Smoking While Trying to Get Pregnant

Hi
You asked the question, so I hope you are prepared to hear the answer
Virtually all the scientific studies report that smoking has an advers effect your fertility and your dh's fertility. Cigarette smoke contains more than 2,500 chemicals. To quote an article I read online "Research indicates that
cigarette smoking is harmful to a woman’s ovaries, and the degree of harm is dependent upon the amount and the period of time a woman smokes. Smoking appears to accelerate the loss of eggs and reproductive function and may advance the time of menopause by several years."
http://www.a srm.org/Patients/FactSheets/smoking.pdf

Smoking while pregnant can lead to many problems with your child: learning disabilites, cleft lip, low birth weight and sudden infant death syndrome.

I know that smoking is a hard habit to kick. I smoked for 10 years and have quit for over 10 years. Find all the resources you can to help you quit before you have a child.

good luck!

I just got done typing a post saying that I am on my 5th day of not smoking.

Yes it can affect your chances of conceiving. The nicotine that is in your system can have adverse affects on your baby to be. It is best to have no nicotine in your system when you conceive. If you quit about a month before you try to conceive you should be ok.

That is what I am trying to do. We are going to start ttc in August and I am now on day 5. So far so good. DH is going to quit in a few weeks after his birthday (I hope)

I think but I don't know, that if dh smokes as well, it might have an affect on his sperm. I don't know that for sure though, but it couldn't hurt if he quit as well.

What I did was set a date for myself. I had a lot of stress at work, and a big event I was planning, so I said as soon as it is over I will quit. Well it was sunday, and monday was my first day to quit. I just gave the rest of my smokes to my dh and didn't take any to work. Yesterday I went searching for one guy I work with to bum a smoke...I was going crazy from being bored. Thankfully he wasn't there and i found something else to do.

It is hard, but you can do it if you set your mind to it. It is all in your head anyways, so if you get it out of your head, then you are good to go!

You can do it Star. Be strong, you will feel so much better in the long run not to have the nagging feeling of craving a cigarette. It just takes time for nicotine to flush from your system.
Apparently cigarette smoking is 20 times more difficult to quit than heroin. Because you get your nicotine fix sometimes 20 times a day (depending how much you smoke).
Hold on Star. You can do it!

Thanks for all of the replys. And I was afraid of the answer but it is such a bad habit and I want to be a healthy mother and wife. So I think I will try to quit, at least until the babies born and he/shes done breastfeeding. See I still have those reservations.

I cannot beleive it can affect your ovaries. That alone makes me never want to smoke. I have always known that my perpose in life will not be completed until I give birth. My mother used to tell me you arent a woman until you have a baby. = } So just the thought of not being fertile is devastating. I dont know what I would do. I am sure some of you can relate.

I have quit other bad sustances in my life, but I truly beleive this one is going to be the hardest. Especially for my husband, he said he would quit when we find out I am pregnant, but if his sperm wont work then thats never going to happen.

So who knows we are going to try. Wish me luck, this is going to be tuff, I appreciate the encouragement.

Your effort would be good...but it would be even better if you quit for good. It's noble to quit during pregnancy, but smoking around children is really really bad for them not to mention to you. Do you want to be around and well to see their kids? Think about the pros and cons to smoking....it is worth it? teh cost monetarily, physically in my opinion outweighs the momentary fix. but some nicotine gum or patches and get something to put in your mouth like a sucker....