Staying Young

If you smoke, it won't do anything for your appearance but make you look oldand haggardly.  In addition to that, smoking seriously affects your skin.  If you'retrying to stay young, kicking the nicotine habit immediately is the best thing youcan do for yourself.

The more you smoke, the more the blood vessels in your skin shrink.  They arealready small and smoking just adds to their diminished size.  When thishappens, your healthy blood flow is reduced.

In addition to that, you start to lose key nutrients such as vitamins, minerals andcollagen.  The collagen in your skin starts to crumble, thus losing the elasticmovement in your skin.

Did you know that being an alcoholic could affect your skin as well as yourhealth?  If you knew what some others knew about it, you probably wouldn'tdrink it at all.  It's ok to have a glass of wine occasionally, but once you startmaking alcohol your god, then there's a problem.  When it becomes a chronicproblem, you can do damage to your body inside and out.  

Being an alcoholic won't help you if you're trying to stay young.  You skin startsto age before your time.  This would be the opposite of what you're trying to do.You can't expect to stay and look young if your lips are always touching a can orbottle.

Cocaine is one of the most addictive drugs on the streets today.  You definitelywon't look, feel or act young if you get hooked on this stuff.  This drug affects thenervous system and can wreak havoc on your body.

Once people get addicted to cocaine, whether it's the powder or the rocks(crack), it's difficult to stop using.  The drug gives them a  high  that they feelthey can't get anywhere else but from that drug.

However, the downfall of being addicted to this drug has many consequences: