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question, just wondering if smoking cigarettes makes hair grow slower.
I smoke various amounts per day as i have to sneek smoking from my family who don't know i smoke.
I've smoked on and off for a while now, currently back on again. I've noticed that my hair isn't growing much lately and i wondered if it is because of smoking.
Spare the comments about the other health issues. i'm not worried and i like smoking and want to keep smoking. do you know of anyone else on this site that smokes that i may contact?
mikeh
It would seem logical that smoking would be bad for hair growth because it's notoriously bad for your skin. Since it cuts off the circulation of blood to your skin to some degree, it would seem that it would therefore cut off the flow of nutrients necessary for healthy hair growth. I'm no scientist, but.. it seems logical.
I trimmed my hair because I thought it had gotten longer than I wanted it to be. My aspiration was to have shoulder length hair, which it now is. I never really wanted to have hair much longer than that, and I had been wanting to get it trimmed up and evened out for quite a while. Now that it's done, I am very happy with my hair again!
Mikeh,
I too am a smoker and I honestly cannot say it has effected my hair growth. Back when I had short hair, I used to get it cut every 4 weeks and my hairstylist I have gone to for close to 20 yrs now has ALWAYS said what "great healthy hair I have" and I smoked then too. I see her 2-3 times a year now for maintenance trims and she continues to tell me how healthy my hair is. So even though smoking is not "good" for us, I enjoy it like you and it don't seem to effect my hair growth/hair health in anyway.
Mikeh,
please respond to my personal e-mail with your e-mail and site name so i can add your info to my list of contacts on this site.
thanks
I was an addictive smoker from age 8 to 32, read the Surgeon General's first report in about 1964, and have kept up with the subsequent scientific literature. I quit with great pain in 1965, and then convinced myself I could smsoke just one. Not. I quit again on September 10, 1966, and while I can now smoke one without getting hooked, why should I?
Like most adictive substances, nicotine occurs naturally in the body, so adding to it artificially creates a new set point, which we subjectively feel a need to maintain. Once we quit, the set point goes back to normal, and we no longer crave.
Quitting is not easy. I have done it twice. But even if it caused productive, fast, beautiful, easy to maintain, attractive to everyone, shiny, alluring, seductive, luxuriant, and easy to maintain full hair growth I would not start this unnecessary health hazard again.
Few people realize that men are more suseptabitle to all forms of cancer than women, excapt breat cancer, amd that smoking is associated with increased for all forms of cancer. Let's not entionion coronary complications.
Bottom line, if you want to live a full life, free from drastic medical interventions, you will not smoke. Granted an unlucky few do get early onset cancers without having ever smoked, but why would any sane person want to increase their risk??????
How about second hand smoke? I cant avoid them at all, those who smoke just wont stop and they smoke anywhere they can.
Are there no smoking regulations where you live, Tai Fu? In Halifax, we now have regulations that specify NO smoking in public places, including all stores, restaurants (including bars) and workplaces. People are not allowed to smoke within 15 feet of building entrances as well. I am never exposed to second hand smoke except, very briefly, when walking past a person smoking, I don't even see that many people smoking anymore.
David
There is no smoking allowed where I work but customers get rude when I tell them to stop and/or stop coming to the store. There isn't a thing we can do about it because there is virtually no enforcement. Thats why I really hate smokers because they are the most selfish people out there, only care for their own pleasure and not anyone else's health or safety.
They were going to make a law where smoking is not allowed in any public venue and if found the person can be fined 1000 dollars and the owner of the venue will be fined 1500 dollars. I dont know where that law went but since alot of politicians in Taiwan are smokers I bet it didn't get anywhere...
A long time ago I worked as a train conductor for the Romanian Railways. At that time each passenger coaches had smoking areas comprising about half of the seats. First class coaches had 4 compartments out of 9 (with 6 seats each) where smoking was allowed, while second class coaches had 5 smoker compartments out of 10, with 8 seats each. Smoking was allowed on the hallway of these coaches as well. Regional train coaches had three large compartments and two of them, plus the two hallways by the doors, were smoker areas. There were also bi-level cars with the smokers' area on the upper level.
I had to go through these smoke-filled compartments to control the passengers' tickets virtually during the entire shift, up to 12 hours, and at the end I was exhausted, with a bad headache and with my hair and clothes smelling like an ashtray. Often people were smoking in non-smoker areas and it happened just as often that these people became rude or outright aggressive when I told them to go to the smoking areas. If I fined them for it I had to call for assistance. After the second asthma attack caused by smoke in two months I had to quit.
Very often smokers don't care about people around them, not even about their own children and/or spouses.
At least here in the US it is a good thing that smoking has been banned in public places.
Regarding the health consequences of smoking, hair growth rate is the least of your concerns...
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A Linux Longhair
I hope you weren't encouraged by my picture, I wasn't really smoking, just posing. I don't know what effect smoking could have on hair, but knowing the effects it has on almost everything else in my body I wouldn't even come close to it.
Peace
Leito
thanks for the response and picture, i know all about the effects of smoking, but i enjoy it and will continue to as long as i can.
mikeh
I know, but I was just looking for a reason to post that cool yellow guy... :)
Well I smoked for about 15 years and have given up for just over a year now "cold turkey" and I'm glad I did and I would not say it's had any negative my hair. Okay I've put on a few pounds but I knew I would.
John.B