Smoking can lead to high blood pressure. Research proves a cigarette, heart rate increased after every minute 5-20 times/points, 10-25mmhg systolic blood pressure increases. Why is this? Because tobacco contains nicotine (nicotine) will be excited central nervous and sympathetic, make a heartbeat to accelerate, also prompted adrenal catecholamine release a lot of small arteries, contraction, leading to high blood pressure.
Nicotine will stimulate blood-vessel inside chemical sensors, reflex sexual ground to cause increased blood pressure. A long-term smoking will also promote artery atherosclerosis, small artery endometrial gradually thickening, make whole vascular gradually.
At the same time as smokers hemoglobin content of carbon monoxide in blood, which reduces blood oxygenation, make arterial oxygen, within the artery wall lining of fat, accelerate the oxygen levels increased atherosclerosis. Therefore, high blood pressure to prevent the hypertension, have high blood pressure were more should give up smoking. Compared with smoking, drinking in the pros and cons of the body is controversial.
Sometimes appear all sorts of small report, some say, some beneficial drink wine, but be sure that harmful is, drinking alcohol concentrations of harmful, affirmation will cause atherosclerosis, aggravating hypertension.