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Any smoking at any time during pregnancy has the potential to harm the baby. Smoking has been linked to lower birth weights and weaker immune systems in babies and also premature delivery.
The problems seems to be due to all the toxins in the mothers system but also a reduced supply of oxygen (because of all the stuff in the smoke taking up space where oxygen could go) getting into the mother and then even less being passed on to the baby.
Smoking and pregnancy is really bad.
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Hi Shaunm,
Just to echo what James has said.
Smoking is not good for you at all and certainly smoking while pregnant is not good for the baby. Continued smoking is of course going to be worse than stopping, so it is a good idea to stop, but not starting is the best option.
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Hey @shaunm. I agree with James and Dustin. There is absolutely no benefit at all from smoking. Only bad stuff. There are a multitude of diseases that will come as a DIRECT consequence of smoking. Can you imagine what it would be doing to a developing foetus?!? The bad stuff in the cigarettes leads to damage of your DNA and its ability to repair itself if it does get damaged. This can lead to all kinds of nastiness. Best to steer clear.
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Hi Shaunm,
Smoking is definitely bad for everyone, including unborn babies. If you do smoke, nicotine receptors are induced in your brain (‘receptors’ are proteins that recognise and bind nicotine and ‘induced’ means more of them are produced), and your body/brain gets used to having a lot of nicotine in it (addiction). If you then stop smoking, all your nicotine receptors don’t have nicotine anymore, and because you are addicted to it, your body really really wants some more (craving). This is why some people use nicotine replacement therapy, like gum or patches, to help them quit smoking – the gum or patch gives you nicotine in a safer way than smoking (ie. you aren’t exposed to all the other chemicals in cigarette smoke), so your body is ok and you get used to doing without the actual smoking. As time goes on, you can slowly reduce the dosage of nicotine that you take (like chewing less gum, or chewing gum or using patches that have less nicotine on them, or using patches for fewer hours everyday) until your body gets used to/doesn’t need it anymore.
So back to pregnancy, I think nicotine itself can have some effects on a developing foetus, so nicotine replacement therapy to treat nicotine withdrawal during pregnancy might not be the best thing, but it would definitely be better than smoking! Nicotine withdrawal itself can make the mother on-edge, but I don’t think it would actually affect the foetus, certainly not as badly as exposure to the chemicals in smoke.
So, not smoking in the first place would be the best thing, but stopping smoking during pregnancy would definitely be better than continuing.
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