Research has shown a direct link between smoking acne has been found recently. A main focus of CureAcneAtHome.com is to relay the fact that overall health is important to maintaining the health of your skin (which then helps you to get clear skin and ward off future outbreaks). It is not exactly “news” that smoking is unhealthy to the body, so there will be no focus on pointing that out. Instead, there will be a spotlight pointed at a condition known as “smoker’s acne”

Since females are more susceptible to non-inflammatory acne than males, researchers at the San Gallicano Dermatological Institute in Rome used a sampling of 1,000 women, aged 25-50 to study the effects of smoking on the skin. A British Journal of Dermatology article reported the findings, of which, three main discoveries were made.

The first main point shown was the one which coined the term “smoker’s acne”, the point that non-inflammatory breakouts was more common among women who smoke. The skin of 42% of the women who smoke was prone to acne, whereas only 10% of the women who do not smoker similarly experienced non inflammatory acne.

The second major revelation to researchers was that smokers who were acne sufferers during their teen years are four times more likely to experience adult outbreaks than non-smokers who had also been teen acne sufferers.

Lastly, the skin of smokers secrete less Vitamin E than the skin of non-smokers. Vitamin E is a strong antioxidant that aids immune function, eye, and skin health. So, in addition to smoking’s link to skin cancer and premature aging, science has given yet another skin-related reason to put down the cigarettes.

 
 
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