What Quitting Smoking Does to Your Family and Children
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Who should listen to this episode about smoking and families?
Today's episode is primarily for everyone who has small children or who wants to have children in the future or who has already grown children, who still live with them. But this episode is also for people who, for example, decide to not have children or who can't have children but who still want their other family members to live a healthy life.
And that's exactly what this episode is about. It's about becoming aware of the impact that your decision to quit smoking can have on your family, on your family members, on the people you love the most, and how this decision can not just impact them in a positive way mentally, but also when it comes to their health. Because you always have to keep one thing in mind, and that's that secondhand smoke can lead to respiratory issues, asthma, ear infections, and other health problems. And especially small children are very, very sensitive to secondhand smoke. So that's why it's even more important for you if you're having small children than if you, for example, already have adult children who live on their own, that you quit smoking.
And of course, in case you are a woman listening to this and you plan to have children in the future, then I think I don't have to tell you about all the risks that smoking, yes, of course, during a pregnancy, I mean, that's the worst thing you can possibly do. But even smoking before you get pregnant, because smoking cigarettes can in fact make you infertile, it can make it harder for you to conceive, and even when you smoke before you get pregnant, right before, when you don't quit quite a while before getting pregnant, this can already increase the chances of your child having birth defects. And if you're a man listening to this and you're now thinking, oh, so for me, there are no negative effects.
I can continue smoking. Nope, not so fast. There's also been studies that prove that smoking cigarettes can lower your testosterone. It can lower your sperm count. It can make you also infertile, just like it does for women, or at least it makes it harder for you to then conceive.
How does secondhand smoke affect children's health?
And it can also alter your sperm in a way where birth defects are more likely to appear. So also for the guys out there who are listening to this, if you want to become fathers, then this is also important for you in the future or let's better say right now to make the decision to no longer smoke. But yes, to go back to what I just said earlier, secondhand smoke is dangerous and you don't want your child to suffer from asthma or to constantly have ear infections or to suffer from respiratory issues just because you weren't strong enough to quit smoking. I can guarantee you that it will be very hard for you to forgive yourself for that because I had coaching clients who actually decided to do the four-week hypnosis coaching program for smoking cessation with me after one of their children got sick repeatedly and they couldn't deny it any longer that it was because of their habit of smoking cigarettes.
But of course it goes even deeper than that, because you don't just want to protect the health of your children right now by you no longer smoking, but you also want to set a positive example for your kids, because by quitting you demonstrate that you have what it takes to quit for them, which is already alone a reason for your children to be proud of you. But again, it goes deeper than that. There's been several studies that prove that, and this shouldn't surprise you, that children, or let's say when children then become teenagers, that kids from mothers and fathers who are smoking are more likely to smoke. And now you could be saying, huh, that's weird, because if my child sees me coughing and suffering from smoking cigarettes...
I assume that they smoke less or that they are less likely to smoke. But that's not the case at all, because children learn first and foremost by mimicking our behavior. If, for example, a child grows up in an abusive household and there's a lot of beating and screaming going on, then according to several studies and also according, I think, to everyone's logical consideration,
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who should listen to this episode about smoking and families?
0:00–2:18
2
How does secondhand smoke affect children's health?
2:18–4:42
3
Can smoking affect fertility and pregnancy outcomes?
4:42–6:16
4
How does smoking impact male fertility and hormone levels?
6:16–8:09
5
Why is quitting smoking crucial to prevent asthma and ear infections in kids?
8:09–9:49
6
How does a parent's smoking behavior influence a child's likelihood to smoke?
9:49–11:48
7
What family lifestyle improvements come from quitting smoking?
11:48–13:52
Speakers
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