Smoking

Smoking

After exposure of sunlight, smoking is the next most damaging thing you do to your skin. The main reason that cigarette smoke is toxic to your skin is that four thousand beauty busting chemical compounds are produced when tobacco burns! Also the nicotine in cigarettes constricts blood vessels and deprives your cells of oxygen and nutrients. Studies show that during smoking there’s thirty per cent decrease in oxygen supply to your skin. Cigarette smoke is also hazardous to the healthy turnover of your skin cells. Finally, a chemical reaction occurs which creates a protein that causes the destruction of collagen and elastin. Add to this constant creasing and wrinkling of the eyes due to smoke irritation and pursing of the lips as you inhale and it’s easy to see why the average smoker looks around 10 years older than a non-smoker of the same age.
Cigarette smoke contains more than 4000 toxins many of which are absorbed directly into the bloodstream and are taken by the blood right into the structure of your skin.
Smoking cigarettes reduces the efficiency with which the skin can regenerate itself – smoking causes the constriction (narrowing) of the blood vessels at the top layers of the skin which in turn reduces blood supply (to the skin). It is the reduced blood supply which causes a reduction in the availability of oxygen (which is necessary for all living cells) and the removal of waste products, dead cell fragments etc… which provide the necessary environment for regeneration.
It does show its effects of smoking on lips. Smoking making the lips black and deprive them of their natural look. People spent much money on cigarettes and tobacco, which gives them nothing but diseases and side effects.
Solution
Choose a day
The day before, throw away anything that reminds you of smoking: cigarettes, matches, ashtrays. It will also help to wash curtains and Hoover carpet and furniture to get the smell from your house.
Change your routine:
Avoid activities you associate with smoking, or do them differently.
Eat lots of fruit and vegetable
This helps neutralize the nicotine in your system faster and reduce withdrawal craving. If cravings do strike, sniff black pepper oil. Studies have shown that it stop them in their track.