How Does Smoking Affect My Health?

Smoking affects your overall health in many ways whether you are age fifty or older or younger than age fifty. The following information indicates how smoking may affect people that smoke:

Effects on the brain

Tobacco contains nicotine which is also known as a mood-altering drug. Basically, it triggers the release of neurotransmitters in the brain and a person may feel energized, but in the long run the person may become addicted. If a person withdraws from smoking or taking nicotine many health-related issues may happen to a person.

Smoking and your lungs

People who smoke at younger ages are more at risk of getting lung related diseases as they age. Due to smoking the internal lining of body vessels and air passage damage may cause chronic lung disease such as cancer, bronchitis and emphysema.  Even people that live with people who smoke are more at risk of getting bronchitis and pneumonia due to second hand smoke.

Smoking and heart health

The biggest damage that a smoker does to their body is losing cardiovascular health. Due to smoking the blood vessels in the body become narrow and resist blood flow causing several heart related issues such as a heart attack, stroke and blood pressure problems. Smoking also decreases the good cholesterol level in the body and increases the bad cholesterol level, that may affect the overall health of the heart.

Smoking and impotency

Smoking is bad for sexual and reproductive health because it causes resistance in the flow of blood.  It lowers the release of sexual hormones in the body that causes the decrease in lubrication in females and low libido in males. So, smoking may lead to causing impotency.

In conclusion, smoking is not good for your overall health and may cause numerous problems with your health.  Smoking is not good for both people over age fifty and people younger than age fifty.   Let’s try to stay healthy by avoiding smoking if you can.  For more information about the effects of smoking to your health you may want to talk to your doctor.

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