Cigarette Smoking Effects on the Body Smoking Facts About the Harmful Effects of Tobacco
Cigarette smoking effects on the body are the direct result of the chemicals in cigarettes
and the harmful effects of tobacco's main ingredient of nicotine.
The smoking facts reveal many short and long term harmful effects of smoking.
Smoking Facts - Short Term Cigarette Smoking Nicotine Effects
In the short term the many harmful effects of tobacco arise from its main ingredient nicotine.
These effects start within about 10-20 seconds of nicotine entering the system and can last for up to forty minutes.
Your blood vessels constrict and get smaller. This
deprives body tissues of life giving and life sustaining oxygen and other nutrients carried by the blood. (If you are a man it also makes
getting an erection more difficult.)
Your heart rate increases
Your blood pressure goes up.
Within a few seconds nicotine starts filling up empty neurotransmitter spots
on your brain cells (neurons)
causing more neurotransmitters to be released. The specific neurotransmitters
are believed to be those associated with pleasure
and just "feeing good". This is one of the
main causes of drug addiction.
Your body releases adrenaline from the adrenal gland. This causes a rise in blood pressure, an increase in your heart rate,
and release of stored sugar into the blood stream.
Since the blood sugar levels go up you may not feel hungry.
Don't be Fooled by Smoking Fiction
In the short term these effects seem to provide a short boost of energy and you can see how you might think that
having a cigarette perks you up or provides you with some sort of fortification to get on with your day.
That of course is smoking fiction as nothing is further from the truth. A short burst of energy from a drug is energy depleting in the long run.
The effects are short lived and you will be faced with getting another hit to provide the same effect and
create the same feeling. Eventually your own organs that help to fortify you with bursts of energy will become exhausted from these continual demands and
you will need to smoke more and more in order to feel good again.
The smoking facts are that the harmful effects of smoking deplete your body of energy in the long term and here is the evidence!
It is the long term smoking effects on the body that contribute to disease, death and human suffering. These are the real harmful effects of tobacco.
Smoking Facts Long Term Cigarette Smoking Effects on the Body
your lungs get scorched and are unable to continually clean themselves of trapped debris. This leads to trapped mucus and
respiratory infections as well as smoking related diseases such as
emphysema and
chronic bronchitis(COPD).
your immune system functions become compromised and your immune system is unable to vigorously
defend against infection.
all parts of your body become polluted with the many toxic
ingredients in cigarettes placing stress on your liver and your
kidneys which are the first line detoxification organs of the body.
your urine is loaded with the toxic chemicals in cigarettes. It pools in your bladder giving it a nice carcinogenic bath. It is like immersing your bladder
in a toxic waste dump. No wonder that one of the harmful smoking effects on the body is
bladder cancer.
All of these harmful effects of smoking are hard enough to digest by themselves but wait....some of the
smoking effects on the body manifest in your digestion.
The purpose of the information provided here is to help you cooperate with your doctor and other
health practitioners. It is not intended to take the place of medical advice and you are encouraged to
discuss health concerns with your physician or a professional health care provider who is
familiar with you and your unique personal health context.
