Why Smoking is Worse For Young Women Than For Older Women
Of course you have heard that smoking is a dangerous habit for anybody. No, I take that back. It’s not just anybody, it’s for any living organism. Tobacco is a known natural pesticide and has been used for ages in this way. In fact if you aren’t careful it will kill more than just the bad insects.
You’re obviously intelligent enough to know that tobacco in any form is bad for you. I mean, you are reading this article, aren’t you? But you’re probably asking yourself why is smoking worse for young women? Aren’t we the same as older women? Doesn’t smoking affect older women too?
Yes smoking effects older women too. And in some ways the statistics single out older women as having other problems from smoking, like death. But death is not always the worst thing that could happen. So now you’re asking, what’s worse than death? I can think of a few things.
Imagine for a moment that you’re in love. You’re a new bride and you’re looking forward to a life together with the man that you love. You’re trying to start a family and you’re having trouble and you’re not sure why.
You take a trip to the doctor to find out what the problem is. After some preliminary Q & A and a whole slew of tests the doctor comes back with some reasons why you’re having trouble. He tells you that the evidence indicates that because you’re a smoker you can’t conceive.
Can you imagine how you would feel if you found out you had jeopardized your future as a mother just to puff on some burning leaf? The doctor told you that your reproductive health has been impaired by your smoking habit.
The Surgeon General’s Report on Health Consequences of Smoking highlights many negative reproductive effects of tobacco smoking, including infertility. In women, smoking is connected with a decrease in your chances of conceiving in a month. You actually lower the probability of you getting pregnant if you smoke.
There are also other reproductive problems associated with smoking including ovulatory dysfunction and early menopause. That means that you will not only have more difficulty conceiving a baby, you will have less time to be able to try. And time, as you probably know when planning a family, is your enemy. The clock is ticking, but now it’s ticking faster!