By now, we are all familiar with the fact that cigarettes are not a good thing. Smoking has been highly ingrained into our society for years now if we look at popular media, you can see someone smoking cigarettes in every show, movie and magazine, so there is no wonder why it feels so normal for some people to smoke.
As humans, we have been smoking for so long that the first cigarette can be traced back all the way to 500bc. In recent years, the long-term consequences of nicotine have been discovered and explained to the general public. However, because it has been a part of society for so long, there is no wonder why so many people are adamant that they cannot give them up.
In fact, more and more people are picking up a cigarette every year and despite the best efforts to deter them from doing so, there is nothing we can do to stop someone from smoking once they are addicted.
What Makes Cigarettes So Addictive
As you are likely aware, the main ingredient of a cigarette is nicotine. Now, cigarette companies have also been found guilty of adding additive chemicals to their cigarettes, which only makes cigarettes even more addictive than they already are.
People also get addicted to the act of smoking itself. Once you have smoked so regularly, it feels weird for you to not have a cigarette in your mouth most of the time. They do say that everything is addictive and they are right.
Smoking is never good, but smoking cigarettes makes it much worse when you take into consideration all of the incredibly harmful chemicals that you can find in a cigarette.
What Are Some of The Health Concerns Caused By Cigarettes?
As you are probably well aware, there are some pretty negative conditions associated with and caused by smoking cigarettes. For example, smoking is said to be the leading cause of lung cancer throughout the world and there have unfortunately been a lot of lives that have been lost to smoking cigarettes.
Cigarettes also age your skin and make you appear as though you are much older than you are. It creates premature wrinkles, smokers lines and also dries out your skin. This means that if you smoke, it is likely that you will notice that you age a lot faster than people you know that don’t smoke.
There are also the obvious respiratory problems that are often associated with smoking, people tend to develop breathing problems due to their use of cigarettes and this can affect them as they get older and lead to a premature death.
Something that a lot of people don’t talk about is how nicotine and smoking can have a really negative impact on how you are able to enjoy food. For those of you who have never experienced this or you have never heard of this, here are some of the ways that nicotine can have a negative impact on how you enjoy food.
Suppressed Appetite
You have probably already noticed that people that smoke tend to eat a lot less than people that do not. What you may not know is that this is because smoking can suppress your appetite and make you feel much less inclined to eat. Nicotine suppresses your appetite because it influences your brain and your central nervous system, which means that instead of craving food, your body craves cigarettes instead. Make sure that if you do smoke, you are eating regular and healthy meals so that you can fuel your body.
Taste
Something else that you may not know is that when you smoke you can actually change your taste buds. A big part of this is because smoking can have an impact on your sense of smell, which is widely associated with the way you process tastes. This happens because smoking inflames your nasal passage, which of course interrupts the way that you are able to process smells. This means that if you used to love a certain taste, you may no longer like it and you may stop eating a food that you once adored because of smoking, so I would recommend that you quit whenever you can.