I started smoking cigarettes when I was about eighteen years old. Of course I knew smoking was slowly going to kill me, but at the time, I’d never considered the fact that it was making me uglier. By the time I was thirty, I could tell those decades of sucking down carcinogens had taken a cosmetic toll I hadn’t really anticipated. I quit one year ago, and I’m happy that I’ve hopefully added a handful of years to my life by doing so, but I still can’t help but wonder how much tighter my skin would look right now if I’d never inhaled that first cigarette. 

There are lots of stressful situations and personal choices that can instantly age someone, and a bunch of redditors got together to discuss those things. Here’s some of our picks.