Pregnancy and Smoking
Quitting smoking in pregnancy: foolproof tricks
Stop fum ar in pregnancy is possible. Here are some tips to quit cigarettes in pregnancy. If you are pregnant, you should leave the snuff, as it can be very harmful to the developing fetus.
Smoking is a major public health problems. Of the more than one billion smokers in the world, 20% are women, many of them pregnant snuff leave not even in your state. For this reason, WHO dedicated World No Snuff Day, celebrated today the May 31 “Gender and snuff, snuff promotion aimed at women.” The World No Snuff, real risks it should be noted that smoking, a leading cause of preventable death, leads to both smokers and those who breathe secondhand smoke. The use of snuff causes associated diseases such as fatal heart attacks, stroke cardiovascular, cancer, respiratory diseases, among others. Diseases that are becoming more common in women because the prevalence of snuff consumption among females is increasing and the age at onset. Protecting pregnant women and children from the harms of snuff.
Non-smokers have a right to breathe air not contaminated by smoke snuff and therefore does not undermine their health. Population groups particularly susceptible to increased risk should be protected: in these groups are the children, the pregnant, young, people with respiratory diseases, indoor workers from smoking, etc.. Quitting smoking in the pregnancy is difficult but not impossible. If you are a smoker, you’re pregnant and have decided to quit smoking, here are some tips to make your pregnancy a healthy and develop healthy, away from snuff. Surely, if you decided to quit, find help of all kinds to make reaching your goal. You can guide you, for example towards homeopathy and Bach flower remedies, recourse to group therapy, seek support from the specialists, go to your doctor or trusted friends who have managed to quit. We also want to add our two cents, and we offer some simple tips to help you quit smoking easier:
• Each time you go to buy snuff, stick to buying only one packet.
• After smoking a cigarette, put the package in another room, so you have to get up if you want to smoke your other.
• Take your cigarette lighter or matches the bag, and let them always at home.
• Before lighting the cigarette, breathe three times. After each set, leaving the cigarette in the ashtray.
• Empty the ashtray after he finished his cigarette and do not let the hand.
• Turn off the cigarette after the first puff, then turn them on; Fumal only halfway.
• At home, only smoke in a room, not your favorite place, but one you uncomfortable. Do not smoke in bed anymore, nor in the morning or at night.
• Seek support from family and friends. Try engaging in activities that do not allow smoking, like going to the movies or the theater, and spend more time with nonsmoking friends.
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Pre-pregnancy care
Prenatal care should begin at the moment you decide to have a child. Even once you stop birth control, you must behave as if they were pregnant: no snuff, alcohol, stress, strenuous exercise …
The first weeks after conception, are very important for proper fetal development. Normally there is no indication that you’re pregnant, has not even been a delay in menstruation or any symptoms that you can attract attention, but it is precisely at these moments that form many of their vital organs.
Be especially careful because we can compromise fetal development. Adopting a healthy lifestyle from before pregnancy, it is easier to enjoy this period without complications.
Care issues as simple as feeding, consult a specialist before taking any medication, stop smoking and drinking alcohol will be your first acts of love for your child. Read the rest of this entry »
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Quitting smoking during pregnancy
Quitting is not easy. The cravings, the irritability, the powerful desire to smoke “last cigarette” are sometimes overwhelming. However, now that you’re pregnant, you probably realize the importance of saying goodbye to this habit. Although you tried before without success, this time you can achieve. Approximately 40 percent of smokers who try during pregnancy, get it (a success rate far higher than women who are not pregnant). Yet, many continue their habit, which increases the risk of having a premature birth, the baby is born with low birth weight or other complications arise, such as vaginal bleeding and spontaneous abortions. What differentiates it stop those who continue smoking? In general, pregnant women who stop smoking are not necessarily stronger or more intelligent. Nor does it mean they want more babies. The difference is simply that adopt better strategies to reach their goal. Each person is different and what to work for you, perhaps another will not fare so well, but there are several smoking cessation techniques that stand out for their effectiveness. BabyCenter offers you these five strategies to quit snuff.
Plan in advance
Quitting smoking is not as easy as making a ball with your last package and throw it away. Need a plan to overcome the challenge that you face. Most people leave it set a “start date” and make public their friends, family and coworkers. If you are pregnant is very important not to delay too long. Once you’ve set the “when” it is time to think about the “how.” You will have to decide if you’re ready to leave at once, if you prefer to download first the number of cigarettes per day and leave them completely within a week or two, or if you use a nicotine patch therapy. If you choose this last option, talk to your doctor to recommend a product. Whatever your decision, you need to have clear what you do when you’re between an irresistible urge to smoke. Some people chew gum or eat something, other people are going for a walk. Find something to distract you for a few minutes and help you resist temptation.
Get support from those around you
Quitting smoking is much easier if you try to do it alone. Support from family and friends can increase your chances of success. If you know someone who has quit smoking, call her when you feel a craving too big to give you encouragement. If you have family or friends who smoke, ask them not to do so before you. If your partner smokes, encourage him to quit or ask to leave the garden or the balcony to smoke. Some studies indicate that women more easily leave you if your partner does the same time.
Talk to your doctor
Whatever tactics you choose, a conversation with your doctor can mean the difference between success and failure. He can give you information and advise and at least give you some words of encouragement are always good. Do not let your first conversation about the snuff with your doctor is the last. If your next visit you are still smoking, tell it with full honesty and without feeling embarrassed. It is best to speak out for your welfare and your baby. And when you finally quit smoking, Tell too! No doubt share your joy.
Never forget why you’re quitting smoking
At first, you probably spend very bad times. If you do not feel a strong motivation, you probably have difficulty resisting the urge to smoke a cigarette. Experts believe that smokers have to be very clear why they want to quit, and that motivation must be very personal. In other words, we must be clear about why we have decided to support a process as hard as detoxification. I think this is one of the best gifts you can give your baby, while still in your womb. Constantly reminded of the benefits of not smoking, and of good courage. What you get!
Do not give up
Have a plan. You have the motivation. Your partner, your doctor, your family and friends support you. The time has come. You have to be stronger than the craving. If you give now, you have to start all over again. After some weeks, the withdrawal will start to recede and the urge to smoke will be less intense and frequent. If you smoke a cigarette again, do not beat yourself or lose sight of your goal. Many smokers try several times before the final. If you relapse do not beat yourself telling you that you have failed. Be positive: If you’ve gone a week without smoking, is a week in which neither you nor your baby have been exposed to toxins from snuff. Learn from each attempt to be better prepared next time.
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Smoking in pregnancy
The scientific evidence is conclusive on the multiple effects from smoking on the health of smokers and people living in environments where the snuff smoke is present. Similarly, in various literature noted the effect that inhaling snuff, by the pregnant woman, has in the product, immediately increase the fetal heart rate.
This happens because most of the constituents of snuff smoke cross the placenta and levels of some components of snuff in the blood of the mother tend to even out the fetus. This is even more serious because the metabolism and elimination are slower in the fetus in the mother, and this causes the accumulation of harmful substances.
The components of snuff and aggression to the fetus
Components of snuff (more than 4 000 substances), the most studied in their assault on the fetus are:
- Nicotine is distributed through the fetal circulation and impacts in organs such as brain, heart and adrenal glands may explain the increased levels of catecholamines (substances that increase heart rate and oxygen consumption) found in the amniotic fluid. Read the rest of this entry »
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Smoking during pregnancy combined with a genetic
A study at the University of Michigan (USA) states that smoking during pregnancy combined with a genetic variation of the baby, quadruple the chances of having asthma.
Although all children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy have a high risk of childhood asthma among many other evils, the variation in a gene called IL-1RN makes them much more susceptible to the effects of snuff and its subsequent consequences.
This is the gene for the protein receptor antagonist of interleukin-1 with anti-inflammatory effect, the theory is that gene modification promotes chronic inflammation of the airways that characterize asthma.
The monitoring was conducted at 921 children from birth to 10 years, also took data on family history of asthma, allergies, maternal smoking, and so on.
An important fact is that children referred to genetic variation that were not exposed to maternal smoking had no risk for asthma. This shows that one of the worst things a mother can do for your child is smoking during pregnancy. Yourself.
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Pregnancy Smoking
Smoking during pregnancy can affect baby’s brain development. Research conducted in women who smoke show maternal smoking affects the important genes that form the myelin, the fatty substance in the brain. In Embarazo10, smoking during pregnancy, new research.
If you’re pregnant and you smoke, you now have another reason to encourage you to quit. Smoking in pregnancy can affect the proper development of baby’s brain. The research was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego.
The myelin deficit previously observed in adult patients with various psychiatric disorders.
In the study when rats were given nicotine during pregnancy, the children showed changes in the genes of myelin , and in certain brain regions like the limbic system involved in emotion. The most pronounced effect occurred in the prefrontal cortex. A region of the brain important for decision making.
Investigations revealed gender differences with regard to the effects of nicotine. Looks like maternal smoking affects men differently than women, the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus and prefrontal cortex are affected differently.
Quitting smoking is a sacrifice and an act of love for your baby and you. Many women have quit smoking in pregnancy. Talk to your doctor if you can not quit , you can help. You will see that you also get it.
Pregnancy and smoking
Recently I heard a few say no pregnant women quit smoking because the doctor has told them that the greater the damage that occurs in the future baby’s anxiety to let it snuff itself. I’ve been researching on the net about this issue and it seems that the mother’s anxiety in the period from week 12 to 22 strongly influences on the fetus and can cause emotional disorders in childhood.
But until week 12? Today, most pregnancies are planned, for l The mother has the opportunity to stop smoking before becoming pregnant. Ideally, a year earlier so that the body gets cleansed of the effects of snuff, but you do not go that far. Just try to leave when he vows to become pregnant. Of course it’s hard to stop an addiction, but we are talking about having a baby. Make such a decision is important enough to motivate us to try and today there are all kinds of therapies to help stop the snuff. Even in clinics, family doctors can help.
If it’s an unplanned pregnancy, since we found out about the 8th week until the 12 th we have 4 weeks to quit or at least be reducing the amount of cigarettes. To motivate a fact: maternal smoking causes an increase.
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Babies whose parents smoke have nicotine
Alarming news comes to us these days is that babies born to parents smoking have a significant amount of nicotine, because they share their parents’ room and room ventilation is not sufficient to reduce the levels and not affect the children. It eliminates the toxic snuff much they try to take action, that is not the solution.
The babies who sleep with their parents smoking are three times more of nicotine than other babies, since the effects of snuff reach the skin, clothing and hair of the creature. More alarming is the news you consider that passive smoking is a major cause of death children in developed countries, while in other countries may be due to illness or starvation.
For this study, and this discovery not only consulted the parents of 1123 babies were made but samples hair in 252 babies, visits at 3 and 6 months.
The solution is simple but not simple to stop smoking inside the house. Given that the house is one of the few places where smokers can smoke is a difficult issue because the street is only for smokers with children. The effort, of course worth it for the health of children. Another more practical and even more difficult is to stop smoking.
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Snuff and pregnancy
Children and the elderly are most vulnerable to tobacco snuff. During pregnancy between 15% and 30% of women keep their addiction to snuff, conditioning adverse situations not only for themselves but also for the fetus. This last comes everything the mother takes: get oxygen and nutrients through the placenta and umbilical cord.If the mother smokes, the fetus will be exposed to toxins and poisons in the smoke of snuff (which contaminated blood from the mother [with a substantially lower level of oxygen] carries).
One of the effects of snuff on the unborn child is increased chromosomal instability detected in fetuses of smoking mothers, which is considered a predisposing factor to cancer.A study in the initial phase, conducted at the Unitat de Biologia i Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, published by the prestigious ‘Jama’ shows that the chromosomes of the fetuses of smoking mothers showed a significant increase of chromosomal abnormalities, compared with fetuses of nonsmoking mothers. Moreover, only in fetuses of mothers who smoke is detected the presence of lesions in a region of chromosome 11 (band 11q23) in which there are several genes that may contribute to the development of leukemia in childhood.
As another example, another scientific study shows that children whose grandmothers smoked while pregnant have twice the risk of developing asthma in childhood.As explained in this study, the dangerous effects of snuff may cross several generations, even if the damage is apparently not visible in the second generation. “This is the first study to show that if a woman smokes while pregnant, both her son and his grandson may be more likely to have asthma,” said the author of the study, published in the journal ‘Chest’, the doctor and professor at the University of South Carolina (Los Angeles, USA) Frank D.Gilliland. “The findings suggest that smoking can have a lasting impact on the health of a family that had never before understood.”
Another of the unfortunate consequences of this practice on the fetus is the considerable increase in the risk of preterm birth, abortion and infant death.Some studies also suggest that infants of mothers who smoke during and after pregnancy are likely two to three times more likely to die of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) than babies born to nonsmokers.
Furthermore, moms who smoke tend to have more complications during pregnancy. Babies of mothers who smoke tend to weigh an average of 200 grams less at birth than children of nonsmoking mothers. This weight reduction is associated with increased risks of death and illness in infancy and early childhood.The more a pregnant woman smokes, the greater the risk to your baby, even if you quit at the end of the first trimester of pregnancy or even after the second trimester, your baby’s development can be improved.
The placenta also can also be altered because of snuff: These complications include the “placenta previa”, a condition in which the placenta is located in a very low position in the uterus and covers all or part of the cervix and the “placental” in which the placenta separates from the uterine wall before delivery. In both cases, the life of the mother and child at risk during childbirth due to excessive bleeding, although in most cases it is possible to prevent the deaths with cesarean delivery. Problems with the placenta determine a slightly higher risk of stillbirth when the mother smokes during pregnancy.
But do not forget the responsibility of the parents once the baby is born, because the best education they can give a / an @ hij is the example and also the risks of illness linked to passive smoking are greater younger the age of the person. Once born, children whose parents smoke are exposed to all the effects suffered by a person in a smoky environment coughing, headaches, eye irritation, nausea, respiratory problems, and so on. In addition, the child is not aware of the danger of smoke snuff and not try to protect him. A child spending 80% of the time indoors and inhaling smoke generated a habit and then a dependency.
However, several studies have shown that pregnancy is a good time to quit, showing that changes and physiological and psychological status of the pregnant woman is an advantage to provide door to snuff.Still, an alarming percentage of ex-smokers who return to their habit after childbirth. Therefore, we appeal to all women ex-smokers to continue to maintain their status forever. Especially after experiencing the incredible feeling of creating a life that he should be all the best of it.
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Difficult to leave the snuff if the mother smoked during pregnancy
It is known that prenatal exposure to nicotine alters brain areas critical for memory, learning and sense of reward. Scientists at the Center for Research on smoking cessation and nicotine-dependent Duke University have discovered that these alterations may program the brain to suffer a relapse of addiction to nicotine.Rodents exposed to nicotine before birth self-administered more of the drug after periods of abstinence than those who had not been exposed.
The study suggests that pregnant women should quit smoking to keep their unborn children are exposed to nicotine and also should do so without the use of nicotine products such as certain patches or gum, according to researchers, also pose a risk to the baby.
“Smoking during pregnancy can harm the baby go far beyond a premature delivery or low birth weight,” says lead study investigator Edward Levin, a professor of biological psychiatry.”In addition, causes changes in the baby’s brain development can affect you for life.”
Levin’s team exposed pregnant rats to nicotine.When their offspring they became teenagers, were allowed to self-administer nicotine whenever you want.To self-administer the drug, the rats pressed a lever that released a dose of nicotine intravenously. Each push the lever was roughly equivalent to one puff of a cigarette.
The researchers studied two groups of rats: those that had been exposed to nicotine during pregnancy and those who had not been. Both groups of rats consumed the same rate of nicotine, about 10 puffs per session. After 4 weeks, the researchers forced the rats to experience withdrawal symptoms for a week in which they had no access to nicotine.
When scientists restored access to nicotine, they witnessed a noticeable difference in the rate at which rats resumed the habit. Those who had been exposed during pregnancy, taking almost twice as puffs of nicotine than others.
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