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Can Acne Outbreak And Cigarette Smoking Go Hand In Hand? |
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Acne is a short battle, sometimes long drawn
out. Smoking is a long drawn battle, sometimes the never-ending battle!
But
with the combo of these two, you are only waging a permanent battle
against your own self. You are fighting a war of self-destruction.
Well, acne is a bad condition for the skin. It is the eruption of
the inner impurities. It is the expulsion of the unwanted stuff by the
body mechanism. When body is already making sincere efforts to throw out
the unwanted stuff with in, you are continuing with your damaging
exercise by pumping in more nicotine-based impurities into your system.
Not
surprisingly, acne and smoking have many common conditions due to which
they arrive and thrive. Now the question arises, is smoking directly
responsible for acne conditions? The answer is in the affirmative.
With
smoking you introduce certain chemicals into the body. These chemicals
have a direct bearing on the blood circulation to skin cells. The skin's
ability to heal and regenerate is blocked. The toxins released in
cigarette smoke results in pores getting clogged, and this promotes
bacterial growth in the pores. All these negative factors contribute to
growth of skin eruptions in the form of acne, zits and pimples.
In
post pubescent breakouts of acne, stress is considered as one of the
major factors. Herein knowing this proven fact, you can say that stress,
headache, acne and smoking make a musical chair of diseases. All these
diseases are so closely interrelated after all.
Think over. You
smoke because you wish to come out of the situation of stress. Does
smoking relieve the stress permanently? Does it even do it temporarily?
No. Rather it adds one more layer to the load of your stress. And you
may even experience severe headache.
When you face a stressful
situation the brain alerts the central nervous system which on its part,
sends signals to all parts of the body. As part of this fight response,
hormonal release from the adrenal glands results. Sebaceous glands
release fatty secretions. These two conditions cause clogging of the
pores that can contribute acne outbreaks.
Understand this. Acne
is a bad condition of your skin and that of your health. Smoking in such
a condition, is just like adding fuel to the fire. It will create
further stressful conditions and extend a cordial invitation to the
headache. All in all, you need to give up smoking when you have the
outbreak of acne.
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