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Coffee breaks and smoking can aggravate rather than relieve stress. They will also give you more wrinkles!
This was revealed by Dr. Mario Orlandi, Dr. Donald Prue, and medical journalist Annette Spence in the “Encyclopedia of Good Health: Stress and Mental Health.”
Traditionally, people turn to alcohol, smoking or drugs to help them relieve stress. Unfortunately, the opposite happens, according to medical experts. Instead of taking away stress, these chemical stressors contribute to the problem. Having a lot of stress also affects your face, making you susceptible to wrinkles.
The reason this happens is because these bad habits contain body-altering chemicals that affect people in many ways. For instance, caffeine and other stimulants in coffee, tea, and soft drinks can increase the output of stress hormones. The same is true with nicotine in cigarettes that stimulates the adrenal gland, producing stress hormones.
If you think drinking puts you in the mood to work, you’re wrong. Alcohol can damage the digestive and cardiovascular (heart and blood) systems, and can lead to physical problems or illness that can worsen stress.
Drugs like tranquilizers can help people relax. But when taken without a doctor’s supervision, they can be dangerous since they have many side effects. Drug use (e.g. marijuana or cocaine) can make you high at first but it also aggravates stress.
“Oddly enough, people rely on some of these chemicals to relieve stress. Temporarily, cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana and drugs, especially tranquilizers may help stressed individuals feel better. In the long run, however, you can see how chemicals only create more stress by producing damaging physical and emotional side effects and, therefore, more stressful problems such as an inability to deal with life’s demands. Therefore, using them really doesn’t make sense,” researchers said.