Smoking Impacts Hair Loss

Can Smoking Prevent Hair Growth or lead to Hair Loss?

      When you start to lose your hair you may try to determine what is causing the hair loss. It's not easy to find the answer to this question and it may take some time. One of the reasons why is because hair loss can have a three month delay before you start noticing it. Hair loss is something that you don't pay any attention to until it happens to you. But it is more difficult then what you imagined because there are several factors to prevent normal hair growth.

      One factor that can affect hair growth is smoking. This may be a habit that you picked up a long time ago back in college or during your 'wild days' but you still managed to keep it going. Maybe you have tried to quit but haven't been successful so far. Now you are starting to lose your hair and need to find a way that you can prevent further hair loss. Of course you should stop smoking but this is easier said then done. But unless you want to lose all of your hair you do need to make a significant change in order to stop it right away.

      Over the years as you smoked cigarettes the smoke has discolored your hair in the front and has also decreased the circulation to your scalp making hair growth sluggish at best. The hair follicles have eventually died and whithered away leaving you with a thinning hair problem. Now you may be noticing spots of baldness where your condition has only started to get worse. There are several other factors that play into hairl loss that you may also have, such as diabetes, hereditary hair loss, infection, illness, condition or disease that causes hair loss. You may have also been on medication that has a side effect of hair loss.

      In order to stop smoking and start regaining hair growth you may want to look at a natural alternative to smoking. This can be natural herbal cigarettes that are full of herbs that help calm your craving for cigarettes. While you are quitting smoking you can also work on a natural way to increase hair growth by using all natural products, including essential oils.

      The first step you need to take is to work on your smoking habit. From there you can work on regrowing your hair.