| Smoking cigarettes is a habit that has affected millions | | | | oxygen to function properly and to become healthy. |
| of people worldwide. It is a habit that is continually | | | | There will be less endurance and less oxygen |
| affecting everyone, and that includes athletes. | | | | capacity. The tar present in the smoke covers the |
| Cigarette may be acceptable in our society and | | | | lungs and the athletes find it difficult to breathe |
| considered as a past time, nevertheless it can affect | | | | especially when they are training. Apart from this, |
| the performances of athletes. | | | | Carbon Monoxide from cigarette also damages the |
| If you are an athlete and you think that smoking can | | | | lungs and has detrimental effects on the performance. |
| help you relax before or after a game then you are | | | | Yet another problem with smoking is that it slows |
| mistaken. Yes, some individuals may find smoking | | | | down the process of healing knee ligament injuries as |
| comforting and relaxing, but do not be fooled even for | | | | it hinders the employment of cells to the injury site. |
| a bit that smoking has good benefit aside from the | | | | Apart from that if you perform Kraus-Webber test on |
| fact that it can help you relax. Smoking increases the | | | | the smoking athletes, you will see that their muscle |
| airway resistance. The poisonous substances that get | | | | strength and flexibility of some muscles have |
| accumulated within the body after smoking a single | | | | decreased significantly as compared to that of |
| cigarette, take 24 hours to clear from the system. If | | | | non-smoking athletes. |
| you smoke more than one cigarette each day, the | | | | At first, smoking cigarettes is deemed as cool and hip |
| body doesn’t get ample time to remove the toxins | | | | by everyone, and that most smokers even today feel |
| and toxins start getting accumulated within your body | | | | that they will be more socially acceptable if they will |
| leading to health problems like cilia damage and throat | | | | smoke like other people do. However, now it is no |
| cancer. | | | | longer just a matter of becoming the coolest person in |
| The athletes train and build-up their endurance and | | | | the school, or the most influential man in your group as |
| strength to make them more competitive even under | | | | smoking is considered as dangerous to smoker’s |
| all stressful conditions. Therefore, if athletes smoke | | | | health and the people that are around them. So |
| then their performance will deteriorate as they tend to | | | | whether you are a teacher, pianist or athlete, once you |
| use more energy just to breathe properly. | | | | smoke cigarette, it can affect your health. |
| Keep in mind that one of the negative impacts of | | | | The benefit of smoking does not compensate for the |
| smoking is a week lung. As you continually smoke then | | | | negative impact that it can bring to the smokers health. |
| you slowly destroy or fill your lungs with bad elements | | | | Most people only knew that smoking is dangerous, but |
| that in turn affect your oxygen intake. Since you are | | | | what they do not know is the extent of the damage |
| an athlete you will definitely need a good amount of | | | | that smoking can do to their health. |