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This is how smoking really damages your body<\/b><\/p>\n

The UK government is doing its fair share of campaigning against smoking: banning all adverts, with cigarette packets now hidden behind doors so customers aren’t tempted by the brands’ brightly colored logos.<\/p>\n

In theory, we all know that smoking is bad and ruins your body in more ways than one, yet there are 10 million adults in the UK who smoke.<\/p>\n

But the damage goes a lot further than your lungs, and the smoking cough is only the first sign of what cigarettes are doing to your body.<\/p>\n

October is officially Stoptober, the NHS led campaign where everyone is encouraged to overthink their habit and to stop smoking altogether – saw more than 250,000 Brits quit smoking, last year.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

The NHS<\/a> has turned the month of October into Stoptober.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Stopping smoking might be hard, but if you can go 28 days without a cigarette, chances are it’ll stick (so to say), and giving it up altogether will be a lot easier.<\/p>\n

Everyone has seen pictures of smokers’ lungs, or rotting teeth, but those have become so common their effect is debatable – so let’s make this a bit more personal and about you.<\/p>\n

In recent years, many stop smoking organizations such as ASH, have stepped up their efforts in a bid to inspire more people to quit smoking, through both innovative and motivating campaigns.<\/p>\n

A new interactive smoking tool continues this tradition. Created by online healthcare provider, HealthExpress, the tool allows the user to effectively ‘smoke a cigarette’ by scrolling a cigarette until it burns. As the cigarette burns, the harmful effects on the different areas of the body can be clearly seen on the male<\/a> and female<\/a> body.<\/p>\n

\"Health<\/a><\/p>\n

Health Express’ smoking effects visual<\/a> shows you what exactly cigarettes do to different parts of your body.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

So what does smoking actually do to your body?<\/p>\n

As seen in the tool, smoking affects your lungs; it destroys the normal lung structure, making you more susceptible for infections such as pneumonia.<\/p>\n

Exercising also becomes ridiculously difficult the longer you smoke, and running a marathon (or just up a flight of stairs, really) will turn into your worst nightmare while sending you into coughing fits.<\/p>\n

Not to mention emphysema and lung cancer, both of which often end fatal.<\/p>\n

But that’s just the most commonly accepted damage cigarettes do to your body.<\/p>\n

Women generally have thinner skin, making them especially susceptible for the ageing effects smoking has, but that doesn’t mean the men<\/a> are any better off.<\/p>\n

Wrinkles, acne and dry skin often set in a lot earlier than usual and will remain permanent, while psoriasis and scarring caused by narrowed blood vessels – not to mention your teeth, which will be discolored and weakened the 4,000 chemicals present in the smoke.<\/p>\n

Scroll further through the smoking tool and it only gets worse.<\/p>\n

Your stomach suffers and while smoking may block your appetite, it’ll also make you more prone to developing ulcers, bowel disorders like Crohn’s disease and increases the risk for stomach or bowel cancer. That’s out appetite gone.<\/p>\n

Women who smoke will also find it much harder to conceive and may even find themselves infertile – not to mention putting their baby at risk during pregnancy, too.<\/p>\n

People often don’t believe the last bit, but it’s actually a big risk: my dad worked as a paramedic and to this day tells the story of how they sent an emergency ambulance to a newborn, just a few days old, who showed signs of something being seriously wrong.<\/p>\n

The child wouldn’t stop crying, or shaking, until someone (under orders and back in the 80s, I may add) blew smoke into its tiny face. Turns out the child was suffering through withdrawal symptoms – and would you really want to put a small human through that?<\/p>\n

Also, while we’re on the subject of fertility, this seems like the ideal time to just throw two words out there to scare nearly every man<\/a>, no matter how old: Erectile dysfunction.<\/p>\n

Nicotine and other chemicals help narrow your arteries and clog them with fatty deposits, blocking the blood flow and making it very difficult to get an erection.<\/p>\n

The post This is how smoking really damages your body<\/a> appeared first on Gay Star News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stefanie Gerdes<\/p>\n

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