How to Help Your Kids Choose to Be Tobacco Free: A Guide for Parents of Children Ages 3 Through 19 - Hardcover

Schwebel, Robert, PhD

9781557043689: How to Help Your Kids Choose to Be Tobacco Free: A Guide for Parents of Children Ages 3 Through 19

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 155704368X ISBN 13: 9781557043689

Publisher: William Morrow, 1999

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Keep Your Kids Tobacco-Free

Featured in McCall's, Newsweek, USA Weekend, Girl's Life, and on The Today Show

Filled with practical strategies and suggestions that work, this book will help parents of kids from pre-school through teenage prevent or end their child's tobacco acquaintance or addiction. A noted family therapist and substance-abuse expert, Dr. Schwebel can help you understand how to:

Recognize the five stages of tobacco use
Intervene to stop the process at each stage
Help kids deal with peer influence and to lower "their drug-neediness quotient"
Respond to and debunk tobacco advertising
Handle the issue if you are a smoker yourself
And much more.

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About the Author:

Robert Schwebel, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist specializing in couple and family therapy and substance abuse treatment, gives workshops and seminars nationwide to parents and professionals. A regular columnist for AOL and iVillage.com, Dr. Schwebel's widely praised book, Saying No Is Not Enough, is a winner of a Parents Choice Award. Dr. Schwebel lives with his wife and two children in Tucson, Arizona.

Review:

A strong tool...it supports families and is geared to helping build strong parent-child alliances from early childhood. -- Charles B. Rangel, U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control

Illuminating and valuable...Dr Schwebel makes detailed, practical suggestions that he himself has worked out and tested many times over. They have proved effectiveness. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, from his introduction to "Saying No Is Not Enough"

[This book)] may save your child's life; it could even save your own. . . . Dr. Schwebel correctly identifies tobacco as our most dangerous drug and provides valuable advice for parents on how to combat the pervasive influences of the tobacco industry. -- Andrew W. Nichols, M.D., M.P.H., Professor and Director, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center

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