Smoking involves a lot of toxic substances that not only affect your lungs and heart but also other organs like your skin; even if you are a second-hand smoker, you must take some precautions and pay attention to danger signs.
Smoking also increases oxidation, the release of free radicals, decreases oxygenation and circulation, produces premature aging and even cancer.
Identifying a smoker by the way their skin looks is an easy task because most aging signs are present, mostly premature skin damage, making someone that is 45 look like someone who just turned 65 years. Eyes and lips are the first areas to show damage, deep wrinkles, and dehydrated skin.
Here we will go through the damages that can be produced when smoking:
What damage can you see in the skin and hair if you are a smoker?
- Dehydrated, dull, and yellow-grayish skin.
- Loss of elasticity and firmness.
- Deeper wrinkles with defined contours.
- Smoker lines (or code bar wrinkles around the lips).
- Sagginess.
- Yellow or brown teeth.
- Gum pigmentation (darker).
- Skin cancer.
- Increases inflammatory disease like psoriasis, eczema, acne.
- Decreases the healing process.
- Decreases microcirculation.
- Premature crow’s feet (wrinkles around the eyes).
- Increases acne breakouts and scarring.
- Hair loss.
- Hair thinning.
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Dr. Angelica Parra is a Licensed Medical Doctor from Venezuela and is currently taking a Master’s degree in Dermatology. She specialized in Aesthetic Medicine and completed Advanced Training in Non-surgical Facial Rejuvenation in Miami, Florida. She has specialized in applying Botox, dermal fillers, skin tightening treatments, and since then, she has worked on cruise ships as an Aesthetic Doctor.
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