Very newly pregnant, advice wanted regarding smoking.

[chewsomeshoes]

Hi all, this is my first post, so please be gentle :)

I am 5 weeks and 4 days pregnant, and am a heavy smoker. I have not had a cigarrette now since 4pm this afternoon as binned the lot and won't have another. In a cigarettes place I am using an electronic peach flavoured shisha pen so I still carry out the action of smoking [hardest part of my habit is this bit.]

I have been told that smoking an eletric shisha is better than smokin a cigarette or a normal hookah pipe. I am doubtful of this info though, so need some help and advice on stopping smoking properly ASAP please :)

[chewsomeshoes]

Thanks NatashaBee :) because I am only 5 weeks gone, I have had 5 miscarriages and so am reluctant to make a midwife referral yet, as before it has broken my heart to receive letters for scans etc :/

[CustardFromATin]

Congratulations on your pregnancy! Second the advice about talking to a mw. Totally understand why you must be so scared, but it's important - would it help if you can think of it as taking a step to safeguard this tiny little bundle of cells and life, rather than as any kind of 'booking in' appt? Or if a mw is too much, could you see your GP? They will be absolutely on your team, you've already taken such a big step and you deserve masses of support!

[Fairypants]

Congratulations.
I would second asking the gp for advice. There is loads of support they can refer you for these days and its not necessarily pregnancy related (my dad went that route to giving up). Personally, once the morning sickness kicked in I couldn't walk past a smoker in the street without throwing up let alone wanting one myself which def helped me give up when expecting dd1. You may find the pregnancy itself decides what you can and can't do.
Good luck!

[Finola1step]

Congratulations. I know nothing about these new fandangled e cigs, shisha pens etc. But I do know a shed load about stopping sm

[Finola1step]

Oops posted too soon.

I know a shed load about stopping smoking when a heavy smoker. I started smoking in my teens and was on 20 a day by the time I stopped at 32. The thing that worked for me was the Allan Carr book (the smoking guru not the bespectacled comedian from Northampton!). Good luck.

[LBNM19]

Hi before I found out I was pregnant with my son I smoked when I fell pregnant I wanted to give up, a week later I went on holiday and carried on smoking. Then when I got home I went to the chemist who done a stop smoking workshop he told me to come back in a week, but I felt that was quite a long time so I just stopped, it was starting to make me sick anyway I was around 7/8 weeks. I've never gone back to smoking again.

However everyone's different a colleague of mine continuted to smoke and just couldn't give up.

Go to your GP or a chemist and they will help you they also prescribe things for free I believe.

Good luck. X

[MummytoMog]

Well done for just stopping - one of the major problems with smoking is that it can reduce the blood flow to your uterus, which is not what you want when you're pregnant (or TTC for that matter, but I never managed to give up when TTC). One of my friends is a midwife and used to say smoking when pregnant was like holding a pillow over my baby's face, and I've never had the urge to smoke when pregnant since I got that image in my head. I don't know anything about e cigarettes (hopefully someone will come along soon) but I found the easiest thing for me was to put smoking out of my head completely and just not do anything like it or go out to talk to my smoking friends while they had one outside. Good luck!

[gargalesis]

I second the Allan Carr book! I stopped smoking two years ago and it's the best thing I've ever done for myself. I'm so much happier and full of energy. I feel really good about myself. The Allan Carr book is great because it teaches you to change the way you think about stopping smoking. Rather than seeing it as being an awful scary thing that you have to go through, and that by not smoking you are somehow missing out and depriving yourself, it's actually a brilliant thing you're doing. You don't need to smoke, it's rubbish, there's nothing pleasurable about it at all. It's so wonderful to be able to breathe properly again. Good luck OP.

[romomum]

I shall third the allen Carr book,I quit last year two months before I fell pregnant!!! the great thing is ...You don't really need will power...You read the book and realise smoking is not a pleasurable habit!! also the price of cigarettes now is crazy!! good luck with the no smoking