Smoking among women is nothing unusual, but is disadvisable during pregnancy. It is not just a decades-old message, generally taken casually by many women. If are a mom-to-be and have not been able to or bother to quit smoking - do you know, your this habit might be responsible for your depression?!
Though, you may straightaway rebuff this apparently unlikely link, this is exactly what the emerging science suggests.
Warning on this finding, researchers suggest smoking pregnant women — going for prenatal checkups — with screening for mental health disorders as well.
It’s agreeable that quitting smoking is not a easy task, but what is harder to treat is a smoker’s depression or anxiety disorders. But, what is worrisome is women’s worrisome reluctance to quit smoking during pregnancies.
The only booster to encourage women to quit smoking is perhaps awareness programs showing how dangerous smoking is to their developing baby.
Smoking’s increasing risk of miscarriage, premature birth, low birth-weight, death from SIDS, and learning and behavior disorders if fails to prompt women to even try to quit smoking, their depressions’ fatal impact on the baby might help.
