You Will Quit

Teens Smoking Aint Cool Anymore

All of your friends are smoking even though it is illegal for them to purchase cigarettes. It really is not that difficult to get someone else to buy the cigarettes for you or you can just take them from your own parents. After all, teens smoking cigarettes is not that bad when you consider that others are using alcohol or illegal drugs. What can so wrong when your own parents and their friends smoke all of the time.

Being a teenager you have been exposed to many different types of health education sessions at your school. They have covered all of the topics very carefully and told you about all of the bad things that can happen to your body if you start smoking as a teen. The overall effects on your body will be staggering and you will quickly become addicted to the nicotine in the cigarettes. Being young, you are not worried because you invincible and nothing can hurt or stop you. You should think again before you start smoking-yes, it appears to be a cool thing to do and all of your friends are doing it. But, do you just want to blindly do what everyone else is doing or do you want to make an informed decision about smoking.

Think back to the first time someone handed you a cigarette. You might have been about 14 years old and thought that having a cigarette would make look you look older and more mature. Remember that first drag when you inhaled that cigarette? Was it good? Or, did you experience an intense pain and a burning sensation in your throat and lungs? Did you possibly throw up?

Maybe your body was trying to tell you something such as "this is awful", "this is a foreign object trying to enter me" or "what are you doing stupid"? You may have heard that you should 'listen to your body' as it will let you know when you are hurt and in pain or if you are getting sick. Well, the first time you had a cigarette your body was telling you that what you were doing was bad for your health.

The easiest way to avoid an addiction to nicotine is to never start smoking. Maybe your other teenage friends will give you a hard time if you are not smoking but stop and think about it. You do not need to be part of the crowd; you are individual that can make your own decisions. In the long run, you will be better off, healthier, and you will have more money to spend on other things that are important to you-not just buying packs of cigarettes and watching your money go up in smoke.