Harmful Effects Of Smoking On Women
So a puff on your cigarette helps you to relax and eases your tension and stress and you feel you are ready to face the world and its bitter realities once again. But is this enough of a reason to push yourself towards the painful and unfortunate end of your life?
Smoking has enormous ill effects related to your health. Women are more inclined to be affected adversely by smoking. Hence, it is all the more important for women to be aware of the problems that they may face due to smoking.
Smoking weakens the bones of women and contributes towards osteoporosis. It has been found that the number of smoking women having hip fractures around the world is far more in comparison to their non-smoking counterparts.
Apart from that, smoking women are more likely to face pain during their menstrual cycle. It may also lead you to experience the problems associated with Premenstrual Syndrome, also known as PMS. Smoking also contributes to early menopause.
The fertility of women is often hampered, and sometimes even damaged, by smoking. There can be many other problems associated with pregnancy that a woman smoker may face. For instance, smoking may lead to miscarriage or even an immediate abortion. It can create serious complications in women during pregnancy.
It increases the risk of a still birth or death of the new born shortly after delivery. Smoking can also be responsible for sudden infant death, if the child is born to a smoking mother. The chance of a premature delivery also becomes higher with smoking women.
Smoking is also found responsible for low birth weight of baby and less production of breast milk in a smoking woman. Not only that, the flavor or taste of the breast milk is also changed due to it. Smoking mothers also unknowingly expose their unborn babies to the ill effects of nicotine.
Smoking women are at a higher risk of developing diabetes and colds that last longer. They are also prone to develop more facial wrinkles than other women. Smoking also causes bad breath, gum problems, stained teeth and may even lead to damaging the sense of taste.
Smoking causes severe diseases like heart attack, stroke, lung and heart failure, cancers of various kinds including, but not restricting to, cervical cancer. It can also damage the veins and arteries of women and cause ulcer or gangrene. Eyes of a smoker can also be damaged leading to complete blindness.
