Cigarettes
...g Does To The Body Smoking gives you bad breath, causes wrinkles earlier in life, makes your hair and clothes smell, you won’t be able to run as fast or as far, stains your teeth, and makes your skin dry. So unless you want to be a slow stinky dried up old bat don’t smoke. Besides all that smoking can cause Coronary Heart Disease, Emphysema, Lung Cancer, Throat Cancer, Mouth Cancer, Bladder Cancer Infertility in men and women and Stomach Ulcers. Why Its So Hard To Quit Nicotine is the drug responsible for making cigarettes so addictive. Studies have shown it to be as addictive as heroin and cocaine. Within seven seconds of inhaling a cigarette the nicotine has reached the brain. Nicotine acts upon receptor cells providing the “hit” that your body expects. This triggers various responses in your body; your heart and breathing rate go up and blood vessels constrict. By the time you have extinguished the nicotine level in your blood will have peaked and within half and hour your body will have cleaned it out of the blood stream. This spiking is part of what makes cigarettes so addictive. In the morning most smokers inhale deeply on their first cigarettes as the nicotine content in the blood has dropped overnight and they are quite practically in withdrawal. In reality smokers spend much of their time in withdrawal; stress, anxiety and boredom are all cigarette the heightened by daily withdrawal in between cigarettes. In between cigarettes every smoker goes through a small-scale version of what the quitter does. Over the day smoker smokes enough cigarettes to maintain a sufficient nicotine blood level to prevent these withdrawal symptoms. Usually the minimum number to achieve this is 10-12 cigarettes spaced over the day. Generally this explains why people who smoke less than half a pack a day are uncommon. Nicotine also acts as a vasoconstrictor, meaning it decreases the diameter of your blood vessels making it more difficult for blood to flow through the body. This can lead to higher blood pressure and forces the heart to work harder. It may be one of the reasons for increased heart disease in long time smokers. More obvious indications are cold or clammy hands, as the extremities do not receive as much blood. Second Hand Smoke Only 15% of the smoke from cigarettes is inhaled by the smoker. The other goes directly into the air and is known as second hand smoke. Second hand smoke is a combination of: mainstream smoke, which is the...