Kick your smoking habit!

Smoking during Pregnancy

   If you smoke during pregnancy you expose your child to harmful substances every time you smoke. Substances such as tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide are exposed to your child and may harm your growing baby for life. Your baby may have symptoms like constricted blood vessels, less oxygen intake, and less nutrient intake too. Not only do you harm your baby when you smoke during pregnancy, you are also harming yourself. Vaginal bleeding, a still-birth and an ectopic pregnancy may occur. (Ectopic pregnancies stop the fetus from developing and will usually end up causing a miscarriage killing your baby.)

Happy Mom's

Here are a few pictures of the happy mothers who dropped their smoking habits and had a healthy baby!

Here's a photo of Malinda and her 3
month old happy baby Scott from Portland, OR.

This is Kim holding her newborn Austin who's perfectly healthy and only 2 months old. Kim dropped her smoking habit after two months of her knowing she was pregnant and hasn't smoked since.

Tracy's in the hospital holding he newborn James in St.Charles hospital in Bend, OR. Tracy took Chantix after talking to her doctor about her smoking habits.

Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs

       For all of those mothers who don't smoke but are constantly around or near people who do smoke, watch out for second hand smoke. All of the second hand smoke that goes through your lungs also goes to your baby and it takes less second hand smoke to effect your growing baby than it does you. If you think you're exposed to large amounts of second hand smoke take yourself and your baby out of that situation and go somewhere else. If you leave the area you may be saving your life and you may also be saving your babies life too.

Smoking during pregnancy and using drugs may give
your baby abnormalities like this one.

Not smoking can help you have a healthy and happy baby!

     Now, we all understand that smoking is addictive and a hard habit to drop but, it's not impossible to get rid of, there is hope. All over the nation there are places to help you. N.A. (narcotics anonymous) and local NHS free smoking helplines all over America. New anti-narcotic drugs are even on the market now that help stop your smoking addiction without making you addicted to the drug. They're safe for you and your baby and doctor recommended. Some drugs that fall under these categories are Chantix. So don't stay addicted, you shouldn't have a mental want or need for smoking, free yourself and free your baby, quit smoking and save a life.