by Mike Krosner

Created on: December 27, 2009

Smoking can affect your blood pressure to a very high extent. Chewing tobacco has small bits of fiber glass which cut your gums so nicotine can get in much more easily. Once your gum is cut, smoking can affect your blood pressure to a very high extent. Once your gum is cut, the nicotine is absorbed into the blood stream and goes to your brain, then starts to tingle the central nervous system. Smoking is the exact same thing, only you inhale it and it is absorbed through the lungs.

Now, if you honestly take a look at all the nicotine that is going to your central nervous system, will that not irritate your body sooner or later? Nicotine raises your blood pressure by constricting your blood vessels. This occurs because the oxygen in your blood decreases and because nicotine directly stimulates the production of a hormone. The endocrine glands are what produces and secretes hormones into the blood stream. The endocrine system helps regulate metabolism, growth development puberty, and tissue function. There is a tissue in your body called Lymphoid tissue. The lymphoid tissue is part of the immune system and helps protect your body against other bacteria. Just for future reference, tissue is basically a small fabric of cells supporting your entire body, now imagine what would happen to the muscle tissue in your heart from smoking. Smoking can lead to heart attacks from high blood pressure. The high blood pressure is caused by the endocrine system failing or being irritated. Nicotine is also carried from the blood stream into the brain, which will pile inside your brain and this could cause a brain attack. The more you smoke, the higher the nicotine level is in your blood, and the higher your blood pressure will be.

Many studies have shown that smoking or chewing tobacco raises blood pressure and that when you stop using tobacco products, your blood pressure falls. Carbon monoxide is a lethal gas which is used in some commercial gases. It is also produced from the combustion of petrol. It has an effect on the hemoglobin in our blood. Hemoglobin is a protein that gives red blood cells their color; the function to be able to transport oxygen from the lungs to the tissue. So, if you inhale carbon monoxide it can basically kill your red blood cells. Now, this can cause a cardiac arrest or heart attack. This is where basically your heart stops pumping or your heart lacks the ability to contract.

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