What Smoking Does To Your Body

If you don’t already know what smoking does to the body, it’s time to find out and face up to the fact that smoking is not only harmful, but it kills. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind anymore that smoking causes terminal illness. But what exactly does smoking do to the body?

This video, aired on Australian TV (a country that is investing considerable money and energy into educating people about the harms of smoking), shows, in sometimes graphical terms, exactly what smoking does to your body. Check it out:

What Really Happens?

• 1. Nicotine travels to your lungs when you first inhale.
• 2. The nicotine in the cigarette is absorbed into your bloodstream
• 3. Epinephrine is released, which gives the sought-after buzz – it also results in a blood pressure increase, faster heart rate and a constriction of the blood vessels.
• In your lungs the cigarette smoke immediately starts to do damage. The alveoli – cells which help remove foreign matter from the air sacs of the lungs – are damaged.
• Tar forms from the matter you inhale from the cigarette. It sticks to your lungs and throat and kills off healthy cells.

Sources: Discovery Fit & Health Channel, smoking-cessation.org