Smoking And Fertility In Women!

Various factors can trigger a woman’s chance becoming pregnant.

For every woman it is very important to understand what factors can be avoided and what can’t be helped.

Among those factors, smoking is one that can be avoided.

Smoking affects your fertility in various ways and it causes a great deal of waiting for that magical pregnancy.

Before going to know how smoking affects your fertility, here are few facts about smoking and fertility in women:

• Smoking women are 60 percent more risk of becoming infertile than nonsmokers. Smoking greatly delays your period of conception.


• Smoking women are less fertile and have longer waiting time to become pregnant.


• Heavy smoking women face more risk in conceiving than lightly smoking women.


• The toxins and chemicals present in tobacco may change your cervical fluid. These toxins can harm your ovaries.


• Smoking has a “devastating impact” on a woman’s chance of bearing a baby through IVF.


• The effect of smoking more than one cigarette a day for a year reduced women’s chances of having a live birth through IVF by 28%.
  

How smoking affects your fertility?

Cigarette smoking causes hormonal changes that can lead to menstrual irregularities and even anovulation, in which menstrual cycles where ovulation fails to occur.

Women who smoke also have an increased risk of cervical cancer. In advanced stages, surgery is needed to treat cervical cancer. This procedure can leave the women permanently infertile.

Cigarette smoking may be harmful to a woman’s ovaries, where eggs are produced; this can resulting in a lower egg count or even destroyed or unviable eggs.

Women who smoke can produce lower levels of estrogen, which could impact fertility and egg development. Smoking can also damage the fallopian tubes, inhibiting proper ovulation. And smoking can bring on early menopause, cutting short a woman’s fertility by several years.

If a couple is trying to conceive via in vitro fertilization (IVF), it can take twice as long and require higher doses of fertility drugs if the woman is a smoker, if the process works at all. Smoking has also been connected to an increased risk of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy.