Smoking

Smoking cigarettes is known to have a wide range of negative side effects on the human body. It has been scientifically proven that smoking leads to an acceleration in skin aging, impaired lung function, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, as well as increasing the risk of developing lung, stomach and pancreatic cancers and many other types of cancer. Alongside that it will have a direct impact upon fertility in both men and women, affecting the DNA in eggs and sperm and increasing the risk of miscarriage, still births and foetal abnormalities.

Tobacco contains around 7,000 chemicals and at least 250 are known to be harmful, such as Cyanide, a systemic chemical asphyxiant that interferes with the normal use of oxygen by nearly every organ of the body, Carbon monoxide which reduces the amount of oxygen to the brain and heart, damaging your cells and organs and Ammonia which increases the dependence to nicotine. Nicotine can cause an irregular menstrual cycle and the premature onset of menopause, it impairs the development of egg cells and disrupts the production of hormones in women. It can also lead to damage in the genetic material in eggs, a rapid loss of the eggs produced, which cannot be replaced nor regenerated, as well as problems in the implantation of the fertilized egg on the uterus.

Smoking And Fertility

Studies have shown that women who are non-smokers are twice as likely to become pregnant than women who smoke. Women who are exposed to other people’s smoke can take longer to get pregnant. Passive smoking is almost as damaging to your unborn baby’s health as smoking. Many couples who have regular, unprotected sex will get pregnant within a year but for smokers, the chance of getting pregnant are cut by almost half each month.

In males, nicotine consumption can damage sperm, which in turn makes them less likely to fertilize eggs, and, in the case of fertilization, the embryos are less likely to survive. Indeed, due to nicotine consumption, male smokers are more prone to having low concentration of semen, as well as sperm deformities and abnormalities. Similar to females, consuming nicotine also affects the production of hormones in males as well.

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