Smoking and fertility

Smokers take longer to conceive than non-smokers and are more likely to have fertility issues

Did you know that both active smoking and passive smoking affect fertility? Actually, passive smoking (inhaling your partner’s smoke or the smoke of someone else who lives with you) is only slightly less harmful to fertility than active smoking.

 

 

 

The facts about smoking and fertility

Smokers take longer to conceive than non-smokers and are more likely to have fertility issues.

The figures about smoking and fertility

• The risk of infertility among smokers may be twice that of non-smokers.
• If a male partner is a heavy smoker, this will significantly contribute to delayed conception. Women who smoke are at least 1.5 times more likely than non-smokers to take longer than a year to get pregnant.
• Female passive smokers are more likely than women in non-smoking homes to take more than a year to get pregnant.
• The more you smoke the more you risk affecting your fertility – both your ability to get pregnant and the time it takes to get pregnant.
• The good news? It’s estimated that most of the negative effects of smoking on fertility are reversed a year after stopping smoking.