To have hope and to have some sort of belief is important, and when I say belief, I mean to think beyond what were being told, to take things that appear normal, natural, and necessary and show them as contingent and that things can be different
Smoking prevention programs based on peer education and diffusion of anti-smoking norms (e.g., the ASSIST program, which relies on trained peer supporters having informal conversations about smoking with friends) may consider targeting the most central pupils within social networks defined by eigenvector or closeness centralities as peer leaders since they are more influential and are also likely to benefit from receiving tobacco education as their social network positions make them more susceptible to peer influences for smoking
Koh W-P, Robien K, Wang R, Govindarajan S, Yuan J-M, Yu MC
We can use it to absorb, retain or block liquids - superabsorbent polymers can absorb hundreds of times their own weight of water and become hydrogels
