Are Your Friends Making You Smoke?
No, your friends aren’t really making you smoke. Smoking is your own personal decision and choice.
But many people who are trying to quit smoking face one common problem, and that is the friends they have that smoke, or the ones they have where they all smoke together.
Think seriously about how often going out with your friends involves smoking:
- Do you go to bars or nightclubs that are filled with smoke?
- Do you have a weekly poker game where cigarettes and cigars are the norm?
- Do you have a regular “girl’s night out” where it’s Martinis or Cosmopolitans and cigarettes?
- How many people at work do you see only during your smoking break? Has this become your only socialization with your coworkers?
Chances are that your friends and associates have at least a small part to play in your decision to keep smoking, or at least in how difficult it can be to quit. After all, who wants to be the only one in the group that asks for the nonsmoking section? Or the only one at the poker table that doesn’t have a cigarette between their lips?
It’s very important to think seriously about how often you light up when you’re around your friends, or how much you mistakenly think of smoking as a hobby to be pursued. Like many people that are overweight and that have friends that encourage them to overeat by their own choices, a smoker can feel that same peer pressure to keep up with their friends or to keep those own bad habits.
If this sounds like you, then it’s time to reconsider that peer pressure and your response to it. Talk to your friends openly and honestly about your decision to quit smoking, and make sure they know it’s the cigarettes you’re giving up, not them. Suggest some other options of where you can go on the weekends or for that “girl’s night out.”
You never know, your friends may be more supportive than you think. Some may even decide to join you in your new found resolve! But either way, you need to make the decision to become a non-smoker for your own health and your well-being.
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