Cigarette smoking has harmful effects on your fertility. It can adversely affect your ability to become pregnant as well as continue the pregnancy to term. Both direct and indirect smoking have a negative impact on the fertility in the same way. Adverse effects of cigarette smoking are more obvious in elderly female.
Smoking causes infertility as well as delays the conception in smokers than non-smokers. It can impair the normal reproductive function of the ovaries, and destroy the eggs. Toxins of the cigarette smoke are associated with early menopause too. Some toxic substances can interfere with the oestrogen production and induce genetic abnormalities in the eggs. Long-term smoking can irreversibly damage your ovaries. Smoking is also strongly linked with a raised risk of ectopic pregnancy and spontaneous miscarriage. If you are a pregnant smoker, you are prone to give a birth to a premature baby with a low birth weight. If someone smokes in your home, your infant has a higher risk of getting sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
If you are a female smoker (direct or passive) with sub-fertility, the number of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) attempts, which are needed to conceive, is two times higher than a non-smoker.
Direct or passive female smokers,
- Have a lower blood oestrogen levels.
- Have a lower number of eggs in their ovaries.
- Need a higher dose of gonadotropins to activate the ovaries.
- Have more menstrual cycles with failed fertilisation.
- Have lower rates of implantation.
- Have more absent menstrual cycles.
- Have more spontaneous miscarriages too.
If both of you stop smoking for at least two months before trying in vitro fertilisation (IVF), you will have a considerably increased chance for conception.
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