Born and live smoke free: help guide for pregnant smokers

The best decision you can make for your health and for your pregnancy is to quit smoking.

This is how this begins self-help guide for the pregnant smoker, "Born and live smoke free", which has the purpose that the pregnant woman quits and moves away from tobacco and reminds us that it is better to quit smoking late than ever.

This is a guide that will be useful for those future moms who have problems to quit smoking, because although they know the risks that tobacco entails for their health or that of the baby, they have difficulties in leaving this vice.

This is a guide prepared by the Drug Addiction Service of the Ministry of Health of La Rioja and adapted by the Coordination Unit of the Drug Plan of Asturias. It can be downloaded for free in pdf. From the Astursalud website and although it is brief, it contains basic and important information.

The self-help guide "Born and live smoke-free" for the pregnant smoker contains chapters such as "Why sea smoking" (benefits for you and the baby), "Preparing to quit smoking", "How to handle your temptations "...

They also propose that healthy living be a long-term plan and be maintained after the arrival of the baby. How can I quit tobacco forever?

We end with the phrase that closes the guide, a message of support and encouragement to women try to quit during pregnancy:

Take advantage of this effort, you can continue without smoking.