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Nicotine-Replacement Therapy Needs More Study as an Aid to Helping Pregnant Smokers Quit

June 1, 2001 | Program Result Report

The University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine prepared a background paper on the risks and benefits of using nicotine replacement therapies and other smoking-cessation aids approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat pregnant smokers.

Videos Help Reduce Smoking by Pregnant Women

April 1, 2000 | Program Result Report

From 1996 to 1997, researchers at the Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Neb., developed an interactive multimedia video program designed to assist low-income pregnant and postpartum smoking women to quit smoking.

Quitters Wanted

January 1, 1998 | Program Result Report

The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Education examined why Medicaid-insured pregnant smokers change or do not change their smoking behavior after entering obstetrical care.

Urban Health Initiative: Working to Ensure the Health and Safety of Children

National Program

Program to improve the health and safety of young people in urban areas by improving collaboration among youth-serving agencies and organizations.

Smoke-Free Families: Innovations to Stop Smoking During and Beyond Pregnancy

National Program

To reduce rates of smoking in families by supporting research to develop and evaluate effective new interventions to help women quit smoking before, during and after pregnancy.

Increasing Support for Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy and Postpartum

March 1, 2010 | Journal Article

This randomized trial paired pregnant women with a friend or relative and provided counseling for both the subject and the supporter the goal was to test the effects of mobilizing social support for pregnant women trying to quit smoking.

Using the Postpartum Hospital Stay to Address Mothers' and Fathers' Smoking

March 1, 2010 | Journal Article

The short period when a woman is hospitalized to give birth is a critical opportunity to reach both mothers and fathers with tobacco control programs. According to this study, it is feasible and welcome to identify tobacco-using parents in a postpartum obstetric unit, enroll them in a study and link them to quitline support.

Smoke-Free Families: Innovations to Stop Smoking During and Beyond Pregnancy

December 16, 2010 | Program Result Report

This program was a multifaceted effort to reduce smoking among pregnant women and to help them remain tobacco free.

Certain Test Results and Desire to Protect Their Children's Health Motivate Women to Quit Smoking

June 1, 2001 | Program Result Report

Investigators at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, New York, developed a smoking-cessation program for ethnically diverse, low-income women who are pregnant.

The Risks of Adopting Substance-Exposed Infants

August 1, 2000 | Program Result Report

In 1997, the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, Inc., New York, convened a symposium on the adoption of substance-exposed infants and prepared a follow-up publication.

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