Any of you smoke

[hollie86]

I agree smoking is bad enough when you're not pregnant. I cant see how anyone could do this to their child, surely any mom would want to give their child the best chance of a healthy start to life as possible.
Come on gals grab your will power and give up!!!

 

[TashaAndBump]

The only 'advice' I can give you to help you kick the habit while pregnant, is to make sure you're totally clued up on the facts.

Smoking in pregnancy increases the risks of:

- Miscarriage.
- Complications in pregnancy, including spotting (bleeding during pregnancy), detachment of the placenta, ectopic pregnancy (where the baby developes outside the womb and is lost) and premature birth
- Low birth weight - Premature and low birth weight babies are more prone to illness and infections.
- Stillbirth or death within the first week of life — the risk is increased by about one-third.
- Cot-death.
- Developing asthma and cancer in later life.

If knowing that you are putting your baby at risk of these things is not motivation enough to quit, then I'm sorry to say it but I don't think anything will be.

 

[Bec&Bump]

I was a heavy smoker and quit when I got pregnant. Just went cold turkey, it can be done!

 

[Lauren_16]

As soon as I found out I was pregnant I went cold turkey.
I wasnt smoking many anyways, only about 2 a day, so really it was pointless because i didnt have a high nicotine craving anyway.
I havent smoked a single tab since, and he's due in 26 days...
and i found out really quickly, like 8, 9 weeks...so it can be done ladies =]

XX

 

[elles28]

Sorry but I am disgusted with some of the replies to this thread. This is not a doctors surgery it is somewhere you come to vent your worries & ask advice NOT have advice shoved down your throat!!

 

[TashaAndBump]

Sorry but I am disgusted with some of the replies to this thread. This is not a doctors surgery it is somewhere you come to vent your worries & ask advice NOT have advice shoved down your throat!!

I hope this wasn't in response to my reply... I'd like to clarify that I haven't judged anyone for their actions; I just posted up the facts of how smoking harms the unborn child - I do hope that these will help people to make an informed decision on whether they want to keep smoking during their pregnancy or not.

And I would also like to represent the flip-side of the freedom of speech 'this is somewhere you come to vent your worries' coin, in that some people are genuinely shocked and distubed by the fact that some women continue to smoke during their pregnancy as they cannot understand how an 'addiction' can cause you to knowingly put your baby's health at risk - I don't agree with openly criticising others, especially as it is so hard to ever genuinely understand what another person is going through - especially if you don't have an addiction that you're struggling with in order to understand - but don't you think these women should have the right to vent their worries, too?

I know this is not a doctors surgery - but I seriously believe that for some women knowing the facts about smoking and pregnancy provides enough motivation to quit, and therefore I was trying to be helpful and answer the initial thread-question of 'do you have any advice or help on how to quit?' by posting these here.

 

[tanya29]

right i am going to get absolutely slaughtered for sayin his but most of my friends have smoked right the way up until giving birth and their children are perfectly healthy...now calm down gurls...but i do think your giving her a hard time...i gave up when i was 10 weeks...my midwife called over the other day and gave me some bad news as to the outcome for my baby...and as a reation i said i could really do with a cigarette now...my nerves had gone...to my suprise she pulled a 20 pkt out her pocket and said here i think i will join you...so we are all human at the end of the day...you arent gonna here people on here admit they smoke while pregnant but believe me it is VERY common...

yes i agree its best to give up...but if you cant cut down as much you can...

anyhow i was reading an article the other day where it supposed to have been proven that smoking up until 5 mths duz no harm to the baby

good luck to you and your baby

 

[vaada]

Just want to know if there are any of you that does the evil deed?
or any of you that quit smoking

Yup....SMOKING!!!

I know it`s bad for the baby but i`m finding it difficult to quit

If there are any I would like to know how you did/are doing it?

What to do when will power fails you??

I smoke +/- a packet a day

Please help!!!!

Regards

im finding it hard to stop but i have cut down alot, i only found out 2 wks ago but i hope to quit by march

 

[Wobbles]

Sorry but I am disgusted with some of the replies to this thread. This is not a doctors surgery it is somewhere you come to vent your worries & ask advice NOT have advice shoved down your throat!!

I applaud you for that!!

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Anyone who smokes gets asked by MW along with all the facts & advice to quit. Here is a support forum where girls talk to others going through the same things - this case being a smoker when they found out they were pregnant!

Good luck girls - do your very best!

Anyone wanting to push their luck with unsupportive 'comments' won't get a nice come back FROM ME!! Advice & information/facts are good but down your throat comments because you found it easy (good on you obviously) or clearly don't have a clue & not a smoker are unwanted!

 

[Firsttimer]

I only smoked about 1 - 2 a week when I find out I was pregnant then I stopped completely when I was 4 months I found it very easy as I cut down so much that I hardly smoked anyway . I feel it is very important to stop smoking while pregnant especially after 5 months as that is most important time for growth etc

 

[Lizziepots]

My advice is avoid people/ situations where you know you are going to smoke. I still have the odd one if I'm at my Mum's but manage fine without at home.
If you must buy cigarettes and I can honestly understand why, then try locking them outside in the car and fetching them one by one. Or put them at bottom of garden in the shed. Try putting the key for the shed upstairs too so you've got a bit more of a task to go through before getting to that fag! Definitely force yourself to go outside to smoke it! This way you're not denying yourself cigarettes but definitely making it harder to smoke! I bet a lot of people would find that some very cold evening they just can't be bothered to go out to fetch another fag and then stay outside to smoke it! lol
My mum's been coming over and taking me swimming and she likes to light up as soon as she is out at car after. I have now asked her not to bring her fags over with her. That way I'm not tempted to have one which I def would if they were there for the taking.
Def if you sit in evening craving one, force yourself to wait just another 10 mins and another until the local shop is shut and you'd have to go further afield to buy some. Another sure-fire way of simply not being bothered one day! Good luck!

 

[Xbryoni&bumpX]

yeppp i did but as soon as i found out i stopped and aint ad 1 since x

 

[Tam]

Well done with your efforts!!!! I smoked thru most of my first pregnancy (as I was struggling like hell to quit), but a news article stopped me. Luckily I had already quit when pregnant the second time round.

My MW during my first pregnancy told me " Don't stop completely straight away, cut down to maybe 5 a day if you can, as I would rather you have a controlled 5 a day then go cold turkey, struggle and smoke a whole pack"

Good Luck girls! x

 

[Gems]

Sorry Ive never smoked but i am missing wine sooo much !! Its hard to not go home from work and crack open a bottle and have a glass!

 

[cparks1]

I quit smoking on September 1st 2007. I didn't want to quit but knew I had to before I got pregnant. I slipped up a couple of times (drinking), but I would puff on flavored cigars if I got really bad urges. I just quit cold turkey because I didn't want to be dependent on medication or anything like that. I later found out I was pregnant in early November. I still craved them and dreamed that I was still smoking but I was nausea all the time so the smell disgusted me. I still can't stand the smell of smoke to this day, but I still get urges and still have dreams that I bum cigs off people. It's weird, but it's all in your head (one big mind game). Once you get past that, it gets easier. At first I kind of got depressed because it was like I was losing my best friend, but now I realize that I am on the road to getting healthier lungs again and I can breathe so much better and taste things. It's a better way of life. Good luck on quitting if you plan to do so. It's not easy, but well worth the effort and you'll be glad you did it.

 

[TashaAndBump]

Hi girls, I saw a poster today about smoking in pregnancy, and it said something I hadn't thought of before... Apparently when you smoke during prengnacy the baby gets just as much nicotine as you do, and then when you have the baby and she or he doesn't get that nicotine anymore they go through withdrawl and get distressed by it... I wanted to share this with you girls who are trying to give up as I thought it might help you - Everytime you get the urge to light up, and you go through the suffering of withdrawl and cravings, just think about how if you give in, you'll be inflicting those same nasty feelings onto your baby once they're born.

Hope this helps. Best of luck giving up! x

 

[sleepinbeauty]

I smoke, well im quitting but I stopped when I first found out i was preggo but then thought i miscarried so started again, now i found out yesterday that im still preggers, so no more fags. xx it'll be bloody hard though, but worth it!

Wow! congrats on the still-pregnancy. That's awsome. Also, your post suprised me for a second because in the US f*g is a very mean word for homosexuals. lol, I know what you meant though

 

[xjade_edenx]

i gave up the second i found out i was pregnant and am soooo happy i did

 

[Spartacus]

I gave up just before the ban as I got to the point where I only really enjoyed smoking whilst drinking and socialising and thought I didn't want to have to go outside to smoke! I got a really heavy cold the week before the ban last year and the thought of smoking made my stomach turn. I haven't smoked since. I had a couple of wobbles on holiday but still knew I woud feel awful if I succumbed to it.

I also knew that I was going to come off the pill in September and that i wanted to give my body a chance to recover before we conceived. I had smoked on and off since I was about 15 and am 30 in march so I knew that it was time to give up. My mum has also been a cancer sufferer for the last 14 years which should have made me give up earlier seeing as she has not put herself in a high risk situation like us smokers do. We have a choice to stop smoking and ensure we are healthy for ourselves and our future families. My auntie has unfortunately just been diagnosed with lung cancer and has smoked for years and she said you always think it happens to someone else

I am most certainly not one of these ex-smokers that lecture people but I honestly wanted to give up and i think you really have to WANT to give up to beat it as we all have will power and can give em up!

I am not by any means judging smokers as this is your own body and your baby but give up for your health and babies health as that is the most important thing

Good luck

ps apologies for long essay.......

 

[wishing4ababy]

wow there are some really angry posts on here. I am sorry to say that i smoked for the first 4 months with my first baby - and then gave up completely. I knew it was wrong and i cut down to about 3 a day up until giving up totally - it helped me to cut down first and by the time i was only smoking 3 a day i was like "what is the point" i might as well just give up totally. So i did! but then with my second i found it really hard and didn;t give up until about 7 months. both my babies are totally happy, contented and more importantly healthy. We all know that it is better to stop whilst pregnant - but do all of us know how hard it is?

there is enough stuff rammed down our necks the whole time - and it is a really personal decision - a lot of my friends (I am sorry to say) smoked the whole way through their pregnancies and also had healthy babies. Try and cut down and see how you go from there. Good luck with it.