Originally posted by Lexi_Lover
Any hints on how to help THEM quit? My sister is also 23, and I'd like to stop her NOW before she does any more damage to herself. My grandfather sleeps below me in the house and he smokes continusley...I smell it all the time! BLECH!
When we were in our 20's a friend of mine stopped smoking after a few comments from friends. Nothing we said about heart disease, cancer, the smell, the cost worked. Nothing. But, then a series of things happened. We met some new people who didn't know that she smoked. When we were introduced, they asked her how much older she was than me. See, they thought she was my mother but they thought she looked like a young mother so they thought she had had me as a teenager. Well, that blew her away because I was 6 months older than her. Someone commented that she had lines around her mouth and eyes from smoking so she looked a lot older than she was. Then a few days later, we met some cute guys. We were getting along great and excused ourselves to the ladies room to talk about them. We got back in time to overhear one of them say, "Are you interested in the girl with the yellow smoker's teeth?"

She wouldn't quit for health reasons, but she did quit for vanity. When you're that young, dying from cancer seems like soooo far away. But, looking old and ugly before your time seems to make more of an impact. Think it could work for your sister?