Smoking While Prego

Umm think about your kid, duh. That should be reason and motivation enough.

Sorry but it's quite simple - do not buy any ciggarettes or tabbacco.
*leaving post before I rant because this annoys me*

I'm sorry but if bringing another life into the world and jeopardizing your childs health isn't enough motivation to quit then i'm not sure there is anything that will motivate you enough.



Since the motivation that would have been enough for most women hasn't cut it for you at 18 weeks I don't know what you think you will find on the internet.



Talk to your Dr.



I had my last cigarette the day I found out I was pregnant because it wasn't even a choice for me whether or not to quit. Not quiting was never an option or even a thought for me.

That is a pretty selfish thing to do. Im sorry but I would never let my baby be in a smoke filled environment in my uterus. It comes down to one simple thing; do you care more about the feeling that you get from a cigarette or you own baby? Its pretty sad if you chooose the cigarette.

Smoking isnt a feeling of goodness instead it is a addiction and cannot be given up by some people.

I smoked during my pregnancy's (am not recommending it), both my kids are healthy as ever but that doesnt mean you will be the same way. I am not a hyporcrit but I will give you this advice talk to your dr about this and screw people who dont have positive support to give. You are not selfish you are doing what you body needs but if you really want to quit get advice cause their may be other options.


I cut down as I was not allowed smoking cessation aids during pregnancy supposedly they are worse and I just found out today they offer hypotism down here(to quit smoking.)


everyone has a right to do as they please and I think anyone who impedes on that right is outright ignorant. If quitting smoking would affect your health than it may be better just to kepp smoking but to cut down or quit gradually. If you quit cold turkey it can actually be more harm to some people and can actually cause miscarriage and that is why you need to seek a dr on this one!

So jess, everyone has the right to do as they please, even when it jeopardizes anothers life?



What if that kid had serious problems later in life, what if he needed a machine to breath for him? Was it really the mothers right to rob him of the quality of life he could have had? Was that her right? Cause that is completely ignorant. It's like saying "oh it's my right to get drunk or do cocaine while i'm pregnant". Women don't seem to understand that that baby is not her body, that her body doesn't have two hearts, two brains, and in the case of a male baby a penis, and that the person in side of her deserves to be respected. Smoking is completely disrespectful to your child, and if someone truly believes that it's their right to violate their child in such a way then i'ld highly recommend they reevaluate their plans for parenting.

Do you people realize that smoking is the hardest addiction to quit..Harder than heroin? Try to cut down to a few day and eventually to none..I know its hard but hang in there girl!

(to jess not emma) right, tell the child who spends his life with respiratory problems, or the child with fas that this was their mothers right to do to them. Tell them that it was okay for someone to choose to screw up their lives because they had no rights.

Point is, if you are a good mother and love your child, you will stop smoking. It is a measure of how much you care for and love your child. So you can tell yourself "it's her right" but you can't ever tell yourself that she is as good a mother, and loves her child as much, as the person willing to give up their own personal pleasure for the health of their child. Mothers who will smoke through their whole pregnancy are selfish, and second class mothers. Part of being a mother means you do whatever it takes to give your child the very best. If a mother isn't willing to do that/too weak to do that, then she has already failed her child in some degree. She has made a statement on the value her child has to her.

And your situation is not the case for the majority of women, and only a dr has the education to determine when infact it would be more harmful to quit than keep going, and I think until then it would be right to assume otherwise, that stopping right away is best, as that will be the case for the majority of women.

Of course it's hard. Like I said. I quit cold turkey the day I found out I was pregnant. I would never argue that it is easy, but a lot of aspects of motherhood isn't.

Tanya is my hero!

*waves a flag*

you're so well-spoken!

**.Tanya!! .Tanya!!**

Thanks. It just seems like common sense you know? People will justify the craziest things just to convince themselves their not selfish...

I agree with tanya, and jess as for the comment of the baby not having a right to life until it's born and becomes a person, that's caca. A baby is a person regardless of how long it's been in someones stomach, the law considers it a person because if they didn't, people wouldnt get put in jail for hurting someone else's fetus intentionally by kicking them and etc.

Anyone who smokes during pregnancy is a total retard, that's taking the chance of messing up your childs life and if you take that chance then you don't deserve to have kids, period. You might as well as let cam eat some ciggs because it's not any worse than what you did while you were pregnant.

I agree with .Tanya, too, she makes some really good points. I didn't think about it that way until she said that about fas, when she was commenting on "a fetus doesnt have a right to life until they're born" I don't understand how anyone could drink enough to do that to their own child, worthless.

Wow tanya I thought this place was a place of support. Not saying I don't agree with some of your points, but girl you gotta mellow out!!!! Attacking a person is not the way to help. I know smoking is terrible at the best of times, never mind when your pregnant but I think we all may have a few skeletons in our closets.....Hmmmm. When someone reaches out for help and they get attacked is just not acceptable.....Makes me wonder what kind of parent you would be or are. Patience is the key, kind words are better than harsh ones.

Tanya's words weren't harsh. They were true.
&.To question somebody's abilities of motherhood
just because they believe that it's selfish to
smoke while pregnant seems a little off to me.

Yes, smoking is horribly addictive.
Yes, it's hard to quit.
Some people are stronger than others.

But you'd think carrying your child would
be motivation enough to quit.

Marlene...

You have no right to come in here and start questioning the parenting abilities of somebody you dont know.

Secondly, if people are going to be selfish enough to smoke while pregnant, they deserve to be spoken to harshly. They deserve to have a lot more done to them, but we wont go there.

We dont need you to act like our forum mother. State your opinion on the topic at hand, dont criticize, and move on.

Malrene, you're new, you don't know people here so don't judge what kind of parent or person they are or could be.

Shes speaking the truth, just because she doesn't bite her tongue like some people do doesn't mean she'll be a bad parent, I don't see how you can say that.

Maybe you should keep your mouth closed if all you're going to do is judge someone when you don't even know a single thing about them.