How Smoking damages your skin?

“You can keep smoking, or you can have beautiful skin. Your choice….”

Everybody knows that smoking is bad for your lungs, but it also takes a toll on your natural beauty!
When you light up—or when you are near someone else who lights up—the cigarette smoke goes into your lungs, and from there into your bloodstream, and then throughout your body.

• Each lungful of smoke sends free radicals everywhere, causing oxidative stress in every part of your body. In addition, free-radical damage accumulates below the surface of your skin and ultimately leads to wrinkles.

• Cigarette smoke makes your blood vessels constrict, which impairs the blood flow to your skin. This not only makes you look gray but also prevents your body from being able to carry toxins away from your tissues. In addition, it prevents nutrients from reaching the cells in your skin, so they cannot refresh and renew themselves.

• Smoking breaks down collagen and elastin in skin, which contributes to wrinkles and sagging.

• Cigarette smoke depletes your body’s supply of vitamin C, which is a key ingredient for keeping skin plump and moist.

Smokers need far more of the antiaging antioxidants because their bodies suffer from far more oxidative stress. The damage smoking does to your appearance can take 10 years to appear, but it is irreversible. Smoking simply is not compatible with youthful, soft and, attractive skin.