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So, everyone needs to understand what can trigger your fertility and conception.
Smoking is the factor that can trigger your fertility to a greater extent.
So, women who want to become pregnant should give up smoking. There are various researches conducted on why smoking causes infertility.
The studies found some of the causes for negative effect of smoking on your fertility.
Nicotine present in cigarettes has a greater negative impact on your fertility. Nicotine affects the maturation of eggs, decreases ovulation rates and thereby decreasing fertility rates. Also the studies showed that women who smoke during pregnancy have greater chances of developing chromosomal abnormalities in their eggs.
Also study showed that smokers had twice the risk of still being childless five years after ending the use of contraceptives than did non-smoking couples. Researchers estimate that smoking women who want to conceive take, on average two months longer than the nonsmokers. Smoking women have 40% less chances of becoming pregnant than nonsmokers. Also, smoking women have greater chances of miscarriage and smoking men are more likely to become impotent if they continue smoking.
Effect of smoking on IVF:
Women who get in vitro fertilization also experience the negative effects of nicotine on their pregnancy. Smoking women have less egg retrieval with IVF, less rates of fertilization of the eggs and more number of miscarriages even with IVF also.
Even smoking men also have negative effect on IVF. Smoking causes damage to the sperm. So, smoking causes negative influences on IVF for both the men and women.
If you want to become pregnant, then you need to adopt various lifestyle changes that increase your chances of becoming pregnant. Say goodbye to cigarettes, so that it can dramatically and quickly influence your chances of holding a beautiful baby.
Effects of smoking on women fertility:
- Alterations in ovum
- Lower rates of fertilization of the eggs with IVF
- Increased risk of unprompted abortion and ectopic pregnancy
- Likelihood of incidence of cancer in the babies of smoking parents
- Damage to the fallopian tubes that produce healthy eggs
- Chances of getting menopause early by 1 to 4 years
- Decreased sperm count in men
- Infertility caused by changes in the series of DNA in sperm cells
- Iterations in the sperm morphology
- Decreased sperm strength
- Quality and quantity of ejaculated semen