Long Term Effects Of Cigarette Smoke

I'm not here to preach to you. I'm not even here to tell you that smoking's bad. If I had to do that then you probably wouldn't be reading this in the first place as you'd probably have some math homework to do. Rather, I'm here to inform you of some of the most devastating long term effects should you continue on your smoky path through life.

First Phase: Public Embarrassment

So it's no secret that cigarette smoke is chock full of carbon monoxide. Big deal, right? There's a great deal of carbon monoxide in the air that we breathe already. The problem is by directly putting yourself in the CO zone, you've consigned yourself to some of the most painful and embarrassing effects that it actually has on the body. Among other things, you'll be suffering with:

• bad breathe (halitosis)

• immense plaque build up on the teeth

• gum disease (from the lack of oxygen in the skin cells)

• yellowing and/or rotting (form the lack of oxygen reaching the enamel)

• hard time breathing (smoking reduces lung capacity, therefore making it harder for you to breathe)

• yellow fingernails (because oxygen isn't reaching bone cells)

• smelling like an ash tray

Second Phase: Cell Death

The fact of the matter is, the aesthetic damage is nothing compared to the trauma your entire body will end up going through if you can't get your act together. In a nutshell, you'll be a walking incubus of decay. Because smoke deprives blood cells of oxygen, you'll both have an abundance of dead cells and be replacing healthy blood cells with toxic cells. Though that may seem a trifle issue, if you're not careful, you're putting yourself at risk for contracting several types of cancer, including throat and gum cancer. It's never a fun thing to report to a patient that because of their years of smoking, something's got to be removed to keep them alive --namely, a great deal of cheek and gum tissue is removed to ensure the cancer doesn't spread.

Third Phase: Certain Death

I don't want to frighten anybody. I don't know if the aforementioned problems even did the trick. But you know as well as I do that cell decay only leads to an eventual death --one that's not too pleasant, at that. However, it all comes back to the cells. As soon as cells begin to die, your entire body goes through a slow and painful necrosis --meaning as healthy cells die and/or get replaced with poisonous ones, organ functions begin to misbehave or even fail. You've got to ask yourself if a quick cigarette break everyday is worth the potential of cancer so try to Quit Smoking as soon as possible.