How Cigarette Smoking Can Badly Affect Your Health

Today I'm going to share with you how cigarette smoking can badly affect your health. People smoke for various reasons at different situations.

Reasons for smoking ranges from:

• Psychological issues
• Habits
• Social status symbol
• Physical dependence on nicotine

Smoking has no health benefits. Cigar Smoking refers to the inhalation of smoke from the burning tobacco in a cigar, or pipe commonly known, cigarette. Tobacco contains nicotine, a drug that can promote dependence, which makes it hard for chain smokers to quit. It is a vice. It is an addiction.

Cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 are contributors to cancer.

• Ninety percent of lung cancer is known to have 80 to 90 percent chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
• Smoking cigar is a contributing factor to coronary heart disease and stroke.
• It also accounts for 20 to 30 percent low-birth weights and to an extent infant death.

Smoking not only harms first hand smokers, it also affects those who breathe the smoked cigar, called secondhand smoke. Since 1964, tobacco advertising has been sternly mandated to include health warnings.

Most states and communities have raised issues on the restriction of public smoking such as workplaces, restaurants and public utility vehicles. But the tobacco industry and many smokers reacted on the anti-smoking campaign as harassment and suppression of one's liberties. Thus, the government neutralized the two extreme forces.

When smokers attempt to quit, the abstinence from nicotine leads to withdrawal symptoms. Withdrawal could be physical or mental.

Physically, the body responds to the absence of nicotine. Psychologically, the smoker is confronted with a habit, which means a major change in behavior. Both factors must be considered in order for the process of quitting to succeed.

Health concerns are the top most reasons for people to give up smoking. Ex-smokers enjoy a higher life quality with fewer ailments. The health benefits of quitting exceeds risks from less than 10 pounds weight increase or any psychological effects that may result from quitting.

Smoke quitting effectively reduces cost of vices. A significant difference is observed quickly when one quits. The ex-smoker can taste and smell much better, and breath also smells better. Risk of lung cancer and other respiratory diseases is reduced.

Quitting prevents damaging effects of tobacco on one's appearance, which includes premature skin wrinkling, strained teeth and yellowish fingernails, diseases of the gums and bad hair and clothes smell.

People who stop smoking not only help themselves but save the lives of their family and help preserve the environment.

Furthermore, quitting smoking is good for your skin. The skin is identified as the largest body organ because it serves as an outer covering of internal systems. It is common knowledge that smoking is extremely dangerous to health.

But did you know that aside from the usual lung and heart ailments developed from prolonged exposure to cigarette smoke, the addictive habit has also been found to pose adverse effects to the skin. Thus, many experts and dermatologists assert that quitting smoking is a good skin care measure. It is a common misconception to take care of the skin only from the outside.

Through the years, research efforts have established the clear relationship between overall skin health and the nutrients that come from within. It is in this concept that the major adverse effects of smoking to skin health can be explicitly explained.

There are simple explanations why you are advised to quit smoking to attain good skin care.

The first is that the nutrients found in tobacco cause constrictions at the outermost blood vessels, which help to feed skin cells with the essential nutrients and oxygen. Thus, smoking is a major identified cause of skin wrinkling and sagging even prematurely.

Smoking also has been found to deplete the skin’s elastin and collagen, which gives strength and elasticity to the skin. Lack of oxygen supply results to severe skin discoloration. Because the skin is deprived of the normal and necessary levels of oxygen because of smoking, the area especially around the facial region appears yellowish or sallow.

Repeated exposure to heat and smoke coming from cigarettes also result to similar occurrences. As already mentioned, there are over 4,000 identified chemicals and harmful substances found in each stick of cigarettes. Scientists assert that most of these are toxic and are proven to be highly irritants.

On top of that, there are 40 carcinogenic substances included that lead to certain forms of skin cancer, specifically the very deadly Squamous Cell Carcinoma. This form of cancer could metastasize to prompt formation of cancer in other body parts.

Here are picture representations of the Squamous Cell Carcinoma Skin Cancer:

Aside from these identified internal effects of smoking to overall skin health, the movement of the lips done when puffing smoke from cigarette sticks has been found to form wrinkles around the mouth. That is because people tend to pucker when puffing and emitting smoke from lit cigarettes.

The smoke also tends to form wrinkles around the eyes as people naturally tend to resort to the usual reflex of shrinking eyes when exposed to smoke. The best time to quit smoking is now!

Researchers and experts assert that by dumping the addictive habit right away, you could reverse the impact of its harmful activity to your skin. Thus, quitting smoking is one of the best and most effective skin care regimen.

For smokers, the attempt could be really hard and a major challenge. If you are just starting to form the habit, it would be better if you would drop it right away before you become addicted. Quit smoking and expect to have more beautiful and healthy skin.

Thank you for reading how cigarette smoking can badly affect your health. I hope this helps you or someone you know to smoke less or stop this harmful habit for good. If you enjoyed this blog, please share it to your family and friends who have trouble quitting smoking cigar. You can also follow me here on News Break. Until next time. Let's take care of each other. Be healthy and stay safe!

Above photo credit: Elsa Olofsson / unsplash.com

Middle 3 photos credit: skincancer.org