Facial Benefits For Women Who Quit Smoking

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Facial Benefits For Women Who Quit Smoking

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In our rather health aware society we are bombarded with a list of things that we know can cause cancer. Smoking will most likely lead to lung cancer. Your genetic makeup could lead to breast cancer. Even the over consumption of green beans offers a cancerous risk. Because we hear so much about what might kill us one day, we often start blocking out the information to prevent being overwhelmed by eating, drinking, breathing, or touching anything.

Yet most women will at least consider smoking if not put down the pack altogether when she realizes that quitting smoking will lead to a prettier face. In our youth we thought that somehow smoking was going to add to our image. We all coughed and spit and sputtered to get that first smoke down. After that, we were able to convince our lungs to take it all in.

Image had so much to do with why we started and for women, it can be exactly why we quit. That image became part of us. At least until we looked at the reflection in the mirror and wondered who that old looking lady was staring back at us. Most women in their thirties that started smoking in their early twenties will develop a crease wrinkle between their eyebrows first. Then crows’ feet and slight wrinkles around the mouth start to appear. Discolored facial skin and an unattractive texture come with the territory. When we consider the consequence of weight gain over the repercussion of wrinkles, quitting seems like a better choice.

When you consider the options, you can develop a daily routine and a diet that discourages and helps you recover from any initial weight gain. Try controlling wrinkles and age spots just because you’ve started walking the dog every day. It doesn’t work. When faced with these two options most women will choose to control the weight gain over the worsening condition of their face.

For your facial skin you’re going to want to attack the problem from both the inside and the outside. You can reverse some of the damage once you’re no longer puffing on a smoke. You want to improve your dry skin care to help with the texture and then apply skin care cream that is loaded with collagen, elastin, and antioxidants.

These three basic ingredients are the key elements to repairing the damage that the free radicals from smoking have caused. The chemicals in cigarette smoke stay locked in the blood and eventually turn into the free radicals that control and damage cell development. The natural production of any of these basic essentials is drastically reduced in a woman that smokes.

Health warnings are often ignored until it is too late. Looking at your reflection daily and knowing that you are aging your facial skin by years with every pack is a strong motivator for quitting.

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