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Why do some women feel like it’s right to smoke during there pregnancy? They say that it is too hard to quit so they just “cut down”…

Isn’t your baby your #1 priority and wouldn’t be pregnant actually make you quit cold turkey regardless how hard it was for the well being of your unborn baby?

Apart from smoking’s well-known dangers to anyone, such as increased risk for heart disease and cancer, women who smoke during pregnancy are at greater risk for giving birth to low-birthweight babies.

On average, babies born to women who smoked during pregnancy are significantly smaller than those born to women who don’t smoke. Low birthweight is one of the main causes of infant illness and disability, and of stillbirth.

The evidence that cigarette smoking may have other harmful effects on the fetus is more controversial, but some problems associated with smoking include ectopic pregnancy (where the fertilised egg implants outside the womb), miscarriage, premature labour and birth, placental abruption, vaginal bleeding, and cot death.

Some studies have shown that smoking during pregnancy may harm a child’s mental development and behaviour, leading to a short attention span and hyperactivity. Other research shows that certain birth defects may be more common in babies whose mother smoked during pregnancy. For example, a number of studies have shown a strong link between smoking in pregnancy and babies born with a cleft lip and/or palate.

The further into pregnancy you smoke, the greater your risk of complications. For example, if a pregnant woman stops smoking during the first half of her pregnancy, her baby will most likely be born a normal weight. If she continues to smoke throughout the pregnancy, she’ll probably have a low-birthweight baby. So if you’re a smoker and have not succeeded in quitting so far, stopping now, or at the very least cutting down on the number of cigarettes you smoke a day, can still benefit you and your baby.

Many women find they need help to give up or cut down. Talk to your midwife or doctor. They’ll be able to give you help and advice, and put you in touch with your local stop-smoking support scheme.Call the free and confidential NHS Pregnancy smoking helpline on 0800 169 9169. It’s staffed by trained counsellors who know how hard it is to quit, and who will listen and offer support and advice. Alternatively, you can contact www.quit.org.uk, an independent charity which also offers free phone counselling to help you quit.

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Picture tells a thousand words. I am sure that pictures are more effective in conveying a message as important as QUIT SMOKING so here are three pictures (real) for you to see and feel the pain of the patients who have cancers (lung, mouth and tongue). As you can see these pictures are quite unbearable and if you do not want to end up in one of those, QUIT SMOKING!

Look at this picture, this is the X-Ray from a lung cancer patient. There is barely any lung left.

(courtesy from: about.com)

What about this? This is mouth cancer. Can you see the tumour?

(courtesy from: Mediscan)

I guess you have no appetite for cigarettes after seeing this? It is tongue cancer.

(courtesy from: Otolaryngology Houston)

The moral of the story is: Stop smoking if you want to live a healthy and longer life.

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To all the ladies in the world. I know that it is every ladies’ dream to look beautiful and young for as long as possible. However, you do realise that there are many risks when it comes to plastic surgery.

Face lift is a surgical procedure to make you look younger and the risks involved are way too dangerous.

If you are smoking, I am sure that your doctor will advised you to stop smoking before you proceed with the face lift procedure. This is because it is proven that smoking can cause infection when you are undergoing face lift.

To make sure that you don’t get infection, it is better to quit smoking first.

There are many ways you can quit smoking. You can try quit smoking the cold turkey style and see if it works for you or else you can get help from professional.

Cigarettes are beauty’s enemy. Remember, if you want to be beautiful, the key is to stop smoking and avoid cigarettes no matter what happened.

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When you finally decided to quit smoking, that will be a historical day of your life. It is never easy to choose the right date so below are some guidelines on which days you should choose to quit smoking and which days you should not.

The days you should avoid are the days when you are experience either one of the following events:

• A big event such as an upcoming marriage, graduation, finals etc.
• A loss or traumatic event, such as a death in the family or a divorce
• Other particularly stressful events in your life.

However, the days you should choose are as below:

• Your birthday
• New year
• World No Tobacco Day

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Smokers have been smoking all these while leaving millions of cigarette butts all over the planet. Most of you don’t realise that cigarette butts are dangerous to the environment. Every day, I can find many cigarette butts on the streets, roads and even public toilets. Basically, they are everywhere and no one cares about the danger it can impose to the environment.

When cigarettes were invented, cigarettes were only cigarettes but now in the present day when cigarettes have been upgraded to having filters that are said to be able to ‘filter’ out the dangerous component from the cigarettes and supposed to be ‘healthier’ than the conventional cigarettes. However, there is no such thing in the world as all cigarettes are dangerous.

Now, back to the filters of the cigarettes. If cigarette is a danger to health, what about the cigarette butts?

Facts about cigarette’s butt:

• Cigarette filters’ function is to absorb some of the toxins in cigarette smoke and collect solid particles known as tar. The filters are also to keep tobacco from entering the smoker’s mouth.

• Most cigarette filters contain a core of cellulose acetate and two layers of wrapping that are made of paper and/or rayon.

• Cellulose acetate fibers in a cigarette filter are thinner than sewing thread and a single filter contains more than 12,000 of these fibers.

• The inner wrapper on a cigarette filter is designed to either allow air to flow through it from the core for light cigarettes, or to block airflow for regular cigarettes.

• The outer layer of paper is engineered to not stick to a smoker’s lips and attaches the filter to the tube of tobacco.

• Chemicals are added to cigarette paper to control the burn rate, and calcium carbonate is added as a whitener, in part to create an appealing ash as the cigarette burns.

So, where are the threats?

• When the cigarette butts flow into the river, the river is contaminated with the toxins. Can you imagine that we use the water from the river everyday for cooking and bathing?
• Many fires start with the cigarette butts. All fires whether forest fires or home fires, most of the cause is cigarette butts.

Think of how many smokers are there in the world and the cigarette butts coming from them. It is time to quit smoking not only for a better health but also for a better environment.

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