Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Tips To Make Teens To Stay Smoke Free

Before making your teen to stop smoking, understand the reasons behind teen smoking. Although teen smoking is done or started as the recreational activity it becomes habituated and becomes a lifelong activity. For making your teen free from smoking these are the tips which are to be followed.

Attraction: To get fit or join with some particular group of friends teens start smoking. There are many misconceptions which make the teen to smoke like losing weight, and they even they think that they may feel cool and independent. As parents, ask your teen about the reasons for smoking praise the reasons for good choices and talk about the consequences of the bad choices. Talk to them about how the tobacco companies and actors are influencing to smoke in movies for creating a cool impression.

Strictly tell them not to smoke: If the teen doesn’t hear, strictly inform him/her not to smoke. Sometimes, the firmest decisions may impact your teen not to smoke when compared to the teens whose parents doesn’t create any limits.

Be a role model for your teen: If the parent is smoking then the teens obviously get influenced by them. So, parents should first stop smoking. Explain the health problems which are associated with smoking. And even talk about how difficult it is to stop if they get habituated.

Discuss the disadvantages: Say that, smoking is dangerous instead of feeling it as the glamorous one and tell them that it gives a dirty smell and gives you bad breath and because of influence of tobacco the teeth will become yellow and results in a long time cough. Tell them that it causes respiratory problems and even causes cancer.

Calculate the expenses: Inform the teen about the expenses. Calculate and inform the expenses on weekly, monthly, yearly basis and compare the cost with the other essentials which are needed for him.

Quitting is difficult: Clearly tell them that quitting is very difficult and ask them not to smoke even under extreme pressure from others.

It is the parents responsibility to up bring the kid in a good path. Don't hesitate to talk to them about smoking. This will surely make them deter smoking.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Know About Marijuana Use Among Teens

Now-a-days Marijuana is being used among the teens frequently. They even think that there is no problem using marijuana. They observe their favorite movie stars, friends, their siblings, and parents consuming them. Initially the usage may not effect them much but it will eventually get them in to addiction and lead to harmful mental and physical problems.

More often Marijuana makes them feel thirsty and even hungry. It is even much more effective than the tobacco. The amount of inhaled substance which is being inhaled is three to five times dangerous than the tobacco consumption. The main component in marijuana is THC (tetrahydrocannabinal).

Teen users of marijuana may get degraded in schools, in sports, and affects their concentration. In some cases, they lose their track of their studies. The short term effects of marijuana include impaired coordination, impacts motor driving skills, memory loss etc.

Heavy usage of marijuana makes the teen to loose his concentration. Poor academic performance will be resulted as a result of consuming marijuana. Marijuana is an illegal drug which affects the health of a teen. Marijuana abuse by teenagers may land them in jail.

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Physical Fitness is a part of Mental Fitness

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A person should be both physically and mentally fit in the present world. Maintaining high levels of mental fitness is an important part of healthy aging and longevity now a days. We know that mental exercises like memory games, crosswords and other forms of brain training makes your brain sharp. Apart from the mental exercises, you need to practice physical exercises. Many of the people today believe that mental fitness is related to brain only. But when we observe them closely, we will know that physical fitness is a part of mental fitness.

You may be aware that eating good food makes you physically fit. The same thing happens with the mental fitness. If you eat good food, you will be mentally fit. The process of physical fitness has relation to brain's fitness, as doing exercises like walking,running helps brain get more oxygen compared to the normal conditions.

Studies have already shown that people over the age of 65 who exercise regularly face lower risks of diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Know About The Limitations Of Online Marketing

Online marketing is the future of marketing and it is a great way to reach the masses. But as every good thing has also some limitations, online marketing also has a few. People are often very confused with Online Marketing or Internet Marketing since it is not so easy for all masses. Online Marketing has following limitations:

  • This marketing charges cost of hardware, software, website design, online distribution costs, maintenance of site, etc..
  • In present world still many number of people think that internet is a source of information gathering and many people still prefer live interaction while buying.
  • Internet is not 100 percent safe so many people think it is illegitimate to market over here.
  • Fear for website phishing is another major problem of internet marketing. Because of this many of the visitors will not want to use their credit card to make a purchase.
  • A poor facility by online marketers also affects the online marketing since their sites contain lack inquiry response programs and customer service.
The disadvantages which are listed here are some common issues which mainly affect the online marketing.