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new pregnancy, smoking problem, help!
Posted: Jan 19, 2011
With my other non-MT job at Jewelry Televison if I don't smoke I really don't get a break. I found out that I am pregnant and I am finding it so hard to kick the habit. I deal with customer complaints all day on the phone and believe me I want to get away from the phones! and smoke! I actually started smoking when I started the job a few months ago. I have cut back where I don't smoke at home which is good for me. Today I was so stressed out I actually took my lunch break to get a pack! I felt like such a failure!!! I was typing a few minutes ago at home and found myself lighting up and then I put it out. I gotta beat this for my baby. I feel horrible because the love for my baby isn't enough and I DO love this baby already. Is there anyone out there that has stopped smoking that could give me advice? Someone at JTV had told me about popping mints and I guess I will try that too. Any suggestions I will gladly take. It's so nice to get advice from people who have been there. Please no hate messages! I feel crappy enough! Thanks guys!
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nicotine gum!!! - XanaX
[ In Reply To ..]saved my life! only now I'm addicted to the gum, but it's a much cleaner, more acceptable habit. stuff really works. I get the 4 mg 220-count box at Target for about 36 bucks. Walmart has a pretty good price, too, but not as good as them. I break each one in half, so that 440 pieces for a bargain. don't beat yourself up. quit now and your precious baby will be fine. i chewed like mad when i was expecting and it really helped me thru the mania...
Congratulations on your blessed tidings! this will be the best thing you've ever done (was for me!). Consider yourself blessed, enjoy every minute of being pregnant. This might have been kinda crazy, but I kept a journal to my fetus, telling him all the changes i was going thru and all i wanted for him and his future... Once again, congrats and consider yourself blessed!
:) - NewMT
[ In Reply To ..]If you try nicotine gum you will only get dependant on that and you will still be supplying your little one with nicotine :(
I quit a week after i found out i was prego...i found myself sneaking to smoke and then i was like uh hellllooo if u gotta sneak then it is obviously wrong to be doing and so anywho of course you know it is bad for your baby so no lecture!! But i honestly would get sugar free candy(they actually have some yummy ones now) and every single time i wanted a cig i would eat that candy oh or have a bottle of water with you always!! And just try to keep thinking of your baby :)
I know you can do it! Please dont get yourself addicted to the gum though thats silly its just another addiction
AND CONGRATULATIONSSSSS!!
smoking effects on baby - maybe this will help
[ In Reply To ..]This is not a hate post, but please read it and consider this. I would have posted the link, but that is not allowed so I copied and pasted. I have never been a smoker so I do not know how hard it is to quit, but I sure as heck think if I had a baby burning in my oven, I\'d do anything to protect it. Good luck.
Ob-gyn Robert Welch has helped thousands of women with high-risk pregnancies realize their dreams of a healthy baby. But even after all those successes, there\'s still one situation that truly scares him: a pregnant woman who can\'t quit smoking.
\"Smoking cigarettes is probably the No. 1 cause of adverse outcomes for babies,\" says Welch, who\'s the chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan. He\'s seen the complications far too many times: babies born prematurely, babies born too small, babies who die before they can be born at all. In his view, pregnancies would be safer and babies would be healthier if pregnant smokers could somehow swap their habit for a serious disease such as diabetes or high blood pressure.
\"I can control those conditions with medications,\" Welch says. But when a pregnant woman smokes, he says, nothing can protect her baby from danger.
Why is it so dangerous to smoke during pregnancy?
Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals, including truly nasty things like cyanide, lead, and at least 60 cancer-causing compounds. When you smoke during pregnancy, that toxic brew gets into your bloodstream, your baby\'s only source of oxygen and nutrients.
While none of those 4,000-plus chemicals is good for your baby (you would never add a dollop of lead and cyanide to his strained peaches), two compounds are especially harmful: nicotine and carbon monoxide. These two toxins account for almost every smoking-related complication in pregnancy, says ob-gyn James Christmas, director of Maternal Fetal Medicine for Commonwealth Perinatal Associates at Henrico Doctors\' Hospital in Richmond, Virginia.
The most serious complications � including stillbirth, premature delivery, and low birth weight � can be chalked up to the fact that nicotine and carbon monoxide work together to reduce your baby\'s supply of oxygen. Nicotine chokes off oxygen by narrowing blood vessels throughout your body, including the ones in the umbilical cord. It\'s a little like forcing your baby to breathe through a narrow straw. To make matters worse, the red blood cells that carry oxygen start to pick up molecules of carbon monoxide instead. Suddenly, that narrow straw doesn\'t even hold as much oxygen as it should.
How will smoking affect my baby?
A shortage of oxygen can have devastating effects on your baby\'s growth and development. On average, smoking during pregnancy doubles the chances that a baby will be born too early or weigh less than 5 1/2 pounds at birth. Smoking also more than doubles the risk of stillbirth.
Every cigarette you smoke increases the risks to your pregnancy. A few cigarettes a day are safer than a whole pack, but the difference isn\'t as great as you might think. A smoker\'s body is especially sensitive to the first doses of nicotine each day, and even just one or two cigarettes will significantly tighten blood vessels. That\'s why even a \"light\" habit can have an outsize effect on your baby\'s health.
How smoking affects your baby\'s:
Weight and size
On average, a pack-a-day habit during pregnancy will shave about a half-pound from a baby\'s birth weight. Smoking two packs a day throughout your pregnancy could make your baby a full pound or more lighter. While some women may welcome the prospect of delivering a smaller baby, stunting a baby\'s growth in the womb can have negative consequences that last a lifetime.
Body and lungs
Undersize babies tend to have underdeveloped bodies. Their lungs may not be ready to work on their own, which means they may spend their first days or weeks attached to a respirator. After they\'re breathing on their own (or even if they did from the start), these babies may have continuing breathing problems � because of delayed lung development or other adverse effects of nicotine. Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are especially vulnerable to asthma, and have double or even triple the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
Brain function
Smoking during pregnancy can have lifelong effects on your baby\'s brain. Children of pregnant smokers are especially likely to have learning disorders, behavioral problems, and relatively low IQs.
What can I do?
Behind all these grim statistics lies an incredible opportunity: You can give your baby a huge gift by giving up your habit � the sooner the better. Ideally, you should give up smoking before you conceive. For one thing, you\'ll have an easier time getting pregnant. (Smoking lowers the chance of conceiving during any particular cycle by about 40 percent.) You also won\'t have to struggle with quitting at a time when you should be thinking about other things, like eating well, exercising, and preparing for your baby\'s birth.
Of course, not everybody manages to plan that far ahead. But if you\'re still smoking when you discover you\'re pregnant, it\'s not too late. Immediately taking steps toward quitting can hugely benefit your baby.
A study published in the August 2009 journal Obstetrics and Gynecology found that expecting moms who quit in the first trimester actually raise their odds of delivering a healthy full-term, full-size baby to about the same as that of a nonsmoker. Moms who quit in the second trimester improved their odds, too, but not as much.
After weeks 14 to 16, fetuses should be greedily putting on weight. If you\'re still smoking at that stage, your baby\'s growth will start to lag. But as soon as you quit, your baby will start getting the oxygen he needs to grow. By the time you have your next ultrasound, your doctor should be able to see a significant change in your baby\'s growth rate. Even if you\'re smoking at 30 weeks or beyond, you can still give your baby several weeks to put on weight as quickly as possible. It\'s as easy � and as difficult � as throwing away your cigarettes and never lighting up again.
Even though you\'re aware of the dangers of smoking, it\'s not always easy to give up the habit. The pull of nicotine can overwhelm your good intentions and even override your devotion to your child. That\'s why you shouldn\'t try to quit on your own. Talk to your doctor about different ways to quit. Ask your partner and other people around you for support. Use our community groups to get help from other expecting moms who\'ve quit. You have to be able to count on other people. After all, there\'s somebody counting on you.
quitting - MT
[ In Reply To ..]Well, I'm quitting, but using the patch. I'm not pregnant, but it is hard! They say quitting nicotine is like quitting heroine, so I try to give myself a break. I go hour by hour here right now. So, I look at the clock, and say, only an hour, I can surely not smoke for an hour. I am only quitting because I really want to. I have smoked since age 13, now 43. I just try to picture how much "fun" it will be to drag around an oxygen tank with me everywhere I go! lol I do a lot of fb posts too, mostly just 'AARGH' but everyone knows what's going on and I get a lot of funny replies, so hang in there, get people involved in you quitting, take it hour by hour, or minute by minute, whatever you need. The only tip I got that I haven't tried just yet is to take a clove and bite it when you get a really bad craving. I'm trying it this morning because my worse crave seems to come right before it's time for me to sit down and start working. Best of luck to you and congrats on the baby, you both deserve a lot of smoke-free years. We can do this! :)
imagine the oxygen tank - in a smoky casino
[ In Reply To ..]I saw that the other day and was like REAAAAAAALLLLLY?
Good luck to you as well as OP!
another idea - sm
[ In Reply To ..]I used to suck on sticks of cinnamon. Don't ask how, but they really seemed to help. I chewed on straws too. Good luck! You can do this!!
How some of us quit. - Shipwrecked
[ In Reply To ..]There was a thread on the board last summer about "vaping" and electronic cigarettes (e-cigs). I went from almost 3 packs a day to maybe 2 cigarettes a day immediately. You can google e-cigarettes for more information, but please do not buy them in the mall or from a TV ad. They're poor quality and will discourage you.
There are lots of good on-line vendors for both the e-cigs and the e-liquid you put in them. The e-liquid contains nicotine (as do the patches and gum), but none of the other harmful chemicals in cigarettes. You can get the liquid in different strengths of nicotine and a ton of different flavors.
Could you help me with where to buy them (see message) - lka
[ In Reply To ..]I have not quit totally but have cut down in the last 2 weeks, but need to quit totally as I just cannot breathe anymore. In fact, I just started pulmonary rehab quite recently; that's how bad it is. You said you went from 3 packs to 2 cigs a day? Could you share with me how... was that with the electronic cigarette? Feel free to email me if you want. I am really serious about quitting this time for sure. Thank you.
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