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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Krowbar who wrote (20287)4/13/1998 3:26:00 AM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Del, it's good that your stop-smoking-before-you-start strategy worked. Now Michael will be trying it with his children, though!!

Personally, I think you just got lucky. I remember getting really sick and watching the room spin the first time I smoked, but I was eager to do it again because I liked the nicotine rush. I have heard that offering a significant bribe to a child if he or she turns 21 without ever having smoked works pretty often. That way the child has something tangible to think about in making a choice on that inevitable occasion when someone offers a cigarette, and helps the teenager resist peer pressure, I would think.

As purething has posted, sometimes it only takes one time, and the novice smoker is hooked.
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