Are you planning to have a baby?

Make sure you are not affecting your fertility potential and the chances of having a healthy baby by smoking tobacco. If you are a smoker, you are decreasing the chances of being a father/mother by yourself. Tobacco consumption damages the reproduction system and causes infertility.

Now-a-days smoking has become trend for both men and women. Men who smoke have lower sperm count, on the other hand women who smoke have the higher risk of early menopause and a significant lower rate of fertility potential. So if you are trying to conceive, stop smoking right away and try to keep the smokers away from you.

If you are married for long and willing to become a father but this is not happening, you may count your act of smoking as a reason of that.

Why should your spouse, family or friends suffer for your misconduct??

Yes, I repeat – ‘misconduct’. Smoking is misconduct because by doing this you are not only harming yourself but the other persons around you.

Secondary/passive smoking is the inhalation of smoke of Tobacco smoked by others. The chemicals of cigarette smoke remains in the air for long time. So even secondary smoking by a pregnant mother increases the risk of miscarriage or stillbirth.

A person who is exposed to secondary smoking may develop asthma, lung infection; cardiovascular problems, coughing, nausea etc. Eye-sight may get adversely affected.

Quitting may seem hard at first but the cravings will get easier with the passing of time.

Make a promise/commitment to yourself – “I will not harm myself and my family by smoking. So I am quitting cigarette and all sorts of tobacco for good”.
If you want to beat the cravings you need to keep the promise that you have made to yourself.

Even if you are blessed with a child, by abstaining yourself from smoking you can set a good example to your children for not to smoke.

On World No Tobacco Day let’s take a pledge to quit smoking and to stay away from all sorts of tobacco use.

“CHOOSE HEALTH NOT TOBACCO”!

---

This blog has been Written by-
Ms. Shatabdi Datta

 *Disclaimer:- The opinion expressed in the blog is the opinion of the writer & not necessarily the opinion of ANTARA Organization.