What is in cigarettes that causes short-windiness?

Answer 1

Short term - carbon monoxide. It adheres itself to the platelets in blood and prohibit the platelets from transporting oxygen through your blood stream.

Long term - tar. That stuff gummed up your lungs and there's no surface that's open enough for oxygen to pass through your lungs' membrane to get oxygen to your blood stream.

Answer 2

Other than the fact that you are filling space that could be oxygen rich with other particles, the underliying problem is two-fold. Nicotinic receptors are located in two types of tissue: smooth and muscle. Smooth tissue, such as the heart, will actually loosen or slow. Skeletal muscle may speed up (or become tense), but the vessels that are involved tend to shrink, which in turn, causes less oxygen to get to the cells that are burning fuel when you are working out or getting your heart pumping. It is very much like trying to get the same amount of water out of a hose that is half the size around as it was before, or like putting your finger over the nozzle- there is a pressure buildup.

Answer 3

Your lungs are responding to the heavy toxins that are found in cigarettes and other tobacco products.

If you were to quit smoking for several years, and then smoke just one cigarette, you would choke severely. The human lungs hate smoke!

People that continue to smoke, suffocate themselves ---- slowly. It is a painful death!

Answer 4

I believe it damages the aveoli in your lungs. Aveoli is the capillary rich sac in the lungs where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place. If this is damaged the exchange of oxygen is much harder. Therefore you would get short windedness.

Answer 5

Tar

Answer 6

Smoke, tar, nicotine

Answer 7

All the smoke that gets in your lungs kills them and makes them weaker so you lose your breath faster

Answer 8

SMOKE!!!!!!!