Smoking - will it age me?!
Question: I have smoked since I was 18 and I am 23 now. I don't really see any effects on my skin yet. When should I, IF I do at all, notice my skin aging?
Does smoking actually age skin? And if yes, in what ways?
Do men who smoke age as much as women who smoke?
I understand alll the other health concerns but this questions I am solely concerned with aging!
Answers: I have smoked since I was 18 and I am 23 now. I don't really see any effects on my skin yet. When should I, IF I do at all, notice my skin aging?
Does smoking actually age skin? And if yes, in what ways?
Do men who smoke age as much as women who smoke?
I understand alll the other health concerns but this questions I am solely concerned with aging!
It ages you by creating creases around your mouth from puckering and sucking in. You know how lines on a face make people look older, well, this is no exception. The lines around a person's mouth from smoking make them look older. Smoking also makes yellow areas on the fingers you hold the cigarette with. It doesn't wash off because it's in your skin. Not attracive and aging. Smoking also yellows your teeth, an aging look. As you smoke and your lungs are no longer able to get the right amount of oxygen to any cell in your body, every cell in your body "ages." How does that show up? Dull skin, hair, eyes, nails, less ability to do things, like walk, run, etc...your body "ages." How long does it take to show up? If you've smoked for 5 years you WILL have those verical lines around your mouth for the rest of your life. You might not see them now because you're so young now and your skin is still firm (not wrinkled), but you've already created them and so as you age and your skin naturally begins to get lines, the ones you've already created will show up and make you look a lot older. As you age and get natural lines in your face, you'll have a lot more than other people your age who didn't smoke--you'll always look older. It's like people who bake themselves in the sun--they have a great tan when they are young and skin is firm with plenty of collagen, but as they age, they've damaged their skin so severely it looks like leather as they age. Someone of the same age who didn't bake their skin earlier still looks young later....
Of coarse it will. It has been proven the smoking DOES age you faster. People who are 30 will look 40 or even 50 depending on how long they have smoked. If you don't notice yourself aging now--you will later.
Also, it doesn't matter if you are male, female, black, white--smoking affects everyone just the same.
It will wrinkle the area around your mouth quite noticably (although I don't know how long it takes for that to happen). Just look at the mouth of anybody who has smoked for a long time - it's hard to miss.
Yes! It messes up the blood flow. It causes wrinkles! it will make your gums recede so your yellow teeth will look bigger than they should. then they will fall out! it makes your skin look older. If you are a pack a day man I would say 10 to 20 percent older.
It also messes up your desire and ability to do anything about it at an earlier age!
When you finally see the results it will be to late! quit now, save money, live longer, do things,
If you do not think I am right go to a old man bar or coffee hang out and look at some of those old guys! Or look at a skinny old woman who smoked or still does. All wrinkled up in the face with skeleton teeth.
Cigarette smoking causes accelerated aging due to the changes in our biological chemistry due to smoking. Studies show that is causes more wrinkled, leathery skin, aging/wrinkling in individuals as young as 20 as well as more veins appearing on body. By quitting smoking, the effects can be prevented greatly, even possibly improved.
Yep
Yes, dear, it will, but like all good things, it takes time. To combat it generally, you should stay extra-hydrated (that means WATER), and take extra Vitamin C as smoking depletes that, which, in turn, will cause you to smoke more without feeling better about it. For more info you could go to Web MD. Also, If you quit by age 30 you will probably not see it on your face...but look at some older women (I see plenty of them here in Las Vegas) and you can frequently spot the smokers/ex-smokers--their faces get kind of leathery-wrinkled. You'll like that, I'm sure. But you're still young, just know that you don't want to smoke forever (or can't). Smoke if ya got em.