Smoking and your Skin

Why is smoking bad for your skin?

Smoking is one of the two worst things you can do to your skin (the other is unproteced sun exposure).  Smoking causes the blood vessels in your skin to narrow, reducing the blood supply and the flow of nutrients needed to renew your skin.   This in turn leads to slower cell growth, breakdown of collagen and elastin, thinner skin, and that grayish-sallow look smokers often have.

Other side effects of smoking:  extremely dry skin, lip lines, premature thinning of lips.

There are many ways to quite smoking.  Please, if for no other reason, for your skin (not to mention to avoid coronary heart disease, strokes, lung cancer, emphysema, bladder cancer, colon cancer, stomach cancer, esophagus cancer and more)