"What the World’s Healthiest Guys Know" [Men's Health] talks about quitting smoking. The magazine's hot tip? Use Backpack to send yourself daily text messages encouraging quitting. A study showed that reminders like that double your chances of success.
Here's an area where the United States kicked butt: Only 19 percent of American men smoke, as opposed to more than half the men in South Africa, China, and Ukraine. And 70 percent of U.S. workers are covered by smoke-free rules.What you can learn from your brothers: Still one of the 19 percent puffing? Set a quit date and rally support. A study published in Tobacco Control reports that people who received daily text messages encouraging them to quit were twice as likely to stop smoking 6 weeks later, compared with those who went textless. Go to backpackit.com to send text messages to yourself on preset days and times.
You can use Backpack for more mundane tasks too. In response to the article, Twitter user Warren posted this: "i have Backpack send me reminders to shave. seriously."
