I’ve been using AcneFree once a day every day (following the itchy rash on my throat) and have gotten great results with it. This week, I started rotating it with the Mary Kay TimeWise skincare line, which promotes elasticity and prevents wrinkles, or so I’m told. Things are definitely improving, and I continue to receive compliments on how my skin has cleared up, but THEY’RE STILL THERE.

The good news (???) is that I’m not alone, which probably explains why people like the AcneFree folks and the inventors of Proactiv are wealthy and have great job security, no?

How do you deal with your adult acne?

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Acne: It’s Not Just for Teens

But not everyone is so sure about this finding.

Susan H. Weinkle, MD, who is a visiting clinical professor of dermatology at the University of South Florida, says it is difficult, if not impossible, to prove that specific foods affect wrinkling one way or another.

“Skin aging, especially facial aging, is remarkably multifactorial. It involves many things including genetics, ultraviolet light exposure, and lifestyle,” she says.

Make up your own mind: Read the article and decide for yourself.

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Want to Stop Wrinkles? Take Vitamin C

1. Smoking causes 87% of all lung cancer cases (source), and lung cancer kills more women than breast and ovarian cancers combined. (source)
2. Smoking causes wrinkles all over your body.
3. Smoking dramatically increases women’s risk of developing coronary heart disease (source), and heart disease is the leading killer of American women. (source)
4. Smoking turns your teeth yellow.
5. Women who smoke risk having a heart attack 19 years earlier than women who don’t smoke. (source)
6. Smokers are almost four times as likely to develop cervical cancer compared with nonsmokers. (source)
7. Women who smoke and use hormonal birth control methods (such as the pill or the patch) are nearly 10 times more likely to have a heart attack than nonsmoking women on birth control. (source)
8. Smoking causes baldness.
9. Smoking causes snoring, which in addition to being totally unsexy, also has major health effects, namely poor sleep quality and reduced oxygen flow to the brain, both of which are potentially very dangerous.
10. Compared with nonsmokers, smokers are more than twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s Disease (source), and half of all women age 85 and older will eventually develop Alzheimer’s (that is, if the lung cancer doesn’t kill them first). (source)

And if those aren’t good enough reasons for you, check out these lists:

• Top 10 Reasons to Quit Smoking
• 10 Overlooked Reasons to Quit Smoking
• 50 Reasons to Quit Smoking
• 20 Reasons To Quit Smoking

Finally convinced? Here are some resources to help you quit for good!

• Independence from Smoking: Free quit resources just for women
• Quit Smoking: Free quit coach, quit plan, educational materials, and more
• Why Quit: Free motivation, education, and support for cold turkey nicotine cessation
• QuitNet: Free online quit-smoking community

Contents © Copyright 2007 Kristen King

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10 Reasons to Quit Smoking Today

“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…

(source)

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