First of all, during the process of smoking there are produces huge amounts of so-called free radicals. They are very active elements which attack and destroy skin cells and this smoking causes wrinkles, but there are also other reasons to quit smoking cigarettes.
In every article, I have written, I tried to emphasize the idea of the sun protection, not only during the summertime but through the whole year round. The solar radiation may cause premature skin ageing because it generates the producing of free radicals to large extent. It is useless, though, to protect our skin with the help of UVA/UVB creams or antioxidants while, in the meantime, we continue smoking. In such case, smoking becomes even more treacherous than our exposure to the sunlight without any protection.
Cigarettes contain nicotine, one of the most addictive substances in the world. Quitting can prove to be really difficult. Some smokers may actually need the professional help that a number of options for outpatient addiction treatment can provide so they can successfully quit.
Smoking is also a habit which does a lot of harm not only to the person who smokes but to whoever comes around and is forced to breathe the smoke in.
Free radicals are produced in our organism even when we breathe the smoke passively. The large amount of free radicals cannot be fought by even very strong antioxidants such as: bio-flavonoids, vitamin C, A or E, mainly because these are able to work only in the epidermal part of our skin.
