Collagen Renewal After Smoking?
Can collagen be renewed after 5 years of smoking cigarettes?
Asked 34 months ago by
beckyr in leicestershire
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Yes.
Thank you for your question.
Congratulations is you have decided to quit smoking and accomplished it! Smoking causes a great degree of systemic harm as well as direct harm to your skin. To answer your question, yes, you will get resumption of some collagen remodeling after quitting smoking. I forget what the statistics are, but even life expectancy (a surrogate marker for systemic effects) normalizes close to those who have never smoked after several years (I believe 5-7, but don't quote me...
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