I just posted an article about the side effects of smoking during pregnancy and wanted to talk a bit about it. From childhood, smoking was a habit that was condemned by my family and luckily my brothers or I never picked up this harmful habit. However, my husband was a smoker from the time I met him and I tried everything possible from talking, making dramas, seeking help etc. to make him quit. However, he kept coming up with excuses or timelines such as I will quit before we get engaged, buy a house, get married etc.
and it never happened. However, in the seven years I have known him, nothing worked and it has been a huge issue between us. Everyday especially during the weekends, he will come up with random excuses to find time away from me to have his cigarettes as I was under the impression that he got rid of the habit already. But a couple of months after I got pregnant, he confessed to me and said that he has not been able to quit and wanted to quit the habit before the arrival of our baby. He wanted to be healthy to live long enough to see our baby grow. He also wanted to make sure that our daughter will never pick up the habit and was worried that she might think its ok to smoke as the dad is a smoker. I was so happy that he spoke the truth about his smoking habit and finally understood the implications.
