Its so tough. I'm in the same boat and right now i feel like my head and heart are in 2 very different places.
Firstly i feel selfish for smoking, selfish that my life could be short lived and others who love me could be left without me, and mostly selfish because i could potentially hart our future baby.
Secondly i hate the fact that i feel i depend on them, the fact that i smell, my clothes, car and so on smell. I really really want to give up but i know i won't find it easy.
So many people have suggested the Alan Carr book to me, pop on amazon and check out the reviews. I am going to try that. As is my DH.
We saw the fertility specialist recently and he said that regardless of who smokes, it can make things harder and it can damage eggs and sperm....therefore affecting bubba. He also said that the miscarraige rate is 50% higher in smokers. Those thoughts alone terrify me, yet i still find it hard.
Now i don't know how true those "facts" are......but all i do know is we will get there, we just need and want to suceed and more importantly we need to believe in ourselves. Good luck xx
2 of my friends went to one of Alan Carr's meetings. They gave up for about a week or so and then went back to it. Reading your comments, I think that is a real incentive for me not to give up if it can create problems. I just can't stop eating at the moment!!
I know how ya feel hun, since I stopped smoking I cant stop bloody eating now!! Im trying to be soooo careful not to put on weight!!
I was using the patches for the first couple of weeks, they really helped. Especially when I went out for a drink!!
Good luck!
xx
to see what i could do to stop - they gave me lots of info etc and free patches. I used them for a week and although i am still finding it hard i haven't had 1. she said it takes 3 days for nicotene to completely come out of your system and then it is just the "habit" of smoking that you have to compete with. that is the hardest part. she also said that it isn't the nicotene that is a problem to babies or infertility etc. It is all the other toxins that are in the cigarette - carbon monoxide etc. Good luck hun - it is really hard. My OH found that he couldn't go cold turkey - and had to gradually cut down until he was only having 1 a day - then thought what is the point? 
is here so I thought it'd be the perfect opportunity to get it out my system before we start trying again. I'm really proud of myself but it's when I get home from work, have nothing to do and am thinking about smoking. And I'm terrible for habits. Half the time I smoke just because of the habit and not because I want to. I'm proud of myself today. If I can only smoke 1 tomorrow I'll be proud as well and then gradually cut that 1 out. Hopefully though I can do a full day without. We'll see.
