Smoking on your wedding day!?

Question

i am a smoker and getting married next month and theres no way i'll be able to go the day without cigarettes. i dont want to be seen smoking in my dress and i DEFINITELY dont want to be pictured but i have been so stressed recently and have been smoking a lot so i have more important things on my mind than quitting right now.

what should i do??

Answer 1

Find a secret hiding spot out back somewhere you can duck out for a quick puff! I wouldn't use the patch, if you have never used it before it can make you feel woozy and light headed and you dont want to have that on your wedding day, on top of your nerves. I am going to have to do the same thing...I am a slave to the cigarettes  :(  

Answer 2

patch patch patch patch patch practice!!! buy a patch and see what it does for you. try one day while your at work when you will be doing other things. see how long you can go w/o. the reason why i say "practicce" is that it can have some side effect. would hate to expierence those on your wedding day! but if you can get up to 5  hour w/o then you should be home free! good luck!

Answer 3

Scope out your reception site. Is there a place where you can hide and smoke where nobody will see you?

I feel your pain. I was the same way on my wedding day.

Cut down as much as you can right now. If you can sit through a movie, you can keep yourself occupied enough that you can ignore it through most of the reception.

Before you get dressed, have a smoke. Suck it down really fast that way the nicotine will hit faster and you won't be niccing during your ceremony. After the ceremony will be the pictures and everything. Your fiance knows you smoke, so while everyone is at the reception site having their cocktail hour while the shutterbugs are snapping your photo. Have a cigarette before you head to the reception site, and make sure to tell your photographer that you don't want to be photographed smoking.

Go as long as you can at the reception without a smoke. There are other smokers at your wedding, I assume, and you might be the kind of person that gets a little nicotine from the second-hand smoke. If this is you, then you can go out and "say hi" to the smokers who are there. If you can't go that long without one, then sneak off somewhere and smoke only about as much as you need to get through the last hour or two of your reception, and carry breath spray and Ozium in your purse so you can squirt yourself so you don't smell like an ashtray when you slip back into the reception. You must make sure that you are *very* careful while smoking in your wedding gown, and make sure you keep your veil out of the way so that you don't burn it when you're having your cigarette.

This is, in no way, healthful advice, of course, and we should all quit, blah, blah, blah, but when you're addicted to nicotine, quitting while you're trying to plan the last four weeks of your wedding would be a nightmare for you and everyone else involved.

The patch gave me a nosebleed, so I don't suggest that, personally, but the Nicotine inhaler might work, too.

Also, if you have the extra cash, Chantix is supposed to knock your cravings down so you don't need a smoke that often.

I seriously hope this helps.  

Answer 4

slap on as many patches as it takes for u not to have a smoke, i personally don't think the whole chewing gum look is very flattering for a wedding day either, maybe an inhaler nicotine thing in the bathroom would work too.

Answer 5

Patch, put it on your hip or somewhere no one will see it?

Answer 6

i smoked on my wedding day, there are pictures of my cigarettes and lighter on the head table. One of my firneds actually burned a hole in her veil

Try the patch or camel snus

Answer 7

Well, there's more than the question of getting your photo with a cigarette in your mouth - there's the horrendous smell - well if you can't control yourself, I'd try nicotene gum or chewing tobacco - which can provide the same nicotene high. You need to take a day or two off to unwind and NOT think about your wedding day. Really, the wedding means very little and is not indicative of the rest of your married life and it doesn't make or break your marriage or relationship. In the long term - there's no reason to be stressed out about this - it's the long term in your marriage that you need to focus on - not this one day.  

Answer 8

you just have to sneak off to the toilet and have a puff, or go for a quick wander outside and hide somewhere and toke.

Answer 9

Well firstly, alot of places don't allow smoking at their reception hall. So you may be outside alot. But then they will all be wondering "Where the bride is". Why don't you chew some peppermint gum or Nicotine Gum for the day.

Answer 10

I would suggest the patch ONLY IF YOU WANT TO QUIT FOR GOOD. Im a smoking cessation counselor and the patch is not meant for random use.

I HIGHLY suggets using sugarless gum (dont chew it in pics lol), and cinnamine flavoured altoids seem to do wonders when people are trying to refrain from smoking. When you're alone, this sounds nuts but ti works, carry a straw stuffed with a cotton ball so you can replicate the hand to mouth motion.

The wedding is a month away, quitting ni that time frame is not impossible.

Answer 11

If you must have a nicotine fix, get one of those smoking devices that you put up to your lips or use a patch in a bathroom or some place where you can not be seen.  I can not think of anything more disgusting than a bride on her wedding day reeking of smoke.  Very unglamorous.  

Answer 12

What a good time to quit-you have time to de-tox before your wedding-go to a hypnotherapist, get patches call the cancer council-you should be too busy to smoke.....good luck.

Answer 13

Try the gum.  

Answer 14

I am the same. Bride to be and a smoker. I don't want to smoke but I know I'll have to (I get REALLY cranky when I suffer nicotine withdrawals) Its easy for the non smokers to tell you to wear a patch but they don't understand how little they help. Especially in this situation. You can't rely on a patch without have cutting down and using them regularly. When I am busy, sometimes I realise its been a couple of hours since my last cigarette so I'll only have to have one every few hours but for me the crankiness and the headaches start if i've gone 4hrs without one. You know how your body runs and how you feel without a cigarette. Worst thing that can happen is that you duck out when no ones looking and tell them all you've been to the bathroom. I'm sorry this is probably no help. My main aim was to let you know that your not alone. :) Have a beautiful wedding.

Answer 15

It's no big deal.

On my wedding day. I was smoking right up to the wedding vows. My sister and my mom even joined me. Nobody thought anything of it.

If you need to, you need to. We all do.  

Answer 16

It's simple.

Go ahead and smoke.

So what if you're seen smoking in your wedding dress. It's not like people there don't know you smoke. Your wedding day, can be a stressful day to some. It's obviously stressful to you. So go ahead. Smoke if you have to. If anyone does care. Who cares? They're not the one getting married.  

Answer 17

Get a patch.

Have a pack on hand, and let your photographer know beforehand not to photograph you smoking. Your bridesmaids can help you find a discreet location for a quick puff, but hold it away from yourself and do it quickly to avoid getting that smell on your dress and brush teeth straight after...