How Does Smoking Affect Male and Female Infertility?
Smokers take more time to get pregnant than non-smokers. Even second-hand smoking can be harmful. There are certain elements in cigarettes like nicotine that can harm eggs and sperms.
About Male Infertility:
Smoking opens men to significant level of lead and cadmium, metals that are responsible to diminished fertility. Smoking can cause other health issues like getting and keeping erection. It harms the DNA in sperm, which can be transferred to the infant, thereby increasing the risk of leukaemia in the baby.
About Female Infertility:
Women who smoke in pregnancy have higher chances of miscarriage as compared to the non-smokers. Smoking can also affect the baby such as having low birth weight, having birth defects and being conceived prematurely. Second-hand smoke can also affect the baby girl’s ovaries. Smoking can be life threatening for baby as well as mother during the time of pregnancy.
Fertility often increases for women after they stop smoking. Quit smoking and you may just find it easier to conceive.