Pregnancy can be the perfect time to quit using tobacco products. Here are some benefits for you and your baby when you quit using tobacco and stay tobacco free!
Benefits for your baby:
- Increased oxygen for baby
- Lowers risk of miscarriage and stillbirth
- Increased chance baby’s lungs work well
- Lowers risk of being born too early
- Increase your chances of having a normal weight, healthy baby
- Increases the chances your baby will come home from the hospital with you.
- Lowers risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Benefits for you:
- More energy
- Makes clothes, car and home smell better
- Helps you breathe more easily
- Makes food taste better
- Helps prevent heart disease and cancer, the leading causes of death among women
- Helps prevent colds, and more serious illnesses like bronchitis and pneumonia
- Saves money that you can spend on other things
- Lets you feel good about what you’ve done for yourself and your baby
Bringing a new baby home is a time of much excitement, but it can also be stressful. If you quit smoking or vaping during pregnancy, it is still important to stay quit.
If you are still smoking or vaping or have returned to using tobacco, it is never too late to quit – there are still many benefits for your health and the health of your baby.
Benefits for you:
- Gives you more energy and helps you breathe more easily.
- Saves you money that you can spend on other things.
- Makes your clothes, hair, and home smell better.
- Makes your food taste better.
- Lets you feel good about what you’ve done for yourself and your baby.
- Increases your choices of family planning methods.
- Helps prevent heart disease and cancer, the leading causes of death in women.
- Helps prevent colds and serious illnesses like bronchitis and pneumonia.
Benefits for your baby:
- Helps keep your baby healthy.
- Reduces the number of ear infections your baby will have.
- Reduces the chance your baby will have asthma.
- Helps prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
- Helps prevent colds and serious illnesses like bronchitis and pneumonia.
- If your baby was born too early, quitting smoking and staying smoke free is very important – premature babies are more susceptible to the problems listed above.
A lot of changes happen when your family member or friend is pregnant and then brings a new baby home. This is the perfect time to quit tobacco. There are many ways to be supportive, including quitting smoking yourself. QuitlineNC is a free, confidential resource available to help you quit for good.
If you decide not to quit, it is very important not to smoke or vape inside or in the car with pregnant women and babies.
Here are some of the benefits of staying tobacco free:
Benefits for Baby During Pregnancy:
- Increases the amount of oxygen the baby will get & increases the chances that the baby’s lungs will work well.
- Lowers the risk that the baby will be born too early.
- Increases the chances of having a normal-weight, healthy baby.
- Increases the chances that the baby will come home from the hospital with his or her mom.
Benefits for Baby After Being Born:
- Helps keep the baby healthy
- Reduces the number of ear infections the baby will have
- Reduces the chance that the baby will have asthma
- Helps prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
- Helps prevent colds and serious illnesses like bronchitis and pneumonia
- If the baby was born too early, quitting smoking and staying smoke free is very important – premature babies are more susceptible to the problems listed above.
Benefits for The Whole Family:
- Gives you more energy and helps you breathe more easily
- Saves money that you can spend on other things
- Makes your clothes, hair, and home smell better
- Makes your food taste better
- Lets you feel good about what you’ve done for your family.
- Increases your choices of family planning methods
- Helps prevent heart disease and cancer, the leading causes of death in women
- Helps prevent colds and serious illnesses like bronchitis and pneumonia
