Cholesterol-How To Lower-Natural Ways | Harmful Effects Of Smoking On Cholesterol

No medications can do a better job than treating your high cholesterol naturally. 

What can you do to improve your cholesterol levels? Here is an important tip…..If you are a smoker…..QUIT!

Harmful Effects Of Smoking On Cholesterol  and How It Hurts Your Health Overall

Smoking is especially hazardous for people with heart disease, blood vessel disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or a family history of these diseases.

Smoking decreases HDL (the good cholesterol) levels.

The carbon monoxide in the cigarette smoke increases the amount of cholesterol clogging the arteries.

Nicotine raises blood-pressure. Carbon monoxide leads to development of cholesterol deposits in artery walls, causing heart attacks and strokes.

Smoking promotes the development of atherosclerosis. 

Tobacco smoke is actually more damaging to the heart than the lungs.

Smokers have a higher chance of having a heart attack (three times greater than nonsmokers) and a greater risk of dying of the attack (twenty one times greater than nonsmokers.) 

Tobacco smoke contains carbon monoxide, which is uniquely damaging to the heart. 

Not only does smoking reduce the amount of oxygen the heart receives, it also actually damages the cells of the heart, rendering them less able to produce energy and thereby weakening the heart. 

In addition to the dangers of carbon monoxide, there’s the danger of the nicotine.  Nicotine interferes with the electrical impulses that cause the heart to beat.  When the blood flow is compromised, the heart can beat in a fast, uncontrolled, irregular beats that actually cause a heart attack.  If you smoke, reducing the risks of atherosclerosis is yet another reason to stop. 

Even if you have smoked for years, stopping now can still immediately help combat the development of atherosclerosis.