Your at risk of developing blood clots while taking birth control pills and smoking upon that thickens the viscousity of your blood which in turn is another risk factor that may promote clots from forming and sticking to the walls of your arteries.Does smoking cigarettes really put me at risk while taking birth control?
I don't know whats wrong with your doctor...you might consider changing doctors! Smoking causes problems anyways whether you are on birth control or not...whether your 18 or 25, 30 or 60...The risk of bloodclots and heart attacks are higher when you are on birthcontrol than not and smoking makes the risks even higher.
Combined they increase your chance of developing blood clots. Therefore increase your chance of having a stroke!
Health risks of smoking
Because of their nicotine addiction, many smokers find it difficult to cease smoking despite their knowledge of ill health effects. An extremely carcinogenic (cancer-causing) metabolite of benzopyrene, a polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon, produced by burning tobacco.The health effects of tobacco smoking are related to direct tobacco smoking, as well as passive smoking, inhalation of environmental or secondhand tobacco smoke. A 50 year study of over thirty thousand British physicians showed that nonsmokers lived about 10 more years than the smokers. For those born between 1920 and 1929 the standardized mortality rate between the ages of 35 and 69 for nonsmokers was 15% and for smokers was 43% -- nearly three times greater. Claims that personalities of smokers account for these differences are not convincing in light of the fact that the heavy smokers were about 25 times more likely to die of lung cancer or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease than the nonsmokers.
Lung cancer rates are linked to the number of people who smoke. It is noted that an increase in deaths from lung cancer appeared 20 years after an increase in cigarette consumption. The damage a continuing smoker does to their lungs can take up to 20 years before its physical manifestation in lung cancer. Women began smoking later than men, so the rise in death rate amongst women did not appear until later. More men than women smoke. More men than women die of lung cancer. The male lung cancer death rate decreased in 1975 鈥?roughly 20 years after the fall in cigarette consumption in men. Fall in consumption in women also began in 1975 but by 1991 had not manifested in a decrease in lung cancer related mortalities amongst women.
The United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes tobacco use as ';the single most important preventable risk to human health in developed countries and an important cause of premature death worldwide';. Twenty-four percent of pregnant women in Indiana smoke cigarettes. If they didn鈥檛 smoke, it is estimated by one source that Indiana would reduce its infant mortality rate (12th highest in the country) by 9%. Tobacco smoke reduces the delivery of oxygen to the fetus through the presence of carbon monoxide, cyanide, and aromatic hydrocarbons. Nicotine and other substances in tobacco smoke cause reduction in placental blood flow, creating further reductions in oxygen delivery as well as reductions in nutrients to the unborn baby. Secondhand smoke exposure during pregnancy produces twice the risk of low birth weight babies. Smoking is the single largest modifiable risk factor in intrauterine growth retardation.
The main health risks in tobacco pertain to diseases of the cardiovascular system, in particular smoking being a major risk factor for a myocardial infarction (heart attack), diseases of the respiratory tract such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and emphysema, and cancer, particularly lung cancer and cancers of the larynx and tongue. Prior to World War I, lung cancer was considered to be a rare disease, which most physicians would never see during their career. With the postwar rise in popularity of cigarette smoking, however, came a virtual epidemic of lung cancer.
The carcinogenity of tobacco smoke is not explained by nicotine, which is not carcinogenic or mutagenic. Rather, any partially burnt material, tobacco or not, contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, particularly benzopyrene. The mechanism of their carcinogenity is well-known: oxidation produces an epoxide, which binds to DNA covalently and permanently distorts it. DNA damage is the cause of cancer. In this respect, the mechanism of carcinogenicity closely resembles that of mustard gas, aflatoxin and other DNA alkylating agents.
Tobacco smoke also contains various carcinogens other than polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, such as traces of radioactive elements. For example, smoke from tobacco grown with phosphate fertilizers contains polonium 210.
The carcinogenity is aggravated by the delivery of the carcinogens, namely direct inhalation. Radioactive and carcinogenic particles would not find their way by itself to the lungs, but a smoking addict deliberately inhales them repeatedly over a long period of time.
All smoke contains very fine particulates. They are able to penetrate the alveolar wall into the blood and their effects on the heart are observable in a short time.
My mother has always smoked, and was taking birth control pills when she was in her late 20's. She wound up getting a blood clot in her leg while on a camping trip. Lucky for her, the clot did not move, because it could have been fatal.
Practice birth control by:
Not having sex when you're not married; or, aware and wise timing when you are married.
Well, if your doc said you'd be fine, then i don't think there's any argument...
I'm not going to tell you to quit smoking I smoke myself and I can't stand it when someone tells me too. I just tell them no I like it. but to get to your question. yes there is always a risk, it can cause you to have a heart attack.after 35. my doctor told me he wasn't going to prescrbe me it , if i didn't quit. guess what, I stopped the birth control. have a merry christmas.
smoking puts you at risk anyway, sam she said BIRTH CONTROL, not pregnant
My cousin got prego while taking Birth Control, and her doc told her it was b/c she smoked. I guess when you smoke, and take Birth Control it doesn't work the 99.9% of time like its suppose to.
Blood clots are what you have to worry about with bcp and smoking. In your lungs, in your legs and worse yet - in your brain (stroke)
Smoking puts yuo at risk for everything and every age.
any doctor who tells you different is lying though his greedy teeth.
If you smoke and you are not a fireplace, brush fire, grill, house fire ect. ect. than don't worry about your health yo are already on a suicide mission.
I know some people that smoke on birth control pills %26amp; seem fine, but I know someone else in her early 20s that had a horrible migraine %26amp; had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance (they initially thought she was having a stroke). Her doctor immediately took her off the birth control pills because the risk is that you'll have a stroke or something %26amp; he said that the birth control %26amp; smoking led to the migraine %26amp; if she didn't stop one it was likely to happen again or be worse next time. I think it's like anything else; some people are more likely to have problems than others.
the mfr. wouldn't put it on the instert if it weren't a problem. it can cause a blood clot in your legs and it'll trave thru your bloodstream and kill you. Any dr who tells you smoking ';might be ok'; is an idiot, and you should find a new dr.
NEWS FLASH! Smoking puts you at risk....period! Not only because of the increased risk of blood clots while taking the pill, how about cancer, emphysema, and heart attack. Stop now while you're young and healthy.
I'm pretty sure that smoking increases the chance of blood clots. And since smokings not good for you anyway, you should really quit.
yes..if you care about your child you should stop at least until the baby is born
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