Smoking affects your health not only internally but also externally. It may give you a high but your youth may walk out on you forever. With the help of Senior Consultant Dr. D. S. Walia MD Dermatologist, Walia Hospital Ludhiana I would like to throw light on its destructive effects on people's appearance who smoke regularly or frequently. Quit smoking as soon as possible before it takes your life away.

Its main impact is on hairs as it causes hair loss. Our body is made up of different types of cells, tissues and organ systems. Smoking hinders supply of fresh Oxygen and nutrition not only to body cells but also skin cells. Upper layer of our skin, epidermis, usually contains hair follicles. Due to abnormal supply of Oxygen and nutrients hair follicle could not produce hair cells. Hair cells are made up of a protein called Keratin. The follicles go unhealthy and stop making the cells. This is however a slow process but its results are drastic. The loss to hairs especially beauty hairs present on head, eyebrows, lashes, beard and mustaches further create a stressful environment around victims of the disorder. Stress due to the loss may give rise to several unexpected diseases including blood pressure, heart abnormalities, psychological problems, stroke, cancer, chronic bronchitis and other killers. You might even know the fact that smoking has the topmost priority for preventable death in India and worldwide.

€Smoking is not only harmful for your beauty hairs but also for your skin. It makes you looking much older as it tends to deprive your skin of the incredibly important Oxygen as well as nutrients. It is however not visible to people who smoke, as it is not an instantly result showing process but a slow and steady process. It is really a fetal disorder and people who are addicted to the habit must stop it as early as possible for their sake of life positively,€ opined the dermatologist. €It causes deep wrinkles on skin and also turns it into sagging skin due to destruction of elastin and collagen by chemicals present in tobacco smoke€, he said further. It also shows age spots of darker color on skin on face and hands of smokers. Crow's feet, known as wrinkles around eyes of a smoker, is also caused by it which go deeper overtime due to damage to blood vessels and skin structure. Moreover, excessive smoking leads yellowish to dark colored staining of nails, teeth and even skin. No doubt smokers should quit smoking otherwise be ready to face its drastic affects on their skin and gorgeous appearance.