Some donate blood as a social service and others do it for their relatives/friends in an emergency. Here are a few points to keep in mind before you donate blood.

• Do not donate blood if you are suffering from any ailment.
• Donate blood once in four months. If the frequency of blood donation is increased, you will feel weak and may fall ill. Also the quality of the donated blood deteriorates.
• Make sure you weigh more than fifty kilograms when volunteering blood donation.
• Take sufficient food prior to blood donation.
• Ask the blood bank technician to unwrap the disposable syringe in front of you.
• Take sufficient fruits/fruit juice after the blood donation.
• Don't walk away from the bed immediately after donation.
• Take rest for at least thirty minutes.
  

• Always collect water from a clean source.
• If the water looks muddy, let it stand for twelve hours to allow sediments to settle at the bottom.
• Filter the clarified water through a piece of thick cloth or filter.
• Always boil drinking water.
• Pour the boiled water into a clean container.
• Sterilize the container too.

• Eat foods that have vitamins and minerals.
• Don't eat sweet or sticky foods between meals.
  After every meal brush your teeth.
• Crunchy fruits/vegetables like apples and carrots also help to clean teeth.
• Eat sweets only at the end of a meal so that your teeth get properly cleaned when you brush them after the meal.
• Visit a dental hygienist for a thorough check up.
• Use a mouthwash to stop bad breath.

• Leave smoking for at least ten hours in a day, then slowly increase the hours of
  non-smoking.
• Take one gram of vitamin C daily; it will lessen your craving for nicotine.
• Exercising, swimming, jogging, yoga, aerobics or walking keeps you busy and reduces the craving for cigarettes.
• Avoid taking caffeine, sugar and alcohol. Doing this will also reduce your craving
  for nicotine.
• Eating salads, carrot sticks, fruits, popcorn and chewing gum can reduce craving.
• Keep yourself busy after meals as craving for smoking is more after meals.
• Get a health check up.
• Bleach your teeth if it is discolored; it will keep you away from smoking and stop
  bad breath.
• Tell your friends and dear ones that you wish to quit. They will certainly help you.

• After a decade of quitting smoking you can be free of risk from related diseases like cancer, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases and diabetes mellitus.
• Quitting smoking reduces the risk of smoking related heart disease by 24%.
• You will be avoiding those four thousand chemicals that cigarettes contain.
• You will be lowering the risk of smokers' cough.
• You will not be hurting your dear ones.
• Non-smoking will stop bad breath and bad odor from your body.
• You will save your money.
• You will lower the risk of wrinkles on your face.

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