How Does Smoking Cause Wrinkles?
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Negative Effects of Smoking
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After about 10 years of smoking tobacco, you may begin to notice more wrinkles on your face and even on your arms. Although skeptics say that these are wrinkles that are associated with old age and not from smoking, most doctors believe that the constant exposure to the heat of lit cigarettes, cigars or tobacco-filled pipes combined with being surrounded by the damaging smoke can bring early onset of wrinkles. Due to facial expressions that you may make while you are smoking, like pursing your lips when you have a cigarette in your mouth, you may develop wrinkles from the constant use of your face muscles.
Facial Symptoms Associated With Smoking
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Smoking cigarettes, cigars or pipes can cause yellow eyes and teeth, bad breath and wrinkles. Cigarette smoke also reduces collagen levels in your skin, leading to saggy arms and face. The additives in cigarettes contain toxins that will damage your skin if you are being exposed to it on a regular basis. Over time, your skin will lose the circulation it once had by being exposed to cigarette smoke, making your face appear droopier and less healthy in appearance. Second-hand smoke can also cause skin aging and wrinkles, so take care to move yourself away from people who may be smoking near you. A smoker can help prevent wrinkles associated with smoking by relaxing his lips when he smokes, smoking only outside and blowing the smoke away from his face, or quitting smoking altogether.
Warnings
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Besides causing wrinkles, smoking cigarettes, pipes or cigars can lead to all kinds of health problems, including emphysema, lung cancer, bronchitis, pneumonia and many other illnesses. If you are pregnant, you should not smoke. The longer you smoke, the more chance you have of developing unsightly face wrinkles, which will not be undone, even if you stop smoking. If you need help quitting smoking, talk to your doctor.
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