All right, it’s time for me to quit smoking…
I found out a few weeks ago that I am pregnant (first ever!). My husband and I are happy as two clams but I am a smoker…
I just had a cigarette and told myself it was the last one.
Sounds easy now, but I know tomorrow morning will be a different story.
My doctor told me she’s rather have me on the patch than smoke.
I have a few nicotine gums left over from a last attempt and want to start chewing (in moderation) tomorrow.
Is it safe® for me to chew this type of gum?
Are there any women out there that used gum while pregnant?
Please let me know what you think, I don’t think I can do it cold turkey.
Is that true in and of itself (i.e. lower nicotine intake, lungs are more vulnerable than throat/skin, etc.)? Or is it just the case that people chewing gum/wearing patches are more likely to quit than someone smoking?
A slight gum-related hijack. My father is still chewing the stuff 7 years after giving up smoking cigarettes (although he now smokes cigars). Now, I know that that’s stupid, but is it really stupid?
Dunno, but my step-father’s oncologist, when he was dying of lung cancer, told my mother that nicotine alone is not a carcinogen. Potent poison, yes. Carcinogen, no. It’s supposedly the delivery mechanism via chewed or smoked tobacco that causes disease.
But that’s probably its own question on this board.
I used to smoke, but during my two pregnancies have (obviously) have had to stop. I thought it would be hard as well, but you know what? It wasn’t. Maybe you should just try to go cold turkey. How much do you smoke a day?
It was very easy for me to stop when I thought about the baby, and maybe because I smoked less than a pack a day.
I was also wondering if there was some sort of hormone that made it “easy” to go cold turkey because aside from getting pregnant, nothing else has ever made me quit.
I hope it will be “easy”! I am only a few weeks and barely have any symptoms. I must have good hormons! So I admit it’s hard for me to understand something is growing inside me, hence I don’t have the full motivation.
I used to smoke about 15 cigarettes a day… and for sure a pack if going out or something like that. I used to curse the new laws of non-smoking restaurants and bars and I know actually like it
I have gone down to about 5 or 6 a day since finding out I am pregnant, I do well at work (busy) but I don’t do too well at home… I need to keep busy or something!
I have had none today so far, it’s 10:10 am and on a “normal” day, I would have had about 2 already, so it’s not much but I am already proud of that! Pad my own back.
I have chewed one piece of Nicotine gum, and I feel pretty good.
YES, YOU CAN! And congratulations! I didn’t manage to give up smoking during my pregnancies but I have now. As of today it has been 1 year, 7 months, 1 week, 4 days, 3 hours, 3 minutes and 17 seconds. Not that I’m counting or anything. Really.
