What will smoking ciggarettes do to you while you are pregnant?im 16 years old and im ver small. im 6 weeks pregnant and my boyfriend dont want me to smoke. i smoke menthol ciggarettes. do you think i should stop smoking right away or slowly wean myself off?
abby D
It could possibly give your child birth defects or prematurity. My mom smoked, and I was born 2 months early at 2 and a half pounds, because of the smoking and other things. BAD STOP NOW
gwillewyn
It's not what it does to YOU that's the problem. It harms the foetus.
shay
i say do it as soon as you can. it's bad for you and bad for baby.
Numerous scientific studies indicate that smoking by pregnant women, or their regular exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, also known as secondhand smoke, dramatically increases the risk of a range of health problems both to themselves and their babies, including the following:
spontaneous abortions
ectopic pregnancies
other birth and delivery problems
fetal brain damage
growth retardation/low birth weight
lower or higher than normal infant blood pressure
problems requiring neonatal intensive care
infant death from perinatal disorders
sudden infant death syndrome
mental retardation
respiratory disorders during childhood
Attention Deficit Disorder
other learning and developmental problems
behavioral problems, violence, and criminality
smoking during adolescence
various adult health problems
cancer-causing agents in infants' blood: potentially carcinogenic mutations; and childhood leukemia
(http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/pp/womens/obsmoking/SmokingWhilePregnant.html)
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anah
smoking is not gud during pregnancy coz everything goes thru the placenta to ur growing baby...and certainly cigarette is the most unhealthiest thing to pass on to ur baby...u mite wana tlk 2 ur practitioner to get help stopping it....professional help is better than doing it on ur own... :)
congrats 2 u n ur bf on ur pregnancy
gudluck
cancun
better to stop as soon as possible not only because of your health but your baby's health too .you don't want to have a child with some disability because of the smoking do you ? smokers are more likely to suffer miscarriages.Babies of smokers tend to have lower birth weights and a higher chance of being born prematurely, which results in increased health risks. Furthermore, children of smokers suffer from the effects of secondhand smoke; effects that may include asthma, bronchitis and cancer.
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