Michelle,

You are definately a good mother if your kids don't even know you smoke.

So many times I'm walking around my neighbourhood and see young mothers with very young babies in prams, and cigerettes in their hands. I'm not judging them for not being able to quit, I know it's hard because I drove around crazy when I quit, but I can't say I support their decision to smoke around their children. It's bad enough with toddlers and older, but I really can't say it's ok for anyone to smoke around young babies.

And yes, when I get stressed out, I still itch to have a smoke in my hands too, but I can deal with that because ages ago, about a month or two after I quit, I was reall, REALLY, stressed out, and convinced my partner to give me a drag of his smoke, and it was the most revolting thing I'd ever tasted. Cigerettes had never, ever tasted that bad in my entire life, not even my very first. So now when I get a cigerette craving, I think of that, and then anything else other than smoking, and it passes.

Good luck woth quitting for all the mothers (/to be) that are trying to quit, we're here to support you, and for all the smoking mothers who feel they can''t quit, I'll back you up, as long as you don't smoke near your kids.

*steps off soapbox* Ok, I'm done ranting now.