Does smoking harm women’s health more than men’s?

Experts from the Shandong Provincial Center for Disease Control and prevention believe that compared with male smokers, female smoking is more harmful to health.

It will not only harm smokers’ own health, cause skin aging, increase the probability of lung diseases, but also endanger the health of the next generation.

Lin Jiangtao, director of the respiratory department of Beijing China Japan Friendship Hospital, who came to Jinan recently to promote smoking cessation, said that nicotine can promote the release of dopamine in the brain and bring peace and pleasure to people.

The formation mechanism of smokers’ dependence on tobacco is very similar to that of drug abuse. Long term drug intervention is required in the treatment process. Once smoking is stopped, smokers will feel restless or impatient, anxious or depressed. It is also because of long-term addiction that smokers become dependent on tobacco, which will harm their health.

Sun Tong, director of the Health Education Institute of the Shandong CDC, believes that women’s smoking will not only bring the same health hazards as men, but also increase the incidence rate of lung cancer and respiratory system. Smoking can also lead to premature aging of skin and affect beauty.

This is because smoking damages capillaries, hinders the blood circulation of the skin, makes the skin unable to get enough oxygen supply, and causes wrinkles on women’s faces earlier. Industry experts predict that the incidence of lung cancer in women in China will also rise in the next few years.

Sun Tong said that what should be paid more attention to by young female smokers is that smoking will also increase the harm to fertility, increase the infertility rate, and even lead to fetal abortion and cause intellectual development disorders of children. This is because the chemical components in tobacco are transmitted to the fetus through blood vessels.

In addition, smoking will also lead to less breast milk of lactating women, and the incidence of breast cancer and ovarian cancer will increase. Compared with non-smokers, female smokers have much higher birth problems.