smoking cessation and blood glucose

We all know that smoking is bad for you for a variety of reasons for bad breath to cancer.

But if you have diabetes, is a bit like playing the game age of Russian roulette – the only difference is that you're adding an extra couple of shots at six shots before pulling the trigger.

Here are just a fraction what you can look forward to:

Squeeze The Life Out of these

Consider effect of snuff on the system circulation. It turns out that carbon monoxide from cigarette smoke destroys the layer of cells sliding into blood vessels and allowing the fat to accumulate plaque in vessel walls. Worse, the nicotine in cigarettes accelerates this process.

Of course that vessels become smaller, the blood flow becomes more and more restricted, and the nutrients and oxygen vital to the health of your nerve endings are cut.

These are the same nerve endings that are already being damaged by high blood sugar characteristic of diabetes. The same nerve endings that cause numbness in the feet and hands often called diabetic neuropathy.

Unfortunately, the feet are usually the first and can lead to infection, sores, ulcers and in some cases – the amputation.

Wheelchairs can be fun

Imagine trying to bend, walk, climbing stairs or even say goodbye to someone and feel a sharp pain in the joints, as it does. In fact, you double your risk of this being his daily companion, if you are a smoker and diabetic.

Urinate through a tube

Remember when you learned that diabetes can damage the kidneys? You know what?

The nicotine in cigarettes can too!

Although the exact mechanism linking smoking and kidney disease is unknown, a study by the American Physiological Society has shown that mesagnial cells in blood vessels of the kidney may interact with nicotine to promote further renal disease.

A plug for smokers

As if an overdose of blood sugar and nicotine is not as bad to the inside of the vessels, research has also shown that the outer muscle wall can be affected by nicotine cause high blood pressure – Increasing and their risk of dying from heart disease by almost 300%.

Furthermore, it is difficult to visualize plaque that is building inside the veins and arteries that acts as a stopper, cutting off oxygen and vital nutrients that keep your heart cells alive.

Do you think a lethal cocktail of blood sugar, high nicotine is what they mean when they say heart?

Cholesterol controlled chaos

According to the American Heart Association, diabetics are more likely to have cardiovascular disease, which cause disease, cholesterol disorders that lead to heart disease. Not only that, but that smoking may increase total cholesterol levels making the problem worse.

End of Nature Cruel irony

So after all that, you can guess what # 1 best thing about being a smoker and diabetic?

That's right!

Smoking further increases their levels of blood sugar!

Ta-da!

Cruel irony of nature end revealed.

So, if you are trying to lower their levels of blood sugar, consider the possibility of losing their cigarettes once and for all.

For more information about minimizing the effects of your diabetes or possibly eliminating it altogether, visit the following website:

http://www.diabetesrelief.info/info/cigarettes

Ethan Alexander lives in Washington State researching and writing on topics of interest to himself and others. To contact this author, email him at ethanalexander@worldsbestwebhost.com.