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Smoking and Pregnancy

Smoking and Pregnancy. Gregory Burke Walden University 19 July, 2009. Audience and Goals. Intended audience: pregnant women, women who are considering pregnancy and any woman of childbearing potential Smokers who have a pregnant partner Healthcare providers and educators of pregnant women

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Smoking and Pregnancy

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  1. Smoking and Pregnancy Gregory Burke Walden University 19 July, 2009

  2. Audience and Goals • Intended audience: pregnant women, women who are considering pregnancy and any woman of childbearing potential • Smokers who have a pregnant partner • Healthcare providers and educators of pregnant women • Goals: educate about widespread use, risks of smoking and second hand smoking

  3. What is in Cigarettes • Can harm or kill when “used as intended” • Tobacco • Over 4000 chemicals in cigarette • 51 of these chemicals are known to be carcinogenic (causes cancer) • Chemicals are poisonous

  4. What is in Cigarettes (cont.) • Nicotine • Tar • Carbon Monoxide • Arsenic • Ammonia • DDT • Formaldehyde • freon

  5. Health consequences • Cancer: cigarette smoking accounts for at least 30% of all cancer deaths in the United States • Lung • Laryxn (voice box) • Mouth • Throat • Bladder • Esophagus…..etc

  6. Smoking and Your Unborn Baby • When you smoke your unborn baby smokes • 2003 study suggests that baby undergo withdrawal like symptoms • Babies of smokers 3X more likely to die from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

  7. Smoking and Your Unborn Baby (cont.) • Doubles the risk of low birth weight • Pre-term babies • Cerebral Palsy • Fetal Mortality Rate: 35% higher in mothers who smoke during pregnancy

  8. Pregnancy Complications • Spontaneous abortions • Ectopic pregnancy • Placenta complications: previa and abruption • Pre-mature rupture of membranes (PROM)

  9. Second Hand Smoke • A mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of a cigarette and the smoke exhaled by the smoker • No risk-free level for smoking • Almost 50,000 deaths annually in adults

  10. Second Hand Smoke and Your Baby • Just as dangerous to your baby as first hand smoke • 20% higher odds of low birth weight • Secondhand Smoke vs. Smoker: SAME HEALTH RISK to you and your baby

  11. Second Hand Smoke • 21 million (35%) of children in U.S. regularly exposed to second hand smoke • 50% to 75% of children have detectable levels of cotinine • Phillip Morris in 1980s KNEW second hand smoke was highly toxic

  12. Take Home • When you smoke your baby smokes • No risk free level for second hand smoke • Significant increase in risk of birth defects and pregnancy complications • Fetal mortality rate is 35% higher in smokers

  13. Additional Reading • Cigarette Smoking, Pregnancy and the Developing Fetus http://www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/Cigarette%20Smoking,%20Pregnancy%20and%20the%20Developing%20Fetus.pdf • Breastfeeding and Smoking http://www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/Breastfeeding%20and%20Smoking.pdf • Harm Caused by Pregnant Women Smoking or Being Exposed to Secondhand Smoke • http://www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/Harm%20Caused%20by%20Pregnant%20Women%20Smoking%20or%20Being%20Exposed%20to%20Secondhand%20Smoke.pdf

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