Quitting Smoking: While Pregnant

I have known many people to not succeed at this task, but the one person that I know who did succeed, and by her definition "cold turkey" for 6 years, with a smoker in the house, is my mother. Yesterday she let me in on her secret to success. One cigarette a day, until the cravings go away.
Psychologically it makes more sense than the e-ciggs that I tried, and I crave ciggs much less now that I am smoking one a day, and I don't even need the e-cigg now. I am sure that anyone who is not a smoker is judging me really harshly right now, but this post is not for you. Sorry, what is important to me is that I stop.

Why it works:

With E-ciggs, you are still exposing yourself to nicotine, and you are self injecting much more than your cigarettes. You puff the thing over and over craving more or less the habit of smoking, and the impulse to puff on it more than you need to in order to compensate for the lack of actual smoke, and you intake more nicotine than you would if you actually smoked and you never lose the cravings. Especially if you are as stressed as I am. OF COURSE YOUR STRESSED, I don't care how happy you are to be pregnant, your raging hormones combined with the knowledge that your world is about to dramatically change, as it physically changes is enough to stress out anyone, plus the added element of quitting smoking, and the world telling you how to raise your child stresses out everyone. Trust me, it's even more stressful when you have to squeeze your wedding plans into a month, being fat in your wedding dress, and finding out that you have a brain tumor that must go unattended until after the pregnancy. I was the lucky girl in the hospital to take the precautionary test before my MRI, just in case I was pregnant because of the damaging effects of the contrast fluid. I cried with tears of joy, and shock, don't get me wrong. But it is terrifying, Especially if you have PCOS and a 1/3 chance of having a stillborn or miscarriage, and knowing that people blame 10 million things for losing their babies, the only thing that becomes important, and keeping yours. 

If you are a smoker, my advice is to smoke one cigarette a day. If you know you aren't going to have one ever again, it is all you want and think about. But if you know you can have one tomorrow, you can rest easier, and think about it less knowing that time will come. My other piece of advice if you are receiving a lot of pressure about it is to keep it to yourself. One cigarette a day is not worth the fuss that non smokers will make it out to be. You are the one who has to quit, and many people never stop. So if you have tried and failed, try this.