pregnacy and smoking?

Question

my bestfreind just found out she is pregnant and she smokes i told her she had to quit completely, she thinks it is more harmful to the baby to quit cold turkey because she will be stressed.... thus making the baby stressed. i smoke and will quit when i decide to have a child, i think if you want to quit enough it wont be stressful at all. is she right, should she just cut down? or quit alltogether?

Answer 1

I'm not sure .. I've never been a smoker .. but I did read a few responses from smokers who's doctors did say not to quit cold turkey .. because that would be worse (but I think that might be if they were further along and smoked a lot in the beginning) .. and I also saw a thing online where they did a study on a smoking mother .. and monitored the baby (in the womb) and everytime she'd take a puff of cigarette .. the baby would hold its breath :(
your friend needs to cut down to the LEAST amount of smoking as possible.
Smoking during pregnancy can cause miscarriage (in the beginning) or low birth weight, premature delivery, or she might end up delivering a still born. .. and when the baby is born .. it can cause SIDS (sudded infant death syndrome)
it's NOT worth the risks!
good luck! God bless!

Answer 2

She is right! She needs to stop but not cold turkey. She needs to cut down and then quite. I have smoked before all three of my pregnancy I stopped right before my first pregnancy and then found out I was having my second and stopped again and then I got pregnant I'm 23 weeks pregnant and haven't smoked in 19 weeks! She needs to think about her baby instead of her needs. She will have a baby with low birth weight and the baby can have complacations as well. So help your friend to quite don't nag on her. Look up smoking and pregnancy. Show her and let her make her own choice.

Answer 3

Smoking is a physical addiction and therefor is very difficult to quit cold turkey. The stress, however, is not going to be as bad for the baby as the smoking. She should talk to her doctor and see if he has some ideas that are safe for the baby that will help her quit quickly. In the end, it's better that she quits properly, then for her to try cold turkey and not ever be able to quit completely.

Answer 4

As a former smoker, I can tell you that the physical withdrawal lasts no more than 3 days and is mostly headache and insomnia. The psychological addiction is harder to deal with. Avoiding other smokers helps. You will find you have an appetite for sweets again. Oranges will be your best friends. You will end up replacing your tv when you hurl the remote at it because another commercial for anti-smoking or smoking cessation has come on and reminded you that you're out of cigarettes. Don't wash the clothes you were wearing the last time you had a cigarette - stick them in a bag. 2 weeks later, you'll discover you have a sense of smell again and that's what you smelled like.

Answer 5

She is just making an excuse to keep smoking! Smoking is very harmful to a fetus, im sure she knows that she is just being very selfish. I love smoking, but as soon as i saw a pregnant on the pregnancy test i didn't smoke another ciggerette! Theres not a day that goes by that i don't want one, but i think aobut the little person inside of me thats life depends on everything i do!!! She really needs to think twice about what she is saying, she really thinks it's healthier to give her baby carbon monoxide than to be stressed for a couple of days! HAH! Thats the biggest crock of BS i've ever heard!! Anyways i hope that she can do whats right for her and her baby and just quit cold turkey.

Answer 6

For what it's worth, I think she should quit altogether. She may be stressed, but that's probably what's best for the baby.

A good technique for quitting that I suggest would be looking at herself in the mirror each time she feels the urge to smoke. Tell her to look at her stomach, consider the baby, and ask herself if she really wants to still continue smoking, despite the fact that she's pregnant.

We all see the horrid pictures of what smoking does to a person on the cigarrette boxes, I'm sure that she, as a responsible person would not want anything like that to happen to her child.

Answer 7

If she just found out, she could really quit and not cause too much stress to the baby...while stopping is best, cutting back is better than not quiting at all. The baby would not be addicted yet so, I would say, suggest to her to cut down whatever she smokes by one a day...say, if she smokes 10 a day, cut it down to 9, then 8 and so on...GOOD LUCK!!!

Answer 8

no, way, she got to quit cold turkey, smoking will complicate pregnancy, and will affect baby big time, it will very possible born with birth affects or she is born to be a smoker, that was what I heard on news few years ago, was proven by doctors and scientists, I quit right away when I found out I was pregnant with my first baby, if it was planned I will quit way earlier, make sure my baby worn get any of that, we all know how bad it is to be a smoker, and we definitely don't want our kids to smoke. It was not bad at all, Just keep reminding her is for her baby and herself for good. it will not be easy for the mommy neither if anything's wrong with the newborn. ten times as hard as normal

Answer 9

lets face it, I don't think you really needed to post this question on here to know the answer to it, your friend is making excuses, and its a shame, it doesn make her a mad mom or even a bad mom to be, but it does show that she isn't the best at making the right decisions for her unborn child, and considering she won't quit while pregnant, I highly doubt she will quit afterwards, which means no breastfeeding, as well as the child having to grow up smelling like cigarettes, and not having the choice to avoid cancer causing toxins. she is wrong as far as the stress is concerned, I would rather my child have the slight possibility of stress than to have them face the possibility of killing them with cancer.

as to the fact that you are planning to quit once you decide to have a child, scientist and doctors find now that what you do with you body as much as a year before concieving can have an impact on the unborn baby.

Answer 10

it's better to quit cold turkey, she is making up excuses so that she can continue to smoke and harm both herself and the baby. As Soon as i founf out I was pregnant, I totally quit. I Have done it twice. The first time 7 years ago with my son and now 5 months ago with this pregnancy, You can do it no problem if you REALLY want to. Maybe you should quit now to show her it is possible and that way you will be healtier too.