Why smoking is even more dangerous for diabetics?
There are countless people out there who think pinching a cigarette between their lips and puffing out circles of smoke is the coolest thing to do or something that makes them look cool but there are no bigger fools than these people. As stylish as someone thinks they look while smoking, they do not realise that they are draining life out of their life. Smoking has never been a good habit and it never will be. Those who understand this are far better than those who don’t. Smoking is very dangerous for your overall health and it can be extremely dangerous if you are a diabetic too!

According to nutritionists, managing diabetes is a challenging task and if you throw in the habit of smoking, then this becomes an even harder one! This happens because nicotine present in all the cigarettes makes your body even more resistant to insulin, increases your blood sugar levels and makes it more difficult to manage and control it. Smoking has a long list of adverse effects on people, but for diabetics that list is even longer. Smoking doubles the damages in diabetics by hardening the arteries. This is why diabetics who are smokers are at high risk of developing heart, kidney and eye complications and their other health problems also escalate faster because of this habit.

Not just this nutritionist, many researchers also support this point. Research published in the American Journal of Medicine and Diabetes has connected smoking to high risks for glucose abnormalities such as glucose intolerance and impaired fasting glucose. The research also states that smoking can also increase the protein in urine and delay wound healing in diabetics. If you want solid data regarding this then you should know that smokers are at a 44 per cent higher risk of developing type-2 diabetes than non-smokers. So all the people out there holding a cigarette in their hand should read this, especially the ones struggling with diabetes.