Every cigarette matters when you're pregnant, a massive new study confirms. Smoking even one a day increases risk of SIDS twofold.

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Every cigarette you can avoid reduces your child's risk of SIDS.
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▼ Since the 1990s, rates of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) have halved. Parents were widely encouraged to put their babies to bed on their backs and to clear cribs of potentially suffocating materials, and the efforts worked. But as those accidental deaths dropped out of the statistics, another factor became increasingly important: smoking.
Several studiesin the intervening years have concluded that smoking is the biggest preventable risk  factor for SIDS. Many of these studies have quantified how much more likely a baby is to die of SIDS if their parent smoked while pregnant—it ranges from roughly 1.5- to 6.5-fold higher—but they mostly look across broad groups. Nine months is a long time. Could quitting halfway through help, or is the damage already done in the first trimester? Researchers at the Seattle Children’s Research Institute decided to look in more detail, and recently published their  results in the journal Pediatrics.
In looking at more than 12 million births between 2007 and 2011, the researchers found that every cigarette mattered. The difference between not smoking at all and smoking one a day was a twofold increase in SIDS risk, and every cigarette after that added another 0.07 to that risk. (Though it's important to note that the overall risk of SIDS is low, at just 0.83 per 1,000 live births, so even a doubled risk is less than 2 in 1,000). Those who smoked all the way through—about nine percent of the study subjects—had offspring with a 2.52-fold higher risk of SIDS. Half of those patients didn’t reduce their smoking at all, but those who did helped their baby with each cigarette they avoided. People who were able to smoke less by the third trimester could decrease their risk elevation by 12 percent, while quitting entirely in that period resulted in a 23 percent risk reduction.
The curve plateaued after 20 cigarettes a day, so people who smoke more than a pack daily aren't seeing a huge benefit if they merely get themselves down to a pack. (▪ ▪ ▪)

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adwitiya.ankita

Absolutely right. I read about the effect of smoking in pregnancy and neonatal phase. So it is quite obvious that sids is somehow also dependent on this phenomena.

Sansree

adwitiya.ankita 25-3-2019 07:42 AM
Absolutely right. I read about the effect of smoking in pregnancy and neonatal phase. So it is quite ...

Yes..  Even second hand smoke also affects the child. The husband and wife both should come together in this matter.

adwitiya.ankita

Sansree 25-3-2019 10:32 PM
Yes..  Even second hand smoke also affects the child. The husband and wife both should come togeth ...

Yes. You are absolutely right... Even the second hand smoking or smoke intake or passive smokong is much more dangerous than the active smoking..