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What does smoking do to your
appearance?
- Smoking is really bad for your skin. The beauty and youthful look of your
skin is largely determined by adequate moisture and oxygen content. Smoking
denies an adequate supply of oxygen to your skin and dehydrates it. While you
are enjoying puffs from your cigarette, you are inviting trouble to your system.
Your lungs are the first victims. In just one puff, more than a trillion free
radicals are created in your lungs. These radicals, in turn, induce an
inflammatory reaction that gets circulated throughout the whole body.
- Smoking makes you look much older then you are. It causes sun damage. The
nicotine present in cigarettes is the cause for this affect. It makes you look
much older than you are.
- Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 toxins that enter your bloodstream
directly, and consequently, affect your skin's appearance. The top layers of the
skin constrict and that reduces your blood's oxygen content and substitutes it
with carbon monoxide. With less oxygen in the blood, toxins and other wastes
remain in your system, causing it to age prematurely. In addition, the collagen
level of your skin is greatly reduced when you smoke.
- Smoking can change your body shape. Smoking causes heavy damages to a
woman's system by creating an imbalance in her hormone levels and dramatically
altering her body shape. This is caused by a disturbance in endocrinal glands. A
research report says that if a woman smokes a pack per day for 40 years, it can
accelerate her aging by 7.4 years.
- Smoking causes pallor of your skin and adds a grey shade.
- Smoking makes your teeth look bad and less white. It's not just the look of
your teeth that can be affected by smoking. Smoking makes it harder for saliva
to remove germs in your mouth so you have more chance of getting gum disease,
which can lead to premature tooth loss and bad breath. Stopping smoking means
whiter teeth and a reduced risk of losing them – with fewer trips to the dentist
too, with any luck.
- Smoking makes your fingers look yellow.
- Smoking makes your skin look wrinkled. Smoking causes the microscopic muscle
fibers in the walls of the blood vessels to contract. A smoker's skin is also
wrinkled because its vitamin A content is low compared with that for a
non-smoker. Vitamin A protects the skin against strong chemical substances that
may damage or destroy it.
- Smoking is very bad for your hair. There are many ways cigarette smoking can
cause hair loss, and most of these are related to the effects of cigarette smoke
on your hair follicle. Cigarette smoke contains almost 4,000 lethal and damaging
chemicals that can cause normal hair loss. Smoking also causes dull, lank and
smelly hair. Not only your smoking habit affects the look and smell of your
hair, it can also make your hair break off.
- Smoking is bad for your clothes. Smoking not only affects your health and
the way you look, but the smell of tobacco stays on your clothes until you wash
them. Constantly washing your clothes to get rid of the smell will weaken the
fibers causing them to wear out more quickly.
- Smoking can make you gain weight. Most people think smoking helps to lose
weight, but a recent study has shown this is not true. You might gain some
weight after you quit smoking, but in the long run, smoking can make you fatter.
The study that was done by a group of researchers at the University of South
Wales and the University of Melbourne has seen that cigarettes can be
responsible for the body actually storing an excess of fat.
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