Step One: Get Serious About Supplements

While it's true that swallowing a supplement isn't a substitute for a balanced diet, how many of us actually take the time to plan and eat healthy. So it is essential to take at least a Vitamin C and a Calcium supplement. You need at least 40 mg of Vitamin C daily to keep your immunity levels up and stress hormones down. According to the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University, a smoker's body breaks down essential vitamin faster than normal so you need that much more. Also a calcium supplement to ensure that you're getting the RDA of 1200mg.

Step Two: Get Some Sunlight Everyday

While it isn't necessary to bake yourself to a crisp in the sun, it is necessary to go into natural light everyday. If you don't, you leave yourself open to downers like depression and also higher cholesterol levels. Cholesterol and Vitamin D are both synthesised by your body from a chemical called squalene. In sunlight your body turns squalene into Vitamin D but if you don't get sunlight then squalene gets converted into cholesterol.

Step Three: Get Serious About The Pill

The pill isn't only about contraception. It also protects cancers of the womb and ovaries. And what's more these benefits will continue for up to 10 years after taking the Pill. However, as always you'll need to speak to your gynaecologist about whether you can take the Pill as it isn't always advisable for certain women - like those who smoke heavily.

Step Four: Get Serious About Superfoods

There are certain superfoods that you should eat more of to look younger and feel healthier. These are recommended by Dr Mehmet Oz and Dr Michael Roizen the formulators of a three month programme to get healthy that they call the 90 Day Live Longer, Feel Younger Plan. These are garlic, which helps your body fight cancer and relaxes the arteries. Tomatoes, which contain powerful antioxidants so while preventing ageing they'll also protect against cancer. Spinach that is packed with carotenoids, folic acid and nutrients which make it good for your eyesight. Then nuts like almonds, walnuts and peanuts that contain heart-healthy oils.

Step Five: Stop Smoking

You should ideally quit smoking but if you can't it's a good idea to at least stop binge smoking, which often happens when you're out drinking and partying with friends. Binge smoking causes your heart and lungs to take a far heavier hit than if you were lighting up with decent intervals between successive cigarettes.