendship than a friend.
If she still doesn't get the point to stop smoking, your best bet is to go tell a counselor. It really is better to lose a friendship than a friend. A friendship you can revive. A dead friend, you can never revive again.
Good luck and if you need more advice, I'm here to help =)
xchoke_on_dead_hopex@yahoo.com is my e-mail, which is probably a faster way to contact me.
Emily
15/f
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