i smoke, can i take any birth control pills?

Answer 1

it is not advisable as it increases your cancer risk

Answer 2

You know , the reason they recommend against smoking when you are on the pill is because you have an increased risk for strokes AND heart attack...especially if you are over 30. Even if you are young and are on birth control (and a smoker). This can affect you later on in life whether or not you are still on birth control or a non-smoker, Maybe you should reconsider smoking and/or a different birth control method.
Good Luck!!

Answer 3

Tobacco affects the absorbtion of the hormones in the BC pills making them less effective, so you'll probably need a higher dose. Smoking also increases your risk of blood clots, and so do BC pills, so your risk more than doubles.
Smoking doesn't mean that you can't take birth control pills, but be aware of the risks.

I'll join the pile of strangers telling you for your own sake, stop smoking!

Answer 4

Smoking increases risks of heart problems for those who use birth control. There are plenty of new ways to quit smoking though so just try one or two until you find the right one that works for you.

Answer 5

Well technically, you can do what you want. But it is definitely not advised or recommend that you smoke while on birth control. It increases your risk of heart attacks and other issues.
"WARNING: Cigarette smoking increases the risk of serious cardiovascular side effects from oral contraceptive use. This risk increases with age and heavy smoking (15 or more cigarettes per day) and is quite marked in women over 35 years of age. Women who use oral contraceptives should be strongly advised not to smoke. More specifically, risks increase for heart attacks, blood clots, stroke, liver cancer, and gallbladder disease, although the risk is very small in healthy women without underlying risk factors."

Answer 6

Cigarette smoking releases nicotine into the bloodstream and raises cholesterol. These effects can compound with birth control pills to seriously increase the chance of a cardiovascular incident. Marijuana does not contain nicotine or raise cholesterol, so there aren't cardiovascular effects.

Answer 7

It's certainly not recommended. BUT you'll hear that a million times over. I admit that I do smoke and take birth control pills, so I won't try and make you feel awful over it.
What I do is take a low-dose of Aspirin (which your gynecologist may recommend anyway.)

Answer 8

Yes but smoking reduces the potency and may cause other problems. Really smoking isnt good to any aspect of life, but I wont lecture on that.

Answer 9

Here are a couple of links if you'd like to learn more about the big announcement about Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) causing breast cancer. Note that breast cancer rates originally started increasing rapidly when birth control pills and now other forms of hormonal birth control also began to be widely used. Hormonal birth control methods contain estrogen and progestin, hormones that are the most widely used in HRT. This is true for The Pill, The mini-pill, The Patch, some types of IUDs, and Nuva Ring, Shots, and Rods under the skin. Levels in HRT, which have already been shown to cause breast cancer, are actually lower than that in hormonal birth control methods, on top of the fact that hormonal birth control methods are used by young healthy women with naturally occurring hormones in already normal levels. How long will we have to wait before the medical community admits to women that hormonal birth control methods are just as dangerous as HRT? I have a feeling that it will be much longer, as hormonal birth control is considered to be the "holy grail" of "women's reproductive freedom". Never mind that women are dying of breast cancer at alarmingly increasing rates since 1974 when BC pills began to be more widely used. Thirty years later, we are reaping the "benefits" of artificial hormones that are used to suppress the natural processes of the female body.

Just like menopause, the female bodily functions of ovulation and pregnancy ARE NOT ILLNESSES. Medications should only be taken when it's absolutely necessary to prevent or cure ILLNESS, and then ONLY if the benefit outweighs the risks.

If you must practice birth control, a condom with plenty of spermicide, when used correctly is STATISTICALLY JUST AS EFFECTIVE as hormonal birth control. Condoms also decrease your chances of contracting an STD and they don't work by preventing implantation of a fertilized egg, like hormonal birth control does. If you are pro-life and believe that life begins at conception, this last point should be of particular interest to you. Abortifacient types of birth control also include non-hormonal types of IUDs, which work exclusively by preventing implantation of a fertilized egg. Even if you DON’T have any moral objection to this, at least stop using hormonal birth control for the sake of your health!

A + B = C

How many more "news flash: drug causes bad side effects" announcements before we realize that the body does NOT need drugs, except in dire circumstances. Let's leave our bodies alone and live healthy lifestyles, and our bodies will take care of the rest!

HOW HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY AND HORMONAL BIRTH CONTROL METHODS HAVE NOW DEFINITELY BEEN SHOWN TO CAUSE CANCER
http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1025191125.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/12/15/gupta.breast.cancer/
HOW SOME TYPES OF BIRTH CONTROL CAN CAUSE ABORTION WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE
http://abort73.com/HTML/II-D-2-types.html
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BIRTH CONTROL AND HOW IT IS ANTI-WOMAN
http://www.the-edith-stein-foundation.com/articles.asp?col=2

Answer 10

Yes you can but be careful. The risk is higher for blood clots.

Answer 11

since u smoke u will have a higher risk of the bad symptoms