Smoker's acne

Doing Nothing For Acne Does Nothing

2011-10-01T12:03:00.000-07:00

Sweat And Acne

2011-09-09T02:01:00.000-07:00

Explanation by Dan (Video).

Handling acne by simply doing nothing only works for people who don't really have acne.

Acne And Smoking Explanation By Dan (Video)

2011-08-19T20:41:00.000-07:00

Causes of pimples: drugs and acne and popping pimples

2011-02-09T02:57:00.000-08:00

Speaking about smoking and pimples, we can say that causes of pimples can be different. Let’s count: severe depressions called by continuous smoking, “bad” hormonal changes that affect skin, non-inflammation processes that result in “smoker’s acne” and popping pimples. Today let’s speak about drugs and acne – this tie-up has hormonal changes as its basis.

Personally I know few people that got acne and popping pimples after they had begun smoking weed. But many experiments have shown no straight evidence of smoking weed to be one of the causes of pimples. Thus researchers say that pot affects hormonal balance. For example, Journal of Clinical Pharmacology had an article on this subject. Its author stated that smoking men have lesser sperm count which is called by hormonal disorder. Let’s say – if their reproductive health is damaged, chances of skin disorders are really big.

Cocaine use also can be one of the causes of pimples. Relations of this kind of drugs and acne lay in increased levels of testosterone of those who use cocaine. Too much testosterone is bound to lead to early baldness and bad skin condition. You can observe this effect even without cocaine use – just visit gym for a few weeks, and you’ll get some popping pimples. It’s because of high testosterone levels of those who do exercises and… use cocaine. The same effect has “ecstasy” (MDMA) usage. Levels of testosterone are 75% higher – with such bad hormonal balance acne is one of the smallest problems for addicts.

Drugs and acne have few non-straight relations. Usage of narcotic substances has a great stress effect on the organism. It’s a well-known fact that stress is one of the main purposes of pimples to pop up. So be careful and don’t exchange your health for “nothing”.

About marijuana and acne problems

2011-01-18T00:25:00.001-08:00

My friend knows how to get rid of smokers acne. I mean not tobacco but pot pimples. It’s simple – you must be caught when doing some messy thing and put to a jail! This is a real life story about a boy of “pot and acne” kind, about marijuana and acne, about smoking and pimples connection.

Around a year ago my friend John was socializing with his friends at the backyard of a school. It was almost night and weekend, so they thought no one will see them. And then – BAH! As it appeared to be later, John was smoking weed. His “friends” told it was his weed. John was 22 – his friends were around 16-17. So Judge Tennyson sentenced him for three years in prison – only him.

Let me tell you the pre-story. John had severe acne problems. His face was like that of Stephen King’s character from “Christine”. Like a pizza – all covered with acne. John faced this problem when he was 18. Before then his face was almost all right, like everybody’s. At the age of 18 John began smoking weed (pimples – almost none). And after few months all those acne problems started. We haven’t thought that marijuana and acne are connected! But in his case it appeared to be so. Much later.

John tried everything. He washed his face with Clearasil two times a day, then three time, four, five – no effect. John’s mother (she also didn’t know he smoked marijuana and acne problems were because of it) tried to treat her son’s acne with different home measures – some extractions and so on. No effect. He even visited dermatologist and cosmetologist. The only thing John didn’t do – he never spoke about smoking pot and acne possible connection.

Few days ago I was waiting for John with his mother near the prison checkpoint (she asked me to come with her). He behaved very well and court approved a decision to let John leave the prison. You probably won’t believe me, but when I saw John – I didn’t believe my own eyes. His face was perfectly clear. During this last year he was not smoking and pimples had left him for good.

What do you think about marijuana and acne connection?

Smoking and acne - last is not the only thing

2011-01-09T14:02:00.000-08:00

The more I search for new information about smoking and acne, the more news I find about actions taken to shorten smoking women death roll. It’s known that women smoke as much as men and even more in some countries. Men need to quit for only several weeks before impregnation to guarantee that baby’s damage will be the least, while women need several months of no-smoking before they become pregnant with healthy babies. There is always a threat because children are more likely to born sick if their mothers are smokers. Scientists are up and working on this problem.

Today anti-smoking organizations have found new way to advertise healthy life without smoking to women. It’s so called “let’s look how your beauty will fade in 10 years if you don’t quit” program. Authors of the program gained possibility to create images of one’s face in future by using special morphine technology – “state-of-the-art” age progression. Joining this research every woman could see how she will look after ten years if she quits, and if not. You just see two copies of yourself – one good and one bad – with all your wrinkles brought by smoking, and acne, an all other possible consequences. Striking fact – this method works. Certain experiments were held to prove its efficiency.

34 young women took part in this research – aged from 18 to 34. Over 20 of them told after seeing two of their future faces that they will quit smoking for good because they are horrified. Many of them had smoker’s acne on those i-am-a-asmoker images – smoking and acne are connected, you know. Doctor Sarah Grogan – Project Leader – told us, that women are very interested in keeping their beauty for long time. This looks like a key factor of the whole thing. According to her words, lot’s of women experienced reaction of physical shock (even nausea).

Now researchers think about second part of their research – they would like to test those women again after five months from now – to see if any of them really quit. Do you want my opinion? I think none of them will quit. But researchers think another way. They hope to wider next research of this kind.

Smoking and acne of postadolescent type

2011-01-03T13:23:00.000-08:00

Long time no see, my friends. But now I’m back – and so is my part of global information campaign set to discuss smoking-acne in masses. Here is one of the last researches on this theme. Specialists determined that smoking tobacco has certain influence on appearance of the most common type of postadolescent acne - CPAA. Read further to find more information about smoking-acne connection.

The results of this research were published in the issue of the “Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology” in November. Dermatologists examined clinical features of comedonal postadolescent acne (CPAA) and papulopustular postadolescent acne and possible influence smoking has on these two types of adult acne among women.

226 women from 25 to 50 years old took part in this research. 192 of them suffered from CPAA and other 34 – from papulopustular postadolescent acne. 150 women from the whole company were smokers. Remarkable that no data about skin type, diet, stress and other deceases’ influence on these women’s acne was collected during this researches.

According to this research 73% of those 192 women with CPAA were smokers, while only 30% of women with papulopustular postadolescent acne were smokers as well. Even mentioning that no other possible factors except smoking were taking into account and that only 34 women had PPAA comparing to 192 women with CPAA, this research shows us – adult women-smokers are more likely to have CPAA than adult women who do not smoke. This is the main connection between smoking and acne.

What is postadolescent acne and CPAA? Postadolescent acne (or adult acne) is inflammatory type of acne which can be seen on the lower third of the face, on jawline and neck of an adult person. Frequently doctors meet it’s comedonal type characterized by microcomedones and macrocomedones (retention lesions) with rare inflammatory lesions – this is called CPAA.

Here is my conclusion – if you are an adult with CPAA (visit dermatologist to be sure of it), you’ve got to say “bye-bye” to your bad habit. Or just quit it anyway. There is nothing good it can bring.

Smoking cessation and acne

2010-06-11T04:59:00.000-07:00

Are you interested in how smoking cessation affects skin condition – especially how are smoking cessation and acne connected? This article is bound to help you with determining the effect smoking cessation will have on your acne.

It’s wildly known that smoking is the cause of so called smoker’s acne.

The first thing you should know is that smoking cessation will stop their appearance for sure. There are big chances your smoker’s acne will disappear and won’t leave even a scar – if you stop. Thus smoking effect on inflammatory acne is undetermined – some studies have even shown that smoking decreases acne severity by deceleration of inflammatory processes in one’s body.

Smoking cessation and acne is not the only thing – you should also take into account that smoking makes skin age faster. Smoking cessation has plenty good affects on skin besides it helps with non-inflammatory (smokers) acne.

Now – some people say that smoking cessation and acne appearance are connected.

Here is what I have seen on the Internet recently: “Now that I've quit smoking, why am I getting acne like I'm a danged teenager?!”.

“As we've all learned, the act of smoking introduces all kinds of nasty pollutants into our bodies. Being the miracles of nature that they are, our bodies adjust as best they can and do whatever they can to shed the nasty chemical toxins we pour into them with every puff we take on a cigarette. Unfortunately, each cigarette we smoke retards the detoxification process that our bodies are *trying* to engage in. The net effect is an accumulation of toxins inside our bodies along with a shift in the chemical balance inside us (including our hormones.)

One day, we quit smoking. This is a Good Thing but, as we have also learned, it throws our bodies into an upheaval. Suddenly the chemical balance is thrown out of whack again while, at the same time, our bodies start the detoxification process. You've heard people tell new Quitsters to "drink lots of water to help flush out all the toxins". This is good advice and it helps a great deal. However, it's just not fast enough for you body when begins to excrete the toxins in any way it can. Sometimes the toxins are ejected through the soft tissues inside our mouths and through the pores. This causes the well-known Quitzits many Quitsters suffer from. It can also cause tremendous mouth discomfort as cold sores and canker sores erupt inside the mouth and on the lips. This coupled with the hormonal changes that happen (akin to the changes that happen during a woman's menstrual cycle, another time when she's likely to experience more acne than is typical) can lead to some pretty pimply periods. Sore throats are also quite common during this time.

There is also some evidence that there are chemical agents absorbed from cigarette smoke that inhibit the formation of cold sores which only makes their occurrence more likely once you Quit. Finally, many Quitsters suffer from Quitstipation. Since this slow downs a major toxin shedding process, this is one less avenue for the body to rid itself of the nasty chemicals it has been absorbing. If it's any consolation, smoking Quitsters aren't the only people to experience this phenomenon - recovering heroin addicts have been known to develop raging cases of acne, too”

He also wrote that it’s better to wait this effect out.

How I’ve got rid of smoker’s acne

2010-05-26T06:14:00.000-07:00

Connection between smoking and acne is not yet well studied. Some researches have shown that smoking lowers intensity of inflammatory processes (thus lowering acne severity), other have shown that smoking only worsens acne condition, some of them have shown nothing. Only recently scientists have found that smoker’s acne (non-inflammatory acne) are caused by smoking itself.

We asked different people to write us about how they have got rid of smoker’s acne.

Pam, 23:

“I have never had acne being a teenager. Never. I don’t know even why I took up smoking at the age of 17 – after a while I started suffering from problems with my skin. Now I am twenty-three – and I feel that things are going better. I quitted smoking (I’ve found about Allen Karr’s book on http://smokinggivingup.wordpress.com/) – and this appeared to be all I need.”

George Moshington, 234:

“As far as I remember acne have always been my main problem. I suffered from acne feeling myself complete shit – and when I started smoking, first I thought that I’m getting better. But no, it was not. After some time I observed that I have new big blemishes on my skin, that are nothing like easy to get rid of.

When I tried and went cold turkey – I have not only raise my self-respect, but also noticed some changes on my skin. I still have oily skin – but now situation gets ever better.”

We also asked dermatologist to make his statement about smoker’s acne, simple acne and effect smoking causes on skin condition. Doctor told us that from all points of view smoking is never good for skin – even if it lowers acne severity, you still have other hundred minuses and smoker’s acne (as we see now).

So it’s hard to underestimate harm smoking causes for one’s skin.

Adult Acne and Smoking

2010-05-03T08:58:00.000-07:00

Acne is a problem of almost every teenager, but adult acne can be real curse for an adult. Acne is not a serious medical problem, but pimples affect they way one senses the world, self-esteem and bring stresses.

Adult acne are often of non-inflammatory type, as well as “smoker’s acne”. But you should understand that smoking can be the main, but not the only cause of one’s acne. Others are stresses, hormonal misbalance (testosterone is often blamed to be the cause of acne), food, drugs, alcohol, also genes, climate, lack of sleep. Doctors say that dirt can be the cause of acne too, because clogged pores are often the base for new pimples. Still you should know, that washing your face too often will only worsen the situation.

But let’s get to adult acne and smoking. Smoker’s acne is probably not the only thing you will get from smoking. It also affects general state of health and work of almost every system in your organism, so it will cause health stresses and different negative effects.

If you had the problem with acne in your teenage years, it is four times bigger chances that you will meet adult acne problem if smoking.

Kicking the habit is a brilliant idea for it will not only help you with other health issues but also will leave much bigger chances to avoid Adult Acne.

Quit to avoid acne

2010-04-28T12:59:00.000-07:00

Now we know that smoking is the cause of acne – it’s non-inflammatory type, if not of it’s inflammatory type (that is just not proved). That means one must quit smoking in order to avoid constantly growing severity of his or her acne problems.

How to quit smoking? There are many ways you can try yourself or with the help of your friends, or specialists in this sphere – psychologist or physician.

First – stop smoking. You can go cold turkey, or make your cessation step-by-step. In my opinion it is ever better to stop smoking once and for all. If it will be too hard to battle nicotine dependence first few weeks – while nicotine gets out of your body – try nicotine replacement therapy. It is better than smoking, and soon you will be able to quit nicotine dependence completely. Though it’s better to stop nicotine flow at all.

Go and read Karr’s book about smoking stop – lot’s of people manage to quit with it’s help.

To stop smoking completely you must also keep away from places where there is smoke. Secondhand smoke is got to be the one dreadful thing for you. So ask your smoker-friends to stop when they are with you, try not to pass through or be in smoky rooms. Secondhand smoke is also bad and it can certainly lead to your picking up habit once more.

Go for sports, be on fresh air more often, avoid bad thoughts and stresses, manage them better with physical trainings and exercises, not with smoking tobacco.

You’ve got to understand that in order to quit smoking you must make certain efforts.

It will help you a whole of a lot not only with your skin, but with you breathing, heart work; it will improve great your state of health, and then you’ll be able to control acne severity and manage to get rid of them quick!

About pimples for smokers

2010-04-22T17:00:00.000-07:00

Though pimples are inflammations of skin surface, and smoker’s are about to suffer from non-inflammatory type of acne, smokers may also suffer from pimples. Researches have shown that smoking itself has no significant influence on pimples severity.

Often pimples are about to appear on one’s chest, back, shoulders and neck – places of the body where skin is the most oily. They can be a pustule or papule. They are pores that are clogged, infected or both. Pimples come where whiteheads and blackheads are infected and inflammation has already begun.

One should not touch his face with hands, even if they are clean; try to sleep on your back with no pillow-face connection; start a clean face regiment to rid pores of unwanted particles and dirt.

Antibacterial cleansers are especially good – also it’s normal to use oil-free cleanser.

It’s BAD to extract pimples by yourself – you can damage your skin badly. If doing so you must follow all medical prescriptions and hygiene.

“The popping of pimples is never medically recommended, as it can lead to bleeding and scarring. However, it remains a popular method to relieve the discomfort some pimples inflict, and it immediately destroys the pimple” – Wiki says.

Here is what specialists say:

Over scrubbing or over cleaning your skin may cause your skin to become too dry, which then may aggravate skin and will result in another set of outbreaks. Cleanse deeply, but moderately. In fact, some skin experts even recommend that you wash only with water and mild soap, such as baby soap. It is also advised not to switch cleansing products too often. This may also cause allergies and other skin problems.

Thus you’ve got to be very confident in what you do. Don’t be afraid to search for new information – it’s not a shame to have pimples, it’s a shame to do nothing while suffering from them.

How to treat smoker’s acne

2010-04-09T04:19:00.000-07:00

Smoker’s acne - are non-inflammatory acne, that consist mainly of breakouts called comedones, commonly referred to as whiteheads and blackheads. You can see blackheads at the top of your skin, these are blocked pores, while whiteheads occur beneath the skin surface. Here is how you can treat your smoker’s acne or any non-inflammatory acne.

Salicylic Acid

Salicylic acid is a type of beta hydroxyl acid medication known as a keratolytic. Salicylic acid works on non-inflammatory acne by addressing skin-shedding problems. It achieves this by slowing down the rate in which cells are shed in your pores, reducing the amount of dead skin cells available to combine with sebum (oil) into plugs. Although commonly found in over-the-counter (OTC) acne products, salicylic acid also comes in prescription strength for cases of acne that do not respond to OTC treatment.

Azelaic Acid

Azelaic acid is also commonly used for both non-inflammatory and inflammatory acne. Azelaic acid is a naturally made byproduct of the yeast that lives on your skin. When extracted for use in acne treatment products, azelaic acid works like salicylic acid as a keratolytic medication, correcting irregular skin-cell shedding. Azelaic has the added benefit of also killing the Proprionibacterium acnes bacteria associated with more serious acne outbreaks, as well as has the ability to help reduce inflammation.

Isotretinoin

Retinoids, such as isotretinoin, are also common prescription medications used for the treatment of non-inflammatory acne. Isotretinoin works by shrinking the sebaceous glands, resulting in less oil production. Less oil production results in less material available to clog pores. According to the New Zealand Dermatological Society, isotretinoin is given orally over the course of 16 to 30 weeks, but may be prescribed longer, depending on the seriousness of the acne.

Contraceptives

Contraceptives can also be used to treat women with chronic problems with non-inflammatory acne. Although commonly used to prevent pregnancy, the effects contraceptives have on the hormones of the body also help regulate and reduce the oil produced by the sebaceous glands. Less oil production results in fewer clogged pores.

Source: http://www.livestrong.com/article/76772-prescriptions-noninflammatory-acne/

Smoking and acne

2010-04-04T04:10:00.000-07:00

Here I will continue my research on smoking and acne connection. Is smoking a cause of acne? How does acne intensity and severity of pimples differ due to smoking, it’s intensity and type of cigarettes (low nicotine, medium, heavy)?

Can you comment on this post? I am very interested in your opinion about smoking and acne.

So now we know that smoking is really a cause of acne, it’s non-inflammatory type – called smoker’s acne. Most of the people who suffer from non-inflammatory acne are smokers, only 15-20% of those with non-inflammatory acne are never-smokers. But even one cigarette per day will probably bring you smoker’s acne after some time will pass.

What is the influence of cigarettes if we speak about inflammatory type of acne?

Different researches conducted in 80s and 90s found that smoking helps a little with inflammatory processes in our organism, speaking an easy language – your acne won’t be so “red” and their severity will be a little lower, but you still will suffer from inflammatory type of acne + it’s non-inflammatory type. So the pros of smoking here is doubtful.

Smoking intensity is not an important factor. Research workers say just how much you smoke won’t act on your acne severity. From one side, this is good – you can smoke as much as you want. From the other side, if you smoke even a little – you will suffer from smoker’s acne anyway.

Also it’s not a factor what type of cigarettes you smoke – Marlboro Red or Camel White – you’ll catch some pimples on your face anyway. Frankly speaking pros of smoking light cigarettes looks doubtful to me even not concerning acne problem.

So, let’s memorize:

- smoking is a cause of acne – it’s non-inflammatory type;
- there is no relationships between smoking intensity and severity of acne;
- type of cigarettes or tobacco you smoke has no connection to acne severity as well.

Stay health!

Smoking increases risk of psoriasis development

2010-03-26T09:55:00.000-07:00

Another disease can be added to the list of smoking-related disorders - psoriasis. Researchers have found that smoking increases the risk of developing psoriasis, heavier smoking increases the risk further, and the risk decreases only slowly after quitting. Investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Harvard School of Public Health, all in Boston, USA, and Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, have published the results in the November 2007 issue of The American Journal of Medicine.

This study is the largest prospective assessment of multiple markers of smoking status, duration, and intensity in relation to the risk of psoriasis. Using data from the Nurses Health Study II (NHS II), an ongoing longitudinal study of 116,608 female registered nurses from 15 states between the ages of 25 and 42 years at baseline who completed and returned an initial questionnaire in 1989, the researchers documented 887 incident cases of psoriasis during the 14 years of follow-up. Lifetime smoking exposure was measured in pack-years, equal to smoking 20 cigarettes per day for one year.

Compared with women who never smoked, the risk of psoriasis was 37% higher among past smokers and 78% higher among current smokers. Pack-years were associated with a graded increase in the risk for psoriasis. Compared with never smokers; the risk was 20% higher for 1-10 pack-years, 60% higher for 11-20 pack-years, and more than two times higher for +21 pack-years. The significant trends persisted with smoking duration in both current and past smokers. Furthermore, exposure to passive smoke during pregnancy or childhood was associated with an increased risk of psoriasis. The risk of psoriasis among former smokers decreases nearly to that of never smokers 20 years after cessation.

Writing in the article, Hyon K. Choi, MD, DrPH, states, "These findings, along with well-established hazardous health effects of smoking, provide clear incentives for smoking cessation in those at risk for and suffering from psoriasis. Beyond the potential effect on psoriasis, smoking cessation would lead to a better overall clinical outcome in psoriasis patients, who often suffer co-morbidities related to smoking.”

After the study "Smoking and the Risk of Psoriasis in Women: Nurses' Health Study II" by Arathi R. Setty, MD, MPH, Gary Curhan, MD, ScD, and Hyon K. Choi, MD, DrPH, appears in The American Journal of Medicine, Volume 120, Issue 11 (November 2007), published by Elsevier.

My pimples had gone away!

2010-03-22T07:33:00.000-07:00

This is a story of an adult, who suffered from pimples for many years – from the time he was a child and till now, when he is already 43 years old. He claims that from the very time he started with smoking tobacco, he had every minute of his life filled with depress, because his appearance – problems with skin – impede his social life. He couldn’t speak to women without hesitation, and he felt everything had gone bad from when he smoked his first cigarette.

His name is Josh Sanders, I met him in a restaurant. I can’t say I drew attention on how he looks – his appearance and face were quite normal. I set and asked for a cup of coffee, then – I can’t remember how – we started a conversation. I told him I have a blog for those who is interested in information about smoking and tobacco affecting how we age and how our skin looks – including pimples.

Josh asked me if I can tell him address of this blog, and then told his story. Until he was 20 he had bad acne, and their severity was going worse all the time. He was still a virgin because of his problems, and it made him very poor. He tried different things to end with his acne, including special soaps, creams and medicine. But he never thought about cessation – smoking was his savior, he felt himself better after every puff.

Then he met his wife, but still suffered from emotional stress and his looks. Only when he was already 37, Josh gave up on smoking – they had a child. And pimples left his face.

This is an unique story, but everyone should try. Maybe smoking is the only problem why you have skin problems (if you have).

Others may be hormonal problems and infection. So don’t give up, try everything, but first – leave smoking for good.

Here is another blog where you will find information about smoking and discuss different things:

http://smokinggivingup.wordpress.com/

How smoking damages skin

2010-03-15T07:14:00.000-07:00

I’ve found an interesting article about new service which will allow you to look at yourself after 40 years of smoking. Smoking heavily. Here it is.

The harsh reality of swapping football for fags made a lasting impression on a pair of Rotherham United stars as they tried out ageing software offering a shock insight into their potential future selves.

Stephen Brogan, aged 21, and David Haggerty, 18, saw themselves as 60-year-old regular smokers using the high-tech kit - with startling results.

The technology allowed them to compare how they would look in 40 years' time as smokers and non-smokers, and the difference was marked. They also got some sort of pimples and smokers acne as smokers.

The Millers players used the software at The Quit Stop, on Bridgegate, to pledge their support to Rotherham NHS Stop Smoking Service, which provides a range of free support services for smokers.

They want to spread the message that smokers are four times more likely to quit when they seek specialist NHS support.

Stephen said: "I was really shocked when I saw the image. I didn't realise smoking could have that sort of impact on the way you look.

"Seeing how I might look in 40 years' time makes me realise how important it is not to smoke. If more people saw this process I think they would definitely think twice about smoking."

The service is using the ageing software at regular group meetings.

Smoking pot causes pimples

2010-03-11T07:13:00.000-08:00

“I smoke marijuana day and night – I don’t have acne at all!”, “I smoked pot for three days, and my acne went bad, oh crap”, “Do you think I smoke pot? Yes, maybe. But my acne don’t care about it – no more, no less.” These are answers we have got from asking people in the street whether acne problems make their life worse and if whether they feel any difference in their condition after smoking tobacco and pot.

Most of people said they haven’t smoke tobacco even a time, but among those, who did – 68% told me they don’t expose worsening of acne severity after smoking pot, 21% told us that their acne had gone bad after last smoking and 11% had no problems with their skin – they were just smoking pot.

So smoking pot is a cause of acne, isn’t it? Not really. There was no serious scientific researches conducted, but most dermatologists don’t think that smoking pot can cause acne. Smoking like it is won’t get your far, and some people may expose additional skin problems, someone may not.

It’s a good advice to stop smoking pot now though, if you don’t want to spend some bright and joyful years in prison and want to have kids.

Although you can suffer from more severe pimples if you already have acne problems – doctors say. Smoke gets not only into your lungs, but skin, hair and etc.

What else people say:

“I went months without smoking and noticed a vast difference in my face from when I did smoke on a regular basis. Im going to have to yes, yes there is a link but probably more so in a person that is prone to acne in the first place.”

“Marijuana increases testosterone in the body, so it can lead to minor outbreaks (a handful of pimples as opposed to full on acne)... it should also be noted that this only happens in the case of frequent use (daily)”

“haha the only way i think it would cause acne is because it makes u too lazy to wash your face!”

Smoking do cause pimples

2010-03-06T06:09:00.000-08:00

Smoking causes million of deaths every year, it causes plenty forms of cancer and heart-diseases, emotional problems and pains. People don’t bother themselves with such problems because in their opinion such things are somewhere in the far future. And how about smoking causing acne? In short, evidences of this were conflicting and the medical research community needs quite a bit more data to come to a consensus.

It’s an old story of smoking causing acne problems and pimples, but the latest researches showed that there is something to worry about. On the Internet you will find many talks about whether smoking causes pimples or no – this is a popular question to ask. If one hears that the answer is yes he will probably think about quitting.

Smoking has damaging effects on the skin over a number of years, so it affects aging – this is the fact. Smoking causes non-inflammatory type of acne, which was proved by the latest research. This is something to worry about. Smokers tended to have more acne, and the more they smoked, the worse their acne presented itself.

If you are already suffering from acne disease – better stop smoking. It won’t get you far if you will smoke during therapy courses or just trying to succeed in health life stile. So if you want to control acne – quit.

Another thing is if you don’t suffer from skin problems, you should fear skin problems you’ll get because of tobacco smoking. Researchers at the San Gallicano Dermatological Institute in Rome, Italy, suggest smoking cigarettes causes acne breakouts, specifically non-inflamed blackheads and blocked pores. The study indicates that among adults with acne, non-smokers were more likely to suffer from inflammatory acne, while smokers, however, were much more likely to experience non-inflammatory breakouts.

If you are smoking from the early age, you should know that your skin problems could be caused by tobacco you inhale.

Other good advices are: you should not be overweight, playing with sunshine and better use your sunglasses when you are going to leave for a walk.

Smoking and acne intensity – connected!

2010-03-01T04:01:00.000-08:00

It’s a basic and interesting theme for everyone – whether you suffer from acne lesions or you are anxious about damage smoking will cause to your skin. I tried and did my best last week and found some articles clarifying researches on this subject. Connection between cigarette smoking and development of acne lesions is controversial, but more and more studies are conducted within this sphere.

Doctors underlined: cessation will improve skin condition within few weeks after quitting and will keep getting better.
It’s worth telling that there is such thing like “smoker’s acne”. It’s widely blazed in medical circles that cigarette smoking increases the levels of carbon monoxide within one’s body. This in turn stimulates the sebaceous glands to produce excessive amounts of sebum.

Wiki says, that sebum is an oily substance secreted by the sebaceous glands in mammalian skin. Its main purpose is to make the skin and hair waterproof and to protect them from drying out. An excess of sebum can make the skin or hair oily, and it can begin to smell when broken down by bacteria outside the body.
So this increased production of sebum is clogging the hair follicles, which in turn causes the erythematous papular and nodular lesions seen within group of patients with acne. People who suffer from acne will probably feel worsening of their skin condition if smoking.
Research workers took 278 male smokers and 277 male non-smokers, having a mean age or 24 and 23. All of them smoked more than 3 cigarettes per day. Acne and the progression of acne severity were evaluated over a year period.
Results showed: sever acne was observed in 22.7 percent of smokers and only 16.6 percent of non-smokers. There was a significant association between the duration of cigarette smoking and acne severity; but the relationship between the dosage of cigarette smoking and acne intensity was not significant.

Doctors mentioned, that working in a room filled with smoking and other ways of inhaling SHC (second-hand smoke) is also about to develop non-inflammatory type of acne, such as non-inflamed blackheads and blocked pores.

So one must stay away from cigarette smoke - not only smoking. This is a common opinion that smoking is good for people with inflammatory type of acne due to the anti-inflammatory effect of smoking, but minuses are much bigger than pluses.

Smokers acne

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Acne is a big problem for most of smokers. On this blog I will reflect on the topic of nature of smoking acne and methods of treatment.

Stay tuned!