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Relationships Quiz

What pattern are you and your partner? Take this quiz and see.

1.	Which option best fits you and your partner’s general way of handling smoking? a) We treat smoking as an individual choice and don’t talk much about it. b) Smoking creates tension between us and sometimes we argue about it. c) Smoking is no big deal between us. We usually come to agreements about it.

2.	Which option best fits the pattern of how you and your partner get cigarettes? a) Whoever smokes usually buys their own. b) Only one of us buys cigarettes and often tries to keep it a secret because it can start arguments. c) We take turns buying cigarettes, even if only one of us smokes.

3.	If you try to quit and slip up, which option best fits how you and your partner handle it? a) Not a big deal, because smoking is each person’s choice. b) It is a problem because smoking hard on our relationship. c) It is a small problem, but we can talk about it. We accept that smoking is part of our lives.

Adpated from: Bottorff, J. L., Carey, J., Poole, N., Greaves, L. & Urquhart, C. (2008). Couples and Smoking: What you need to know when you are pregnant. Available from: www.facet.ubc.ca and www.hcip-bc.org . Jointly published by the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, the Institute for Healthy Living and Chronic Disease Prevention, University of British Columbia Okanagan, and NEXUS, University of British Columbia Vancouver.

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