can't seem to kick it

in_my_wellies

You have such a good reason to stop that I'm sure you can do it.

I found this yesterday
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=132935&command=displayContent&sourceNode=132702&contentPK=14933396&folderPk=77465

Good Luck with the pregnancy anyway

lynzpower

Im a smoker myself and I like to think Ill give up before I have my contraception stopped to try for a baby, but who knows how strong the willpower is?

I have tried going onto rollups, and I must say this has reduced the amount I smoke a) cos I cant really make them properly and b) even if I could then i couldnt be bothered to roll one as it impedes my typing & posting speed on here.

It does sound like you WANT to give up. I saw some great advice on here in the carrot & stick approach, like putting the money in a jar and then after a few days going and setting fire to your roll of fivers in the garden. A good idea I thought.

I personally am someone who looks to the positives and they are more motivating than the negatives. So what can you buy? how much longer will you live rather than raking over what money weve wasted over the years.

But also Im interested in hypnotherapy, this might be worth the little outlay now, as it really does seem to work in 99% of the people I know of.

Best of luck with it, and with the rest of your pregnancy.

Lynz
xx

loopy-loo73

Congratulations :j baby news is always brill.
I'm an ex-smoker, i stopped when i found out i was pregnant (DD now 9). No patches, therapy or anything else ... just it's bad for my baby so i wont do it.
My sister stopped last year. She had a bad smear test result & the doc said to stop ... she'd tried with patches before that but all of a sudden it was ... i could be dead & she just stopped.
Once you find the incentive you find the willpower & one day at a time you realise you aren't smoking anymore.
Good luck.
Lou.

sugaJen

I made my decision to quit last December, when my dad was diaganosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, thats 7months ago, so how come Its taken me til today???
I smoked my last 1 at 8.30 this morning, you will keep putting it off cos of a stressful time or whatever, but when everythings calm again you dont actually want to stop!! or thats how it was for me anyway.

Ive been trying since Friday, but caved everytime, so today is my most successful day (think thats because I told someone I was stopping last night) Felt really awful for giving in so easily too :mad:
Now my friend knows I dont want to tell her I couldnt do it.

Also smoked all the way through my 3rd pregnancy Baby stopped growing at 34 weeks, Shes 4 now and although shes healthy shes a bit small for her age (almost caught up to her friends of the same age)

leftieM

Congrats on being pregnant!
I'm another Allen Carr-ette. I read 'The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently' and I stopped after that. That was 9 years ago and I found stopping really exhilirating. I'm still really proud about it. Give AC a go. All it'll cost you is the price of the book.
Don't beat yourself up if you can't stop smoking. However I bet you'll succeed this time. Bon chance!

culpepper

My mum gave up when expecting my sister.She took her packet of cigs and cut all the cigs in half,then when she wanted one,she smoked the half and left it till the urge came back.Once the pack was empty,that was that.
My dad smoked from age 7 and died aged 65 with 3 kids,19,17 and 10.
I've never felt the need ,I want my kids to have their mum .

ruthyjo

Good luck. I'm sure you can do it and loads of congratulations on the baby.

The thing that really helped me was to try and avoid situations where I'd normally smoke. I gave up when I was pregnant so alcohol which was one of the main triggers was out anyway. I reorganised my day so a lot of the other triggers went e.g. changed what I did on my lunch at work to try and make the cigarette gap less obvious.

I know it's a really obvious thing to say but do try putting away the money you're saving. It would be such an incentive to me to think I had a nice baby buys funding stacking up as I love shopping for my kids. Didn't do that when I gave up as it was my first baby and I didn't know how excited I'd get over cutie clothes etc.

At twenty four I was a thirty a day person and always lit up the minute I woke up. Now ten years later I can hardly stand to be in a pub or near someone who is smoking, even outside.

bella4uk

sugaJen wrote:

I made my decision to quit last December, when my dad was diaganosed with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, thats 7months ago, so how come Its taken me til today???
I smoked my last 1 at 8.30 this morning, you will keep putting it off cos of a stressful time or whatever, but when everythings calm again you dont actually want to stop!! or thats how it was for me anyway.

Ive been trying since Friday, but caved everytime, so today is my most successful day (think thats because I told someone I was stopping last night) Felt really awful for giving in so easily too :mad:
Now my friend knows I dont want to tell her I couldnt do it.

Also smoked all the way through my 3rd pregnancy Baby stopped growing at 34 weeks, Shes 4 now and although shes healthy shes a bit small for her age (almost caught up to her friends of the same age)

WELL DONE...keep it up...:T

Pink_butterfly_3

Hi.

The thing that really helped me stop whilst pregnant was my midwife telling me that my unborn baby would struggle to breathe for about an hour after me having a fag.

I couldn't help picturing my poor defenceless little baby choking in my womb. It really made me feel awful and selfish.

I know how hard it can be, especially if your stressed. You can do it!!!!!

TNG

Hi all,

Newbies first post - please be gentle......

Tripped over this site while looking for something else and have become very quickly addicted (probably the wrong word to use on this thread!!!).

Anyhoo, I have been a smoker for a lot of years and tried almost everything to stop, bar hypnotherapy. I managed to stop for over a year once using the Allen Carr method but couldn't work out why I still 'craved' cigarettes - even occasionally. I think that's why I started again.

I am now going through the process again. I re-read Allen Carr's book, but again 'something' didn't quite stick with me and I failed. He talks an awful lot of sense and everyone should read it, even just for information into why people smoke. You have a better chance of defeating your enemy the more you understand about your enemy.

I have now read (and re-read) Neil Casey's book and that has filled in the gaps that Allen Carr missed (IMO). I needed to understand why I wanted a cigarette. A non-smoker in a smokey room does not want a cigarette, so why do I. I believe what Neil Casey says, that it is a subconcious thing and if you can retrain your subconcious to not want a cigarette, the rest is comparitively simple. I suspect that hypnotherapy works in a similar way.

Anyway, I think each person needs to find what works for them, so my advice is to buy all the books, try NRT (though I personally don't hold with the idea - I'll explain if anyone cares), try hypnotherapy, but basically find what works FOR YOU! Keep trying and don't stop stopping!!

Good luck to everyone who is trying to stop. I am currently retraining my subconcious (which is working, by the way) and I anticipate I will be stopping within the next day or so.

I will update you with progress if anyone's interested.

This seems to have turned into a lengthy post, so I'll stop. I don't know how this will come across to people, but the intent is helpful and friendly. Please read it with that in mind.....