Cigarette smoke coats your skin with an enzyme that breaks down collagen and elastin which leads to wrinkles. In fact, a study performed on siblings at the St. Thomas Hospital in London found that the sibling who smoked tended to have skin that was 40% thinner and more wrinkled than the non-smoker.
When you are tired, your body produces excess cortisol, which is natural hormone that breaks down skin cells, leading to wrinkles. On the other hand, when you are well rested, your body produces excess natural “HGH” which keeps skin elastic, Proper sleep also provide distance from wrinkles.
Smoking kills! What more damaging effect do you want? A majority of smokers will frankly admit that they wish to give up smoking and somewhere in the past they had given up. But there is also a stubborn tribe of smokers who are not at all willing to admit the harmful effects of smoking! Enter a conversation: Sir Winston Churchill (the late former Prime Minister of Great Britain) was a chain smoker of cigars, lived up to the age of 85 years! ‘
The ill effects of smoking are:
