some help please smoking when pregnant

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Please i dont want any arguments on this one,

my friend has just found out shes 10 weeks pregnant and she smokes.

ive tried talking to her but she is addoment not to stop smoking she says her mom smoked when carrying her and sister and they are both fine.

like ive said ive tried telling her about all the risks and ive also heard that the baby can be born greyish from all the shit in cigeretts, ive tried searing for pictures like it to see if seeing the pictures can help stop her knowing her baby can be born like that but have come up with nout.

Can anyone find these pictures?? TIA

P.S PLEASE NO ARGUING ON THIS JUST WANT PROOF OF PICTURES TO SHOW HER

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heres some piccys of a lady who smoked

I found this article, which is nowhere near as upsetting as Charliecat's but was in the Telegraph:

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God, Charlicat, if that link isn't enough to make people stop, I wonder what will? I found it more hard hitting and upsetting than the Government adverts. I wonder how heavy a smoker she was? I smoke, but randomly, and not heavily, but I still worry about it.

my sister had the same attitude and smoke in all 3 of her pregancies, he first son was born early, and has gon on to have asthma and very bad excema(sp??), he second son was born with low birth weight (even tho she had planned c-section on the day he was due)and also has asthma and her 3rd son was born 7 weeks early and again had low birth weight is now currently 5 months old so at the moment we dont know if he has any problems but it looking iminant, and she moaned at me for having half a glass of champagne whilst pregnant with ds2 on my nephews 18th (which i only had a mouthful of as it gave me heartburn) as she didnt believe that you shouldnt consume alcohol whilst pregnant. Double standards or what.

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Ask her how she'd feel if when she's had her baby someone cames along and blows smoke directly into her newborns face.

I mean comes right up face to face(lets say an inch away) with her baby and blows a big lung full of smoke into his/her face.

How would she feel?

because thats what she's doing herself to her own baby....

the thing is she knows all of this allready

i was thinking but cant find any pictures of newborn babys with grey skin as ive heard smoking when pregnant can do that when the baby is born.

Does she not want to give up because she cant, and she enjoys smoking too much? I used Allan Carr The Easy Way to Stop Smoking (the small book not the thick one) and I stopped 7 years ago and havent looked back.

I loved smoking and couldnt imagine life without it but it really works. You can also get it on DVD so she could spend one hour of her life in front of the tv doing something that will help the health of her child forever.

Maybe if it doesnt seem an uphill struggle she might make an effort to stop.

I used to work with someone that smoked throughout her pregnancy... we all tried to tell her but she didnt care... sometimes i think that you have to say your point.. explain why its so wrong and leave her to it. (it infuriated me seeing this girl smoke, but some people wont be told!)

Luckily she had a healthy baby (and still is as far as i know).

My SIL is a midwife and said that the placentas of those that smoke are all calcified and absolutely hideous. Sure signs that it damages baby as that's their life source.