Pregnant and giving up smoking

cookie08

hya

just so you know your not allowed to be on the 24 hour patches cos your pregnant max you can go on is 16 hour.

Im 38 weeks pregnant and gave up a few weeks ago and was told basically that its not healthy or advisable for the baby to have 24 hour supply of nicotine - a no smoking advisor told me this.

They advised me just to wake up a hour earlier then normal put the 16 hour patch on and go back to sleep (actually worked aswell).

Go back to who ever gave you the patches and make sure they understand your pregnant, with me they never read the forms i told them at the end (i asked what effect will this have on my baby, he said oh are you pregnant? I said well yes i have put it on 3 seperate forms and then you have to sign a form saying your pregnant and understand the risks of nicotine replacement!)

All the best x

tiamai_d

I quit with my first. Morning sickness (though very polite it was that time, stopped at exactly noon) and smoking gave me a headache helped.

Thing I found most usefull was a 'fiddle stone', for me a quartz crystal that I would fiddle with when I would normally have a ciggy. And an elastic band on my wrist that I'd ping when I felt the urge... owch!

Good luck!

Paparika

I was about 3 - 4 moths pregnant, then one day i sparked up and found it tasted disgusting, i handed my lighter and ciggies to a co worker and said you have these i don't want them.

simple as that no withdraw nothing, i know i was lucky,

I then spent the next couple of months needing cheese and onion pasties for my lunch at work

I'm still amazed by the way my body decided i didn't want to smoke and admittedly i spent the last month or so walking behind smokers sniffing their smoke, :rotfl:

tiamai_d

Paparika wrote: »

... and admittedly i spent the last month or so walking behind smokers sniffing their smoke, :rotfl:

I still do that!!!! :rotfl:

And how hard is it to get soemone to stay put when they are smoking and you are pregnant? They kept walking away!

MrsE_2

tiamai_d wrote: »

I still do that!!!! :rotfl:

And how hard is it to get soemone to stay put when they are smoking and you are pregnant? They kept walking away!

Urgghhhh

I can't abide walking past smokers in the street now, I can't breath.

I hate it when they are smoking outside shops & buildings & I have to go past them.

I HATE going to smokers houses, the smell off them, their clothes, their cars, ect.

I can't believe I ever smoked:o
DH is the same:o

totalsolutions

Happy to hear you want to stop, but you really prefer to breath smoke and poison then air. You know you are killing yourself so carry on. Have a short life and weak child.

You look good with a fag in your mouth and a cough in the morning. You must reake of smoke in your clothes and home.

You will kiss your child each night, yeuk!

Non smokers finally got rid of you from bars and clubs and public covered areas. Our streets are a mess where you drop butts and ash everwhere.

Because you wont quit /stop on your own because it hurts, oh dear, tough its not.

Dont waste your cash on cigs but treat the child.

Hope this advice gives you your encouragement to quit. Good luck. XX

HTH

katym79

totalsolutions - dead helpful, cheers.

Anyway, like others have said, the morning sickness did the trick for me. Baby 9 months now and never smoked since, but TBH i do sometimes miss it. Think its more the time out to be by myself that i miss, rather than the smoke. Just think of the money you waste on the things - that puts me back on the straight and narrow.

daphne_descends

Allen Carr helped me and my partner stop overnight, his method really does work. Can't recommend it highly enough. I still read or listen to bits when I get the urge.

Katy like you I miss it in a way, my baby is 7 months and the idea of having ten minutes to myself now and then is just bliss... but I can't stand the smell of smoke and hate it when anyone smokes near me, so I'm stuck as a non smoker

absolutebounder

Better Health After Quitting

Time after last cigarette


Physical Response
20 minutes


Blood pressure and pulse rates return to normal.
8 hours



Levels of carbon monoxide and oxygen in the blood return to normal.
24 hours


Chance of heart attack begins to decreases.
48 hours



Nerve endings start to regrow. Your ability to taste and smell increases.
72 hours



Bronchial tubes relax and the lungs can fill with more air.
2 weeks to 3 months


Improved circulation; lung function increases up to 30%.
1 to 9 months
Decreased rates of coughing, sinus infection, fatigue, and shortness of breath; regrowth of cilia in the airways, increasing the ability to clear mucus and clean the lungs and reducing the chance of infection; overall energy level increases.


Long-Term Effects


After a year, risk of dying from heart attack and stroke is reduced by up to 50%.





What isnt shown here is that nicotine is all out of the systen in around 2 days (unless you are on patches) rather showing the cravings are psychological.

galvanizersbaby

cookie08 wrote: »

hya

just so you know your not allowed to be on the 24 hour patches cos your pregnant max you can go on is 16 hour.

Im 38 weeks pregnant and gave up a few weeks ago and was told basically that its not healthy or advisable for the baby to have 24 hour supply of nicotine - a no smoking advisor told me this.

They advised me just to wake up a hour earlier then normal put the 16 hour patch on and go back to sleep (actually worked aswell).

Go back to who ever gave you the patches and make sure they understand your pregnant, with me they never read the forms i told them at the end (i asked what effect will this have on my baby, he said oh are you pregnant? I said well yes i have put it on 3 seperate forms and then you have to sign a form saying your pregnant and understand the risks of nicotine replacement!)

All the best x

I'm quite shocked by the amount of women who do continue to smoke when pg - surely it's not healthy or advisable for the baby to have a supply of nicotine full stop - be it patch or cigarette!
I would have thought at 38 weeks of pregnancy any damage (god forbid) would be already done.
I gave up smoking when I was TTC because I wanted a child more than I wanted to smoke cigarettes - it wasn't easy but I did it because I had to - there was no way I would have smoked while pg as I would have been terrified of any risks I would have been exposing my baby to - this alone would have been enough for me - I don't really understand anybody that is happy to take this risk be it with a cigarette or any other nicotine replacement product sorry but just had to say this