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Posted on January 30, 2009 in Skin Care
Smoking is considered bad for health, as it causes strokes, heart disease, lung cancer etc. Similarly, even the skin gets affected by smoking. The color and texture of the skin gets affected. In fact, one is supposed to have a smoker’s face, which is wrinkled, bloated and reddish in color, similar to the skin of an alcoholic. Even young people who smoke look older. How smoking effects your skin?
How Skin gets affected by Smoking?
Smoking effect your skin in more then one ways:
- Wrinkles appear on the face. The act of smoking makes you squint and wrinkles appear around the eyes.
- Skin ages faster.
- Skin appears bloated similar to that of a person who drinks heavily.
- Reduces the efficiency of regeneration process of the skin.
- Reduces the oxygen levels at the top layers of the skin.
- Cigarette smoke makes the skin thin.
- Carbon monoxide of the cigarette smoke damages the skin. It depletes oxygen supply to the skin.
- The chemicals prevalent in cigarette smoke affect the liver and impairs its functioning. The skin does not have a glow when the liver does not function properly.
- It depletes the skin of its vitamins.
- The skin looks drab and dull.
- Causes blemishes.
- Skin becomes dry.
- The skin begins to sag.
- Increased smoking tends to breakdown the collagen present in the skin.
- Deprives the skin of essential nutrients due to improper blood flow.
The best way to maintain the skin tone is to quit smoking. Smoking causes much harm to the skin. A smoker ages faster and his or her skin loses out on its elasticity.
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