is smoking a safe form of birth control???

Answer 1

NO WAY!
safe you from kissing is definitely YES.

here info about contraception (birth control)=
you'll need a reliable form of birth control that works for you. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute — a nonprofit organization devoted to reproductive health research — 58 million women in the United States alone are of childbearing age (15 to 44 years old). Nearly half of unplanned pregnancies each year in the United States are in women who were using contraception inconsistently or incorrectly. So long before you're ready for sex, you should do your homework and pick the best method for you.

The choices:
Condoms for men: Thin tube-like sheaths made from latex, polyurethane, or animal membrane that fit over the erect penis and traps semen during sex. Affordable and effective, condoms don't require a physical exam or fitting. Plus they don't interfere with lactation or a woman's hormones, and may offer protection from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Condoms for women: Thin polyurethane pouches that you insert into your vagina before sex to prevent pregnancy and guard against exposure to sexually transmitted diseases. Soft rings at either end hold them in place. Female condoms don't require a physical exam or fitting and they don't interfere with lactation or a woman's hormones.

Depo-Provera: A shot of synthetic progesterone you get every three months, that works like other hormonal methods (including the Pill) by preventing ovulation — so the ovary doesn't release an egg to be fertilized. Depo-Provera doesn't affect the quality of breast milk (like combination estrogen/progesterone contraceptives can).

Diaphragm: A shallow dome-shaped rubber cup that you insert into your vagina to keep sperm from entering your cervix. Popular among women over 30, diaphragms provide easily reversible birth control. Plus they don't interfere with lactation or a woman's hormones

Cervical cap: A thimble-sized rubber cap with a firm, rounded rim that sits on top of your cervix and covers the opening. Like the diaphragm, the cap blocks sperm from passing through the vagina into the cervix. It also provides easily reversible birth control, and doesn't interfere with lactation or a woman's hormones.

Natural Birth Control Methods: Behavioral techniques for preventing pregnancy. They don't involve any physical barriers (like condoms or diaphragms), hormonal medications (such as the Pill) or spermicides. If you're very disciplined — and have regular and predictable menstrual cycles — natural birth control methods, which cost nothing and cause no side effects, make great alternatives to hormones and devices.

The Pill: Prescription medication containing hormones (progesterone and estrogen) that prevent ovulation — so the ovary doesn't release an egg to be fertilized. Combination birth control pills aren't safe for nursing moms because they can interfere with the quality and quantity of breast milk. However, the progesterone-only pill, known as the mini-Pill is recommended for nursing moms.

Birth control patch: A thin, beige, 1¾-inch square that sticks to your skin like an adhesive bandage and releases a low dose of hormones through the skin into the bloodstream to prevent pregnancy. The patch combines the effectiveness of the pill (it prevents 99 percent of pregnancies when used correctly) with the convenience of once-a-week dosing. It's not recommended for nursing women because it contains the combination of estrogen and progesterone, which can affect the quality and quantity of breast milk.

Birth control ring: A 2-inch-wide, flexible, transparent ring you insert into your vagina once a month (one size fits all), that releases a continuous low dose of hormones into your bloodstream to prevent pregnancy. The ring combines the effectiveness of the pill (it prevents 99 percent of pregnancies when used correctly) with the convenience of once-a-month dosing. It's not recommended for nursing women because it contains the combination of estrogen and progesterone, which can affect the quality and quantity of breast milk.

Intrauterine device (IUD): A T-shaped plastic device that's wrapped in copper or filled with a synthetic form of the hormone progesterone and inserted into your uterus. IUDs provide effective, long-term, reversible protection. Plus they're safe for nursing moms; they don't affect the quality or quantity of breast milk (like combination estrogen/progesterone contraceptives can).

Vasectomy: A safe and highly effective operation designed to make a man sterile. A doctor cuts the two tubes — called the vas deferens — that carry sperm from the testes to the pouch in the scrotum that holds the semen prior to ejaculation. In the simplest terms, a vasectomy blocks the only outlets sperm have to leave the body. The sperm is reabsorbed into the body.

Tubal ligation: A surgical procedure designed to make a woman sterile by cutting, tying, clipping, cauterizing or blocking the fallopian tubes so sperm can't reach an egg and fertilize it. The surgery is considered permanent (even though it's occasionally surgically reversed) so most states require a 30-day waiting period before you can schedule it.
• And, should your method fail, emergency contraception is available for you.

NATURAL BIRTH CONTROL METHODs

Natural birth control methods are behavioral techniques for preventing pregnancy. They don't involve any physical barriers (like condoms or diaphragms), hormonal medications (such as the Pill) or spermicides.

Used correctly and consistently , natural birth control methods can be fairly effective at preventing pregnancy. Depending on the method you choose and how disciplined you are about using it, you can prevent pregnancy 75 to 98 percent of the time. You'll have the highest success rate if you practice two or more natural birth control methods at the same time.

What are the most popular natural birth control methods?
*****Withdrawal*****
In this method, the man withdraws his penis from the woman's vagina before he ejaculates. The idea is to prevent sperm from reaching and fertilizing an egg. Withdrawal doesn't always work because the man must have enough control to pull out in time — a difficult thing to do during lovemaking. The other big problem with withdrawal is that during sex, even before ejaculation, the penis releases small amounts of semen that can contain sperm. Withdrawal isn't reliable: It's only 60 to 80 percent successful at preventing pregnancy.

*****Calendar Method*****
Couples who use the calendar method abstain from sex during the week when they believe the woman is ovulating. This technique works best when a woman's menstrual cycle is extremely regular, or when she is so in tune with her body that she can feel all the ways it changes before she ovulates. Symptoms to watch for include breast tenderness, thickening cervical mucus discharge, and Mittelschmerz — mild achiness or twinges of pain from the ovaries felt by about one-fifth of women. Still, even when a woman knows her body well, other factors such as illness or insomnia can hamper her ability to correctly monitor symptoms.

If you decide to use this method, you'll first need to keep track of how long your cycles lasts over the course of a year. Count the number of days from the day you start menstruating to the day before your next period. (The first day of your period is always the first day of your cycle.) Then, to determine the first day of the cycle on which you might be fertile, subtract 18 from the number of days in your shortest cycle during the past year. To identify the day on which you can start having sex again, subtract 10 from the number of days in your longest cycle. If your cycles last between 26 and 29 days, for example, you'll have to avoid intercourse from day 8 through day 18 of each cycle. In truth, the calendar method doesn't work very well for most couples when used on its own; overall, it has about a 75 percent success rate.

However, the calendar method can be effective when combined with the temperature and mucus methods described below. In fact, many couples use this system to get pregnant. They pinpoint ovulation so precisely that they know which days they should have sex on to conceive a child. To prevent pregnancy, you pinpoint the likely day of ovulation and then give yourself a no-sex buffer zone of a few days before that date and a few days after.

*****The temperature method*****
The temperature method is a way to pinpoint the day you ovulate so you can avoid sex a few days before and after that. For this method to work, you must take your basal body temperature (your temperature when your first wake up) every morning with a highly accurate "basal" thermometer, which shows the tiny incremental degree changes that a regular one can't. It's essential to do this as soon as you wake up, even before you've snuggled with your honey or put one foot on the floor. Note your exact temperature each morning on a calendar or basal body temperature chart.

Your basal body temperature (BBT) probably ranges from 97.2 to about 97.7 degrees before ovulation. During the two or three days after you ovulate, hormonal changes cause a rise in your BBT of between 0.5 and 1.6 degrees, which lasts at least until your next period. You'll probably notice your temperature spiking on other days, but unless it stays that way, you probably haven't ovulated yet. If your temperature stays elevated for at least two days, you'll know that ovulation has occurred and you're fertile — So you should steer clear of sex. The window of opportunity for carefree sex starts two to three days later, when your temperature goes back down as your next menstrual cycle begins. This method isn't reliable when your temperature is already elevated because of illness. Too little sleep can also throw your resting body temperature off. But when combined with the mucus method, the temperature method is a fairly accurate way of assessing fertility. If you use these two methods correctly and consistently, the success rate can be as high as 98 percent. For more information on fertility awareness, click here.

*****The mucus method*****
This method involves tracking changes in the amount and texture of your vaginal discharge, the mucus that forms around your cervix. Those changes reflect the rising level of estrogen in your body. For the first few days after your period, you may have no discharge at all. Then you'll notice a cloudy, tacky mucus as your estrogen starts to rise. When the discharge starts to increase in volume and becomes clear and stringy like raw egg white, you'll know that ovulation is near. A return to either tacky, cloudy mucus or no discharge means that ovulation has passed. You should avoid intercourse from the day you first notice the discharge until four days after it's gone back to normal or disappeared. A vaginal infection or the use of vaginal products like douches or medication can produce changes in your cervical mucus and throw off the pattern. When used — correctly and consistently — in conjunction with the temperature method, the mucus method can be 98 percent effective at preventing pregnancy.

*****Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM)*****
Some experts believe that if you're exclusively breastfeeding, you're protected from pregnancy. The theory goes like this: Breastfeeding curbs hormones that trigger ovulation. Some experts say that as long as you've had no periods since you gave birth, are nursing at least every four hours during the day and every six at night, and your baby is less than 6 months old, you won't get pregnant. But BabyCenter lactation expert Susan Condon says every woman's body responds differently to the hormonal influences of breastfeeding, so even if you're nursing your newborn all the time, you might be wise to consider yourself fertile. LAM is risky because you'll probably ovulate before you get your first period, so you can get pregnant without warning. And studies have shown that getting pregnant too soon after giving birth can increase your chances of pregnancy complications, such as preterm labor, and of having a low-birthweight baby.

Are natural birth control methods a good choice for postpartum contraception?
Natural birth control methods aren't the best postpartum contraceptive choices because they require a lot of time and energy to be effective, and as a new mom you're probably short on both. Also, these methods work best on women with regular periods and it takes time for your period to become regular again after giving birth. They also have fairly low effectiveness rates and some studies suggest that getting pregnant too soon after giving birth can increase your chances of pregnancy complications, such as preterm labor, and of having a low-birthweight baby.

Answer 2

Obviously a stupid question. But no smoking is not an accepted form of birth control. It does not chemically alter the hormone responses in the female body to keep an egg from being released or from implantation from occuring. I dont even know why i justified that question with an answer.

Answer 3

Smoking is not a form of birth control at all. I don't know who told you that but they are wrong. It has nothing to do with you not getting pregnant. It isn't safe for you once you are pregnant but it won't stop you from getting that way.

Answer 4

Where do you get your information from? smoking may reduce the chances of you becoming pregnant but it most certainly is'nt a form of birth control. You CAN get pregnant if you smoke, also smoking is disgusting and unhealthy DON'T DO IT!

Answer 5

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infertility can run in the family and one of the first things the doctor asks you when you go to a fertility clinic is your family history regarding cases of infertility or other reproductive issues.
If infertility is caused by genetic disorder then it's not unusual that one of the kids (your mom) doesn't have it and another does (your aunt).
two months of trying is still to early to be concerned about the fact that you might be infertile and it's also quite early to go to a fertility specialist. Go to a regular Obgyb to get a closer insight and see what ways there are are to improve your fertility rate.
Also remove alcohol, caffeine and cigarettes from your life because they might influence your chances too. Stress is also a risk factor when it comes to infertility.

Answer 6

It is not a form of birth control at all. It might discourage some non-smokers from want to have sex, but it has nothing to do with getting pregnant.

Answer 7

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Infertility is a condition defined as not being able to become pregnant after at least one year of unprotected, regular, well-timed intercourse. Women who suffer from multiple miscarriages may also be diagnosed as infertile. Infertility may be classified into two groups, primary and secondary infertility.

Answer 8

Smoking is in no way a prevenative for anything, aside from possibly preventing a kiss. If you happen to get pregnant and you smoke however,the consequnces for the unborn baby are horrible, so if you become pregnant STOP smoking!

Answer 9

Im sorry but smoking is not a form of birth control. you can get pregnant.

Answer 10

If you are serious, NO!! Smoking causes low birth weight and other problems but will not keep you from getting pregnant.

Answer 11

when you had sex ed at school did they mention smoking as a contraceptive? If they did they're WRONG!! Smoking may make it difficult to concieve but not impossible. I know plenty of smokers who have had children. If in doubt ask your GP for reliable information x