A cigarette contains harmful chemicals. The effects of smoking can be very critical even on a person’s brain health especially when this is overly done. When a person smokes, the chemicals are directly received by the brain causing certain mental health issues.

They reach the brain ten seconds later after being inhaled. Once there it remains active for about half an hour and wreak havoc to the brain within that time-span.

It is an absolute myth that smoking gives alertness and higher concentration. This is only for a short period of time. After its so-called positive affects withers, it starts to effect adversely.

The chemicals in the cigarette, especially nicotine, control and change the cells of the brain (which are responsible for a person’s mood, memory and consciousness).

Those who smoke have a higher risk of getting stroke. According to research, their chances are one and a half times higher than those who do not smoke.

The chemicals inhaled by smoking block the carotid artery which is responsible for supplying blood to the brain cells.

This eventually leads to higher chances of having a stroke. Other harmful effects of smoking include oxidative stress and the thickening and clotting of blood.

Every year, thousands of people die due to diseases caused by smoking. The effects of smoking are not the same every person, though.

It all depends on how much vulnerable a person is to the chemicals present in cigarettes, especially nicotine. Moreover, it also depends on how many packs a person smokes, for how long has he been smoking and other factors such as his starting age.

Nonetheless, whether someone smokes two packs or two cigarettes a day, the results are always harmful.

The immediate effects of smoking are much harmful to the heart especially as it increases the heart rate and blood pressure. Dizziness is also very common among smokers.

The nervous system gets stimulated for only a short period of time after smoking and then reduces. Smoking also reduces the ability to sense and smell to the fullest. Moreover, smokers generally complain on their lack of appetite.

Health problems: fitness reduces, breath shortens and smokers find it difficult to participate in sports which require a lot of stamina especially on running.

Smokers have also become less immune to diseases and find it considerably difficult to recover from such, even minor ones.

Furthermore smoking makes teeth turn yellow and as stains also develop on the fingers. Smokers of the same age tend to look older than their non-smoker counterparts as facial wrinkles develop on the faces of smokers.

Among the different harmful effects of smoking, which smokers can suffer from; includes respiratory tract infections such as pneumonia and chronic bronchitis, emphysema and heart attack, cancer and stomach ulcer etc. smoking may make a person seem cool, but in reality it is actually making a person’s life useless. Men become impotent and women infertile due to excessive smoking.

Smoking is an activity, has more disadvantages than advantages. It is better for smokers to try learning ways on how to motivate themselves in order to stop smoking as soon as possible.

This should be done immediately to save themselves from severe and life-threatening effects of smoking. It may be difficult but not impossible.