![]() Peer educators and trainers have to be chosen from among highly respected individuals who are capable of both listening and communicating. The education of peers (peer education) aims at using a positive peer influence on other fellow peers. A peer role model is a friend whose behaviours and suggestions can convince others and that he or she is aware of both the meanings and difficulties of being a fellow peer. Influence of peers on youth is certainly of great importance. These programs may include ways for improving social capabilities, taking a socially responsible approach or involving school-based interventions or peer education. These initiatives should include education on-how to say no, oppose insistence, cope with stress, manage anger and communicate and problem solve. It is essential to design programs for developing life skills to prevent adolescents from beginning to smoke. An additional important factor is that adolescents try to both enhance their image and look ‘cool’ among their friends. Advertisements by the tobacco industry, easy access to tobacco products, low pricing and peer pressure are some of the influences that are effective in starting smoking in adolescents. Īpproximately one-fourth of adolescents start using tobacco around age 10. There is a variety of different models of education and behaviour to minimise tobacco consumption among young people and change their perception of behaviours concerning smoking. The importance of readily accessible tobacco-produced items, peer pressure, tobacco commercials and price policies in cigarette, cigar and narghile (shisha) on influencing adolescents starting to smoke cannot be overstated. Research suggests that adolescents are more likely to modify their behaviours and attitudes if they receive health messages from peers who face similar concerns and pressures. On the other hand, adolescents naturally tend to resist any dominant source of authority such as parents and prefer to socialise more with their peers than with their families. The majority of adolescents experience some level of emotional, behavioural and social difficulties. These changes may potentially pose pressure on adolescents and cause multidimensional problems necessitating a holistic approach. Īdolescence, an important stage of human life, involves crucial developmental processes through which a person crosses over from childhood to adulthood. ![]() The tobacco industry targets both adolescents and women in an attempt to influence them by using attractive advertisements that focus on freedom, liberation and wealth and being thin, attractive and wealthy. Tobacco use starts at an early age, and since the tobacco industry is aware of this fact, they act accordingly. ![]() Adolescents are vulnerable to tobacco use. The extended period between starting to smoke and the onset of cigarette-related diseases leads to decreased awareness in adolescents about the harmful effects of tobacco on health. The purpose of this article is to explain how to use peer education in changing the behaviour of adolescent smoking. In recent years, the increase in tobacco consumption has led to increased need for per education. Peer education aims to use positive peer influence on their behaviour since peers are positive models for each other. This effect is valid for both risky and safe behaviours. ![]() A great impact on the behaviour of human beings is the adolescent peer group. Adolescents start smoking due primarily to a desire to imitate adults, peer pressure, affectation and easy access to cigarettes. Decreasing the age of smoking cigarettes causes exposure of the cigarettes effects to the smokers for a longer period. ![]() Therefore, the tobacco industry targets youth, adolescents and women. Cigarette smoking affects a large part of society with increasing frequency and is propagated among young people. Smoking is the most important cause of disability, death and preventable illness in Turkey and all over the world. ![]()
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