Long-term smokers, what kind of changes in the face? Smokers: want to quit smoking after understanding the process

 Did you know that cigarettes contain thousands of compounds, including dozens of carcinogens, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nicotine and tar, which can damage many organs in the body, with the lungs bearing the brunt of the damage?

Long-term smoking or exposure to second-hand smoke can increase the risk of lung cancer, as well as oral, stomach, liver and breast cancer; long-term smoking also damages the integrity of blood vessel walls, increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Recent studies have found that smoking also speeds up the aging rate of the face, so take a look at the details.

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What are the effects of smoking on the face?

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University have done a study and concluded that smoking accelerates the aging of the face. They found 79 pairs of twins between the ages of 18 and 78 to study the survey, of which 45 pairs of twins one smoked, the other did not smoke; the remaining 34 groups of twins all smoked, but the age difference of more than 5 years.

A comparison of their facial areas showed that the smoker looked older in the twins of one smoker and one non-smoker; the twins of both smokers looked older in the longer smoking age.

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What do long-term smokers look like?

1. Facial skin is easily damaged

Smoking is likely to cause dry skin, become rough and prone to wrinkles, they always involuntarily pouting and squinting, over time, making the lips and eyes early wrinkles, crow's feet at the corners of the eyes elongated, to extend down to the upper part of the cheeks.

Some smokers, especially women, who are only 40 years old, have wrinkles that look similar to those of 60-year-old nonsmokers. At the same time, their complexion is not rosy and glowing, and their skin is gray and dry, while also predisposing or aggravating acne.

Cigarettes contain harmful substances can promote capillary constriction, affecting the skin to obtain nutrients, the normal metabolic function of the skin is damaged; carbon monoxide in cigarettes can be combined with hemoglobin, reducing the ability to carry oxygen, making the skin lack of oxygen, which in turn causes the skin yellowing, making wrinkles increase and deepen, the face looks more old.

2. oral damage

The lips of people who smoke for a long time are dry and lusterless, so that they appear purple-brown; smoking also causes tooth staining, making white teeth become burnt yellow or black; the mouth emits bad breath; because smoking can stimulate the gums, making periodontal disease further deteriorate, promoting the generation of calculus, due to the accumulation of too much calculus and cause gum inflammation and bleeding, resulting in the generation of periodontal pockets and loose teeth.

The reason why this problem occurs is related to the stimulation of harmful substances in cigarettes and the accumulation of toxins. The most terrible thing is to drink and smoke at the same time, because alcohol, as an organic solvent, can dissolve the harmful substances in cigarettes and make them enter the bloodstream through the capillary walls, thus damaging the health of the body.

Warm tips

For the sake of your health and to slow down the rate of aging, it is imperative that you quit smoking, and if you do so successfully, your smoking face will slowly improve. Before you plan to quit smoking, you must make a thorough plan to find out the real reasons why you smoke, list the pros and cons and post them in a prominent place.

Throw away all items related to cigarettes, such as ashtrays, lighters or matches, and stay away from places where you smoke and avoid contact with old smokers. After you start to quit smoking, you may experience various discomfort symptoms, but they will disappear in about 2-3 weeks.

People who love to smoke, if the face of which 3 kinds of performance, quickly quit smoking?

1. Frequent cough

Cough is just a symptom, a self-protection mechanism of the respiratory tract, but it is also a typical symptom of respiratory diseases. Cancerous lesions in the lungs can be accompanied by persistent coughing. Usually, cancerous lesions in the lungs grow on the large airways and have strong local irritation, so irritating choking cough or dry cough can occur, and even foamy sputum can be present. As the cancer cells continue to proliferate, secondary infection may change the quality of sputum, and in severe cases, coughing up blood or hemoptysis may occur. If you have been smoking for more than 10 years and have a persistent cough recently without any effect after medication, you should go to the hospital for a comprehensive lung examination to rule out the possibility of lung cancer.

2. Lip color abnormalities

The lungs are the most important respiratory organ in the body and the place for gas exchange. The blood can transport oxygen to every organ and tissue in the body. There are a large number of blood vessels distributed on people's lips, which are exceptionally sensitive to changes in blood oxygen. Under normal circumstances, the lips are red and shiny, but when the lungs are diseased and the oxygen content in the blood decreases, the lips will turn blue and purple. If you find blue lips, you need to be alert to lung lesions, but you should not ignore cardiovascular diseases, for safety reasons, you should choose a regular hospital for further investigation.

3. Dark face

Chinese medicine believes that the lungs are the main skin, which means that the lungs are closely related to the state of the skin, the lungs are susceptible to dull and dark face after lesions. When the absorption function of the lungs decreases, it will make the blood supply to the blood vessels of the face abnormal. When the lungs become diseased, they can compress the nervous system and affect blood circulation, resulting in swelling of the face and drooping eyelids.