Beware of the harmful effects of smoking on women

In life, there are many people who smoke, including many female friends. It is common sense that smoking is harmful to health, but there are still many people who cannot resist the temptation of cigarettes. Smoking is extremely harmful to the body of female friends. For the sake of their health, they need to quit smoking as soon as possible. So, what are the disadvantages of smoking to women? Let’s take a look at the introduction in this article.

1. Can cause infertility

Smoking can reduce the fertilization ability of eggs and increase the likelihood of infertility by 2.7 times. The situation is even worse if the husband is also a smoker. Because smoking can reduce sperm count and motility, statistics show that smoking couples are 5.3 times more likely to be infertile than non-smoking couples.

2. Causes irregular menstruation

Nicotine in tobacco can reduce the secretion of female sex hormones and lead to menstrual disorders. Women who smoke reach menopause earlier and experience menopausal symptoms earlier. According to a survey of 1,367 women aged 18 to 44 in California, 25% of female smokers experienced irregular menstruation, while only 18.6% of non-smoking women did so.

Women who smoke more than a pack of cigarettes a day are twice as likely to experience menstrual irregularities as non-smoking women. Recent studies have also confirmed that smoking is one of the risk factors for breast cancer in women.

3. Smoking during pregnancy can cause miscarriage

Women who smoke are 10 times more likely to have a miscarriage during pregnancy than non-smoking women, and the average fetal weight is reduced by 230 grams.

The mortality rate of fetuses before and after birth is also higher for mothers who smoke. For mothers who smoke less than one pack a day, the mortality rate and risk of fetuses before and after birth is 20%; for mothers who smoke more than one pack a day, it is 35%. In addition, the risk of congenital heart disease in babies born to mothers who smoke is doubled.

4. Smoking affects children’s intelligence and development

Smoking during pregnancy has adverse effects on the intellectual and physical development of their children. Children will have some psychological and physiological dysfunction before school age. After entering school, their reading and calculation abilities are worse than those of children of non-smoking women, and their height is also shorter than that of children of non-smoking women.

5. Affect beauty

The skin of women who smoke appears older, has more wrinkles and a grayer color than that of women who do not smoke. Especially the wrinkles on the upper and lower lips and corners of the eyes and mouth increase significantly.

6. Reduce milk secretion

Smoking can reduce milk secretion, and nicotine can also enter the breast milk through the blood. Women who smoke 10-20 cigarettes a day can separate 0.4-0.5 mg of nicotine into 1 kg of breast milk. This is a serious threat to the baby's health.

7. Susceptibility to stroke

Women who smoke 1-4 cigarettes a day are more than twice as likely to have a stroke as non-smoking women. Those who smoke more than five cigarettes are more than five times more likely to have a higher risk of developing the disease.

8. Susceptibility to cancer

Women who smoke have a 40% higher risk of developing breast cancer than non-smoking women, a 14 times higher risk of developing cervical cancer, and a 28 times higher risk of developing ovarian cancer.

The above is an introduction to the harm of smoking to women. After seeing the above-mentioned dangers of smoking for female friends, do you have a better understanding? Due to the special physical constitution of female friends, they should pay more attention to their own health than male friends and prevent the occurrence of various diseases, instead of smoking casually and ignoring the importance of health.