Here are five tips for breastfeeding if you continue to smoke. Other Dangers of Second-Hand Smoke: If your baby breathes in smoke from being around you or others who are smoking, they will have a greater risk of developing asthma, bronchitis, and ear infections. Debilitating Diseases: The use of tobacco products is associated with chronic illness and death from serious health problems such as lung cancer, other cancers, stroke, emphysema, and cardiac problems.
Droopy Skin: After breastfeeding has ended and you wean your baby, you are more likely to end up with saggy breasts if you smoke. Smoking causes the skin to lose its elasticity and look wrinkled and droopy. Withdrawal Symptoms: If you do quit smoking, you may experience symptoms of nicotine withdrawal including headaches , anxiety, depression, nervousness, restlessness, trouble sleeping, and weight gain.
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February 11, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Smoking and Tobacco Use. Health effects. Updated April 28, How to quit. Updated August 20, Children in the home. Updated August 4, Benefits of quitting. Back to Breastfeeding and lifestyle. By stopping smoking before — or as soon as — you get pregnant, you can have a safer pregnancy and a healthier baby.
About Stopping smoking once your baby is born will still help protect them against:. See more about the effects of passive smoking on children.
As a new mum, not smoking is also the single most important thing you can do to protect your own health. However, if you're finding it hard to quit smoking, it's important not to stop breastfeeding. Breastfeeding will still protect your baby from infections and provide nutrients they can't get from formula milk.
Options and useful resources on quitting smoking can be found at www. Some people use nicotine patches to help them to quit smoking. This was compared to the use of a higher milligram 21 mg nicotine patch or continuing smoking. Donath SM, Amir LH, , The relationship between maternal smoking and breastfeeding duration after adjustment for maternal infant feeding intention, Acta Paediatr, 93 11 — Luck W, , Nicotine and cotinine concentrations in serum and milk of nursing smokers , British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 18 1 :9— While there might be certain health advantages to e-cigarettes, they deliver the same levels of nicotine to the smoker.
Thus, we must conclude that e-cigarettes carry many of the same risks associated with nicotine exposure as regular cigarettes and are not a better option for nursing mothers. According to the data provided by LactMed , a 21 mg transdermal nicotine patch delivers an amount of nicotine to the nursing baby via the breast milk which is equivalent to smoking 17 cigarettes per day.
Using lower patch strengths 7 or 14 mg results in proportionately lower amounts of nicotine delivered to the breastfed infant. We have no studies investigating the use of nicotine spray or gum in nursing mothers.
Based on these findings, we would conclude that babies exposed to the nicotine delivered through a transdermal patch may face some of the same risks as babies exposed to nicotine through maternal smoking. Varenicline is a partial nicotine agonist used for smoking cessation. Because there is no information regarding the use of varenicline in breastfeeding women and its impact on the nursing infant, we would typically avoid the use of this medication in this setting, if possible.
Medications author Thomas Hale says levels of nicotine dispensed in an inhaler are probably too low to affect a breastfeeding baby Halesmeds. But as with all nicotine replacement products, levels will depend on how used:. Habitual smokeless tobacco users will receive mg of nicotine per day compared to mg per day for 1 pack of cigarettes.
Electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes electronic nicotine delivery systems are battery powered fake cigarettes consisting of a mouth piece, a cartridge with nicotine and other chemicals, and an atomiser that converts the liquid into a vapour. Some look like a traditional cigarette and some look more like a pen and are called vaporisers. Food and Drug Administration FDA and contain various chemicals and flavourings with varying amounts of nicotine 10 The e-cigarette user inhales nicotine vapour from the cartridge.
When the smoker breathes out again, a mix of nicotine and chemical vapour is released into the air potentially exposing your baby and others to secondhand emissions. Opinions differ on how harmful this could be to the user, family members or colleagues. E-cigarettes have not been thoroughly evaluated in scientific studies and more research is needed
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