Cigarette smoking not only encourages lung cancer and heart disease, it also badly affects your skin and hair. Here are the reasons for smoking’s aging effects.
- Nicotine is a diuretic; so smoking causes drying of the surface of the skin.
- It reduces the vitamin A levels in the skin
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It affects matrix metalloprotienases (MMPs), and this way it makes collagen to degrade and elastin to fragment
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Smoking affects the lower and deeper part of your skin
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Smoking lowers the blood supply to your skin and reduces production of collagen. This will slow the healing in the skin.
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This slow healing also increases the risk of complications after surgery including after cosmetic surgery or laser resurfacing.
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Nicotine also has toxic effects on the healing tissue.
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Nicotine also suppresses the immune system to increase susceptibility of viral infections of the skin such as warts.
So to look handsome, stop smoking.
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