According to a New Zealand study, removing all branding off tobacco and cigarette packets can prove to be an effective option for turning teenagers off the habit of smoking.

It was found by the Auckland study that the present graphic warnings on cigarette packs were designed to prevent smokers from having a smoke, but they also led teens to view smokers as undesirable, which was evident from descriptions such as “social outcasts” and “addicted”.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

Australia is the first country to announce a plan to force tobacco into plain packaging with large pictorial health warnings-a move the industry says it will fight.

From 2012, the only remnant of branding would be the name of the product, in uniform print. Gone would be the colours and attractive pictures.

“I think it would be hugely powerful for young people. The pack is the last bastion of tobacco industry promotion,” the New Zealand Herald quoted Auckland University researcher Judith McCool as saying.

McCool co-supervised master’s degree research by Lisa Webb in which 80 students aged 14 or 15 from six Auckland schools were interviewed about their attitudes to smoking, smokers, tobacco packaging and plain packets.

The study found that for teenagers the plain packets were dull, but they said that it enhanced the impact of the graphic health warnings.

“These perceptions were transferred to the act of cigarette smoking as an unattractive or uncool behaviour,” said the researchers.

The researchers said teenagers were left confused by the health messages on brightly colored packets alongside brand imagery that actually blunted effects of the warnings.

If you seriously want to get rid of smoking, things are not as difficult as perceived in the first place.

Before we read any further, it is important for you to note that having a smoke does not make you cool or part of the Gen X but it does make you prone to health complications such as heart attack, cancer, and mouth cancer.

From Blogforyouth.com:

It has been proved that the younger you start smoking the lesser are the chances for you of quitting nicotine addiction. Google shows a lot of pictures of people living with the smoke day and night and ruining their lives. Although most of them get influenced in their teens as a part of youth style or just to hang around with young generation who says it’s cool! Some think that smoking is the right passage to adulthood. Most of the times teenagers who are trying to quit, get into a situation of stress or depression and they may start smoking again. Once that willpower is overcome by the urge of smoking it becomes very difficult for the person to regain the courage back to force oneself to quit smoking. Google search engine may help you search a good solution as how to quit smoking. Therefore it is very important for the closest people around to counsel the addict with love and care. Among young people addiction to nicotine can cause lots of short term health risks to avoid chances of severe depression and suicide attempts.

The point is – you surely can find a better reason to live life King-size rather than lighting the cigarette to be a part of the crowd.

If you are keen to enter the world of bodybuilding and someone has wrongly guided you to take steroids, do not follow it and stay away from them. This is not only because steroids can bring side effects with them but also because a steroid-enhanced body loses its shape once the dosages have been discontinued.

Recent medical studies have revealed that steroids are far bad than perceived by many and result in severe side effects such as insomnia, impotency, baldness, acne, gynecomastia, menstrual irregularities, and death in acute cases. The fact that most steroid products are sub-standard adds to the woes.

The best thing for you:

Try to go natural, it does not matter if you need to take an extra nutritive diet or spend half an hour extra at the gym. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables; think good, act good and you would soon found the truth in these sayings. The greatest benefit of going natural for building a lean yet muscular body is that the body will not lose its attained shape after you stop exercise sessions, due to any reason.

Even if steroids are the last option for you, do make sure that they are taken only after a qualified medical advice and as per dosage instructions. This is because steroid abuse can be fatal and if not fatal, it can lead to damaging effects on your body parts and functioning processes.

In short, staying away from steroids while thinking of bodybuilding not only offer you great respite but also means that do not “invite” bad health for yourself.

You may have heard about the benefits of being healthy and staying fit but do you really care about being healthy? If you are then are you feeding your body with the right food, right sleep, and right acts? If not then you are surely not leading an active lifestyle. This is because active life is the result of an active lifestyle.

If you really want to stay ahead of the competition, you need to remain fit and strong to stand tall against challenges of life and health. No one of us knows when he would be encountering a disease but every one of us can surely prevent those diseases with qualified knowledge and good health.

The above statements clearly suggest that one needs to be healthy to perform well in every day of the life. You need good health not only for performing exercises but to excel in all ‘competitive examinations’ of the life. This means that while sedentary lifestyle habits like smoking, alcohol, waking up and sleeping late, surviving on junk food, steroids, and antidepressants are “out”, good habits like eating right, sleeping right, and exercising right are very much “in”.

One thing that can be easily concluded is that whatever may have been your choice of lifestyle till date, you need to make sure that active lifestyle is adopted by you as early as possible if you really want to stay ahead of the competition and create a niche for yourself.