Project activities include increasing the number of providers who screen, advise, and refer patients to the North Carolina Quitline, distributing patient and provider education materials statewide,
developing best - practice, sustainable, community based smoking cessation projects for women, pregnant women, and
new moms, and creating continuity of care
by focusing on the preconception, prenatal and perinatal periods, and including an emphasis on preventing postpartum relapse and eliminating second - hand smoke exposure.