Content

• Steps
• Tips
• Warnings

The hardest part for a modern teenager is to say no to peer pressure. Here's how you can resist negative peer influences, defend your principles, and feel good about yourself.

Steps

1. 1 Discard the idea and explain why. If your friend wants to go outside and smoke a few cigarettes, tell him, "No, I don't want to go out and smoke, because smoking is harmful to health."
2. 2 Suggest an alternative. Never leave a question open. After you say no and explain why, try to counter it, such as suggesting a healthier alternative, such as "Instead of smoking weed, why don't we go to the movies?"
3. 3 Start performing the action you suggested and have this option available to the second person, for example: "I'm going to the cinema now, won't you come with me?" Leave the room and leave the door open for the person to follow you.
4. 4 Show him that you do not want and that real friends will not force you, for example: "I've already given up. Real friends don't force their friends to do what they don't want to do."
5. 5 Replay the one who puts pressure on you. Pretend that you are going to do it, and then intentionally show that you will not do it. For example:
   • If you are offered a cigarette, agree.
   • Take it, hold it in front of him and break it in half. Now it is useless and cannot be smoked.
   • Drop it to the floor and crush it with your foot.
   • We finished. Look at him with a "think what you want" look and walk away.

Tips

• Peer pressure tests you for your ability to give up what you don't want to do. A true friend will accept rejection as an answer and will not try to force you to do something that you do not want to do.
• Leaving rule. Analyze your relationship with this person. If you know that you cannot end the relationship at any time, tear them apart... Everything is correct. Tear them apart... Yes, it will hurt you, but leaving is the last defense against anyone. If you cannot do this, then you have failed. The only reason this shouldn't be done is if you really trust this person and you you knowthat you trust him not because of the hormones.
• Don't be rude when you speak, just speak in a confident voice and soon your friends will start to respect your decisions.

Warnings

• Watch out for friends who are prone to bad behavior and like to be in control. You will be better off without them.
• If they are addicted to something that you feel uncomfortable in, beware of them.
• If you don't know / don't trust this person, just leave. Nobody can force you to do what you do not like, if you are not even there!
• Learn about their moral principles before spending time with them.
• Learn. Learn more about the myths people use to get others to do bad things.