Smoking and Your Skin

Smoking and Your Skin
Skin Care

It may be hard, but the best thing you can do to have a beautiful, glowing complexion - Stop smoking. After you quit smoking, you will see one of the real benefits – a more beautiful, smoother and more radiant skin.

Did you know?

Smokers develop premature wrinkling and sagging of the skin similar to those of aging.

Smoking eats away vitamin C in the body, about 35mg for each cigarette. This in turn, robs the skin of collagen which keeps the skin elastic. That flawless skin shown on cigarette ad models directly contradicts the reality.

Just 10 minutes of cigarette smoking decreases the body’s and skin’s oxygen supply for almost an hour. Nicotine narrows blood vessels and prevents blood from circulating to the capillaries (tiny blood vessels) in the upper layer of the skin.

Smokers get more wrinkles, deeper wrinkles, all over their faces because nicotine constricts the tiny capillaries that nourish the skin.

Quit smoking now. Save the money you spend on these toxic weeds and go out and treat yourself to a facial or a new skin cream instead. Your skin will thank you for it!