I really want to quit smoking because i found out I’m 5 weeks pregnant?
June 21st, 2011
anything will help…i have cut back but i want to quit all together any ideas?
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think about ur baby health,its agood motivation
I had to quit too…i quit the moment i found out…that way i didnt have the pressure of indulging in the “last” smoke. Just throw them away!! Dont try..just do it. You will have far more things to worry about soon like morning sickness, fatigue…lol…i know its hard, but its not about you now.
Congratulations!!
you should go to your docs and tell him your planning on quiting. he/she can give you the best advice or put you in touch with non smokers organisations that may have support groups or classes to attend which would really help.
Im not sure if nicotine patches are safe during pregnancy..
Being pregnant and knowing each cigarette is damaging your child is the best will power around..
Good luck!!
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My friend and I both smoked during our pregnancies, but not very much. My daughter is 3 now and she’s the size of a baby half her age. My friend’s baby’s brain quit developing in the third trimester and he was born in a coma he never woke from before he passed away.
Hopefully you’ll learn from what happened to us. There’s no proof that it had anything to do with smoking, but it would be a lot easier to say it had nothing to do with smoking if we hadn’t smoked during the pregnancies.
if the baby has a birth defect it will be to late and you will wish you had stoopped cold turkey…… whenever you crave a cigerette, pickup and drink a diet soda can, have a soda.
quit as soon as possible for the sake of your little angel
just knowing i was pregnant was enough for me to go cold turkey- the guilty feeling of smoking while ur pregnant – i duno how some women can do it
accupuncture is really good..that should help a great deal
I up and quit, soon as I found out. It was tough at first and there were times where I thought I would kill someone, but it didn’t take long at all before I started feeling better, and now I can’t even stand the smell of cigarettes at all.
Just quit! It sucks for a while, but in the end it’s completely worth it!
Good luck!!!
First start taking Folic Acid tablets right away, as this is needed to reduce the risk of spinal defects in the baby.
Think up a healthy but snacking way of eating your daily food, to replace the smoking with snacks.
For the smoking itself:
Get nicotine patches, the strongest (21 Mg) and 24 hour ones. After a few weeks you drop down to a lower level, then again lower. The idea of these is to give the “addiction receptors” in your brain a steady level of nicotine, to avoid the peaks and valleys which cause a lot of the craving.
With no cravings, especially the first in the morning, it is easier for you to control the habit part.
The habit is usually two things: a way to displace nervousness or stress by fiddling with the cigarette,(lighting up when meeting new people or making a hard phone call) and a way to reward yourself (the “smoko break” after finishing a chore).
You replace the displacement habit by eating sweets or using nicotine lozenges (they are hardly sweet at all), and finding other things to fiddle with. The reward part you need replace with other “oral gratification” like food, OR counting what you’ve saved so far (towards a nice present for yourself or baby)..keeping this money in coins or small notes.
Either way, make it harder for yourself: make ONE place for the cigarettes so you have to go and get one, and make ONE place to sit and smoke them with nothing else to do. While you keep to these two rules, you will not have the ones that “light themselves” and will put out some of the others,too, in your hurry to get back to something interesting.
They used to expect you to stop smoking as soon as you used a patch. Now they let you smoke if you absolutely must. You will find yourself down to 8 or so at the end of one week. Especially the morning one, try putting it off a little longer each day.
After 3 weeks or so you can stop buying them and rely on having to beg one from your husband or a neigbour. Whatever number you smoke at this point, you will halve that by the embarrassment of doing this.
So in about 4 or 5 weeks you are down to 3 or 4 a day, try a day of having none. When you really want one, go sit on your smoking chair without one.
By now it will be easy. Now all you need get over is the thought of never ever again having something you’ve used as a crutch of sorts for a long time. So do not think this. It is just TODAY you won’t have one. Leave the distant distant future open.
You will be off cigs. before you are down to the lowest strength patch. DO continue with them, to ease the brain receptors off slowly.
Trying to go cold turkey will only get you nack smoking again, so in the long term will be more harmful to your baby. The nicotine from the patches this early will not harm the baby as it does not yet have a nervous system to be affected. All up it should take 5 or 6 weeks to quit altogether.
You might find pickles or savoury food better
than sweets for the cig-replacement snacks, as sweets make you thirsty which triggers wanting a cigarette in many people.