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Smoking or — the Pill, the Patch, the Ring
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- Smoking is dangerous.
- Women who smoke and use the pill, patch, or ring are taking serious health risks.
- Women who smoke should consider equally effective methods — including the shot and the IUD.
- Women 35 and older who smoke and use the pill, patch, or ring, are 10 times more likely to have a heart attack than women who don’t smoke or use these methods.
- Methods with combined hormones are the most popular reversible birth control in America.
- Smoking is one of American women’s greatest health risks.
- Smoking and using the pill, the patch, or the ring can be a deadly mix.
- Quitting smoking can save your life.
- Resources
- Your contraceptive needs may change throughout your life.
- 8 pages
- 5th grade reading level
- Revised 2007
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