What are the effects of smoking during confinement?

The confinement period is a time for women to recuperate their bodies. There is also a saying that if a girl takes good care of her body during the confinement period, her physical fitness will be greatly improved and her immune ability will also be enhanced. Smoking is a way to relieve stress. Not only boys, but some girls also have the habit of smoking. So what are the effects of smoking during confinement?

This is definitely not a good idea. It will have an impact on both you and the baby. For the sake of your baby's health, you'd better not do it.

Inhaling carbon monoxide from cigarette smoke reduces the blood's ability to absorb oxygen. Nicotine can increase the heart rate, blood pressure, weaken the heart's ability to withstand stress, myocardial hypoxia causing coronary artery infarction, and local cardiac ischemia (or angina pectoris) promotes the accumulation of atherosclerosis and the onset of many heart diseases.

Between the ages of 30 and 49, smokers are five times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers. People who quit smoking find that their risk of heart disease drops by half after one year.

Smoking can cause a variety of brain diseases, reduce the oxygen and blood circulation in the brain, cause bleeding and blockage of brain blood vessels, and lead to paralysis, mental decline and stroke. The cause of stroke is that smoking causes spasm of blood vessels in the brain, making the blood more likely to clot. Smokers are twice as likely to have a stroke as non-smokers.

Smoking can cause mouth and throat cancer. The tar in cigarettes and the heat from the smoke can inflame the salivary glands, damage the taste buds, and greatly reduce the ability to taste and smell. Next, it is easy to develop oral cancer. About 2/3 of patients can still survive with difficulty after being diagnosed with oral cancer. At the same time, smoke can increase the temperature in the throat from 37°C to 42°C, causing micro-burns to the mucous membrane inside and producing chronic thermal trauma, which eventually leads to laryngeal cancer.

Smoking can cause the cilia of bronchial epithelial cells to become shorter and irregular, as well as movement disorders, reducing local resistance and making it easier to get infected. Smoking causes lung cancer. 90% of total mortality is caused by smoking. Early symptoms may go unnoticed until the cancerous cells spread to blood vessels and other organs.

For people with gastrointestinal diseases, smoking can make the disease worse. For people with gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer, the healing of the ulcer will be slowed down and may even develop into a chronic disease. Smoking can stimulate the nervous system, accelerate the secretion of saliva and gastric juice, make the gastrointestinal tract often in a state of tension, and cause smokers to lose their appetite. In addition, nicotine can cause the blood vessels in the gastrointestinal mucosa to constrict and also reduce appetite.