Pregnancy - smoking

[Sav2011]

Thanks for your replies im still struggling with it, but im just about to finish reading Allen Cars, The Easy way, such a powerful book and im so confident im going to kick it this time! I found out after my dating scan that im alot earlier than we throught, so im only 8 weeks along.... which is even more exciting that im quitting earlier in my pregnancy than i thought I was... Im also starting to get occasional morning sickness so smoking just feels awful now...

[Fleur]

I always really envied the women who could quit, just like that! as soon as they knew they were pregnant. I found it so much harder.
When I did eventually quit it was cold turkey, for me it was much easier. Take whatever support you can get & good luck

[Winter]

I quit cold turkey 4 years ago and something a friend said stuck with me..she said "3 days, 3 weeks, 3 months, 3 years" They were the trigger points for most people and once you got past them, you just kept looking to get past the next goal and you'd be a non-smoker! Well, I've got past 3 years and I'm a non smoker. Gotta say that the first 3 days were the worst! Then it gets easier.

And now I think its the most disgusting thing ever invented and can't believe I was ever, ever so stupid or disrespectful to myself to smoke!

You've got such a great incentive to stay smoke-free. And there is lots of support here for you. You CAN do it!!

[fionas]

You need to find what works for you. For some it will be thinking of the baby, telling yourself you just can't have one etc. etc. For me, telling myself I was 'stopping' altogether, that's it no more Nick-O-Teen for me, didn't work. What did work, was telling myself when a craving hit that I wasn't going to have one this time but if I still wanted one later, then I could. Made it seem more manageable and basically I learnt that as bad as a craving feels that it does actually go away without having to have a cigarette. Just takes 5-10 mins and not all day. And once you've learnt that, it's reasonably simple to give up and gradually the cravings go away.