Smoking is much dangerous for a pregnant woman than any other person. Smoking affects your unborn child. If you are going to plan your family or are already pregnant, then you need to concentrate on facts related to smoking. A Mother always wants to give a healthy and fit life to her baby. But continuing with your smoking are you really fulfilling your wish?
When you take a puff then the smoke that you inhale goes into your baby’s body. It affects his weight resulting into less resistant body. Smoking affects his height too. Such babies whose mothers had smoked during their pregnancies are generally short in height. This possibility is much less in case of the women who smoke a full pack during pregnancy. At this stage even no physician suggests to continue this habit. Baby’s body needs more supply of oxygen to survive in mother’s womb. Supply of nicotine deprives a baby to consume his share of oxygen. Such children are not able to adjust socially than children of non smoking mothers.
Studies show that possibility of infant morality is 50 percent higher when the mother smokes than in case of non -smoking mothers. Children of many smokers die of sudden infant death syndrome, or crib death. If pregnant women stop smoking by their fourth month of pregnancy then still they are out of danger zone.
Parenting is a tough job. If you do not sound well in your health then how will you be able to take care of your child? Most women suffer from lung cancer that is a deadly disease. A child always seeks for his mother’s shelter. If you want to be there all time for your child, then you need to stop smoking at once.
Passive smokers are more prone to the diseases than chain smokers are. This applies on children also. As a matter of fact, they are too sensitive to problems raised by the passive smoking.
By quitting the smoking you are rendering a new life to your child. You and your child both will enjoy a healthy lifestyle. Quitting smoking is not an easy thing to do for the usual smokers. But alternatives will certainly work for you. There are many support centers that can help you out. Just enroll yourself in them. You can see your health care provider for solutions and suggestions. Your one step to quitting the smoking will lead your unborn to the path of a safe child.
Filed under Quit Smoking by on Feb 3rd, 2010. Comment. 
Everything in this world is made for a purpose, so do the tobacco. Tobacco serves several medicinal purposes, but its wrong use has created more wrong than right. We human beings are responsible in converting the blessings of God into a Curse.
We often read in newspaper, serious warnings from health ministry about the hazards of smoking. For instance, smokers die young as compare to non-smokers. Instead of these warnings, there is a considerable increment in the number of smokers.
A recent survey has shown increment in production, sale and the number of smokers in Nigeria. Along with it, there is also an increment in the death rate due to smoking.
A survey conducted reveals the growth in the number of death of passive smokers. In a year, more than 11,000 people die in UK due to passive smoking. You can conclude, if this is the data of passive smoker then what about the smokers.
In public places, health experts and Doctors are demanding complete ban on smoking. Due to growing death rate of passive smokers, they are demanding certain rules and regulations for their protection.
There are several causes of death such as household structure, unemployment, passive smoking and active smoking. On the base of researches done over the causes of death, it has been found that smoking is the main cause.
Tobacco one of the main ingredients of smoking is already causing a lot of harm. But, still its producers are making a lot of money from its farming. Tobacco is nothing but death of our loved ones; still we love to have it. We are spending a lot of money in buying this poison. Over the cigarette pack, it is clearly written that ‘Cigarette smoking is injurious to health’. Still we go for it and the cigarette companies are making a lot of money form our death.
When all of us know, that cigarette smoking is dangerous and harmful for health then why do not we quit it. A few significant steps are also needed from the side of the government. They need to ban all the products related to addiction such as cocaine, heroin, Indian hemp etc.
Moreover, we also need a powerful determination of quitting smoking. Based on a few misconceptions, we should not make a fool of ourselves that we cannot quit. Make your mind clear from all the wrong beliefs and determine that ‘I will never smoke’.
Filed under Quit Smoking by on Jan 23rd, 2010. Comment.
Hi, my name is Karen and I am a non-smoker. Having kicked my addiction to nicotine and cigarettes I am living a healthier no smoking lifestyle. If you would like to be a non-smoker, too, join me on your quest to find the best solution to help you stop smoking.
