Whether it is active smoking or passive smoking, the damaged parts of the victim are not just the lungs, but all the organs in the body. Carbon monoxide and other chemicals in cigarettes combine with tissue cells, causing vasoconstriction and reduced blood oxygen content, resulting in hypoxia and vitamin deficiency, especially antioxidant vitamin C, which leads to skin aging and tissue damage in the reproductive system. Atrophy, decreased function of various organs throughout the body and accumulation of toxic substances.
Smoking will have an impact on fertility, which is unavoidable for both men and women. Research has found that smoking is also directly related to difficult labor, underweight babies, sudden neonatal death syndrome, etc. Women who regularly smoke have a much lower chance of successful pregnancy and childbirth than women who do not smoke. If you smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day, the harm will be greatly aggravated. The decrease in the probability of fertilization caused by smoking is obvious. Smoking will aggravate the death of egg cells. Women who smoke have greatly increased hormone levels, which is a specific manifestation of their egg cell depletion and immature follicles.
Research shows that smoking women have a 25% lower pregnancy rate in the first year compared to non-smoking women. Of course, a woman\’s fertility can still be restored once she quits smoking. Newborns born to women who smoke are characterized by low birth weight, intrauterine growth retardation, prematurity, and pulmonary hypoplasia. By school age, children show low IQ and low learning ability. Passive smokers increase the chance of chronic respiratory infections and make their babies frail and sickly.
Men who smoke are associated with reduced sperm count and poor sperm quality, which may be due to reduced oxygen content in blood and tissues. Prospective studies have shown that maternal smoking is associated with birth defects. For men, the most important thing to avoid is smoking 3 months before the wife is pregnant, because after 3 months, the sperm for conception begins to be produced.
When a couple prepares to become parents, both spouses must quit smoking. Be aware that even smoking 2 cigarettes a day can cause problems for the couple. In addition, you should try to avoid going to smoke-polluted environments to reduce the amount of passive smoking.
This article is provided by Baidu Reading and is excerpted from \”The Clear \”Conception\” Plan\” Author: Sun Jianqiu and Xie Yingbiao