Smoking and Psoriasis - The Facts:
- Cigarette smoke contains more than 3000 harmful toxic substances.
Toxins and Psoriasis Theory explains how various toxins may influence psoriasis.
- Smoking deteriorates and weakens the immune system.
Autoimmune Psoriasis Theory explains how our immune system is connected with psoriasis.
- Smoking increases the risk of infections.
Infection and Psoriasis Theory explains how the infections can provoke psoriasis.
- Smoking increases the content of the free radicals in the body, which age our skin.
- Passive smoking also affects the skin.
- Quitting smoking improves the general health state and improves the quality of life.
Smoking is one of the most frequent causes of preventable death. Smoking takes away 3 million lives annually worldwide.
Smoking is clearly connected with the development of lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, stenocardia (severe constricting chest pain), stroke, sudden death, vessels diseases and other serious pathologies of the internal organs.
The skin manifestations and consequences of smoking are less known and less studied, but also very real.
Obtaining more knowledge about the impact of smoking on the skin is necessary as one additional argument to explain the dangers of smoking. These arguments may help certain people to quit smoking, especially the people, who care more about their appearance, than about the potential dangers for their internal organs.
Some studies showed a tight psoriasis-smoking connection even in the former smokers.
Other studies show the connection between a quantity of smoked cigarettes per day and the risk of the appearance of psoriasis - the greatest risk had those, who smoke 20 and more cigarettes per day.
The main Smoking-Psoriasis Interrelation appears to be the disorders of the immune system, disorders of the micro-circulation in the skin, and the weakening of the antioxidant protection of the body in the people who smoke.
At the same time a number of dermatologists, who investigated different Psoriasis Risk Factors, did not reveal any reliable connection between the appearance of psoriasis and smoking.
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