If you decide to quit smoking, it will not only have a positive effect on your health, but also on your skin. Regular smoking puts a lot of strain on the skin and tends to form wrinkles and other signs of aging.
This is what happens to your skin when you quit smoking
Quit smoking, has many health benefits. The skin also benefits from this change in behavior.
- Smoking causes the skin to age faster. If you stop smoking, you cannot reverse the previous skin aging. But you can slow the pace of the aging process back to a normal level.
- You also reduce the risk of smoking by quitting smoking skin cancer to get sick.
- Skin blemishes caused by smoking will disappear over time and your skin will appear fresher and more relaxed overall.
Smoking damages the skin
Smoking causes the skin to age faster. This fact is due to various reasons.
- The blood supply to the skin is poorer in smokers because the blood vessels constrict when smoking.
- In addition, the blood transports through the inhalation of carbon monoxide less oxygen through the body, resulting in less nutrients and less oxygen being supplied to the skin.
- Regular smoking also leads to a reduction in Collagen. As a result, the skin loses both its fullness and elasticity.
- The pH value of the skin also changes, so that the protective acid mantle is disturbed and the skin is therefore more susceptible to external influences.
- As a result of this stress, smoker’s skin quickly develops signs of aging such as wrinkles and pigment spots.
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Your skin needs this care following smoking
To support the regeneration of your skin, you can take a number of care measures.
- It is important that you clean your skin thoroughly in the morning and evening to remove dirt particles and dead skin.
- Also wear a day or night cream on, which gives your skin a lot of moisture.
- Above all, you should also use care products that contain a lot of vitamin C.
- through regular Peeling you can remove dead skin cells and stimulate blood circulation.
- You can also support regeneration by applying a moisturizing mask once a week.