How Smoking Really Affects Your Skin

Two months since the smoking ban and, if you decided to give up, all your cravings should have disappeared and you should be feeling a lot healthier. But what will have happened to your skin if you gave up smoking on July 1^st?

One of the immediate effects of giving up smoking should be fresher and younger looking skin. Smoking diminishes the blood supply to the skin, making it grey and dull looking and almost immediately after ditching the cigarettes the blood supply to the skin will start returning to normal levels. This will leave the skin looking clearer and more youthful.

Another significant result of giving up smoking is restoring the body’s ability to heal effectively. When the blood supply to the skin is compromised by nicotine, your skin will heal much more slowly. Skin renewal is seriously slowed by smoking, and so smoker’s skin does not refresh itself as often as it should, leaving it looking tired and unhealthy.

Many of the effects of smoking are only noticeable later in life, and stopping smoking now will mean a significant reduction in wrinkles in later life. With up to 75% of wrinkles attributed to smoking, stopping smoking now can ensure that you can significantly diminish the number of wrinkles as you get older and avoid wrinkle treatment.

So if the ban didn’t persuade you to kick the habit, we hope that the warnings about your skin will have done. When you’re fighting the cravings, just picture your fresh and youthful skin to help you beat them!