A Huffington Post news report examines the several ways smoking can destroy the quality of a person’s sleep.
Scientists have linked the smoking of cigarettes specifically to the development of several serious cancers, heart disease, routine infections, anxiety and depression. While the toxic chemicals and heavy metals consumed during smoking are to blame for these destructive health risks, nicotine — the substance that makes smoking so addictive — is often disruptive to another aspect of health entirely: sleep. Smoking regularly can wreak havoc on the body’s natural sleep routine, and some of that damage cannot be undone.
