How To Avoid Smoking When All Your Friends Smoke

How can I avoid smoking when all my friends smoke?

I would encourage you to figure out what goes on between your friends, their cigarette and you and your cigarette. Are you smoking because they smoke, or are you just reminded to smoke when you're in settings where you're all together ? If your whole crowd smokes, you're going to have a tough time living life without cigarettes. You may want to make some new friends, some non-smoking friends, to hang out with initially, otherwise the relapse rate is very high in people who really have an entire environment around them smoking. What can you do with friends who are smoking, well first of all, ask them to respect your decision to quit. Secondly, don't be exposed to their second hand smoke. Explain to them you're trying to quit smoking, you're trying to avoid all the toxins and the addiction, and you don't want to be exposed to their smoke, especially in your hair and in your clothes, because you go home smelling just like a smoker. The other thing is where you're hanging out with people who are smoking, maybe you need to sit farther away from them, maybe you need to go to places where smoking is not allowed, and they have to go outside to smoke. So do they respect your choice, or are they really good friends ? Do they care that you're trying to make this change in your life ? All of those are questions you need to explore when you say, it's really when I'm around my friends that I can't seem to avoid smoking, and do something about that, because that's going to go for the rest of your life. You're never going to live on a planet where no one smokes.