Smoking causes the blood vessels in the top layers of the skin to constrict, thickening and reducing the oxygen levels in the blood. This oxygen deprivation leads to the reduction of the levels of collagen in the skin.

“A smoker’s skin is normally thinner due to poor circulation”, says Laser Aesthetics skin specialist Jane Marsh. In addition, a recent study (at St Thomas’s hospital) looked at 25 pairs of identical twins, where one twin was a lifelong smoker and the other had never smoked. Ultrasound was used to gauge how smoking thins the skin. Ultrasound revealed significant differences. The study showed that the twin who smoked skin was 25% thinner than that of the non-smoking twin, and in a few cases there were differences of up to 40%.

Think about this, there is help in a delicious form for smokers that don’t want to quit smoking but are concerned about their skin and wrinkles.

It’s Chocolate! … BUT not just any old chocolate. It has to be dark chocolate that contains at least 70% cacao.
Did you know that dark chocolate contains powerful antioxidants and natural polyphenols and flavanol compounds (cacao and theobromine) that improves micro-vascular blood flow, and helps to optimize your skin ‘s oxygen and collagen levels.
So smokers … if you are not ready to quit, but are concerned about your skin and appearance you do have choices and great tasting smokerZchoices at that.