Is it true that smoking causes early skin aging?

Question

what is ur own expierence?

Answer 1

Absolutely. (Not to mention obstructive pulmonary disease and cancer). Every smoker I've ever known has deeper crow's feet and lines around the mouth and forehead than a non-smoker. And nasty breath with yellow teeth. Eeeeewwww

Answer 2

It is true. You can always tell a smoker because their teeth are yellow, their skin is darker and has a thousand little wrinkles, and their voice sounds oddly strange. Well that is because nicotine tends to get into your skin and cause discoloration and once it absorbes deeper in causes breaks in cartilage thus the wrinkles. Also it decreases a persons oxygen supply and this also contributes to the agining and poor health. It might not be noticeable while you are in your twenties but it deffinetly catches up with you when you are 50.

Answer 3

I get asked this question a lot and have been asked to help a lot of people who smoke. I believe it does cause more wrinkling around the lips - and the smoke isn't a good thing for you to absorb as well as inhale -
My own experience is just seeing and treating a lot of women with heavy lines under their nose/lip area - and the majority of the gals were (are) smokers or worshipped the sun.

Answer 4

yes, around your lips because of drawing on the cig. the muscles are used so often causing crepeyness and premature lines. the itself skin ages as the fact that the smoke around your skin's surface means that it is constantly under attack from harmful chemicals and the acid mantle on the skins surface needs to be thicker than would normally be necessary and so it tires quickly.

look around at say a 50 yr old woman.. if she smokes its likely she will have those lovely lines outwwards from thin lips and thick course skin that is crepey and congested

Answer 5

Oh Yeah! Big time.

I have never smoked and am very careful in the sun(no tanning beds) I also use sunscreen and people think I am at least 15 years younger than I actually am.

There is nothing good about smoking.

Answer 6

Yes it is true. The fact that my family goes grey prematurely, add the early skin damage from smoking plus sunbathing, I actually could imitate a sultana now. Less hydrated however.

Answer 7

Wrinkled skin esp. around the eye because you squint from the smoke. It also dries your skin. Cause hair to grey faster and skin an teeth to get yellowish.

Answer 8

I do not smoke but i know smoking can cause the skin to age quickly.

Answer 9

Indeed it does, especially those unsightly creases around the mouth caused by the repeated puckering we do to suck up the smoke, and by the smoke itself, drying the tissues. I have yet to see a woman over forty that smoked that did not have these deep creases around her lips.

Answer 10

Mom is a piece of leather, Grandmother is an old piece of leather, they smoke, I do not smoke I look 5 years younger than I am.