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I don't have any experience with quitting smoking...do lollipops help? Other than that, maybe a nice long walk or listening to your favorite music would help? Life is challenging, isn't it? {hugs!}

Good luck! My mom recently quit smoking. She's been a smoker for almost 30 years. She bought one of those vapor cigarettes and swears by it. I'm not sure what brand she bought, but it comes with flavored vapors. Not only did it help her quit, she got her sisters to do it, her mom, and her grandmother. I'm really impressed with all of them. She says that she hasn't been tempted to go back and it's been a month.

I quit smoking when I found out I was pregnant with LO, so it's been almost 2 years now. It is really, really, really hard but it gets easier everyday. One thing that helped me was chewing a toothpick when I was craving or mints. Congrats on quitting!

Oh @Sugar.Biscuit: ... I'm so sorry you're going through this. You get days like this, don't you, when it all seems to pile up on top of you.

First and foremost - DO NOT REACH FOR A CIGARETTE. Please, please don't do it. This will just make you feel worse about the whole situation and it will give you one more thing to have to deal with (giving up smoking) going forward. How long have you been off 'em for?

Secondly, I'm really, really sorry about your MC. I found that the AF the month following the MC was when it really hit me. I think I'd pressed pause rather than stop-and-eject on my pregnancy - I was expecting to conceive again straight away and simply carry on from where I left off. AF was like a huge slap in the face. Horrible times.

Thirdly...! So your husband might have CRPS? How awful. Which limb(s) are affected? It's so hard on you, as the wife, isn't it? You can't talk about how it affects you because, well, it's them that's in pain - so you just soldier on, supporting them, burying how you feel. Wanna talk about it here? I'm here if you want to.

Hugs.

Sounds like a good mantra to continue! You want a baby so keep the smoke away!!