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Tags: health, wellness, quit smoking, smoking effect and damage
 Smoking feels good, and it makes you look suave and glamorous huffing a cigarette stick. But perhaps you should be aware of the repercussions of these feel-good and glamour effects of smoking. You might be a habitual smoker for several reasons. It can be a means for you to cope with and relieve stress.
Others do it to look good and be popular. And sadly for many others, smoking has become a habit or an addiction. But then again, you probably don’t need to be told about the dangers of smoking. Information about the it has been widely disseminated. But one manner in which the habit harms you is by damaging your skin.
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Feeding your skin is an inside job. It means your skin is nourished from the inside. This nourishment primarily comes from the foods we eat. Foods we take in are broken down into nutrients and waste. Nutrients are transported by the bloodstream all throughout the body, the various organs. Among these organs is the skin, which is also the largest.
So it goes for nutrients being transported by the blood. The same actually applies for oxygen circulation in the body. Oxygen in the body is absorbed by the cells. Oxygen is crucial for the health of the organs and it is vital to the life process itself. Oxygen absorption and circulation takes place when we breathe.
But it’s entirely different if you are breathing in cigarette smoke. Among the most toxic components in a cigarette is carbon monoxide. When smoking, you inhale carbon monoxide and this is absorbed by your blood, specifically by the hemoglobin. Carbon monoxide is absorbed by the blood twice as fast as it absorbs oxygen.
So throughout the whole absorption and circulation process, much oxygen in your body is displaced by toxic carbon monoxide. As a result, organs in your body begin to be deprived of life-giving oxygen, including your skin. In fact, your skin would eventually be poisoned by carbon monoxide. More than carbon monoxide, there is a host of other toxic elements contained in cigarette smoke.
Butane, hydrogen cyanide, carbolic acid, ammonia, nicotine, collidine, lutidine, formic aldehyde and arsenic are some of them. Considering the aggregation of these poisonous elements are ingested into your system, the effects are catastrophic. Your skin bears the significant brunt—it would turn yellowish for one thing. It’s because your liver can no longer function efficiently.
There’s too much waste and the liver goes overdrive trying to expel them. Your skin’s usual radiance would vanish, but instead it would take on a yellowish-grayish color. The more cigarettes you smoke, the more chronic this smoking effect and damage is. Other than this, smoking also hastens the aging of your skin.
Habitual smoking wreaks havoc on your skin. It’s because smoking uses up vitamin c in your body. For every cigarette stick you smoke, 35mg of vitamin C in your body diminishes. This causes skin aging and damage because vitamin C is essential in preserving collagen. Collagen on the other hand is a substance which gives the skin its youthful and supple appearance.
Smoking causes wrinkles to develop, particularly around the eyes and the mouth. Even the act of smoking itself causes you to squint, furthering deepening wrinkles around the eyes. And the pursing of the lips when your smoke wrinkles the skin around the mouth. These are among the basic damages you get out of smoking, and that’s from the inside out.
Damage caused from inside your body towards the surface is not to be taken lightly. So next time you have the urge to smoke, think for a while. Is the suave and glamorous image worth it? And even if you get relief from smoking, what would you get in the long run?
Visit the Smoke- deter Site to aid you in quitting smoking and living healthily.
About the author
The author of this article Rose Windale is a Health and Wellness Coach who has been successful with several natural health programs for many years. Rose recently published a step-by-step guide on how to lose weight the EASY way and become totally healthy and happy. More info on her life-changing eating habits plan HERE.
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