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There are two guidelines for that, one for the bike, and one for you. What's important for you is that you use a gear that lets you keep the cranks turning at a suitable rate - which is 80-100 turns each minute. Cranking slower and heavier increases the risk of knee injury, cranking faster is just plain inefficient.
The main guideline for the bike is to avoid cross chaining.. Cross chaining means that if you have a bike with external gears you shouldn't run the chain at an extreme angle, like what you get if you have it on the biggest sprocket up front and the biggest sprocket at the back simultaneously.
There are other things about the bike too, like internal gears won't shift while pedalling, and external gears won't shift if you aren't pedalling.
The Woman's Huffy is listed as being a 5-speed bike, which means that there's only a rear derailer to deal with. It's external gears, so you have to keep pedalling, but you'll get smoother shifts if you ease up on the pedals just while shifting. Exactly how you shift depends on the design of the lever, which can't be made out from the website.
It's probably TWO levers, one which you push with your thumb to get an easier gear (bigger sprocket), and one that you push with your index finger to get a heavier gear (smaller sprocket)
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