How Smoking Can Age the Skin
Hi, I'm Nicky Hammonton-Jones and welcome to lookandfeelyounger.TV. This month we’re focusing lackluster skin. As we get older, you might notice your skin becomes dry and dull and generally lacks that youthful glow. Well, the main reason that happens is because the process of which we rejuvenate our skin cells as we get older slows down dramatically. And as a result, dry and dead cells accumulate on the surface of the skin and these tend to absorb light instead of reflecting light as a more oily and youthful skin would do.
The other thing that cause lackluster complexion is smoking. If you do smoke and you're look in the mirror and thinking why I have like I got a bit of gray, yellowish dull color? Well, it’s all because of the cigarettes. So today I'm going to talk to you about why smoking is so aging on the skin. And then next month I'm going to focus on exfoliation.
A smoker who smokes up of average 10 cigarettes a day will look like someone in their 60’s when they're in their 40’s. Smoke 20 cigarettes a day and you’ll probably look like someone in their 70’s when your 45. It’s that dramatic in terms of the impact it has on the quality of your skin. It actively destroys our collagen and elastin matrix.
Now think about a fleshy apple. You know without the flesh, the skin would have nothing to support it and would collapse in. So actually destroying our collagen and elastins matrix means you are more prone to saggy skin and deep fold and fine lines. Smoking also actively stops oxygen getting to your skin cells. Now imagine your skin cells are being apparently starved of oxygen which is the vital nutrient they need to survive. Don’t give them oxygen and they’ll slowly going to die off one by one, which is why your skin starts to look so much older.
It’s just that habit of smoking. Think about you know cigarette in your mouth in and out, in and out causes this dreadful puckering lines around the mouth, which let met ell you having worked a lot of people over the years to help them look younger are very, very hard to get rid of.
And also smoking is one of triggers of gum disease and it’s quite silent gum disease because you don’t know you’ve got it. Because smoking starves your gums of oxygen they don’t tend to bleed. So you don’t actually notice that there’s something wrong until you loose a tooth. And we’ve all had that nightmare dream. All right, where you kind of open your mouth and all your teeth fall out. It’s everyone worst nightmare and if you don’t like dentist, you ain’t going to like them anymore when you’ve lost a tooth or your teeth start to come loose and uncomfortable.
So just think giving up, you're not only going to save money on the cigarettes that you use to buy. You're going to save a fortune on dentist fills, on restoring your teeth to their form of glory, the benefits of giving up smoking far out weigh the negatives and really if you can stick to it you will look so much younger. Take a picture the day you give up and then compare to your face in the mirror two days later and you will see a dramatic difference in the way your complexion and your overall skin glows and that will spirit you on to keep going trust me.
So what I say is cold turkey for seven days and if you get through those seven days, you will break the habit physiologically you will not crave and it will be more of the habit that you are liking to doing that “oh, I'm bored what can I do to have cigarette, I don’t want to eat I’ll have a cigarette”. So if you can then maintain and pursues the habit before you know it you will be cigarette and smoke free and your skin will get a new least of life.
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