I have a friend who is overcoming a nicotine addiction. As a friend, watching her do this for the past 3 or so years was

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I have a friend who is overcoming a nicotine addiction. As a
friend, watching her do this for the past 3 or so years was not
great. Seeing someone you love intentionally harm their body is
never something you want to watch. I tried to help her a lot by
explaining the reasons why it was so bad, such as they contain
toxic chemicals, lung and heart injury, lower immune response, etc.
She knew that it wasn’t good for her and she wanted to stop. To
help her quit, she decided that every time I saw her smoking, I had
to take it away. She would say that she was going to quit all the
time but never really made a serious effort to stop. Once she
decided she was actually serious about quitting, she quit buying
vapes and started using nicotine patches. After a while she stopped
using those too. She had quit for about 9 months; she used an app
on her phone to track how long it had been. Then her life started
getting stressful with a couple deaths in her family that were
weeks apart and her school load was heavy, and she started smoking
again. Since then, she has stopped and started again a few times.
She definitely has not gone seamlessly through the stages.
Being around people who also vape make it harder for her to
completely quit. I think being around it makes it difficult to
resist the urge after recently quitting. She actually just stopped
again about two months ago and is doing really well now. I think
having some personal experience with this does give some insight on
how to approach patients. I have learned what is acceptable to say
and what is not, what is actually helpful and what isn’t. I think
explaining the risk and benefits of quitting really do help. I
think a big piece of advice for someone who has never had to help
someone with an addiction is to make sure you don’t judge them,
show that you care, and research effective ways that you can help
them during this time.
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