Want to Help Your Friend Quit?

Do

• Help your friend avoid situations where others are smoking
• Do an activity together where there's no smoking involved
• Be available for your friend and listen to them when they are frustrated or discouraged
• Remember that quitting is hard work
• Congratulate your friend often!
• Encourage your friend to get help from a pharmacist, doctor or any health professional
• Tell your friend you're happy they're quitting

Don't

• Don't nag your friend or make them feel guilty
• Don't put your friend down, it takes the average smoker more than one quit attempt to give up tobacco for good
• Don't offer them cigarettes or smoke with them
• Don't tell your friend what to do