Smoking: Is it Affecting Your Looks?

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Smoking: Is it Affecting Your Looks?

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Scientific advancements have brought about many welcome changes

in our lives, but there are two sides to those advancements.

Technology and modern advancements have encouraged people to

develop some undesirable habits like smoking and drug and alcohol

addiction. You build the cable of a habit one thread at a time.

Every day you make choices that lead to habits. It can be hard

to break the cycle of those choices.

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Smoking: Is it Affecting Your Looks?

Copyright © 2006 DBA AdPro Media Sales,

Written by: Kamau Austin

Health and Fitness Vitality

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Scientific advancements have brought about many welcome changes

in our lives, but there are two sides to those advancements.

Technology and modern advancements have encouraged people to

develop some undesirable habits like smoking and drug and alcohol

addiction.

You build the cable of a habit one thread at a time. Every day

you make choices that lead to habits. It can be hard to break

the cycle of those choices. What starts as a pastime stays on to

take its toll on your health and make you an addict. Addiction is

the saturation point at which you realize it is high time to get

rid of that bad habit.

Can You Justify Smoking?

Smokers justify their habit with the following reasons:

* Smoking gives them pleasure

* Smoking relieves their depression and makes them feel lighter

* People in their social circle smoke

Most people began as occasional, light smokers. They failed to

realize that one day, they would be dependant on this

& quot;occasional & quot; habit.

The situation is beginning to change. People have begun to think

twice before lighting up. This awareness comes from the proven

health hazards of smoking.

How Smoking Affects Your Skin

You need to be awareness of the affects of smoking on your skin

and overall looks. This is what smoking does to 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 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 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

Generally, smoking causes pallor of your skin and adds a grey

shade.

Proof Of The Ill Effects Of Smoking

To emphasize the ill effects of smoking on your skin, a term

& quot;smoker's face & quot; was added to the medical dictionary.

This condition is caused when the skin in your face shows the

lines and wrinkles which make you look older-all due to smoking!

The smoker's features are thin and gaunt. There are clear signs

of premature aging induced by poor blood circulation. Evidences

show that a smoker's skin is more than 40% thinner than a

non-smoker.

When you smoke, you are introducing stimulants into your system

that affect your blood vessels.

It has also been proven that smoking causes certain types of skin

cancer. Further research is being undertaken to study the

cosmetic effects that smoking has on your skin. For example,

smoking dries your skin, especially in the areas affected by the

nicotine smoke. Nicotine is a diuretic and can reduce vitamin A

in your body.

Such a detailed analysis of how smoking affects your skin and

looks should be sufficient to encourage you to choose to quit

smoking! It is one of the single biggest ways you improve the

health of your skin and your body.

To take extra good care of you skin a cream like Lumnaderm

can offer significant help to those concerned abou the appearance

of their skin. Lumnaderm is available from

http://www.bodestore.com and http://www.amazon.com.

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under taking any exercise or treatment program always first

check first with your doctor and health professionals.