How does Smoking affect you?

Smoking can affect you in many ways. As many think, it not only affects your lungs, but damages many organs and your entire life. Your health deteriorates and gradually you get affected severely. Even if you are not a smoker, but inhale the smoke while someone near you smokes, you can get affected.

Smoking has a significant effect on your lifespan. It decreases your lifespan. Smoking related diseases are cancer, emphysema, and heart disease. The occurrence of these diseases and your lifespan depends on the type of smoker you are, your other habits like eating and exercise, body resistance. The more you smoke and if your eating and exercise habits are poor, you are more prone to the bad effects of smoking. Scientific studies show that a cigarette is capable of reducing your life span by an average of 11 eleven minutes.

Another bad impact of smoking is that it can affect your concentration levels. Have you ever experienced a problem of losing focus on a game of badminton? You couldn’t control your moves and passed out? At this time, you must also have seen the things around very differently. This is a sign that smoking has started to affect your brain and your concentration levels. When you smoke you might not know that one cigarette contains something around 3000 chemicals, out of which many are toxic in nature. For example, nicotine is a poison, methane is a component in rocket fuels, hydrogen cyanide is another poison, and cadmium is used in batteries.

If you are a woman, and thinking how does smoking affect you directly, then it is during pregnancy. The possibility of having a miscarriage is very high. It can also cause defects in the new born babies. Smoking also affects the fertility levels of both males and females. These smokers have decreased levels of fertility and hence the chances of reproduction are very less in them. Chain smokers can be as well called as impotent. The doctors’ suggestion to women who plan to conceive is to stop smoking at least a month before conception. Even if you don’t do that, once you know that you are pregnant, you must stop smoking to avoid any serious health risks. When you are pregnant, if you are not a smoker, but your partner is, the smoke you inhale can harm you or the baby.

Apart from harming you physically, it can weaken you emotionally:

You develop a bad breath.
You always smell of tobacco, irrespective of whether you smoked at the moment or not.
You skin shrivels and develops wrinkles.
You get a stained set of teeth.
Your cavities increase.
You look more aged than you actually are.

As a result of these, people can start avoiding you or you may feel it odd to face people. Now you know how does smoking affect you both physically and mentally. So just quit it!