Smoke accelerates the normal process the skin goes through as it ages and not only causes more wrinkles then there should be but makes them appear much earlier in life. This can lead you to look much older than you really are. Just ten years of smoking regularly can cause the skin damage to appear. If you started smoking when you were very young this means you could get wrinkles in your twenties you should not have until your forties. The more you smoke and the longer you do it for the worse the wrinkles will be. Since the start of this kind of damage is hard to see you may not notice a problem until it is too late to take preventive measures.

While the wrinkles you have may never go away you can keep them from getting worse by stopping smoking. Smoking causes wrinkles in several ways. The nicotine in the cigarettes makes the blood vessels less wide at the surface level of your skin. This causes a lack in blood flow to the skins surface. Without the proper blood flow you skin does not get what it needs to remain healthy like oxygen, vitamin A and other nutrients.

Also there are more than four thousand chemicals in cigarettes, all of which come out in their smoke. These chemicals settle on your skin causing it damage and reducing the amount of collagen and elastin it has. Collagen and elasin are what give your skin elasticity and strength. When they are depleted the skin will droop and this causes the deep wrinkles. Also the heat from the cigarettes and lighter can cause damage as well as the repetitive motion from taking a drag.

Treating the deep wrinkles that are caused by smoking is not easy and is not something you can do yourself at home. To see any real results you will have to go to a doctor and spend a great deal of money and time on treatments. These treatments are not even permanent so it is not going to be a one shot deal. You will have to return over and over to keep the desired look you want. Your options are going to be skin resurfacing by microdermabrasion, laser treatments, injectable fillers, chemical peels or in worst case scenarios surgery. No matter what the treatment you will need to stop smoking to get full results.

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