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A Lifetime of Consequences: The Long-Term Effects of Maternal Smoking on Infants

Damage to the infant caused by the smoking mother:

Short-Term Effects:

Increased Risk of Preeclampsia: Smoking can elevate blood pressure, leading to preeclampsia, a potentially dangerous condition characterized by high blood pressure and swelling.
Reduced Fetal Growth: Nicotine and other toxins in cigarette smoke can impair fetal growth, resulting in smaller babies.
Placental Abruption: Smoking can increase the risk of placental abruption, a serious condition where the placenta separates from the uterine wall prematurely.

Long-Term Effects:

Cardiovascular Problems: Exposure to secondhand smoke during infancy can increase the risk of cardiovascular problems later in life, such as heart disease and stroke.
Respiratory Infections: Infants exposed to secondhand smoke are more susceptible to respiratory infections, including pneumonia and bronchitis.
Cognitive Impairment: Smoking during pregnancy can adversely affect fetal brain development, leading to cognitive impairments and learning difficulties.
Behavioral Issues: Children exposed to secondhand smoke may exhibit behavioral problems, such as aggression, hyperactivity, and difficulty concentrating.
Increased Risk of Substance Abuse: Studies suggest that exposure to secondhand smoke during infancy may increase the risk of substance abuse later in life.

Mechanisms of Harm:

Reduced Oxygen Supply: Nicotine constricts blood vessels, reducing oxygen flow to the fetus.
Toxic Substances: Cigarette smoke contains numerous harmful chemicals that can cross the placenta and damage fetal tissues.
Inflammation: Smoking can trigger inflammation in the placenta and fetus, leading to various health problems.

The Importance of Quitting:

Benefits for Both Mother and Child: Quitting smoking during pregnancy can significantly reduce the risks to both the mother and the infant.
Support and Resources: There are many resources available to help pregnant women quit smoking, including counseling, medication, and support groups.

By understanding the harmful effects of maternal smoking and the importance of quitting, we can take steps to protect the health of infants and promote healthier pregnancies.

Harmful Factors in Smoking: A Summary

The Main Culprits:

Carbon monoxide: This gas reduces oxygen carrying capacity in the blood, leading to shortness of breath, and can affect sight, hearing, and judgment.
Tar: A sticky substance that contains carcinogens, increasing the risk of lung cancer and other cancers.
Nicotine: A highly addictive stimulant that raises blood pressure, heart rate, and increases the risk of heart disease. It also affects the skin by inducing vasoconstriction, inhibiting inflammation, and accelerating skin aging.

Nicotine: A Closer Look

Addiction: Nicotine is as addictive as cocaine and heroin, making quitting smoking extremely difficult.
Lung damage: Nicotine induces the formation of harmful oxygen radicals and reduces the lungs' antioxidant capacity, leading to DNA damage and lung disease.
Long-term effects: Nicotine addiction, mood disorders, and impaired brain function are potential long-term consequences.

Tar: A Toxic Threat

Lung damage: Tar coats the lungs, paralyzing cilia and increasing the risk of lung cancer, emphysema, and other lung diseases.
Cancer risk: Occupational exposure to coal tar has been linked to various cancers, including skin, lung, bladder, kidney, and digestive tract cancers.

Key Differences Between Tar and Nicotine

Tar is a toxic substance that physically damages the lungs.
Nicotine is an addictive drug that affects the body's systems and brain chemistry.

Overall Impact of Smoking

Smoking is a major cause of preventable death worldwide. It increases the risk of numerous diseases, including cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung disease, and diabetes. The combination of harmful chemicals, including carbon monoxide, tar, and nicotine, makes cigarettes highly addictive and detrimental to health.

Smoking and the relationship of certain diseases:

Smoking is a major risk factor for a wide range of diseases, including some of the leading causes of death and disability in the world. Here's a look at the relationship between smoking and some of the most common diseases:

Cancer:

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable cancer death, responsible for nearly one-third of all cancer deaths in the United States. It is particularly linked to lung cancer, but also increases the risk of cancers of the mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, bladder, kidney, pancreas, cervix, and stomach.

Heart disease:

Smoking is a major risk factor for heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States. It damages the blood vessels and heart, increasing the risk of heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular problems.

Stroke:

Smoking is a leading cause of stroke, the third leading cause of death in the United States. It damages the blood vessels and heart, increasing the risk of blood clots that can block blood flow to the brain.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD):

Smoking is the main cause of COPD, a progressive lung disease that makes it difficult to breathe. COPD includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

Diabetes:

Smoking can increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and make it more difficult to control blood sugar levels in people with diabetes.

Other diseases:

Smoking has also been linked to a number of other diseases, including tuberculosis, certain eye diseases, and problems of the immune system, such as rheumatoid arthritis.

The risk of developing these diseases is directly related to the amount and duration of smoking. Quitting smoking at any time can improve your health and reduce your risk of these diseases.

If you are concerned about the health risks of smoking, talk to your doctor. They can help you create a quit plan and provide support to help you quit smoking for good.

Smoking and smokers:

Smoking does not only harm smokers when smoking in a closed place, as traces of toxic substances remain in these places, harming non-smokers such as the elderly, children and pregnant women.

Many people do not know that the harmful substances left behind by cigarette butts are more harmful than the presence of a smoker in this closed place.

And traces of smoking are usually found in the air we breathe, walls, clothes, curtains, sofas, and children's toys as well.

The harmful effects of smoking, mainly toxic substances, can be transmitted when a child puts these toys in his mouth.

These substances can also injure the skin

Harmful effects of smoking for children:

Smoking has many harmful effects on the respiratory system of children because it is not fully developed and can cause asthma and inflammation of the bronchi, nose, throat and nerves.

Passive smoking:

Passive smoking is harmful to children's health to a large extent because toxic substances are able to pass to many places easily, as a number of statistics indicate that about 40 percent of children are exposed to passive smoking, and about 78 percent are exposed to its harms in schools, which are very dangerous data.

Health damage of wines on the digestive system.. Swelling of the mouth, esophagus, esophageal bleeding and cancer of the esophagus, atrophic gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal

Drinking alcohol increases the occurrence of swelling of the mouth, esophagus, esophageal bleeding and cancer of the esophagus, atrophic gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal, gastric cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, acute pancreatitis and chronic hepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, and liver cancer.

Tips to help quit smoking.. Some of the symptoms after you stop smoking headaches, coughing, constipation, dizziness, irritability and mood change or some passivity

** Select the time on the weekends.

** Visit the dentist, and let him remove the teeth nicotine patches.

** Stay away from your friends smokers and occupy yourself in the day off from smoking a lot of work.

** Use gum (Way) or tablets mint and fruit when you crave a cigarette.

** Do not carry your cigarettes, or smoke directly when you think about smoking.

** Stay away from all that you want to smoke, and never smoke while watching TV.

** Think always in bad effects perils of smoking on health. Think of the money provided by yourself.

** Brush your teeth three times a day, and eating a large amount of water and juice and practiced a kind of sport.

** You have to expect to see some of the symptoms after you stop smoking headaches, coughing, constipation, dizziness, irritability and mood change or some passivity. But never worry these symptoms, no matter how severe.

** See yourself to find that smell beautiful, and breathing easier.

** Remember that stopping smoking is not easy, but it is not impossible.

Stop smoking.. Use low nicotine cigarettes. As nicotine or label nicotine. Phasing out cigarettes

The benefits of stopping smoking start since the first day he takes off the smoker smoking.

** The first step is to take a firm decision to stop smoking.

** Some resort to the use of low nicotine cigarettes for a week or two, then stop smoking altogether.

** And others use as nicotine or label nicotine.

** Some find the phasing out to reduce the number of cigarettes per day and a meaningful way.

Smoking and the digestive system.. Stomach ulcers and colon cancer. Colon spasm

Certainly also cause stomach ulcers and colon cancer in smokers, smoking also exacerbates the symptoms of colon spasm.

Passive smoking Passaive Smoking.. High incidence of headaches, coughing and nasal gonorrhea and pneumonia

Meaning the impact of smoking on Ajalssounam than non-smokers. Where they complain of the high incidence of headaches, coughing and nasal gonorrhea and pneumonia. Studies show an increase in lung cancer in the wives of smokers.

Smoking and breathing apparatus.. Bronchitis and pulmonary emphysema. Shortness of breath and fatigue and chronic cough

In addition to that smoking is responsible for most cases of lung cancer, it increases the incidence of bronchitis and pulmonary emphysema, and leads to shortness of breath with less effort, and to feel unwell and a chronic cough.

Damage passive smoking.. Infections of the tonsils, ears, lung and nasal polyps. Cancer and heart non-smokers

Not only with regret the dangers of smoking on smokers alone but extends to infect their children and their wives and their companions in the work and the cafe, transportation, and other, especially if the place was narrow and little ventilation, a so-called "passive smoking", which explains:

** Infections of the tonsils (Lhalaqm), ears, lung and nasal polyps.

** Some cases of asthma (narrow).

** Emergence of cases of cancer and heart when non-smokers.

Motives that compel young or adolescent smoking.. Parental indulgence. Sense of adventure. Conviction by Friends

There are several factors without Be any preference or special importance is the leader and every young man or teenager motives Which may differ from the motives of others. The most important of these motives are as follows:

1 - parental indulgence.

2 - sense of adventure.

3 - conviction by friends.

Smoking.. Stroke (infarction) heart. Lung cancer, mouth, bladder, pancreas, penis and cervix. Stroke and chronic bronchitis. Impotence in men and infertility in women

* Did you know that more than 4000 Chemical Intervention in the installation per cigarette? And 50Substance that causes cancer? .

** Did you know that the chemicals used in rocket fuel and interference pigments industry within Sijartk?

** And that each cigarette decreases 5.5 minutes of a smoker?

These include existing subjects "Alosatin" and "ammonia" and which are you coming in the manufacture of detergents, and "butane" a type of light fuel, and "beta" is a substance used in manufacturing pesticides worm clothing and textiles. This also includes the article "hydrogen cyanide" the poison used in the gas chambers, "and methanol" which is used in the industry and rocket fuel, "and carbon monoxide" that comes out of car exhausts.

Light cigarettes are not less dangerous

Studies have confirmed that, despite the change rates of tobacco and tar in cigarettes, but there has been no decrease in the damage smoking.

Life miserable

Smoking is a major cause of stroke (infarction) heart, as it causes lung cancer, mouth, bladder, pancreas, penis and cervix. Also cause stroke and chronic bronchitis. And smoking relationship impotence in men and infertility in women.

Some health damage smoking .. Visual impairment. Poor appetite. Rampant acne

** Visual impairment.

** Rampant acne.

** Low rate of ages.

** Poor appetite.

* Speed Yae in the sport.

The effect of smoking on the digestive system.. Yellowish teeth and Tsusha. Gum disease. Indigestion and inflammation of the large intestine. Ulcers

** Yellowish teeth and Tsusha Fallen and gum disease.

** Agitating the salivary glands and thereby increase the excretion.

** Indigestion, inflammation of the large intestine.

** Increased secretion of stomach acid Alklordik lead to stomach ulcers and delay Healing.

Smoking and respiratory.. Chronic bronchitis. Respiratory failure and death. Emphysema. Crash the walls of the alveoli (Onfzima)

Add to smoking causes lung cancer:

** Chronic bronchitis that causes a chronic cough accompanied by heavy secretions and eventually cause respiratory failure and death.

** Emphysema due to crash the walls of the alveoli (Onfzima).

Smoking and mortality.. Lung cancer and chronic bronchial infections and heart disease

Die every year more than five million people in the world die from lung cancer and chronic bronchial infections and heart disease. This means that smoking alone kills more than kill wars and accidents, it's more lethal weapons of mass destruction to humanity!!

Prevalence of smoking.. Dropped significantly thanks to the growing awareness of health and environmental when the citizens of developed countries

Official statistics indicate statistics specialized civilian agencies to a steady rise in smoking among students, especially at the secondary level, and among girls as well. Because smoking by drug abuse, has burrowed as well as our educational institutions for drug use, including contraband (Alkerkobe). And the use of mediators misled students themselves to promote the drug trade in various kinds. At the time know where the smoking rate in developed countries, a noticeable decline thanks to the growing awareness of the health and environment when citizens see cigarette consumption in third world countries a frightening rise as a result of the intensification of tobacco companies to advertising campaigns in these countries by embracing sports competitions and other indulging in the lure young people. Who knows you may be the next victim of these toxins!?