Do smoking, alcohol and recreational drugs affect the chance of conceiving?
Smoking, alcohol and recreational drugs all have a general depressant effect on female fertility, and alcohol is particularly harmful as it can in excess affect your newborn baby. Alcohol and marijuana are very damaging to the sperm, reducing the motility and increasing the number of damaged or abnormal forms of sperm. If there is one thing you can do personally to improve your chances of getting pregnant, it would be to stop smoking, reduce your alcohol consumption and avoid recreational drugs, particularly marijuana.
