8 Reasons Why Smoking is Bad For Your Beauty

I’m always happy to pass on great info...and this is great info! I’ve included a few snippets below lifted from the full article.

While smoking can cause serious ailments like mouth and lung cancer, affect your sex life and fertility, it also ruins the skin – especially of the face – making one look much older than their age due to the appearance of early wrinkles. While smoking worsens both men and women’s skin, women seem to be more susceptible to its ill effects. Dr Kiran Lohia, MD, and Face Yoga Expert Danielle Collins explain how smoking ruins the skin in detail with methods to undo the damage.

Beauty isn’t just skin deep

It is the complex structure below the skin which is responsible for how it looks and feel. Smoking affects these underlying sturctures and speeds up the ageing of your skin in four ways:

1. Firstly, the nicotine in cigarettes makes the blood vessels in the skin smaller and thinner, thereby reducing blood flow. This reduces the amount of nutrition and oxygen that your skin can get. So, you are essentially starving your skin. 
2. Harmful ingredients in cigarette smoke (more than 4000 of them!) end up damaging your skin’s elastin and collagen – the fibres which make your skin more supple and elastic. Ultimately, this causes your skin to sag more and adds to the early appearance of wrinkles.
3. The heat that you are exposed to from burning cigarettes can also add to the formation of wrinkles by causing repeated trauma to the skin.
4. Repeated facial expressions like squinting your eyes to keep out smoke or pursing your lips to inhale can cause even more wrinkles.
5. The skin becomes discoloured or uneven, resulting in a patchy or paler appearance. 

Do you need more detail on this subject? Head on over to the full article here for more ideas and perspective. Afterwards, why not drop me an email to share your thoughts [email protected]; or call me on (0413) 292-349.

Thanks,

Alannah