Calling may also include an understanding friend. In dealing with stress, make a determined effort to have a regular time for sleeping and rising. If you don't get adequate sleep, you lower your immune system and your body's ability to handle stress. Adequate rest will increase your will power to do what you need to do health-wise, and the determination to stay free from harmful substances. Get outside and become as physically active as you can.
Fresh air soothes the mind and nerves.
Stress depends not only upon what happens to an individual, but upon the way be reacts to the situation. We need time to let the work or school problems go. A walk outside, a change in activity, a trip, if only for a couple hours. Get away from the usual bustle that keeps you tied up in knots. You are worth it.