smoking while pregnant.be honest

[shawnie]

I don't miss it at all now, i don't mean to rub it in as i know how hard the first few days are, but its been 2 weeks and 2 days for me and im over it. Wouldn't go back to it again, i feel sick just thinking about a fag. Yuk. Good luck to everyone trying to quit, you will get there in the end. I feel so proud of myself and love the fact that bubs will be getting the best start in life!

That's great Rozie! I have a few friends that can just stop any time with no problems and I am so envious of them. I wish I felt sick if I smelt them. I get sick over stupid tomatoes! The one thing I love to eat and I can't eat it. Wish it was that way with smoking ... Would make things much easier for me...

 

[shannon113]

I am about 7 weeks, got BFP on 18th August... I have good days and and not so good days. Probably most I've smoked is 5 in one day before now, this is cut down from 30+ a day so I am really really trying. Going to get some patches when I next visit my doctor in a few days. And I've not had one since early yesterday.. I'm determined to quit this.

 

[shawnie]

Well done shannon! Keep it up lady you can do it =) HUGS!

 

[snettyb]

well i'm doing crap! Still smoking 10+ a day (down from 30). I have set friday as a quit day but it feels like its approaching too quickly I really don't feel ready to quit but i want/need too for the health of the teeny tiny person in my belly.

The more i beat myself up about this and the more my family bitch on at me, it just makes me need a fag more. why can't i quit like i did with the other babies Maybe its coz i have no real bad sickness, but saying that, i quit the last times before i even started with sickness.........i feel like a TWAT!!!

 

[excited2bmom]

It is so hard to quit and all ppl do is bitch at me. I'm embarassed to go buy smokes

 

[Windmills]

I quit at the beginning of September before I even knew I was pregnant, just out the blue I decided to stop. It was strange!

 

[ginger863]

I'll be perfectly honest. it makes me really really angry when i see a pregnant woman smoking. I was a smoker and gave up years ago so i know what it's like to quit and even now, after a stressful day it still crosses my mind that i could do with one. What someone chooses to do to their body is their choice but when you're pregnant your unborn child is the one that's suffering and that's just not right. I cant understand why anyone would choose to jeopordise their baby. I know it's really hard to quit but surely in the long run it's worth it.

 

[shocker]

I dont think its fair to say that, yeah nobody likes to see a pregnant woman smoking but those who try get my full approval! Its the people who dont even try to quit smoking that i have no respect for.I smoked a pack a day up until my bfp and immediatly starting trying to quit and it was painfully difficult!! I cut them down to 3 a day first then went on a nicorette inhaler which tasted so bad i cut it out pretty fast! Now i forget about it most of the time and havnt bought any in nearly a month! I did break down yesterday when i was really stressed and had 2 cigs and was crying with guilt afterwards but these things happen i started again today and havnt had any, its just a matter of keeping it up.

 

[amanda09]

I smoked for 9 years and stopped when I was TTC. I cut back every day and then just stopped. It's not about you anymore, you have another life in you.
good luck

 

[MiissMuffet]

I took me 2 weeks from the day I found out I was pregnant to stopping completely. Although in those 2 weeks I was only smoking about 3-4 a day. It really is worth giving up 4 baby hun.

 

[MiissMuffet]

I also knew this girl - she was very young, lived with my friend and couldnt even make herself a pack of noodles (she didnt know how)- couldn't look after herself then tried for a baby!!! Got pregnant strait away (yea how unfair is that) then kept smoking i asked her y she was still smoking she said she wasn't going to change her life for a baby and get this... didn't want to give birth to a big baby so if she smoked them hopefully her baby would be early and small!!! selfish girl!!!!

 

[better2gether]

Wow! That is the most horrible thing I've heard all day. Smoking on PURPOSE to have a small baby?!

 

[MiissMuffet]

Wow! That is the most horrible thing I've heard all day. Smoking on PURPOSE to have a small baby?!

yea ay-not to be mean but she is one of those "slow" people that just don't really have a clue. It really sux that people like that get pregnant right away and people who are actually ready and have so much love to give can take years, and may never be able to concieve.

 

[Gypsy_Punk]

I am a smoker, or should I say, ex smoker.

As soon as I got my BFP (we werent TTC) I left my remaining 5 cigs at home for my OH and stopped there and then, I was on 20 a day too.

 

[Lara310809]

It's so easy for me to criticise, because I've never smoked a cigarette in my life. I therefore don't know how hard it is to stop when you find out you're pregnant, and most importantly; I don't understand what's going through peoples' minds when they're pregnant and they smoke.

But I admit I don't understand, and if I lose friends by saying it, then so be it. I hate to say it, but I do think badly of pregnant women who smoke, but it's only because I don't understand what it's like to be in that position.

The nearest thing I have to this is my migraine meds. I get the most debilitating migraines, and I have done for 15 years now. I can have a migraine for 9 days straight, and I will be at home in bed for the duration. They literally took away my social life. I finally found a med that kicks it within a couple of hours, and it honestly changed my life. But the moment I found out I was pregnant; I stopped carrying them in my bag. I actually gave them back to the chemist, because I don't want to risk hurting my baby. I would rather be in agony than risk my baby not developing properly. And my migraines haven't eased off since being pregnant either; 90% of the time, I have one, but I still only take paracetamol (which is useless by the way).

My mother smoked with both my brother and I, and I have told her I don't like that she did it. It's compromising the baby's health, and protecting the baby should be the most important thing in your world.

Sorry, but I'm being honest.

 

[Smiley Lou]

Cant believe she smoked just to have a small baby ..... oooooooooo la la .... how shocking !!

Hi Gypsy Punk - I was the same as you ... smoked until BFP then gave up then a there. It hasnt been as bad as I thought it would have been !!

 

[Gypsy_Punk]

Cant believe she smoked just to have a small baby ..... oooooooooo la la .... how shocking !!

Hi Gypsy Punk - I was the same as you ... smoked until BFP then gave up then a there. It hasnt been as bad as I thought it would have been !!

Yep, I thought it would be so hard but its been pretty damn easy!

 

[Rach276]

I also knew this girl - she was very young, lived with my friend and couldnt even make herself a pack of noodles (she didnt know how)- couldn't look after herself then tried for a baby!!! Got pregnant strait away (yea how unfair is that) then kept smoking i asked her y she was still smoking she said she wasn't going to change her life for a baby and get this... didn't want to give birth to a big baby so if she smoked them hopefully her baby would be early and small!!! selfish girl!!!!

Thats so awful. Selfish girl. Hopefully she doesnt damage her child.

 

[Tesharika]

Well it's time for me to be honest, I'm still smoking. I tried cold turkey and failed miserably at that. I have cut down, my hope is to keep cutting down until I cut them out completely.
If nothing else I will have cut down considerably...
I'm envious of those who were able to quit right away, I wish I had your strength and willpower. All of you deserve a big pat on the back.
It bothers me to a point to see woman on here say us smokers disgust them, when many of us who still are are trying to quit but I understand it too. Still try to be understanding with us we are trying and insults and put downs don't help us at all...
I too am embarrased to buy cigarettes and to be seen smoking them, obviously I feel very guilty over the whole thing to the point where I've cried over it....
I asked my Doctor about taking anything to help me quit but he said they weren't safe either. He recommended the cut down method if I couldn't go cold turkey....
I'm as surprised at the rest of you that someone would not only be unwilling to quit but actually purposefully smoke to get a smaller baby...especially shocked that she said she wasn't going to change her life for a baby.
Sorry Hun but you're going to have a baby your life IS going to change!!!!

 

[MiissMuffet]

especially that we wanted the baby too- apparently her mum looks after baby most of the time now. I managed to quit real easily while pregnant- just the tyhought that there is a little life inside you that depends on YOU for everything. That made me want to give up the dirty smokes- baby didn't ask to be in your tummy let alone been sufficated by smokes. i do respect those who have made an effort though and if struggling have made the effort to atleast cut down. I remember when meand my group of friends were 17 and we all smoked, the one that turnmed 18 1st was pregnant
(she didnt smoke) and we used to give her money so she would get smokes 4 us. poor girl was so embarrassed doing it she got the funniest looks lol. what as i thinking- 17 and smoking-stupid me!! lol