Most people today think, that they know, what cigarettes can do to them. Well let me first tell you, that most people have absolutely no idea! In this article we are going to give you an overview over what smoking does to your body and your brain.

Let’s first start with what happens in your body when you smoke. Beginning with the first cigarette your body starts accumulating toxic substances from the cigarettes you smoke. Those chemicals can have different effects, but most people think, that the nicotine is the only one that has an effect – that it wrong! There are also other effects that smokers feel quite well, even if they don’t notice. Those effects is depending on the individual person, but many people notice for example a change in the digestion progress, strange tastes in the mouth, or sickness after the first cigarette in the morning.

One of the first effects that most smokers notice after a short while is that the digestion is changing. It is usually being accelerated a little bit. This is due to some chemicals contained in cigarettes that increase your colon activity. This can result in a short weight loss. Now you shouldn’t get this wrong, this is neither healthy, nor good for your form. The weight loss is only short, and it is being compensated through the eating habits. The eating habits are being adjusted by your body automatically so that smokers do most often keep their weight. The process of accelerating the metabolism with the use of cigarettes is not only uneffective, it is also very dangerous. Most chemicals contained in cigarettes, that are able to change your digestion process can cause cancer.

Another very common cigarette smoking effect is the shortness of breath. Most smokers suffer from it, and it is due to a very toxic chemical that is being inhaled with the cigarette smoke. It’s carbon monoxide. As most people know carbon monoxide is a very dangerous chemical. It is also contained in cigarettes and what it does is, it is being deposited in the red blood cells where oxygen should be deposited. This results in an oxygen undersupply. It takes some time till the carbon monoxide leaves the body again, this means that smoking a cigarette every hour keeps the carbon monoxide level in your body constant, which results in a permanent oxygen undersupply.

Let’s not forget the major effects in the brain, which are obviously the main reason for smokers to keep on smoking instead of kicking that habit. The toxic substance that is causing the addiction and other effects inthe brain is of course nicotine. What it does is, it makes your body produce more and more dopamine. As a so called "happy hormone" dopamine makes smokers feel better when they take a puff. But what happens in your brain is that it produces more and more receptors for dopamine, just to be able to accumulate it. This is why smokers need more and more cigarettes to smoke after a while, just to be able to fill up those receptors.

Most brains produce so many receptors, that the person feels the urge to smoke aproximately 45 minutes after the last cigarette. The lack of concentration, the urge and the comfortable feeling during the smoking process are no direct effects of the nicotine, they are effects caused by our brain, trying to tell us, that it wants to have more dopamine. It is obvious, that if we are able to give our body dopamine without smoking, then after a while, we won’t feel the need to smoke anymore.

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The last effect that we are going to list here is the unability to smell and taste at a 100%. The senses of tasting and smelling are being disturbed by the smoke, as it also contains additional chemicals to make the smoke smoother, so that smokers are able to inhale the smoke deep into the lungs without feeling a pain in the chest. As horriffic as it may seem, this is exactly what the tobacco industry does. It eases smoking, so that people can get addicted to it faster and stronger.

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