Skin Damage Increases for Smokers

Smoking has many negative effects to the body. Research has shown that smoking long term can speed up the age process dramatically. Let’s forget about all of the health risks linked to smoking for a second, and concentrate on the effects of your skin. We are all familiar that skin of smokers is damaged through years of smoking versus the non-smoker counterparts.

Let’s take a closer look of how the skin reacts to tobacco in the body. The more serious things that occur are restricted blood flow through the capillaries preventing nutrients and oxygen to getting to the skin. This basic act breaks down the supply of the collagen to the skin structure. The elasticity of one’s skin is based on the collagen. As we get older, this process happens naturally, but smoking accelerates this process quickly.

Other harmful results includes the reduction of vitamin A, which is needed to help with the protection of skin damage. Vitamin C, a vital antioxidant for skin protection is also reduced with the consumption of tobacco.

The constant intake of smoking or the physical puckering of the lips to actually smoke will actually create deep wrinkled skin around the mouth. Smoking as little as three cigarettes a day will influence the skin around the mouth area. Sometimes we mention these people as a "smoker’s face."

Besides the obvious statistics of smokers having an increase risk of heart disease, cancer, and death, your skin will have adverse results also. The physical difference of more wrinkles on your face, the dull appearance to the skin, discolored skin, and loss of elasticity, will definitely make your skin look very unhealthy. One does not have to be an expert to recognize a smoker versus a non-smoker. We do not have to be an expert scientist or researcher to come up with this deduction.

Many people wonder if the damage can be reversed after years of smoking. The first step on this battle with anti aging has to be STOP smoking. As simple as that seems, I have had many people spend thousands of dollars on anti aging creams, yet still smoke. It makes no sense to try to improve your skin with great products, and then damage the skin with smoking regularly. By using excellent skin products, good nutrition and drinking plenty of water we can help our skin battle the negative effects caused by smoking.

One must stop inflicting damage to your skin with the regular consumption of smoking. The damage may not be right away, and can take many years to display its harmful effects to the skin. The overall idea of spending thousand of dollars on cigarettes and then spending a ton of money on ant aging products does not make sense. Think of the monetary gain besides the physical appearance this will help you. Now after many years of research of smoking, maybe they should add to warning label the harmful effects on one’s skin. Maybe this will help people to think about not smoking, by appealing to their vanity.

We should all be using anti-aging creams to help with our skin.

Smoking and Your Skin
Skin care, anti aging.