Your Best Friend Has Just Begun Smoking

Multiple Choice

Your best friend has just begun smoking. You are concerned for her health and decide to have a talk with her about her choices. What is the best way for you to approach this conversation?

A) Buy a self-help book from the bookstore that discusses overall strategies to live a healthy life
B) Provide enough description of the dangers of smoking to get her attention, and then provide her with information about the Quitline, which helps people stop smoking
C) Provide her with vivid pictures of lung disease and mouth cancers to show her what will happen to her
D) Provide her with statistical information that makes it obvious she is going to die if she keeps smoking