SMOKERS LOSE THEIR HAIR

The smoking accelerates the aging of the skin, but as if this were not enough, it also increases the risk of hair loss .Admittedly, it gets little, but studies show indeed that there is a hair loss caused by smoking ...

Tobacco: toxic to the root hair

The list of dangers of tobacco is incredibly long and it is not closed. Not to mention the risk of lung cancer, bladder, cardiovascular disease, injury to the respiratory tract, including broncho obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), smoking also impairs fertility, increases the risk of prematurity, etc..
It also accelerates the aging of the skin and attacks the hair . No wonder with some 4,000 chemicals in smoke. And hair have this feature to keep long remember what we eat. Thus we find nicotine in hair of smokers.

The hair eventually fall

There are other repercussions, including the development of hair . Thesmoking would deprive them of nutrients essential to their vitality, their brightness (amino acids, B vitamins, trace elements?). It is for this reason that smokers have their hair graying faster.
But tobacco also has negative effects on the growth of hair and helps them fall because it damages the hair genome.

Alopecia induced by cigarette smoke

Like cancer cells, hair cells have the characteristic of dividing very rapidly. Thus, our hair grow very fast, their renewal is continuous and rapid. Therefore, scientists often compare the alopecia induced by chemotherapy that induced by cigarette smoke. In both cases, smoke and chemotherapy have toxic effects on cells that grow very quickly.
Please note that researchers working on the development of treatments to prevent hair loss in patients treated with chemotherapy, typically use in their experimental model of toxicity induced by smoke tobacco ?


To return to the simple smoking , this increased risk of alopecia should be added to the list of reasons that may motivate smokers to quit their habit.
Thus, quitting smoking helps to slow hair loss, making them more supple and shiny?