How To Quit Smoking When You're Pregnant And Unsure About Stopping

Pregnancy presents enough challenges as it is, there are any number of potential problems. If you want to know how to quit smoking when you are pregnant and unsure about stopping, the first thing you need to do is to get real about your situation. In the United Kingdom a staggering 20% of pregnant women smoke.

They do this in the face of overwhelming information that says on no account should any pregnant woman smoke, or any couple trying to fall pregnant. If you are reading this you will have heard all the scary stories.

If you are still smoking it's because of one of three reasons.

1. You don't believe the medical advice. You think they are making it up or at least overstating the facts. The simple truth is that smoking harms your developing baby. There is absolutely no doubt about it.

You risk low birth weight, premature birth and brain and development damage due to the high carbon monoxide levels in your baby's blood plus the 4000 or so toxic chemicals that are produced when you smoke. Not to mention a myriad of other potential problems.

You can choose to ignore the medical information, but you are wrong and your child will pay the price for your decision to continue to smoke cigarettes. This is the time to get real about your situation, listen to the experts who work with baby's everyday and not your own misguided opinions or those of your friends.

2. You are fearful about quitting so you look for any excuse to continue. You may argue that the stress of quitting will be worse than smoking for your baby. That is just an excuse, it is simply not true. It's a load of rubbish. You may have already had a child and you smoked, or a friend smoked and their child is OK.

The question is, how will you, ever know what that child would have been like if you hadn't smoked, or perhaps it was just dumb luck that they arrived intact.

3. You are just plain stupid and pig ignorant. As I wrote this article I was angry having recently seen a newborn whose mother smoked. The effect was devastating and life long for this poor child. I had no intention of writing a soft gently convincing argument for quitting.

In the first two instances you can get help and by using hypnosis you will conquer smoking for good, sparing your child and yourself the terrible effects of smoking. In the third instance, good luck, I can only assume that if this is you, you won't bother to read this article anyway.

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Wishing you the best of health, Ian Newton. Providing quality quit smoking writings, articles and reviews online.