Midwifery
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To explore the self-reported smoking-cessation interventions of maternity staff with pregnant smokers, and their attitudes towards smoking in pregnancy. ⋯ The findings from this study indicate some deficits in knowledge among maternity staff that training may address. Raising awareness of the local smoking-cessation service, and how to refer women to it, may increase the number of referrals maternity staff make.
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Case Reports Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Case studies of three pregnant smokers and their use of nicotine replacement therapy.
To examine the barriers encountered by pregnant women who attempt to stop smoking by highlighting three women who used nicotine patches. ⋯ Although health providers intuitively regard pregnancy as an appropriate time for women to stop smoking, the stressors during pregnancy seem to militate against cessation. This study does not indicate that use of NRT will provide an easier solution. It may be more fruitful to institute a concerted lifestyle approach with both the woman and her partner (or significant household members), and continue this support and education postnatally if cessation has not been achieved. Health professionals should also support better-targeted public health campaigns and tobacco-control initiatives generally, because, undoubtedly, the social environment is a major determinant of initiation and continuation of smoking.