Ok, wise been-there-done-that mums of teenagers - smoking?What to do?

[happystory]

Ds aged 15 is buying the odd cigarette or two and smoking them when out with mates.I am so disappointed, though I know in my heart of hearts it's just a teenage try-anything-once-kind of thing, and also an attempt to look cool.

We are pretty liberal parents in lots of ways but he knows we hate smoking, not least because my FIL died a horrble death from lung cancer.

We've done the conversation about his health, his love of sport, all that - and still I keep catching him out (he's a crap liar which I guess is a good thing)

So, ignore, heavy parent, wait and hope it will pass- which?

my dm made my db smoke some one after another till he was sick. (he was about 12 i guess). he didn't smoke again until his mid-20's when he met a g/f and she smoked. so it kind of worked..

Mine are all 6 and under but I always thought that I would make my kids smoke a whole packet one after the other in the hope it put them off, if I caught mine smoking.

Snap Brownsuga! Typed it about 20 minutes ago and forgot to post!

What ever you say i'm sure he wont listen to you. (sorry)
Just think you've got the smoking ban on your side which has made smoking less acceptable. It has become less of a 'social event' also the age limit. I used to smoke socially when out drinking buts thats all. I'm pregnant now and have completely given up. I don't miss it at all.

But then i don't have an addictive personality. So i can just take or leave most things.

I think that if your sons friends smoke then so will he. All my friends smoked at school and sixthform, so it was the norm. (Now most of them don't so this is now the norm)

Just hope that he grows out of it like we did, or makes new friends in later life that don't smoke.

We set in the middle of Canterbury the other day, (right in the middle of the high street) and it was 20 MINUTES before we saw a smoker ... we were so shocked.

For years smokers have looked cool...

...but don't they look like sad gits sitting outside the pub on a cold wet night in the smoking shelters?!

Don't they just 40+ !!!

FWIW, Happy, I 'd go with the

"cor what's that stink-you been smoking again? Poo-ee" then smile broadly & saunter off as if you don't give a FF.

I agree with whoever said it must be easier for Mums of girls in as much as you can go from the looks angle.