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Smokers face<\/strong> is when the smoking habit causes premature aging of your skin<\/em> through color, condition, and wrinkles – here’s why and what you can do about it.<\/p>\n There is no getting around the fact that everybody ages. However, there are certain things in life that can cause you to age faster, just as the reverse is true.<\/p>\n Healthy living in the form of eating nutritious foods, exercising on a regular basis and limiting your exposure to the sun can slow the aging process while habits such as smoking can accelerate it.<\/p>\n Taking preventative measures in your life right now can reduce further damage to your body and your skin from occurring.<\/p>\n Making the decision to stop smoking right now can add more years to your life (smoking robs the average person of 14 years of life) and you can also begin to reverse some of the damage that has been done to your skin already.<\/p>\n Smoker\u2019s face<\/em> isn’t an appealing sounding term is it?<\/p>\n Maybe not, but it’s a term recognized by the medical community. The term smoker\u2019s face was added to the medical dictionary in 1985. The definition of smoker\u2019s face is, \u201cLines or wrinkles on the face, particularly radiating at right angles from the upper and lower lips or corners of the eyes, deep lines on the cheeks or numerous shallow lines on the cheeks and lower jaw<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Still other characteristics of smoker\u2019s face include gray skin pallor and a subtle gauntness of the features with prominence when it comes to the underlying bony contours.<\/p>\n Every time you take a puff on a cigarette as many as 100 trillion dangerous oxidants enter your body. This is bad for every part of your body including your largest organ- your skin<\/strong>. The reason so many smokers have a grayish look to their complexion is because the oxygen supply to their skin is not adequate and is greatly diminished, as compared to a non-smoker\u2019s skin.<\/p>\n When the supply of oxygen to the skin is reduced this increases the risk of premature wrinkles. The longer you have smoked, and the more you smoke, the greater the risk.<\/p>\n Research has borne out all of these truths. Studies looking into the connection between smoking and premature aging have found smoking causes the cells \u201ctelomeres<\/em>\u201d to shorten even faster than they would ordinarily.<\/p>\n