The smoking effects. A cigarette, too much?

A cigarette a day, keeps the life away! 
Smoking among the youth is very common nowadays. 1 out of 10 teenagers are smokers.  Cigarettes do come in small packaging but has severe effects on overall health. Smoking has become a habit among public. Smokers find smoking hard to quit due to l Nicotine addiction. Cigarettes contain tobacco which has an addictive drug known as Nicotine.  There is many health problems caused due to smoking such as obesity, COPD, Lung diseases, stroke, emphysema and bronchitis. 
Regular smokers have 65% chances to get affected by serious health disease such as cancer and heart attacks.  Moreover, heavy smokers have life expectancy of 65 years or less. There are many reasons to quit smoking cigarettes

So, let’s get started with new blog on effects of smoking cigarettes on skin and hair.

Reduced skin circulation
Our skin and hair health demands good circulation of nutrition, minerals and oxygen. 
Smoking cigarettes can cause accumulation of toxic substances in the blood stream. And in a protective mechanism the response will be our blood vessels are get shrunken. Due to the shrinkage of blood vessels, the blood flow around the skin and hair follicles is reduced to half. Hence, smoking cigarettes can cause hair fall and thinning of hair. Most common hair problem in smokers is receding hairline. 

Reduced Immunity
Smoking can also reduce the immunity in many ways. Taking a healthy diet full of nutrients does not compensate the effects of smoking. 
Smoking delays the healing process of our body. The healing process of overall body including scar healing, wound healing, ligaments healing, acne clearing and infections. Any bacterial or fungal infection of the scalp is more common as the fighting mechanism of the body will lag. 

Damage to DNA
In smokers the DNA is affected badly. The hair follicles are damaged and also the skin starts to lose the collagen. Smoker’s skin is dull and acne prone. 

Cigarette smoke
The environmental pollution is harmful for the skin and hair. And cigarette smoke is worst of them all. 
Cigarette smoke is heavy smoke which not only settles in your lungs but also layers itself on the top of your skin and hair. The toxic cigarette smoke settles on your skin and hair, damaging the cells topically, and causes balding.

Premature aging
There is a great difference between skin before smoking and after smoking.
Smoking can lead to hair graying before the age of 35. Smoking damages the skin and leads to premature aging. Premature aging process includes fine line formation, blemishes, sagging of muscles of the mouth and eyes.

Smoking cigarettes and Beard Growth
Smoking cigarettes can cause patchy beard and slow facial hair growth. 
Smoking is inversely proportional to the beard growth as smoking causes damage to facial hairs. 
Smokers’ health is already affected, but it also stretches out to passive smokers.

Why quit smoking? 
Quitting smoking is not easy for everyone. And there is no remedy for quitting smoking, no natural treatment for effects of smoking cigarettes. To quit smoking cigarettes, you must have a reason or motivation.  Just think about how severely can smoking impact your health and appearance. 
In a few years your appearance will detonate, grey hair, patchy beard, dark circles, wrinkles, dark lips, muscle sagging, infections, balding or even receding hairline.