Pregnant And Smoking.............

I think she should quit cold turkey if it's for the kid.

Yes its for the baby. Most people would not even quit for the unborn child, because they enjoy it too much their selfs. Thanks

Yeah I agree with melissa, your friend should stop smoking. It could cause her to miscarry, or if she is able to carry to full term the bub will most likely have a low birth weight and braething problems when born

If she can quit cold turkey, then more power to her! Personally I think any smoker who finds out they're pregnant should care enough about their baby to quit cold turkey. I smoked for 10 years, the day I found out I had 1 last cigarette and that was it. Quitting cold turkey will not hurt the baby in any way. It's better than slowly quitting, which is harder anyway. Good luck to her!

Yeah,my neighbor smoked throughout her entire pregnancies and both her kids have nbeathing problems.I told her its probably from smoking while she was pregnant but she's like 'no,it's hereditary,blah blah blah'. I still think it was from her smoking though

My cousin smoked through her whole 9months with both of her kids and she had 8pound baby and they are very healthy so it just the person, but kayla is very happy because she was scared to quit cold turkey, because her friend did when she got pregnent and she had a miscarriage so she was kinda scared that that might have been why! She said thanks. Now she is not worried and feels alot better about it.

It's crazy how some people like my sister-in-law who weighs over 350 lbs., smoked the whole nine months for both of her children, drank tons of diet coke a day, ate whatever was in front of her, and didn't take care of herself had two healthy children.
But people who do everything right have children with problems sometimes. It's strange how things work.

My bestfriends sister was a longtime smoker with real bad asthma. She found out she was pregnant about 2 months after me. Her doctor recommended that she taper it down instead of quitting cold turkey because the baby gets the withdrawl affects too. She did what the doctor recommended and she had a 9lb healthy baby boy, so... Thats what her doctor said, so, I assume that its right. Correct me if im not o_o!

I'm sorry I talked to my doctor about it and that's bs. I was having problems stopping smoking, I had managed to stop for a while and I was doing great. Till a really bad day triggered the urge to smoke. Then I was going through such serious stress that my doctor, my doctor mind you, told me that it would be better for me to have a couple of cigarettes than to stress about it. As a matter of fact she told me that if I continued to stress out about it i'd be doing my baby more harm than if I had just smoked a cigarette. Low birthweight my butt. I guess those are the smokers that replace meals with cigarettes. Three weeks ago at my last u/s my baby was weighing in at 6 lbs. Now technically i've still got three weeks to go. And that's only because my baby is measuring consistently further along than they think. I've had my due date moved up three times already. The only thing that i've been told is to up the amount of vitamin c because cigarette smoke depletes it. I eat better than most of the non smoking pregnant women that I know. I'm sick of people trying to make me feel guilty because I wasn't able to quit smoking. Comments like that usually come from people who've never smoked or who weren't heavy smokers to begin with and don't understand that it's hard to quit. Anyone who had smoked and quit would have more understanding for the situation. And just for the record my sister had 9 kids and smoked with every single one of them and there wasn't one born under 7 1/2 pounds, and not a single one with any respiratory problems. Not even allergies. I think I did d@mn good to go from a pack and a half a day to less than half a pack a day. Anyhoo if you can quit good for you, if you can't don't let anyone make you feel guilty!

Wow,too much for me to read! Aaaah!

I was able to quit as soon as I found out I was pregnant... But that's because I wasn't a heavy smoker to begin with and, compared to a lot of smokers, I hadn't been smoking that long (only a couple of years).

I consider myself lucky, even though there were certainly days where I wanted one. I'd never look down on a woman for smoking a cigarette while she's pregnant so long as she's not chain smoking for the heck of it and is actually making an effort to stop. It doesn't make her care about her child any less, imo.

My bf's sister's doctor told her the same thing tigres' doctor did... If she was stressed too much, she needed to take a few puffs off a cigarette. And she would... She got a lot of stress because her husband worked on a scallop boat, which can be very dangerous. She worried about him a lot, and she would occasionally light a cigarette, take a few puffs and put it out. Her son was over 9 lbs and has been very healthy thus far.

And, by the way, no one attack me, please... I'm not trying to state a fact, just telling my experiences.

That wasn't directed at you... Just the people we get sometimes who like to attack people for no reason other than to reveal their diarrhea of the mouth.

Love ya!

Sorry I have to add my 2 cents:
i used to smoke in highschool, so I know how it is. But honestly I cannot comprehend how any woman, after feeling her baby move in her tummy, hearing its precious little heart beat for the first time, seeing it on the ultrasound ...Knowing she has a life growing inside of her... Can just sit there and light one up and think nothing of it. That is one of the most selfish things a mother could do in my opinion...

I have to say this. Parents who smoke while they're pregnant (including fathers) will smoke after the baby's born. Parents who smoke around their children put them at a higher risk for sudden infant death and breathing problems as they get older. The most disgusting thing is when a mom or dad holds their baby while smoking a cigarette. I think it's great when parents smoke outside, away from their children, but your clothes still smell like it. I grew up in a house with two smoking parents and I hated it. So did my husband and now his mother has lung cancer. I don't want anyone to take offense, it's just another aspect of it.

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that is caca my dear

here is why im voicing my opinion

my dr told me to light a !@#^ing level to bring my bp down cause I stress out too much, I quit numerous times and everytime I quit I would end up in the hospital with complications from quitting.. Everyone is different im not telling ppl to smoke as I will never support another persons habit but I will inform you that until you have been in someones shoe then you will never understand!!


If you want to talk about being selfish here is a list of thing your doing to your baby everyday I hate saying this but im real health forum when I want to be

~going outside all that beautiful smog is worse than smoking
so your selfish if you go outside

~eating any packaged food
they all contain stuff that can possibly harm the baby or possibly cause allergies for them later in life
so you are selfish for eating

~drinking anything besides water (pop,juice etc)
ao you are selfish for drinking

etc
want to talk about selfish then stop doing it living"

youre really hostile...But alright, I was speaking in general. I stick with what I said. I guess youre an exception because apparently your doctor tells you to "light a !@#^ing level". Those things that you listed dont even come close to the damage smoking can do to a baby. Most doctors make it perfectly clear that smoking is not good for a fetus, as do the dam n packs of cigs with the huge warning labels.

Really and since when are you a medical professional

no my dr doesnt tell his patients to light up he told me too because I was fing stressed and it the stress was causing more problems

unfortunatly my husband is so here goes and I never meant that towards you that was for everyone


people react to drugs differentl so if a warning is placed for one person the average person so we say then there will always people who dont fall under this rule. So i'm selfish for two healthy kids and some little girl who doesnt have a kid yet and doesnt think like a adult does yet.



Unfortunatly I have no pity for you but please read before you speak there is always going to be what ifs int this world and I happen to be one of them

b.T.W car fumes is carbon dioxide duh!! The air you breathe out is carbon dioxide wake up here hunny

please dont get me on a roll today I hate dealing with id10ts especially when I deal with them at work all day long