Mumma has your doctor offered you counselling or group-quitting services and/or NRT? It is really (proven in studies) easier to quit when you have company and nicotine replacement therapy. SOmething like twice as many people succeed with that extra support.

The best bits about the groups (just as on here in the quitters thread Dach started) is that you are with people who have the same aim, REALLY understand how this week felt, and are going through it WITH you, so you can talk without feeling judged. The NRT, especially the microtab which is what PG women in the UK are given, means you can just stave off the ciggies yourself and if you get really desperate you pop a microtab onto your tongue and the nicotine cravings abate a bit. It gives quitters the valuable break from the craving to strengthen their resolve - NOT easy to do when your whole body is screaming for nicotine!

Chop up some carrots or whatever you like into ciggie shaped/sized batons to munch on, so you can get used to doing something else with your hand. Once you've quit the physical addiction the psychological addiction can be circumnavigated constantly until the habit breaks. Like if your hand misses the cig, hold a pen and do a crossword or write in a pregnancy journal, or hold a carrot stick and munch or learn to knit and knit little things for the baby, so every time the craving comes on you have done something positive with it, and after a while you will be able to have real pride not only in your quit but in the things you have managed to create and do while tackling it.

Keep on keeping on, around 70% of smokers wish they could quit at any one time and some people take a few goes before they are successful. Don't lose heart. If you have a day when you feel you really need one: if you DON'T have one be INCREDIBLY proud of getting through, if you DO have one forgive yourself and continue your quit tomorrow as if it hadn't happened. It's so easy to see one slip or relapse as you having wrecked it and might as well smoke, but don't let the addictive thoughts trick you into believing that! EVERY cigarette you don't smoke is a battle and the more battles you win, the closer you are to winning the war. Hang tough hun, you're doing it!

Bx