Part 2: Habits to give the ‘boot’ to for U and your skins sake…

Part 2: Habits to give the ‘boot’ to for U and your skins sake…

Continuing on from last weeks blog about the effects of Alcohol on the skin, this week I’m going to focus on another vice, which, at this time of the year, may fall into a habit that you want to give the boot to.
The following maybe an incentive to help you.
Smoking is number two in line of the worst lifestyle habits that we choose to put our bodies and our skin through. Sun still tops the list as our skins worst enemy.
As with Alcohol, smoking has a stimulating effect on the micro circulation of our skin. Remember that this superficial capillary network is vital for feeding our cells and tissues with Oxygen and nutrients and for removing toxic build up. The continued vasodilatation and constriction of these delicate blood vessels can cause damage to their porous walls, thus affecting their ability to oxygenate, feed and then free the skin of waste material.
Look at any smokers skin and you will see the evidence of this appearing as a grey, sallow appearance, deficient in moisture, maybe with spotty outbreaks, visible capillary damage and of course, deep lines and wrinkles.
Still reaching for your lighter? Then read on.
Smoking is one of the lifestyle choices that stimulate the production of free radicals in our body. These unstable molecules wreak havoc and are the ‘thieves of youth’. They course their way round the body causing damage to the proteins in the skin, Collagen and Elastin fibres (there’s your lines and wrinkles); affect the DNA of our cells leading to possible pre cancerous changes.
Then there are the faces that smokers pull. Contorting when dragging on a cigarette gives rise to ‘crow’s feet’ around the eyes and lines around the mouth as well as unsightly blocked follicles that may appear as blackheads or spots and the skin takes on a yellowy hue. Come on you must have extinguished that fag now…right?
All is not lost, it is never too late to, firstly give up and secondly start to repair some of the damage caused to the skin.
Anti oxidants both topically and orally are the first good habit to adopt. Vitamin C in particular is crucial for collagen production and for strengthening that capillary network. 1 cigarette destroys the same amount of Vitamin C as found in 2 whole oranges!
Give yourself an incentive. Several of my clients have started to invest the money, usually reserved for their cigarette habit, on regular skin treatments and active products as a way of reminding them why they are giving up and to reverse some of the visible damage.
If you would like a skin health programme tailored to nurture your skin back to health then call me Louise on 07810 872 633 or email: enquiries@u-treatments.co.uk

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