Woman and smoking

Tar is the remains of the smoke particles. Tar along with other toxic compounds like carbon-monoxide damage your health by causing cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

Cigarettes are bad, but why so many people still smoke?
Cigarettes make you feel good. They can heighten awareness and increase the amount of adrenaline in the body. They can calm the nerves, lift your mood and give you a sense of improved judgment.

What else can cigarettes do?

• When you smoke a cigarette, your brain receives a rush of nicotine. The tar that you inhale carries nicotine to the lungs and to the heart which pumps it through the arteries to the rest of the body.


• Nicotine can improve your mood by increasing your dopamine levels. It increases your blood pressure and heart rate while increasing the levels of various hormones, including adrenaline.


• Nicotine lowers your skin temperature and affects your muscle tone.


• Nicotine acts as a blood coagulant and causes blood clots.


• Tobacco smoke has a drying effect on the surface of the skin and even makes the skin looks grey.


• Tar from cigarettes damage the lung's DNA.


• Cigarettes weaken the immune system and irritate the lining of your lungs and impair your respiratory system.

Women and smoking
Tests have shown that many women may on average find it harder to give up smoking than men. A woman's menstrual cycle can be affected by the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal. Smoking can interrupt the menstrual cycle and may cause women to enter menopause earlier than otherwise. Smoking may also lead to infertility.

In women, smoking carries an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases because it can affect their hormones causing estrogen deficiency.

Smoking is believed to double the risk of cervical and breast cancers.

On the other hand, women tend to be more concerned about gaining weight if they try to stop smoking.

Women may be more susceptible to environmental factors than men, associating smoking with specific moods or friends.

Pregnancy and smoking
Pregnant women smokers run a greater risk of pregnancy complications, preterm delivery, miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant death. Smoking can result in low birth-weight babies; where babies from pregnant women smokers are on average 7 ounces lighter than those of non- smokers. Even after a child is born, smoking by a parent increases the chances of sudden infant death syndrome, infant and prenatal deaths, learning disorders and attention deficit disorder in young children.

Women, who are pregnant or are intending to become pregnant, should not use Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) because of the damage that nicotine can do to the fetus. Women who are breast-feeding should not use NRT because the nicotine that passes into the system can easily enter the breast milk.

Smoking Woman should become a Non-Smoker and have the Correct Attitude 'I WANT TO STOP SMOKING'.