Posted on August 2, 2007 in Latest News
If you are skeptical about whether smoking can cause hair loss or not, a recent study says ‘yes’. A recent observational study has found that smoking can cause hair loss and also baldness.
There are many ways cigarette smoking can cause hair loss, and most of these are related to the effects of cigarette smoke on your hair follicle. Cigarette smoke contains almost 4,000 lethal and damaging chemicals that can cause normal hair loss.
Smoking also causes dull, lank and smelly hair. Not only your smoking habit affects the look and smell of your hair, it can also make your hair break off.
Smoking stops the flow of an adequate amount of oxygen and nutrients through your blood. Because your hair does not get the right amount of the vital nutrients, your hair becomes unhealthy and may also break off.
So if you are already a smoker, give up the smoking habit for shiny and healthy hair.
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August 8th, 2007 at 4:32 am
I am an African-American woman who has always had long healthy black hair that would grow down my back no matter how many times I have cut it, permed it, abused it, colored it…whatever. I have always been known by my beautiful healthy shiny locs. I started smoking cigarettes about 10 years ago…the habit got worse throughout the years. I have noticed that over the last 6 or 7 years my hair is dry, brittle, thin, frizzy and limp. I just couldn’t understand why my hair was acting this way. I cut it all off twice and it grew back long and unhealthy. I have pin-pointed what changes have occured in my life and I am almost 100% positive that it is from the smoking. All of the women in my family in their 50’s and 60’s still have heads full of gorgeous hair and I am only 30. They do not smoke, but I do and I know that’s what it is. If your hair suddenly seems damaged and you smoke…. stop smoking! I think it takes a while to have an effect on the hair…I know that’s what it is cause none of my other habits have changed.
August 18th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
please email me info re smoking and hair loss
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:29 pm
ive been smoking for 3 years, and about 10 months ago, i realized my hair is really thing, and it would break off very easily. time 2 quit.
November 25th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
I was trying to figure out if some of the drugs I was taking was the problem for my rapid hair loss over two years. What I didn’t realize it that I went from a “social” smoker to a heavy smoker due to stress. Great excuse. Now, I am sure it has to do with smoking. I’ve always had gorgeous hair, and the doctor’s cannot find anything wrong with me. No one asked me if I smoked. I’m quitting NOW.
January 6th, 2008 at 7:36 am
I have only been smoking for about a year and a half, but I already see what the cigarettes have done to my hair. My scalp is dry and flaky, my hair is dry and tangled, and I couldn’t figure out what was causing this until I quit smoking for a period of time and my hair was shiny and healthy again. My father has smoked for almost 20 years and no longer has any hair. I smoke over a pack a day and it shows. So if you are reading tis, PLEASE stop smoking!!! It kills more than your lungs! I am finally on the path to being smoke free. I have cut the habit down to less than half a pack a day, and soon I will learn to live life without them, and my hair and body will be healthy again.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Yea but I cant stop being stressed out , so i still smoke. My fathers bald, and nobody lives forever. They way shit is going in my life, and in the world, who wants to? I’ll attempt it in vain again I suppose.
June 11th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Good Info! I will keep reading
June 19th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
I’m so amazed, and I always thought it was true. I have always had very good hair and i know it’s the smoking, I’m so addicted it’s horrable. I have quit about six times and I’m 31; Evrytime I quit my hair would grow like a fern and it was beautiful, but as soon as I started to smoke again I saw my hair go right back to the way it is now, my hair sheds like a dogs and it’s not because it needs a treatment it’s becuase I smoke. I’m so sad because this is what I did, no one put the smoke in my hand I did and my hair is the proof. My skin was the same now I take pills is pills gonna do the same for my hair I think not, so I’m done myhair is my beauty and I think it’s everyones beauty you know so I’m done. Time to quit and if you read this trust me black women we see it more on our hair than other type of hair.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Since I started smoking two years ago my hair has started falling out and thinning at a very rapid pace! Now I know why? Now I know if I value my hair and my health, I need to quite! One of the hardest things to do in life… But I have to do it! Thank you for an inspiring article.