Want to Slow Your Skin’s Aging Process? Quit Smoking

The results aren’t conclusive, but a new study from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has associated smoking with fine wrinkles all over the body — not just on the face.

“We examined nonfacial skin that was protected from the sun, and found that the total number of packs of cigarettes smoked per day and the total years a person has smoked were linked with the amount of skin damage a person experienced,” [lead researcher Yolanda Helfrich, MD] says in a University of Michigan news release.

The study doesn’t prove that smoking caused or worsened wrinkles. But the results held when the researchers took other factors, including participants’ age, into account.

As if there weren’t enough good reasons already…

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