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Women Who Smoke Have More Bladder Issues
Filed under Smoking CessationSep 22In addition to the multiple ways that smoking is toxic to your health, women have yet another reason not to pick up the habit, or to quit smoking if they currently engage in this risky pastime. Men do too, since they have a higher risk of prostate cancer among other things though, so men are by no way counted out.
But this article is about women. So, let’s talk about why women have yet another reason to stop smoking cigarettes. New research has indicated that in addition to increasing women’s risk of heart disease and multiple kinds of cancer, smoking also apparently is linked to higher rates of bladder problems.
These problems include frequency of urination, discomfort in urination, and an increase in frequency and urgency both when it comes to urinating. The women in the study who smoked reported much more incidence of urinary tract and bladder problems.
The study authors were careful to note that smoking in itself is not indicated to be the sole cause of urinary tract issues in women, however, there does seem to be a link. It may be that women who smoke also have other lifestyle habits or predispositions naturally.
There is no clear link between nicotine, smoke biproducts, or anything else that smoking emits that would cause incontinence, but there is some sort of link because the results of the survey indicate it.
Researchers hope that younger smokers will use this as an excuse to quit smoking. This, coupled with the fact that smoking causes premature skin aging and teeth yellowing, may appeal to younger smokers a little more than other things that seem more unlikely to people at a young age like heart disease and cancer, so researchers are hoping they use this to their advantage and get more people to quit.
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