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Babies                                                      

Most couples know that in it is in the best interest of mother and baby for conception to take place after the mother has stopped smoking. As a smoker, or someone who wants to know how to encourage someone to quit smoking, you may be interested to know the full facts concerning smoking and sexual health.

Research shows that Perinatal mortality in the UK is increased by approximately a third in babies of smokers. This is the equivalent to about 420 stillbirths and early neonatal deaths per year in England and Wales.

In addition, the more cigarettes smoked in a household, the greater the risk of cot death. In recent research, a close-response relationship was observed, whereby the greater the total number of cigarettes the infant was exposed to after birth the greater the risk of sudden infant death syndrome. The odds ratio at 1-10 cigarettes per day was 2.4, whereas at over 20 cigarettes per day the ratio was 22.7.

Women who smoke take longer to conceive. Among smokers, the chances of conceiving fall by 10 – 40 per cent per cycle. The greater the quantity of cigarettes smoked, the longer a woman is likely to take to achieve pregnancy. Even comparatively low levels of smoking can have a significant impact.

Affect on male sexuality

A British study found that both active and passive smoking was associated with delayed conception. Cigarette smoking can also affect male fertility: smoking reduces the quality of semen. Men who smoke have a lower sperm count than non-smokers, and their semen contains a higher proportion of malformed sperm. This is powerful information when you are learning how to encourage someone to quit smoking.

Impotence, or penile erectile dysfunction, is the repeated inability to have or maintain an erection. Mounting evidence indicates smoking may cause male sexual impotence. A meta-analysis of studies published since 1980 found that 40% of impotent men were current smokers compared with 28% of men in the general population. Overall smoking increases the risk of impotence by around 50% for men in their 30s and 40s. ASH and the British Medical Association have calculated that around 120,000 UK men in this age group are needlessly impotent as a result of smoking.

Foetal growth and birth weight

Babies born to women who smoke are on average 200 grams (8 ozs) lighter than babies born to comparable non-smoking mothers.

Furthermore, the more cigarettes a woman smokes during pregnancy, the greater the probable reduction in birth weight. If you are learning how to encourage someone to quit smoking recent research suggests that cigarettes can impede the flow of blood in the placenta which in turn restricts the amount of nutrients that reach the foetus. Low birth weight is associated with higher risks of death and disease in infancy and early childhood.

The adverse effects of smoking in pregnancy are due mainly to smoking in the second and third trimesters. Therefore, if a woman stops smoking within the first three months of pregnancy, her risk of having a low-weight baby will be similar to that of a non-smoker.

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Although the main office is situated in Hertford, we tend to attract clients from all over Herts. Mostly this includes: Ware, Hoddesdon, Bishops Stortford, Cheshunt, Buntingford, Stansted, Royston, Enfield, Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City and Sawbridgeworth in Herts.

Recommendations have also tended to attract people from further afield, mainly from Cambs, Essex, London Middlesex and Kent.

We have another office near Horsham, W. Sussex

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