In the 2006 movie Talladega Nights, successful NASCAR driver Rickey Bobby, played by Will Ferrel, continually refers to his “red-hot smokin’ wife.” From the movie came the habit of men to publicly refer to their wives as “smokin’ hot.” It’s a benign habit, but I’ve noticed something. Knowing the field had been announced, I pulled out my phone, told the audience who was in and then moved on. As I was digging my verbal hole with my smokin’ hot commentary, my phone began to go crazy. Our worship pastor is an Ohio State fan and most of our congregation is pro-SEC. Thankfully, during the service, the College Football Playoff field was being announced. The example I used was guys posting on Facebook about their wives being smokin’ hot. White smokers were 56% more likely to have hot flashes than white nonsmokers.During Sunday’s sermon, I was making a point that sometimes we say things because we believe and other times we say things because we want to believe them. This was especially true for African-American women, Butts says.Īfter factoring in the impact of other hot flash risk factors, such as obesity and alcohol consumption, African-American smokers were 84% more likely to experience hot flashes at one point in the study than African-American nonsmokers. Women who had one or more of five gene variations linked to the metabolism of estrogen and susceptibility to environmental toxins, like cigarette smoke, had more hot flash symptoms than women without the variants. The women were still menstruating when they entered the study, and they either entered menopause or completed it over 11 years of observation.ĭuring this time, blood samples were taken and the women were questioned about their medical and reproductive histories, as well as their menopausal symptoms and lifestyle. About half the participants were African-American and half were white. The study included close to 300 women followed for just over a decade as part of a larger menopause study. "But if you tell a woman who is having terrible hot flashes that it might be because she smokes, that could make all the difference." Menopause, Smoking, and Genes "The reason close to 20% of women still smoke is because it is really hard to quit," Butts says. roughly 20 million women - smokes cigarettes. Smokers Had More Hot FlashesĪs expected, smokers in the study reported more hot flashes than women who did not smoke.īut smokers who also carried specific gene variations linked to estrogen metabolism and susceptibility to environmental toxins had the most hot flashes of all, says researcher and ob-gyn Samantha Butts, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.īutts says knowing that smoking increases the frequency and severity of hot flashes may convince some menopausal women to give up cigarettes once and for all, even if they have tried to quit before.Ībout 1 in 5 women in the U.S. Previous research has linked cigarette smoking to earlier menopause and worse symptoms, but the study is among the first to examine the impact of smoking and genes on hot flashes. Smoking women have more hot flashes as they transition through menopause, and this is especially true for women who carry certain genes, a new study finds. There are countless reasons why women who smoke should kick the habit for their health, but here's one more.
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