Smoking during pregnancy doesn’t only effects your health, but also your baby’s. According to Dr Chris Steele, president GP, “If you’re planning to get pregnant the first thing you should do is give up the cigarettes. It does effect fertility but let’s say you become pregnant and you continue smoking, you’re inhaling smoke – more than 4,000 chemicals being inhaled into your body and those chemicals are reaching your baby as it’s developing,”.

He’s also of the opinion that 10 times more addictive than heroin. So, if you’re smoking during pregnancy you are subjecting your baby’s brain to a powerfully addictive drug, that will cause him many of the health problems from the very first day in this world.