If you are a smoker, and particularly one of a young age, then you are in danger of getting those dreaded wrinkles around mouth and the lip region. Unfortunately, smoking is the main culprit for wrinkles, especially around the mouth, and that is maybe one thing to think about next time you pop a cigarette in your mouth!
Smoking has been proven to be a great irritant to your entire body, but it affects the skin in ways that you may not notice until you are older. The aging process has to kick in at some point, and wrinkles is just one symptom of this, all smoking does is rapidly speed up this process causing you to have wrinkles at a much earlier age, especially wrinkles around mouth. It reduces the flow of blood to your skin, and this causes the skin to lack in vital nutrients that keep it healthy and supple. It is also lacking in oxygen. The things that are carried in this blood, along with oxygen, like the proteins that it needs to keep it’s elasticity is greatly reduced. This means, that when the skin is damaged, it is unable to repair itself as much as it would have done had you been younger or didn’t smoke. This is the case for all over the body, but in general, it causes facial wrinkles and especially wrinkles around mouth areas.
It has been proven that smokers have less of the much needed collagen in their skin. It is this collagen that keeps the skin supple and plumped up. Without it, the skin is much thinner and it easily damaged by everyday wear and tear. Even something as simple as drying your face with a towel damages the skin, but smokers are unable to repair the skin as much as non-smokers and therefore wrinkles and other aging symptoms happen at a much younger age. It has been proven that people that smoke have the wrinkles that a fifty year old non-smoker would have, but it happens in their thirties!
Smokers tend to have more wrinkles around the eye areas as well as wrinkles around mouth, and this happens due to squinting. The smoke from the cigaretter irritates the eyes, and especially if you smoke in a room instead of outside. This squinting action causes the smoker to have more wrinkles around the eyes, but at a much younger age. Not only that, but wrinkles around mouth happen because of the constant "dragging" action that they pefrom around a cigarette. Not only will the smoker have more winkles around their mouth, but their cheeks will hollow. This is a sign that occurs with the older generation, but in a smoker, it happens from a very young age. Obviously, the more you smoke, the more of an aging affect the smoking will have on the skin.
Obviously, smoking is not the only thing that causes wrinkles around mouth, but it is one thing that is guaranteed to speed up the wrinkle process. The only advice I can give to you, is that it is never too late to give up smoking. The earlier you give up, the much more of a chance you have to keep your skin in tip tiop condition and try to avoid wrinkles.
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