Now I don't. And that was because I won this fight many years ago.
After my moment of truth - when I was forced to accept that I was an addict, not a free man - I knew that this fight was the most important fight of my life. It took me eighteen months to kill the desire to smoke. And that is the key. Smoking is, above all, an emotional problem, a habit, not so much an addiction.The method I used to become a free man again was almost identical to this. I say almost because what took me a year and a half could have taken much less. Weeks or even days.
There is no drama or special supplements in this method. No 'will of iron' is necessary. And above all there is
no fear. (One of the biggest problems for most of us is our fear of change.)
It is a guide to your enemy. I suggest that you look into this.
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Babies Who Smoke
First, if you want a baby of your own, it’s a good idea to stop smoking. (It's always a good idea to stop
smoking.) Because studies show that women who are smoking 16 to 20 cigarettes a day are 20% less likely
to have a baby after one year of trying. After that, the odds get far worse. In the second and third years of
trying, twice as many fail.
A study from the University of California School of Public Health finds that compared to non-smokers, women
who smoke one to nine cigarettes per day take twice as long to become pregnant after stopping
contraceptives.
The study was done on over 1,300 first-time mothers.
And now you’re pregnant. What could happen? Ectopic or tubal pregancy happens when the fertilized egg
becomes implanted outside the uterus. It can threaten your life. People who smoke have a two to four times
greater risk of this.
When pregnant women smoke, they risk the lives of their unborn babies.
A pregnant woman who is still smoking is more likely to have a spontaneous abortion or a stillbirth. You’re
harming your baby with the poisonous chemicals in your blood.
A study made by Dr Naeye - Professor of Anatomic Pathology at Penn State Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine - found that death rates due to malformations - that is deformed babies who cannot live - increased
when the mother smoked more than ten cigarettes a day.
His study included 100 pregnant women who smoked ten cigarettes a day and 100 pregnant women who
didn't smoke at all. The conclusion was the stillbirth rate of 1.72% for smoking babies as compared to 0.1%
for nonsmoking babies.
That is over 17 times the risk.
If you smoke only ten cigarettes a day your baby is 17 times more likely to be born dead.
Thanks, mom.
One study showed that if a pregnant woman is exposed to smoke for two hours a day or more, she doubles
her risk of delivering a low birthweight baby.
Babies born to smokers weigh less than those born to normal women.
The more the smoke, the more the mother smokes, the less the baby weighs.
Also, women who smoke increase the risk of a premature birth, with all the problems of survival that that
means.
Women who smoke during pregnancy are –
Twice as likely than nonsmokers to have a baby which is of low birth weight. They are lighter because they
do not develop fully.
More than twice as likely to have a baby whose growth has been retarded. This means the baby is born when
it is not fully developed.
One third more likely to have a baby that is born prematurely.
The best predictor of a baby's survival and good health is its birth weight
The poor babies of these smoking women have about 25% greater chance of dying just after being born.
Later, there is still more risk. SIDS – Sudden Infant Death Syndrome – is when a baby dies suddenly without
warning. The baby seems to be well and fine and then the baby's dead.
Smokers' babies die like this three times as often.
Do you want a stupid child?
Nicotine has been shown to retard fetal brain growth in animals. The developing brain is particularly vulnerable
to low levels of oxygen.
Children of mothers who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to show -
Reduced I.Q.
Lower mental performance at one year old
Poorer academic performance scores at school
Increased learning difficulties (children were 25 percent more likely to have learning disabilities if their mother
smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day)
Do you want a sick child?
Scientists in Hong Kong tell us that babies who live in families with two or more people who smoke are 30
percent more likely to go to hospital than those from homes without smoke.
And a writer in a forum says this –
"When I was younger my parents had to buy me a resperator because the smoking in the house was making
me have asthma attacks and I could never keep up with the other kids in gym class because my body
couldnt handle it.. If I never had asthma I would be so much more fit."
Do you want an unhappy child?
Dr Kate Pickett and her team at the University of York in England made a study of 18,000 British babies born
between 2000 and 2002.
They found that babies of women who stop smoking tend to be cheerier, and more adaptable. The study also
showed that heavy smokers had the most difficult children, scoring low for positive mood.
Also, researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York report that mothers who smoke during
pregnancy are far more likely to experience behavioral problems with their offspring. This study of 99 mothers
and their two-year-old children found a fourfold increase of rebelliousness, impulsive behavior, and other
parental stressors among those that smoked while carrying children.
Do you want another drug addict in the house?
If you're a mother who doesn't want her children to fall into the smoking trap, think about this.
If you smoke, your little children are already six times more likely to be planning to smoke when they grow
up. Scientists interviewed 504 preschoolers in upstate New York and found that 70 percent said they
expected to smoke when they were older. The largest percentage of these had mothers who smoked.
Do you really want all this?
