I have heard that nicotine is as hard to kick as herion…

I grew up with a smoking Mom….endured the smoky car rides….it is socially unacceptable to smoke anymore, and I for one am glad about that.

As a secret smoker who loves a good puff and a tall glass of soda (or wine), I would never ever smoke in front of my daughter. NO WAY! I want to smack those who do

I did smoke through my first pregnancy. I know, it’s terrible. I cut down, but I can’t say that I quit and I will forever feel guilty for that. I always figured that when I got pregnant, I’d have some sort of aversion towards smoking, that I’d feel different and I’d quit. I didn’t have any morning sickness with that pregnancy and there were two other pregnant women at work who smoked, so I was a sheep and basically just too selfish to quit. I really regret that, but am thankful that he was born full term and full size (8lbs 6 oz) and all went well.

I quit before his third birthday, because see then he could TALK and what he said was, “Hey mom, when I grow up, I can smoke too!” We only smoked outside and never in the car, but that was it, it was obvious to us then that our smoking had a direct impact on him.

But, I talk with my friends and being children of the 70’s, our family trips were all in station wagons with the windows rolled up tight, the freon a/c pumping away and both parents chain smoking. My parents smoked in the house. They smoked at the dinner table. My mom talked about feeding me a bottle with one hand and holding a cigarette with the other. It was one of my chores as a child to dump their ashtrays. I had to poke around to make sure there were no hot embers before tossing them in the trash.

Those things are totally unthinkable now, thank God. So, we are making progress. I think that parents who smoke are in the minority. Are they? Around here if someone lights a cigarette it’s reacted to almost as if that person has taken a dump right on a baby, it’s so unpopular. But, I don’t know if that’s a universal parent thing or if it’s just here.